# Digital pen technology helps speed up donor sign-ups

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/04/03/digital-pen-technology-helps-speed-donor-signups/
- Published: 2008-04-03T12:04:42+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**New digital pen technology is helping speed up the process of signing up new donors
for Payroll Giving in Action.**

The new system from Destiny, will reduce by up to two weeks the time taken to process
each of the 30,000 new pledge forms secured every year by the organisation’s field
fundraisers who enable individual employees of major companies to make a regular
payment to their chosen charity.

In the past forms had to be manually scanned and input to PGA’s database and it 
took up to two weeks to get new donors on to the programme. With the new digital
pens the data from each new form is instantly transmitted from the field to the 
database.

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The fundraiser completes a pledge form – a digital paper document, ticks a ‘send’
box for the data to be sent via a Bluetooth phone to Destiny’s secure servers, where
it is instantly converted and sent on to PGA as a pdf and as a data file.

As well as speeding up the process it also significantly cuts down the paper consumption
previously involved in copying and scanning.

www.destinyplc.com

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