<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the info Paul, Kill Bill looks very promising! I have briefly looked at Seltzer CRM, what were you guys' conclusions on that software?<div><br></div><div>At this point I don't think we are in a position to deny members who would rather pay cash (and really that group includes me). I think automated reminders and overdue notices would help there, as well as some integration between the financial system and the billing/membership system.</div><div><br></div><div>GnuCash definitely doesn't do everything we want. Still, I'd strongly prefer an open-source solution, so I'm inclined to keep using it as a backend and building stuff around it, eventually replacing it. I think we've made good progress already: <a href="https://github.com/nylen/gnucash-django" target="_blank">https://github.com/nylen/gnucash-django</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Paul Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul90brown@gmail.com" target="_blank">paul90brown@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>For streamlining the way you record membership payments, I would recommend a billing system. Here are the ones we looked at: <a href="https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Financial_Research#Invoicing_and_Billing" target="_blank">https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Financial_Research#Invoicing_and_Billing</a> (we ended up going with WHMCS) However, I saw Killbill.io recently and it looked really interesting too.</div><div><br></div><div>I would recommend not accepting cash. Here's some of the logic behind that decision: <a href="https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors_Meeting_20130630#No_Longer_Accepting_Cash_For_Membership_Dues_.28Paul_Brown.29" target="_blank">https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors_Meeting_20130630#No_Longer_Accepting_Cash_For_Membership_Dues_.28Paul_Brown.29</a></div><div><br></div>We use quickbooks, and we're about to switch to quickbooks online. It's industry standard and generally better than gnucash. This page has some details about that: <a href="https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Bookkeeping_Software#Quickbooks_Desktop" target="_blank">https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Bookkeeping_Software#Quickbooks_Desktop</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:49 PM, James Nylen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jnylen@gmail.com" target="_blank">jnylen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi, I'm James Nylen, the treasurer at Red Mountain Makers in Birmingham, AL.<br><div><br>I'm very interested in getting our financial and membership workflows streamlined. Here are the common tasks I've automated so far:<br><br></div><div>- Pull transactions from bank websites and PayPal, and load them into GnuCash<br></div><div>- Allow viewing and basic editing through a web interface on top of GnuCash<br><br></div><div>Here's what I think are the next steps:<br><br></div><div>- Streamlining the way we record cash membership payments, and cash and non-cash donations<br></div><div>- Report active and lapsed membership (several different types; paid via PayPal and cash/checks)<br></div><div>- Generate monthly financial reports, and maybe even projections<br><br></div><div>What do your processes look like for these items? Anything that has worked particularly well or badly, and anything else I should be thinking about?<br><br>Thanks,<br></div><div>James<br></div></div>
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