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...

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...