Your nonprofit has outgrown spreadsheets.
Spreadsheets cost $0 in software but hours in labor, errors in your books, and risk to your grants. Real fund accounting starts at $29/month.
Sound familiar?
When spreadsheets stop working
Grant compliance
A funder asks for restricted fund reports and you can't produce them from your spreadsheet.
Audit readiness
Your org crosses the revenue threshold for an independent audit and the auditor flags your books.
Board pressure
A new board member with a finance background asks where the fund balance report is.
Treasurer turnover
A new treasurer takes over and can't make sense of the existing spreadsheet.
Volume overwhelm
Manual entry takes hours each month and a mistyped number cascades through your reports.
990 filing
Tax time arrives and you spend days manually assembling 990 data from your spreadsheet.
The real cost of free
What spreadsheets can't do
| Capability | NP Ledger | Spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From $29/mo | $0 |
| Fund accounting | Native, enforced | |
| Double-entry bookkeeping | ||
| Audit trail | Immutable + period locking | Anyone can edit anything |
| GAAP financial reports | One-click, 8 reports | Hours of manual work |
| Form 990 support | Auto-mapping wizard | |
| Formula errors | Not possible | 88-90% have errors |
| Bank reconciliation | Manual comparison | |
| Grant compliance tracking | Grant dashboard + alerts | |
| Donor giving statements | Auto PDF + batch email | Manual in Word |
| Access controls | 4 roles + 2FA | Edit or view only |
Spreadsheet error rate: Ray Panko, University of Hawaii research on spreadsheet accuracy.
Bring your spreadsheet data with you.
NP Ledger's spreadsheet import tool generates a personalized template pre-filled with your chart of accounts, then auto-detects your columns and validates every row before posting. Most organizations are entering transactions within the first session.
1
Download template
Pre-filled with your accounts
2
Upload your data
Auto-detects columns
3
Review and post
Validates before committing
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