Have you successfully used the free and open-source software GNUCash to run the finances of a nonprofit organization, like a church?
Not so great a blog entry, but I’m hoping to attract the attention of someone who has done such a thing.
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I am interested in this as well. Pls keep me posted.
Posted 28 Feb 2009 at 2:39 pm ¶I am currently working on this. Not sure how far I will get but would love to just use gnuCash as our church accounting software. I’ll post my findings, which will be from an accounting novices P.O.V.
Posted 10 Mar 2009 at 6:56 pm ¶@cs. Thanks so much for this ministry.
Posted 10 Mar 2009 at 7:08 pm ¶I am also trying to use it for my non-profit organizations. What is causing me trouble is that donors’ (called customers by gnucash) reports can only be generated from Accounts Receivable and ONLY from one account per report. So if
The reason for that is you can only process donations (payment as gnucash calls it) for accounts of type Accounts Receivable. You can not post a payment to any other account.
Otherwise, I think it is doable.
Posted 31 Mar 2009 at 12:08 pm ¶I am also interested in this. Any successful reports so far?
Posted 14 Oct 2009 at 7:42 pm ¶I used gnucash at our church for 2009. Although I do not think i set it up properly. I dont have it in front of me but i created two accounts. General Funds and Missions. When someone wrote a check for tithes it went into the General Funds account. Same thing for Missions. Also created a Building Fund account.
It worked very well for us because I could run reports per day, week, month, etc. But I could not run a report per person.
When I thought I was creating the member as a customer it was actually just a Description Field and I cannot not run the report on Description Fields. So I ended up running a Yearly Report and sorting it Alphabetically by Description. I had a grande total for the year and had seperate lines for each member.
I copied all that data to an OpenOffice spreadsheet and put the sum of each members rows in a new cell. Then added the column of the totals to make sure it matched. Voila.
We a small church so it only took a few minutes to do the Spreadsheet thing but like i said, I did not set this up properly. Which is how I found this page. I am looking for a proper way to set it up so that I can run reports on each member.
hope this helps, and hope somone can help me, us.
Sal
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