Extending the functionality of NPSP to proactively allow creation of donor records on the fly or apply payments to an existing opportunity record.

Client Information

The client is a US-based Service Provider focused on products and solutions for Non-Profit organizations, helping them with relationship management, fundraising and research.

Business Requirement

• The client had an existing Batch Upload Solution which was used to process Accounts, Contacts, Givings, Payments etc. in bulk.
• However, due to complexity of logic and sequencing of data the Batch Upload Solution was able to process only a single record at one time
• The requirement was to optimize the Batch Upload process and improve performance so that records can be processed in bulk.

Solution

• As part of the Solution, a Batch Upload Framework was designed using Publisher Subscriber and Event Notification pattern which would help separate processes and run operations in parallel.
• The framework supported sequencing as well as parallel processing which had drastically improved the performance of the Upload process.
• Framework also supported reuse of Mapping and Commit Services for the Batch purposes which reduced the development efforts for each Batch process that was to be executed. For e.g. – Account, Contact, Address, Payment, Opportunities, Opportunity Line Items etc.

Key Highlights

• Reusable Framework to run processes in parallel
• Increased performance by 40%
• Bulkified operations
• Code Re-usability