Storing Donation Data as Deals or Custom Objects?

Hi -

I’m new to HubSpot and testing the software to see if it will be ideal for my small-sized nonprofit. We use an external donation site that collects data on each donation instance. It allows us to visualize donation data by donation or by donor. How should I go about setting up the donation data within HubSpot? Should I Zap the data into deals? Do deals let me filter data by donor easily? Do other nonprofits give the same title of “Donation” to every deal? Looking to get tips for best practices when I start out.

Hi @LKlinger,
Thank you for your post, that’s exactly why the Community is here for!
I’d like to share this thread that might help you: “Nonprofit donation management”.
I also wanted to share a few resources that might help you:

- Free Nonprofit Resources

- Nonprofit and Education case studies
I’d like to invite some of our Top Experts to this discussion: Hi @FCorbaci, @GreyHamilton and @beeginman do you have suggestions to help @LKlinger, please?
Also, if anybody else has anything to add and/or share, please feel free to join in the conversation :slightly_smiling_face:
Thank you very much :heart: and have a fantastic day!
Best,
Bérangère