For a church or nonprofit, a good process for receiving, recording, and depositing donations is absolutely necessary.
In this post, I cover the basics of a good process that will protect your workers and the donors.
Many months ago, a friend asked me about how to keep track of donations in Google Sheets…the Google version of Microsoft Excel. Long story short, I decided today was the day to look into this. Feel free to make a copy of my spreadsheet for your own use.
Last night Sheri and I held a webinar on QuickBooks and your church. We went over why churches should consider QuickBooks, where to get it cheap, and how to set it up for a church. We also went over how to use it to manage donations and use it’s budget tool. We had great participation that really added to it.
It may be possible to save big dollars by designing your own accounting system or membership software or whatever. If you have the skills and interest to create, here are some things to think about.
Merging accounts within your chart of accounts is a necessary skill to keeping reports clean.
I’m still working in my 30-day free trial of Non-Profit QuickBooks Online. One of the first challenges I’ve helped churches work through is how you handle all those church funds. I’ve seen two good solutions: 1)Track it all in the Equity section or 2)Track it in Equity AND Other Income. I show you this in…
Churches might avoid QuickBooks because they think they will need a separate system to track donations. Most church accounting programs have a module for accounting and a separate module for keeping the giving records. For years, the rumor was that you could track giving records in QuickBooks…and that rumor is true! I played around in…