Sponsorships are an integral part of a Show Societies income.
Sponsorships By Contact allows you to assign and edit sponsorships for a selected contact.
AgShow Sponsorships have the following features:
- Package (or General) Sponsorships: that are not linked to the schedule.
- In-Kind Contributions: a non-cash donation, such as a voucher, plumbing work, etc.
You define your own Description for the contribution and enter a Value Amount.
Contributions can also be ticked off as being Confirmed and/or Collected.
- Collector: is a contact (committee member?) with the responsibilty of collecting sponsorship monies and items from
designated sponsors. A Sponsorship List ordered by Collector
prints a Collection List.
1. See the Sponsorships screen:
2. Selecting a Sponsor:
The sponsor is selected in the drop-down 'Select Sponsor' list at the top of the screen.
The list can be refined for easier searching:
- 'Search For:' allows the list to be restricted to only current sponsors or all contacts.
- 'Search By:' allows the contacts within the list to be sorted by name, contact ID or Company name.
3. The Sponsorships Sub-Form:
All sponsorships for a sponsor are listed in the Sub-Form:

Notes about the fields:
- Major Sponsorship:
Tick to indicate that this is a Major Sponsorship. If ticked the words "Major Sponsor of ..." are prepended
to most reports when the sponsorship is printed. Note that the Major Sponsorship is associated with a sponsorship record
and not the contact containing the record.
- Cash Amount and Included GST:
Enter the Cash Amount value for a cash sponsorship. GST will be automatically calculated according
to the Sponsorship Percentage specified in the Base Details screen.
Simply overtype the calculated GST if necessary.
- Displayed Name:
This is the text displayed in AgShow's schedule and other reports. The example above demonstrates that
a company name (or whatever you type) will be displayed as the sponsor instead of the contact's name.
- Collector:
A Collector is a contact (a committee member?) with responsibility of collecting sponsorship items.
Different collectors can be specified for each sponsorship. A Sponsorship List ordered by Collector
prints a collection list.
- In-Kind Contribution:
is a non-cash contribution, such as a voucher, trophy, horse rug, work in-kind, etc.
You may have a Cash Amount plus an In-Kind Contribution Value specified in the same sponsorship record,
as in the example above.
Note, that as the In-Kind Contribution Value is not collected as cash, AgShow does not have any GST component.
- Description:
Type in a Description of your In-Kind Contribution, or if already typed then just select it from the
drop-down list.
- Value, Qty, Confirmed and Collected:
The In-Kind Contribution Value field is for the relative value of the contribution.
The field is NOT for a cash value and the amount is NOT included in Payments Due. A class may have many vouchers of the same value required, so the
Quantity field caters for this.
The Confirmed and Collected (or Completed) fields provide different levels of information
for the Collection of the contribution.
4. Specifying a New Sponsorship:

After selecting the contact for the sponsorship:
- Select the Type of sponsorship, either General, Section, Subsection, Class
or one of the Sponsorship Packages that you have defined.
The 'Class' Type has been selected above.
- Select the appropriate Section, Subsection and Class, depending on the Type of sponsorship.
When the General and Package sponsorships are selected, as they are not linked to the schedule the section, subsection
and class are greyed out.
- Click the New Spon'ship button to add a new record for this sponsorship.
- In the new Sponsorship record:
- Enter the Amount within the new record.
GST will automatically be calculated.
- If you are assigning Collectors to collect sponsorship money, then select the collector from the drop-down list.
- If there is any In-Kind Contribution then select the Description from the drop-down list or type in
a description if it has not been defined previously.
- The In-Kind Value does not have any GST component in AgShow.
- The Confirmed and Collected boxes are to provide information relating to the collection of the sponsorship.
- Enter any information regarding this sponsorship in the 'Spon'ship Notes' which is printed with
the sponsorship information in the Invoice.
5. Altering a Sponsorship record:
- Select the sponsor then select the sponsorship record to alter by clicking anywhere on it.
- At the top of the sponsorships, select the Type, Section, Subsection and Class that you wish to change the sponsorship to.
- Click the Change spon ID: nn button.
6. Deleting a Sponsorship record:
- Select the sponsor then select the sponsorship record to delete by clicking anywhere on it.
- At the top of the sponsorships, click the Delete spon ID: nn button.