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# Quick Guide: Creating a new TntConnect database

When you first install TntConnect, you are prompted to:

1.Create your first database

2.Add your name

3.Download addresses or gifts from your organization

If you already have an existing database, you may find it helpful (and time saving) to import your contact information. However, don't wait on that step; go ahead and create a database, and if your organization supports address and gift download, do that too. You can always create a new database and start over after giving TntConnect a test-drive.

Tutorial: Creating a new TntConnect database

1.Menu Path: File | New

2.Name your database.

3.Enter your name as a User.

## Creating your first user

•Enter your name. We recommend using a short name (that is, not your full name) because the user name will appear in the columns of task and history.

4.Enter your name. You probably do not need to enter your address and phone number. Press OK.

5.Once your database is created, TntConnect welcomes you and offers you the option of downloading addresses and gifts.

6.If your organization supports address and gift input, select either of those buttons. Note: Gift Input will automatically download addresses too.

7.Press the Gift Input button.

8.Select your organization from the drop-down list.

9.Enter your Login and Password to your organization's system.

10.Select a date range. Typically, the date shown will be the earliest date your organization has available. In future downloads, TntConnect will go back approximately three weeks.

11.Press the Download button.

12.Wait while TntConnect downloads gift information. This could take several minutes. You will then need to accept each partner and confirm that they do not match an existing partner.

13.Confirm that you want to add all of these contacts.

14.Wait while TntConnect downloads all of the available gifts.

15.Confirm all gifts to be loaded into your database.

16.Press the Sync button.

17.TntConnect will congratulate you when you are done.

18.Welcome to TntConnect

| Downloads onl wiy names and addresses of your donors.
| Downloads names and addresses and gifts.
| Continues into your blank database without adding contacts or gifts.
| Continues into your blank database without adding contacts or gifts.

Read More

Read More > Importing Contacts

Read More > Update Donor Info (for updating addresses from your organization)

Read More > Tutorial: Downloading Gifts from the Web