Demonstration and Training Videos

These videos were created to help you install and use the Donation Software more effectively. You'll find videos demonstrating how the software works.  And videos showing you how to install the software and get started using it. You'll also find a video specific to the organizations in Canada, and videos showing how to use the software with other languages (not English) and currencies (not USD). And there are any other training videos to help you with the Basics as well as Advanced features of the Donation Software. 

Demonstration Videos

High Level Demonstration of 2025 Donations and Expenses   

This is a high-level overview of the new 2025 version of the Donation and Expenses software to help your church/non-profit record donations, create donor receipts, track expenses and account balances.  

Demonstration of 2025 Donations Software-Recording Donations & Printing Donor Receipts  

This is a Demonstration of the new 2025 version of the Donation and Expenses software to help your church/non-profit record donations and create donor receipts. This video is focused on the portion of the software specific to the Donations. A separate video is available for the Expense tracking portion.

Installation and Setup Videos

Installation on a PC for the 2025 Donations and Expenses   

This video describes the steps to install on a PC and configure the 2025 version of the Donation and Expense Software for use at your church or religious organization.

Installation on a MAC for the 2025 Donations and Expenses   

This video describes the steps to install on a MAC (Macintosh computer) and configure the 2025 version of the Donation and Expense Software for use at your church or religious organization.

Working with PARAMETERS in the 2025 Donation and Expense Software   

This video describes the nearly 100 Parameters in my software that you can use to adjust how the software works. This allows you to customize it for use at your church, non-profit or religious organization. If you report on a Fiscal Year basis, then you will want to view this video: How to Define and Use a Fiscal Year

How to Enter First Donation with the 2025 Donation Software   

This video describes the steps to enter your first donation in the 2025 version of the Donation Software for use at your church or religious organization. It shows entering cash, check or EFT donations. Advanced topics are also covered, like In-Kind (noncash) donations and entering an entire month's donations at one time.

Video for Churches in Canada

For Churches in Canada- Extra Steps during Installation of the 2025 Donation and Expense Software   

This video shows you the extra steps needed during installation of my Donation Software, if you are a church or non-profit in Canada.

Videos for using Other Languages

Using other languages with the 2025 Donation and Expense Software 

The software is sent with the Spanish language available, but I can email you other available translations. This video shows you how to switch the software to work in Spanish or in both English and Spanish. I also have translations available for Portuguese, Burmese (Myanmar), Japanese, French, Simplified Chinese, Korean or Hindi.  This video also shows you how to replace the Spanish with one of these available languages. or to create your own translation. Email me at Doug.P.Leasure@gmail.com if you need one of these other languages.

Defining a new language Translation with the 2025 Donation and Expense Software   

This video shows you how to use Google Translate to create a new Translation for the 2025 Donation and Expense Software. In the video, I translate from English to Hindi. And I show you how you can save this new translation to a separate Excel file that you can email to me.  This would allow me to share your translation with other churches that use your language.

Other Helpful Videos

Using the DropDown Lists in the 2025 Donation and Expense Software   

This video provides information about the DropDown Lists that I am using in the 2025 version of my Donation Software.  It shows you how they are used in the Donation Entry, where the list automatically expands as you add new Special Offerings.  And it shows you how they work for selecting Category and SubCategory when entering transactions on the Expenses tab. The software will ship with a sample list for both Category and SubCategory, but I show you how to add more items when you need more.

How to Define and Use a Fiscal Year in the 2025 Donation and Expense Software   

Some Not-For-Profit organizations and some churches have defined their business year to be different that the Calendar Year (January through December).  My Donation Software allows you to define your own Fiscal Year and then decide if you want to use it in Reports, in the Expense Report, and/or in the Donor Receipts.  This short video shows you how to Define and Use a Fiscal Year in my Donation Software.

Donation Categories Deposit into Different Bank Accounts in the 2025 Donation and Expense Software   

This video shows you how to modify the 2025 Donation software so that the deposits for each Donation Categories can be assigned to different bank accounts. 

Migrating your data from earlier versions to the new 2025 Donation Software   

This video shows you how to migrate your data from an earlier version of my software into this 2025 version.  It shows how to move Donors and Parameters, and for prior years, you will want to move year end totals of your donations. If you are beginning to use the new 2025 version in the middle of the year, then I show you how to move donation details from your earlier version.  If you have been using the optional Expense tracking, then I show you how to migrate the deposit/payment transactions from your earlier version.

Salary and Federal Taxes with the 2025 Donation and Expense Software   

This video describes the steps for recording Employee Salary in the Expenses tab. It shows how to create a new tab to define the Payroll information including tax rates, withholding amounts, and quarterly payments. It also creates the multiple rows that you will copy to the Expense tab for each pay. And the information to help you fill in the Form 941.

Older but still very helpful videos

Add your Church Logo to the 2024 Donation and Expense Software   

This video shows you how to add your Church Logo to your Receipts and Reports for the 2024 Donation and Expense Software. It also shows how to adjust the formatting for your Receipts and Reports.

How to Start a New Year in versions 2024, 2023, 2022; How to clean up Historical Data    

This video shows you how to start a New Year in versions 2024, 2023 and 2022. After using the software for many years, you will want to purge some of the old data. This video shows you these steps too.

Printing the Donor List in the 2024 Version   

This video shows you how to use the 2024 version to print your Donor List, and how to change the Font and Number of Pages so that your printout is readable.