Digital pen technology helps speed up donor sign-ups
Howard Lake | 3 April 2008 | News
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.
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.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.