How do you process a MG of software. Software donations are considered in kind, should the match be processed that way?

We are beginning a 5-year campaign and are looking for best practices in gift entry. Our campaign allows constituents to make a pledge that can be split between both Annual fund and Endowment over that 5-year period. Should pledges be entered in one gift record as a split gift (to each campaign with...

Sometimes matching gifts we receive are soft credited to the individual being matched. Sometimes they are not. I'm curious what the standard procedure is for other organizations and what works best. Thanks in advance, Chris Pearce Eagle Ranch

From time to time, I receive matching gifts that don't fit into the normal MG structure (i.e., these can't be processed as an MG Pay for an MG Pledge). When I receive a gift like this, I have been processing it as a plain Cash gift, and using an attribute to indicate that it's a matching...

I received a check that included the constituent's donation and the matching gift pledge payment. Is there a way to enter the donation, the matching gift pledge and then pay the pledge off in the same batch? Linda Watterworth New College Foundation