free accounting software charity

mookev

Hi

I am treasurer for a motorcycle road safety charity with about 100 members mainly recording subscriptions and expenses . Currently I am using microsoft money to record transactions and to produce reports. can anyone recommend a free suitable accounts software \i could donload and use?

mookev

PS For more information the income of the club is well below £10000 a year. we re about to start recording assets having recently purchased radios for training

Pennywise

The free cash book from https://www.vtsoftware.co.uk is excellent for basic recording of in's and out's and reconciling bank accounts, if that's all you need.

Seanymph

https://www.tt-exchange.org/

Vectis

Brightbook is a free online accounts package.

But, really, if all you're doing is recording receipts and payments then a spreadsheet would do. OpenOffice and others are free.

Savvy_Sue

Seanymph wrote: »

https://www.tt-exchange.org/

can't quickly see any accounts packages from them.

FWIW I use Excel for a small walking group. I don't exactly 'run' reports, but I can show both the what and the why, eg our subs are recorded as 'subs' for what and 'general' as why, and then things like postage and printing get offset against 'general'. Whereas money we get when people book holidays through Ramblers are 'holiday income' for what and 'development' for why, because that money is set aside for buying new maps and training walks leaders.

I think the formulae use VLookUp. It takes me a while to get my head round it when I do the accounts but it does the job for us.

BTW I did try the VT software Pennywise suggests and I couldn't get my head round it, but I suspect that was because I was trying to produce something in a hurry ... and didn't give myself enough time to get my head round it.

At work we use Quickbooks which is easier than Sage, cheaper, but probably OTT.

wess_lawson

Try Zipbooks. Its free to use and has a friendly interface. Thanks.