The foundation everything else is built on.
Growing Grounds starts from the books, not the other way around. Every payment, expense, and reimbursement lands in the same ledger the moment it happens — reconciled automatically, not once a month by a volunteer with a spreadsheet.
What’s included
Link your bank through Stripe and every cleared transaction matches itself against the ledger as it syncs. A statement run confirms the two tie out, so the books are never more than a sync out of date.
Profit & loss, cash flow, budget-versus-actual, and a Form 990-EZ mapped from your chart of accounts — built from live balances in seconds, not rebuilt the night before a meeting. Your accountant can take a CSV, IIF, or QBO export any time.
Every income and expense account rolls up to the approved budget for the fiscal year, so the board sees where things stand before it’s a surprise — and the numbers roll forward cleanly when the year does.
Volunteers submit an expense with the receipt attached (it won’t save without one), a second board member approves it, and the ledger updates itself. The audit trail keeps who approved what, when, and how long the record is retained.
Close the year from a checklist: accounts reconciled, approvals drained, then the year’s orders lock and a snapshot lands in the prior-year archive. The next treasurer inherits a closed ledger instead of a shoebox of receipts.
A Growing Grounds app for iOS and Android is launching this fall, with our own proprietary POS system built in — making it even easier to capture and categorize transactions the moment they happen.
Part of the full platform
Every feature set reports into the same ledger — financial bookkeeping is the foundation underneath all of it.