Beacon

The charity data blog

Spend time on your cause, not wrangling with data.

Chris Houghton

Choosing a new database? Be sure to ask these security questions.

4th Aug 2020
David Simpson

Product Update: August 2020

1st Aug 2020
David Simpson

Product Update: July 2020

1st Jul 2020
David Simpson

Introducing: Gift Aid Declaration Forms

8th Jun 2020
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Is your charity missing out on an extra 50% Gift Aid?

8th Jun 2020
David Simpson

Product Update: June 2020

1st Jun 2020
David Simpson

Beacon rated #1 in Fundraising Magazine's 2020 CRM survey

13th May 2020
David Simpson

Product Update: May 2020

1st May 2020
David Simpson

Introducing: Beacon's Xero Integration

28th Apr 2020
David Simpson

Free ebook: How charities are adapting to Covid-19

16th Apr 2020
David Simpson

Introducing: Beacon's JustGiving Integration

8th Apr 2020
David Simpson

Product Update: April 2020

1st Apr 2020
David Simpson

Introducing the latest breakthrough in cloud-based collaborative CRM: CRM-VR

1st Apr 2020
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The best video conferencing tool for your charity: Zoom

19th Mar 2020
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Every charity should be using Slack

18th Mar 2020
David Simpson

Introducing: Email templates

10th Mar 2020
David Simpson

Product Update: March 2020

2nd Mar 2020
Chris Houghton

The top 7 things you need your nonprofit CRM to do... and 3 you don't.

25th Feb 2020
David Simpson

Product Update: February 2020

3rd Feb 2020
Chris Houghton

How Beacon went climate positive 🌍

16th Jan 2020
David Simpson

7 things we're working on in 2020

6th Jan 2020
David Simpson

Product Update: 2019 in review

19th Dec 2019
Chris Houghton

Beacon is now 100% climate positive 🌍

18th Dec 2019
Chris Houghton

Why should I choose a cloud-based charity CRM?

9th Dec 2019
David Simpson

Product Update: December 2019

1st Dec 2019
Chris Houghton

6 fantastic online donation journeys - and what to learn from them

13th Nov 2019
David Simpson

Product Update: November 2019

1st Nov 2019
David Simpson

Introducing: Duplicate Record Handling

30th Oct 2019
Chris Houghton

What actually happens in a charity CRM "data migration"?

24th Oct 2019
David Simpson

Introducing: Smart Bcc

21st Oct 2019
David Simpson

Product Update: October 2019

1st Oct 2019
David Simpson

The top 5 things to think about when choosing a new charity CRM

23rd Sep 2019
Chris Houghton

A guide to Strong Customer Authentication for charities

10th Sep 2019
David Simpson

Product Update: September 2019

1st Sep 2019
Chris Houghton

How to accept donations online on your charity's website

17th Aug 2019
David Simpson

Introducing: Memberships

13th Aug 2019
David Simpson

Product Update: August 2019

1st Aug 2019
David Simpson

We need a Universal Gift Aid Declaration Database. This is how it could work.

22nd Jul 2019
David Simpson

Product Update: July 2019

1st Jul 2019
Chloe Parker

Guest post: The most important asset for good data

24th Jun 2019
David Simpson

Product Update: June 2019

1st Jun 2019
David Simpson

Introducing: Automation workflows

24th May 2019
David Simpson

Product Update: May 2019

1st May 2019
Chris Houghton

Managing grants? How to use pipelines to track your progress

16th Apr 2019
David Simpson

Introducing: Import and export templates

15th Apr 2019
David Simpson

Product Update: April 2019

1st Apr 2019
David Simpson

Introducing: Beacon Bucket

1st Apr 2019
David Simpson

Why JustGiving dropping their fees is a mixed blessing

26th Mar 2019
David Simpson

Introducing: Roles and permissions

14th Mar 2019
David Simpson

Product Update: March 2019

1st Mar 2019
David Simpson

Product Update: February 2019

1st Feb 2019
David Simpson

5 important considerations if you use MyDonate

22nd Jan 2019
David Simpson

Introducing: Dashboards

15th Jan 2019
Chris Houghton

9 things we're working on in 2019

3rd Jan 2019
Chris Houghton

To get personal, you need to start with data

3rd Dec 2018
David Simpson

WaterAid executive says charities are too siloed and risk-averse. The solution is your CRM.

29th Nov 2018
Chris Houghton

6 ways you can keep your charity's data more secure

8th Nov 2018
David Simpson

Introducing Apple Pay and Google Pay

30th Oct 2018
Chris Houghton

What we're doing to automate Gift Aid

5th Jul 2018
Chris Houghton

Bring your Stripe credit card payments into Beacon

7th May 2018
Chris Houghton

Introducing timeline: a history of your data

25th Feb 2018
Chris Houghton

Welcome to Beacon!

12th Feb 2018

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