Donations requires Accounts (Chapter 7): a gift posts to the ledger, so the module stands on the chart of accounts, its bank and cash accounts, and its open periods. Companies on the charity business profile start with it switched on; everyone else turns it on like any module (§0.4).
Before the first donation, three things should exist:
- At least one designation (§12.5) with its income account — a gift cannot be recorded until the purpose it posts to exists.
- The receiving account — the bank or cash account the money lands in. A donation can never post without one: the money has to land somewhere real.
- Donors, as they come — the register (§12.5) can be built gift by gift, and a gift with no donor is simply anonymous.