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My organization is the benficiary of a fundraising campaign put on for us by an external corporation (let's say "Corporation X").

Corporation X collects cash donations for us for a month, and sends us a single check - representing the lump sum of 250 donations.

Because the check arrives on a check from Corporation X - that's who needs to receive the hard credit.

However, I also want the 250 soft credit gifts to be included on the 250 donor's records - what's a way someone has found to do this expediently and without entering the gift, broken out, over and over on Corp X's record and soft crediting every single donor? That'll make a kooky, long list on Corp X's record and is very time consuming.

Thanks!

Pretty sure you can NOT do what you need using contribution Import, and the contribution input form doesn't support splitting soft credits among multiple contacts for a single contribution. However, the data model supports splits (civicrm_contribution_soft includes foreign key to contribution_id AND an amount).

You could try manually inserting a simple split in the contribution_soft table (in a test copy of your DB) and seeing how it works. The contribution edit and view screens might not handle it too well - but that might be ok.

Example:
civicrm_contribution record - id=10, amount=500
civicrm_contribution_soft - id=1, contribution_id=10, amount=200
civicrm_contribution_soft - id=2, contribution_id=10, amount=300