Yes, we also need this feature badly!!

This and the ability to map donations, tickets, and auction items to different accounts in QBO!

Thank you, Tom, for setting this project up for review.

PLEASE DO THIS! I'm going crazy at the bookkeeping end.

I hope these is some progress on this soon -- it's necessary for running standards-compliant accounting without having to add a manual reclassification step on every donation received.

Without this, QBO sync really only gets us half the way there...

Yeah I unfortunately cannot use the sync feature if it's going to treat fees as income. That's a big no no for nonprofit accounting and I am surprised that GiveButter thought this was okay.

The processing fee is categorized as an income account in your integration, which violates GAAP for nonprofits. It must map to an expense account.

Fee Accounting

Processing fees must always be recorded as an expense — never as negative income — regardless of who pays them.

Why this matters:

The governing principle is gross vs. net presentation under GAAP. Revenues and expenses are separate elements of the financial statements (FASB Concepts Statement No. 6, paragraphs 78–89). Netting an expense against revenue — which is what Givebutter is doing — violates this principle because it understates both gross revenue and gross expenses. The fact that the donor covered the fee doesn't change the nature of the fee: it's a cost nonprofit orgs incur to collect donations, full stop.

Contribution Accounting

Similarly, Givebutter must acknowledge the full contribution amount to donors. The full contribution amount for tax purposes is the contribution amount + the Processing Fee the donor has covered. If a donor contributes $100 and then also contributes $4.30 to cover the fees, the donor's total contribution is $104.30.

Mapping

For my nonprofit, we would want the mapping to provide a separate revenue option for the Contribution (contribution and donor-covered processing fee) and separate expense option for the Processing Fee (cost to org to collect contribution). Seems like each transaction would require TWO QBO transactions...a sales receipt and an expense.

We definitely need all types of payments mapped. Just add fourth option to select at donation for donation type ie Auction, Donation, Ticket and then a separate mapping for fees

All types of transactions should be different mappings. We started the trial thinking this integration would be seamless. It's quite a cost bump.

Donations

Fees

Ticket Sales

Auction Item Sales