Is Ubercart our solution?
We have been using E-Commerce for about two years now as our cart solution on our non profit web site. We only use it for donations. However, what we have seen in the industry is something more along these lines when it comes to handling a donation process in one place.
https://www.accion.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=613
We would like to redo the donations page using a system that will allow us to have almost exactly the same features you see in that link. Currently E-Commerce forces too many steps, screens, that are confusing to our average users and it is a problem as people get discouraged to donate as it makes the process very cumbersome.
- Does Ubercart allow to create a multiple choice form like those commonly found in donation areas with several amounts to choose from plus a custom amount field?
- Can the donation (product) page also include the billing, credit cards, and shipping fields all in one place?
We are pressed with time for a solution and at the moment are considering a custom donations application if necessary, but I have seen the demos on Ubercart and while I see the checkout screen with all the forms we wish to combine in one place, I need to know if a multiple amount + custom field form combo can be made easily for a donation type product.

CiviCRM
You might also want to take a look at CiviCRM
http://CiviCRM.org/
with a experimental demo site for the upcoming ver 3 at:
http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/
It can also run with Drupal, Joomla or stand-alone
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I don't see how CiviCRM can
I don't see how CiviCRM can be our solution. Anyway, if anyone out there can shed some light, please reply to this thread.
check the civicrm demo server at
http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/
You can use CiviContribute to build a donation page:
http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1
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http://wiki.civicrm.org/
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You are trying to collect
You are trying to collect donations for a non-profit with most data entry being on one page. That is one of the primary functions of civicrm. You mentioned billing & shipping address for donations, so I am now guessing that their are additional criteria that you haven't mentioned.
We don't have all features enabled, but take a look at one of our donation pages which has much of what you ask for, plus other things.
https://www.sunflowerchildren.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=5
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Thanks for your suggestions
Thanks for your suggestions on using CiviCRM. I am reading some of the documentation on it to see how it's configured etc. Once question I have is that we are also going to activate Ubercart on this site, is CiviCRM able to run simultaneously on a Drupal site that uses Ubercart for other products etc? CiviCRM would handle donations for us, but we also sell publications that will need to be sold using Ubertcart possibly. I just want to make sure the two solutions can work together without conflict.
If you're selling other
If you're selling other products (which you didn't mention before) then Ubercart might be a better solution, combined with the http://drupal.org/project/uc_donation module.
Thanks. Yes, I had a feeling
Thanks. Yes, I had a feeling that would be my only option. Unfortunately the uc_donation module is too simple for our needs. We need a donation module that can generate several options plus a custom amount field for the donation product and also be able to sell other products as normal products.
I am afraid I am looking at a consulting job for a custom module design if we want to continue using Drupal for our donations and products needs.
Thanks everyone for your help on this.
Both ubercart and civicrm can be part of a single drupal install
Both ubercart and civicrm can be part of a single drupal installation.
As a matter of fact there are extensions to ubercart that will allow you to log regular sales (under ubercart) in Civicrm's activity log. There is also someone working on allowing UberCart to use the CivCrmi Profile address for ubercart's shipping/CC info, but I don't know he status of that update offhand.
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MacRonin that is REALLY good
MacRonin that is REALLY good news. I will continue the testing phase and report any problems. Thanks.