[software] NPO software: where we need to go

[Dave Rolsky]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Dave,
>
>> I definitely don't want to track each donation separately in Gnucash.
>> That really doesn't help with anything, and makes our accounts much more
>> confusing.
>
> Well, to be blunt, Gnucash isn't an accounting system, will never be an
> accounting system, and I have no intention of personally targeting it.

It'd be helpful if you explain why you dislike it so much (maybe). It's 
certainly worked well enough for us over the past 5 years or so. I don't 
love it, and I'd be open to something (significantly) better.

> Some of the orgs here need to have a tight coupling of accounting and
> fundraising.  Particularly the umbrella organizations: every week we need
> to tell each hosted project how much money they have, which means
> computing fundraising *and* expenses, often including information on money
> raised for specific events.

Sure, but does this need to be done in a donor management system? Again, 
this sounds like an accounting system. It doesn't need to be Gnucash. Is 
there a really strong need to combine these two systems together?


-dave

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