Karani

Be Free, Data!

We’ve worked hard to make it easy for you to get your data into Karani, but for a while you’ve had to get in touch with us directly to get your data out of Karani. We’re huge fans of freedom of data, so it was about time we created a tool for you to backup or export all of your data from Karani.

Well, today is that day. Introducing Download My Data, a simple tool to export all of your Karani data at once. Simply navigation to the Settings/Preferences page, scroll down to the Sync section, and click “Download My Data.”

Your browser will instantly download a .CSV file (which you can open in Excel, Numbers, Google Spreadsheets, or any other spreadsheet program) containing all of the important information about your contacts, gifts, pledges, tasks, interactions, groups, and Karani configuration data.

Now you never have to worry about backing up your Karani data or getting your data out of Karani once you put it in. We hope you enjoy this feature!

Updated Pledge Total Calculator

Karani’s pledge and gift calculators have always been two of its most beloved features, but they’ve also been the source of a lot of confusion.

Tl;dr: Your pledge totals may change a little, and if you want to know why or have ever been confused by the way the pledge total calculator works, read on.

Karani performs some somewhat-complex math to figure out your pledge totals, and until yesterday the pledge percentage calculator ended up its math with one big guess. You may have noticed some weird, non-round numbers in your pledge totals, or pledge totals not lining up with your own estimates. For example, all of your gifts are $50/mo but somehow the pledge total ends with $2.50. Where’d that come from?

Essentially, if a pledge started or ended during this fiscal year, Karani divided that pledge up depending on what percentage of the year it would be active—often leading to percentages like 79% and therefore weird pledge totals.

Well, that’s all different now. Karani’s new pledge calculator looks at pledges with month-divisible frequencies (12x, 6x, 4x, 3x, 2x, and 1x/year) and assumes that a full, not partial gift will be given during the month of the pledge start date and the month of the end date. So if a donor says they’ll start giving monthly on January 20, the old pledge calculator would’ve counted January’s gift as only 11/31sts (the remaining percentage of the month) of a gift. The new calculator simply says, hey, starting in January? I’ll expect a gift in January. Done.

You may notice some of your pledge totals go up or down, but the only places it’ll affect are pledges which start this year or end this year. Everything else will stay exactly the same.

And if you notice you’re still seeing some weird numbers in the pledge totals, take a look at your pledges: Do you have any non-month-divisible frequencies like 11x, 9x, 8x a year? Those are still getting Karani’s old math, so they’ll provide you with more guess-y numbers.

We hope this will make Karani easier and clearer, but if you have any trouble at all please get in touch. Thanks, and enjoy Karani!

New, and great for your supervisors: Status Report

A lot of supervisors who use Karani’s Premium plan, and quite a few who don’t use Karani at all, have asked for an easier way for Karani users to report their weekly/monthly activities to their supervisors. So, we’ve create that for you, and called it the status report.

The status report allows you to see your current financial status, history of interactions (within a time frame you specify), and upcoming tasks, all on one page.

It’s great for Karani supervisors who use a premium account to quickly look through all of their supervisees’ statuses; but even if your supervisor doesn’t use Karani, you can simply print this page (or save it as a PDF from your browser) and send it to your supervisor.

Check it out today: Karani Status Report

Interaction History Importer

By popular request, we now have an Interaction History Importer. You can now import your interaction history from other apps, or easily add all of your interactions at once by placing them all into one Excel/CSV file.

Log in and check it out now.

In process: Importing your information

We have several features in development that are focused on getting your information into  (and out of) Karani. We know portability of your data is key to getting started in Karani quickly, and in your confidence in getting your information back out at any point.

Coming soon: interaction history importers, task importers, and an exporter for contacts.

After that, we’ll be plugging away at some of our most requested internal features. More details soon!

Announcing the Contact Merger

One of the top most requested features, the contact merger, is now live! Try it out and let us know what you think.

.CSV Mail Merge Downloader for Groups

Now every group has a “Output for Mail Merge” function. This outputs the contact’s name, greeting, and address for a Word Mail Merge.  We’re still tweaking the specific details, so if you have any trouble, just let us know.

Enjoy!

Rolling out new features

We’ve been out of alpha for almost a month new, and there’s a slew of new features that have already hit, or that are in the works. A few major milestones:

• You can now add multiple email addresses to a contact
• There’s a .CSV gift importer in addition to the existing .CSV address importer
• You can get a comma-separated list of primary email addresses for all members in a group