I decided to go back to TurboTax Deluxe and examine the options for adding charitable item donations. Options are:
1. import from ItsDeductible
2. manual entry - values using ItsDeductible - similar to entry on the ItsDeductible web site
3. manual entry - values entered directly
So not only is TurboTax discontinuing the ItsDeductible web tool, but they will probably remove the item valuation using ItsDeductible for manual entry and the resulting concise representation of multiple item donations by charity and date.
You'll be left with entering:
charity name and address - entered once per charity
date of donation, item description, and value - entered separately for each separate date/item pair
There does not seem to be any mechanism for entering multiple items for a single donation date, so you're left with a long list of date/item pairs for each charity. With ItsDeductible, whether imported or entered manually, each charity has a list of donation dates, each of which contains a list of items with valuations and quantities.
