We are offering complimentary tickets to our annual gala event and I would like to show these in their contributions for accurate tracking. Is it possible or a good idea to enter a $0 gift with a special source code to track comp guests? Is there another way I should be entering this data?
The word Compliementary always makes me nervous since there should be a value attached to it and counted somewhere as a non-deductible if in any way associated with a gift.
Your can do it a couple ways you can just do it as promotion – might give it an Appeal of its own the gala campaign – create a list of those getting the comp and update the promotions. OR look into recording in the Activities Table where you could track who you offered it to as well as who accepted
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I think Activities is the best place for this. But it really depends on how you expect to report on it. Also, a 0 contribution could have potential consequences elsewhere For instance, if you are looking for your total number of donors, or the average amount of a gift, both of which could be skewed by these $0 entries. So you would have to jump through additional hoops later to get the right reporting (and remember to jump through the hoops in future years as well).
Activities (as Leslie mentioned) allows you to see those invited as well as those who accepted. But I could think of reasons to put it in attributes instead if all you needed to do was pull a list of these folks later. But Activities or promotions are probably your best bet.