If we can rant about anything, it’s double data entry. That minion of tradition that finds itself passed from employee to new employee because, ‘that’s the way it’s always been done’. Here at InnovateNP we’re at war with double data entry.

All successful businesses need to use multiple programmes to ensure they are leveraging the best the market has to offer. Whether it’s QuickBooks for accounting, Salesforce for CRM, or Eventbrite for events, every company should be using the most creative and innovative products on the market, because they just make life easier. However, one common pitfall organisations fall into is that to really be of benefit, the programmes need to talk to each other. Otherwise users can spend hours keying or importing the same information into multiple locations.

That’s what we’re at war with. We want to use the best tried-and-tested software on the market, but it’s imperative that those individual systems talk to one another, integrating and updating information seamlessly, so that everything syncs in perfect harmony. In our world, when a new donation is received on a website, the related CRM should automatically update and send instant notification to the accounting software, firing alerts and automatic messages along the way. So something that used to take 3 days to work its way around the organisation, meandering through processes and checks, is done in an instant. Simply put, we like to have our cake and eat it.

If you would like to find out more about how we could save your organisation time and money, send us an email at info@innovatenonprofit.com. We look forward to hearing from you.