The activity report arrives a year later
You paid in January. What the money paid for, you read in a document written in December.
You earmark funding for a cause, with its envelope, its account and its card. It can only be spent with the cause’s suppliers, for the duration of the project. Each contributor sees the payments they funded, according to their rights.
Amounts given as examples.
The starting point
They have nothing to do with the goodwill of your teams. It is the circuit that is badly laid out.
You paid in January. What the money paid for, you read in a document written in December.
Contributions blend into the charity’s cash. Nobody can say which euro paid for what.
Each funder asks for its own table and its own receipts, in its own format. The team reconstructs the payments after the fact.
You do not have to watch expenses one by one: whatever falls outside the frame is refused at the moment of payment.
€5,000.00 to equip a workshop, provided by one or more patrons.
The suppliers planned in the project budget, or categories of eligible expenditure.
The cause’s calendar, with an end date after which nothing more goes out.
The payments they funded and the rule applied, with no access to the files of the people supported.
Setting up
The timeline is set in the first conversation, depending on the number of beneficiaries and the exchanges with your information system.
What is funded, the organisation running it, the suppliers and the calendar. The roles are written down.
Each patron wires its share. The contributions form a single envelope, attached to the cause.
With the cause’s account and card, at authorised suppliers. Nothing is paid upfront by volunteers.
The payments, in real time, according to each contributor’s rights. Closing relies on these records.
On the accounting side, each payment arrives with its amount, its supplier, its date and the rule applied. Your exports can be used as they are for closing and for an audit.
The evidence covers payments, not the social impact of the cause. Allocation follows an agreement and reconciliations. Any entitlement to issue tax receipts remains that of your own organisation.
Tell us who funds it, who uses the funds, and what the programme must make it possible to pay for.