Managing Your Books

• Bank Account Details Everything about one bank or cash account: its balance, its feed, and the transactions flowing through it.
• Bank and Cash See every bank and cash account at a glance, and keep each one tied to the right place in your books.
• Bank Feeds Connect Mercury or your bank through Plaid so new transactions flow in on their own — no file downloads.
• Bank Reconciliation Match your books to your bank statement every month: the single most important check that your numbers are right.
• Chart of Accounts The filing system that classifies every dollar flowing through your nonprofit.
• Closing an Accounting Period Lock a finished month or year so the numbers stay put, so no one can backdate an entry into closed books.
• Creating and Managing Budgets Plan the year's income and spending, then track your actual numbers against the plan as the year unfolds.
• Creating a New Account Add a new account to your chart of accounts and put it to work in a couple of minutes.
• Funds and Programs Organize your money by where it can be spent and which part of your mission it supports.
• Managing Supporters and Vendors Keep your supporters and vendors in tidy lists that feed donations, bills, and your 1099s.
• Merging Duplicate Accounts Two accounts for the same thing? Merge them into one and bring every transaction, bill, and budget along.
• Settling Payouts and Clearing Balances Match the lump-sum deposit from Stripe, PayPal, or Givebutter back to the donations behind it, fees and all.
• Transaction Tags Tag transactions with the labels that matter to you -- events, campaigns, grants -- and slice your reports by them.
• Viewing an Account Register The checkbook-style view of every posted transaction in an account, with a running balance you can filter and trace.