http://www.rapidataservices.com The latest news and blog posts from Rapidata http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/ten A fast-paced, high level afternoon briefing to challenge and inspire senior executives http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/artezwebinars2 Sponsored fundraising events have raised over $247 million for Candian organisations. Find out how they did it and what can be learned from the Top 20Walks/Runs/Rides 2009 Survey. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/chase Rapidata will be on the first stand you see, come over and say hello. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/Change_DD_Indemnity_Claims_Process During October 2010, Bacs will be phasing out the paper based process and migrating to a fully automated reporting and payment settlement system (DDICA). Read to find out what this means for your organisation. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/firewalk Rapidata do some rapid walking for the Fawcett Society http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/Latest_Enhancements_Feb2010 Last night, Artez released several exciting new enhancements to all of the fundraising modules. The highlights of 2010's first release include Address Verification and the ability to add page titles to the Fundraising and Team pages. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/raisersedge We're very excited to annouce Raiser's Edge intergration http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/add_images_to_your_artez_event It's finally here. After months of asking, suggesting and wishing I am happy to announce that you can now embed images on your Artez event pages. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/Hold_fire_before_you_fight_to_keep_cheques Before you fight to keep cheques - Hold fire! Concerns have been voiced across the sector about the planned abolition of cheques in 2018, but little has been said about the alternatives that will be developed and the benefits of offering a suite of payment options to donors. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/webinar Find out how the CEO's do it across the pond with Artez' latest webinar http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/haitiappeal The web is an important direct response channel http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/snow-update-8jan10 Cold spell - latest news http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/snow service levels due to heavy snow http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/savingtrees Recycle and save trees http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/holidaycampaign Is your organisation running a great holiday campaign? Or do you have a favourite campaign from another charity? Artez are looking for nominees for the 2009 competition. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/closure_of_cheques Rapidata Urges Charities To Prepare & Start Converting Supporters To Other Methods http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/christmascard This year we have made a donation to Wood Green Animal Shelters http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/conversion How does my online donation page look? Wrong question! What you should be worrying about is how it converts! http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/direct_debit_guide_rules_Dec09 Download the latest Direct Debit Service User Guide & Rules from Bacs http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/artezupdates It's a great idea to enable the widget on the donation thank you pages so that your donors can tell their social networks that they just helped to support your cause! http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/paypal PayPal is now a payment option on Artez http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/frsb_give_with_confidence This week the Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB) announced a campaign to encourage the public to give with confidence this Christmas. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/demiseofthecheque Rumours have circulated for years and every now and then a story makes it into the press about a bank who refuses to deal with a charity's cheques or sends them to a central sorting office. Over the last few months stories have been cropping up about the demise of the cheque and now it seems that day has come. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/donationimport Are you adding lots of offline donations through data entry? Did you know that your Artez solution offers a bulk donation import tool? The Donation Import is an easy way of keeping your event participant's fundraising totals up to date and accurate. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/thankingyourdonors At every fundraising conference and in countless articles we hear that donor's #1 complaint about charities is that they don't say thank you or it takes them ages to acknowledge a gift. We've got a few suggestions on how to thank your donors this year. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/inthenewstips Adrian Bradbury, co-founder of Athletes for Africa and Philip King, President & CEO of Artez Interactive shared their top online tips with Canada's Globle and Mail newspaper earlier this week. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/artezwebinars Artez' Philip King shows you how to funnel your donors! http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/inthenews1 A recent article in a national Canadian newspaper, the Globe and Mail, featuring Artez client GuluWalk, examines how charities can profit from online giving with very little start up capital. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/outsourcing09 Join Rapidata at the Public sector conference on outsourcing direct debits http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/ifc2009 At last month's IFC conference, I heard lots of inspiring ideas from fundraisers around the World. Here are my top 2 from the conference: http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/webinars Our friends at Artez have six great educational webinars coming up in November and December. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/lotteries was recently invited to speak to the National Lotteries Council about how Direct Debits can increase lottery ticket sales. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/IOFScotland2009 Rapidata will be exhibiting at the 2009 Institute of Fundraising Scotland Conference http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/christmascampaigns2 We still have Christmas Appeals on the brain, but this time we're looking out how to make sure your regular givers donate online this Christmas. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/Bacs_postalstrike_PR Bacs press release - postal strike - why use direct debit http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/29thifc2009 Alex and Scott are attending IFC 2009 http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/postalstikes Online Christmas appeal using DD http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/iofevents Molly and Alex from the online fundraising team are attending the IoF Event Fundraising Conference tomorrow http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/charitychat3 selling Christmas cards online http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/charitychat2 Fundraising news from Down Under http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/christmascampaigns Now I'm the last person to encourage the retail madness of Christmas in October, but now is a good time to start planning your Christmas Fundraising campaigns... http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/Bacs PR290909 Bacs research shows British businesses bear late payment burden of £30 billion http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/maintenancenotice As part of Rapidata`s commitment to continually improve its secure hosting service, we will be conducting scheduled maintenance on Saturday 3 October 2009. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/IOF_retention_conference Institute of Fundraising Strategies for Support Retention Conferece http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/greatgorillarun Gorillas spotted in London http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/productsupport Do you need help with a support query? We now have 4 dedicated email addresses for product support. All you need to do is send as much information as possible about your query or problem to one of the email addresses below. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/energysaving We all try to do our bit to help the environment, switching off lights, using less washing powder and putting a Hippo in the loo cistern. All great green ideas but I'm never really sure how it helps. Until now! http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/artezdowntime Scheduled maintenance is taking place on the 13th of September on the Artez Global server http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/artezupdatepurchasetemplate The purchase template allows Charities to sell items such as Christmas gifts, merchandise and ticket sales for parties or events. A few of our Charities use them, here some great examples: http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/artezupdates_googleanalytics Enabling Google Analytics in your Artez modules http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/charitychat1 http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/bacs2008stats Bacs 2008 statistics for direct debit and direct credit http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/new look Rapidata new look, new services, your help required http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/artezupdate1 Read on to find out about our latest enhancements..... http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/upcoming events Rapidata events August - October 2009 http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/KingsCollegeHospital hospital charity direct debit and credit card services http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/newsite_comments http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/Rapidata_new_team New Staff at Rapidata http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/direct_debit_guarantee_change Direct Debit Guarantee change http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/FundraisingUK_interview_July09 Fundraising UK Video Interview with Rapidata's Scott Gray on the direct debit research http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/newimage http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/mid-year-tracking-report Download the mid-year DD charity tracking report http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/mid-year-report EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW - first sight of the new mid-year figures to be announced in the latest Rapidata Charity DD Cancellations Tracking Report 2009 (posted 1st July 2009) http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/iof-convention Rapidata will be exhbiting at the Institute of Fundraising National Convention between 6-8 July 2009 at the London Hilton Metropole. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/direct-debits-cancellation A survey of six years worth of direct debit cancellation rates by Rapidata - teche leading Bacs* -approved bureau for the processing of dirt debits - has illustrated the combined effect of the credit crunch and the recession on regular giving. http://www.rapidataservices.com/news/direct-debit-report-2009 This comprehensive analysis of six years' worth of monthly direct debit cancellations reveals the combined impact of the credit crunch and the recession on regular giving.