So many times, I (and others in my office) have accidently clicked "Process" for a gift or group of gifts BEFORE setting up the batch options. This is always a headache, because then we are left with a gift batch layout that is completely disfigured and foreign to us, and often it means that some data fields get missed. If Batch Options was required, this would not happen. Maybe even a "Are you sure?" message would be helpful before the gift actually gets pushed out of the connector into a batch.