Hard credit amount less than soft credit total

Krista Berg

Hello,

As mentioned in a previous post, we are hoping to switch to giving HC to the company that manages donated vehicle sales for us (CARS) and then SC the individual who donated the car. That means we should give the donor SC for the full sale amount of the vehicle but HC CARS the amount less expenses (which is what the check they send us is for). Looking at RE, it seems that the SC amount has to be less than the HC amount. I was hoping that I could use another value field to record the SC amount but don't see additional options on the gift entry screen. Does anyone have any recommendations for this scenario?

Thanks!

Heather MacKenzie

@Krista Berg In your shoes, I think I'd handle this one of 2 ways.

1. soft credit the net amount, put the sale amount as a gift attribute
2. hard and soft credit the gross, have Finance book the expenses as expenses
   

Faith Murray

@Krista Berg, both of @Heather MacKenzie's suggestions are good ones. I think your solution depends on whether, technically, the donor is donating to CARS and then CARS is donating cash to you? In that case, either of Heather's suggestions will work well.

Alternatively, if the donor is legally donating to you in order to get a tax-deductible gift, but you pass the car to CARS for the sale transfer, then HC an in-kind gift to the donor and then don't post any gift to CARS because they are a vendor, not a donor.