No it is not.
Invoiced customer sales result in entries in Accounts receivable.
Cash sales do not result in entries in accounts receivable.
Currently Manager does not include customer cash sales in customer reports. That part of your idea Improvement to payment and receipt forms was not implemented but a separate idea has been created suggesting this again Cash transactions not included on statements Hopefully it will happen sometime soon.
They most definitely are, which is the basis of the donation industry. What the donor receives is a sense of satiety and righteousness, often sufficient to discharge their feeling of responsibility. The service received is comparable to the feeling of insight into the future after seen a fortune teller. A service has been render for which there is a market.
Actually the donation does not actually need to help the theoretical recipient, the donor just has to believe it will. On close examination it often doesn’t, for example look at the injuries inflicted as part of the begging industry or the percentage of funds absorbed prior to the official end recipient receiving anything.
Which gets back too
Is the non - profit organisation taking funds for a specific project and has to demonstrate at least a set percentage is actually spent on that project. Or
In which case the donation would go into general revenue / business income.
To do that in Manager you need to create one transaction per customer. Either a sales invoice or cash receipt are possible. A sales invoice will enable it to show in a customer report. A Manager “Cash Sale” receipt will not show in customer reports with the current version of Manager.
If your donors were donating to a scheduled plan that would in fact be a very good way of doing it, using Managers recurring invoices. For random immediate sales Mangers “Cash sales” are indeed a more efficient way of entering the sales data. Unfortunately Manager does not currently include cash sales in customer reports.