QBO App First Look - Kindful

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Kindful is an integrated, cloud-based software providing fundraising automation, online donation pages, donor CRM, and reporting tools, aimed at helping nonprofits fund-raise effectively.

Donors are the 'life blood' of every nonprofit organization, yet nonprofits find themselves competing with other charities for almost every dollar they receive.  The key to overcoming this competition is understanding your potential donors and developing meaningful long-term relationships with not only new, but your current donors as well.  

Kindful is designed to give you, as a nonprofit, more time to focus on your mission, and less on the hassles of working with multiple individual tools to do the work of seeking donations. Kindful is a fully integrated online fundraising-specific CRM solution that seamlessly works with all your fundraising tools, so you can distance yourself from mundane computer chores, allowing you to maintain a donor relations focus.

Donors are at the heart of Kindful. You will have complete real-time records of all your donors, giving you their full contribution history, pledges, recurring donations and more, all within a perfectly designed dashboard of information.  Immediately access the social media resources that work best for your donor. Track that ‘nice to know’ information in custom fields and uploaded documents, and categorize your donors the way that makes sense to you and your nonprofit. 

Kindful serves as the hub, the data command-center, of your nonprofit in which all of your third-party fundraising and financial tools seamlessly integrate with your database, keeping all your information in one secure and anywhere accessible place.

So, you use Eventbrite to manage registrations for your annual benefit, Kindful has it covered with a seamless flow of information between the two applications.

Maybe you are set-up to use Mailchimp, Constant Contact or Emma for email fundraising blitz, no problem, Kindful integrates perfectly.

Got a big event to manage, with all the complexities of who is attending, who is speaking, and what's on the agenda? Kindful links with Red Podium and RegFox to ensure that your even goes off without a hitch.

Kindful plays nice with lots of other systems to create one central hub for all your donor relations. You might use Big River, Giving Fuel, or Crowdrise, these fundraising tools share data back-n-forth with Kindful without a hitch.

Kindful seamlessly works with numerous merchant processing and payment gateway providers like Square, Stripe, Paypal and Authorize.net.

And let's not forget about our accounting because Kindful syncs with QuickBooks Online so you never have to waste time moving data from one system to another. In fact, Kindful has been recognized as one of the 10 Finalists in Intuit's 2017 $100,000 App Showdown.

Best of all, these integrations all happen automatically. But data integration isn't where Kindful stops because getting and keeping the data altogether in one place is just 'storage'.

Kindful offers intuitive reporting that turns all your data into meaning information that can guide you in accomplishing the goals of your organization. With the right information at your fingertips, it's easy to tell the real story of your nonprofit, and the mission you are set to accomplish.

So, let’s look a little more closely at the integration between Kindful and QBO; after all, this is a QBO App ‘first look’.  With Kindful’s QuickBooks integration, all your accounting data flows seamlessly between your donor database and your accounting software, making it easier than ever to reconcile your donations and keep track of giving.

When you first connect Kindful and QBO you will configure exactly how they talk back-n-forth.  As you can see in the screenshot below, you have a lot of configuration options which are provided with detailed instructions.

The Kindful - QBO integration is a two-way sync that occurs in (near) real-time. Kindful contact and QBO customer information flows back-n-forth to ensure that both systems have the most up-to-date data.

Your Kindful transactions will sync into QuickBooks Online. Post a transaction in QBO and it will sync back to Kindful. 

With the information posted into QuickBooks you will quickly be able to not only reconcile your financial data with your various bank accounts, but between QBO and Kindful without ever having a manual import or export to get the two systems in balance.

Sometimes you really can have it all, and Kindful is making that happen for nonprofits.  For more information about Kindful check out their Intuit App Center webpage or their website.