With the advent of Peer to Peer Fundraising it seems that Dashboards are lagging behind.
We import from various platforms and leave the make the gift date = the date that transaction occurred. However we set the GL Post Date = The date we physically received the money from the Peer to Peer Platform.
So in situations where the Gift Date = Last Month but the GL Post Date = This Month it causes confusion for staff when viewing dashboards.
Agreed. Also some gifts require back-dating (gift date) to, for example, a previous fiscal year (e.g. certain estate type gifts) to remain in compliance with CRA--so dashboards wouldn't be able to pick up this revenue in the current year because there is not option to use GL Post date.