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Books your treasurer can hand an auditor.

This is a real double-entry ledger built for a parish, not a donation tracker. Every gift and expense posts as a balanced entry, your fund balances stay honest, and your nonprofit statements tie out on their own. It's the whole back office, from the first bill to the year-end close.

The books only one person understands.

Every parish has a treasurer who keeps the books in a spreadsheet only they can read, and a quiet worry about what happens when they step down or the diocese asks for an audit. Symphonia turns parish finance into a real general ledger that anyone can pick up, where the giving posts itself, the statements tie out, and a month closes with a click. The books stop being a person's private burden and become the parish's own.

Provably in balance.

A trial balance where the debits and credits agree to the penny, on the desk or in your pocket.

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Finances.
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General ledger.
Journal entry
$48,210
Total assets
$182,400
Revenue YTD
$0.00
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1000 · Operating Checking 14,220.00 ·
6100 · Utilities & Repairs 3,910.00 ·
4000 · Stewardship & Offerings · 16,480.00
4500 · Candle & Bookstore · 1,650.00
Totals18,130.0018,130.00
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Parish Studio, on your desk
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$48,210
Total assets
$182k
Revenue YTD
$164k
Expenses YTD
+$18k
Net change
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The plate and the ledger agree.
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The same Studio, in your pocket

The whole back office.

A real general ledger
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True double-entry
Every gift and expense posts a balanced journal entry, so the books provably balance to the penny.
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A chart of accounts you control
Seed a standard nonprofit chart in one click, then rename, add, or reclass with a clean structure.
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Nonprofit statements, live
Balance sheet, statement of activities, trial balance, and fund balances, all filterable by period.
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Real fund accounting
Money tracked as unrestricted, temporarily, or permanently restricted, with the reason on the record.
The money-out side
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Bills & vendors
Track what you owe, keep vendors with renewal reminders, and record W-9 contractors for tax time.
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Invoices you can email
Bill for hall rentals or dues, send a pay link, and record the receipt against the ledger.
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Reconcile to zero
Match every bank line to a ledger line. It won't finalize while a penny is off, and it names the gap.
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A live bank feed
Link your accounts and pull transactions automatically, with CSV import always there as a fallback.
Year-end without the dread
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1099-NEC & payroll
A 1099-NEC worksheet and e-file, and payroll through Check or Zeal that posts each run to the ledger.
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Budget vs actual
Set a budget, watch the variance line by line, and hand the board a clean, ready-made pack.
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A tidy period close
Lock a month with a closing entry, so the books stay honest and an auditor has nothing to untangle.
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QuickBooks, either way
Two-way sync while you transition, or a clean IIF/CSV export with no connection at all.
Reconciliation

It won't let the books be wrong.

Import a bank statement and tie each line to your books. Reconciliation refuses to finalize while a single penny is out of place, and it tells you exactly where the gap is. A live bank feed pulls transactions on its own, and a running check watches that every recorded gift actually made it onto the ledger. The kind of quiet rigor that catches an honest mistake, and an dishonest one.

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check_circleUtility payment · ComEd−318.44
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The ledger everything posts to.

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Giving posts here

Every gift becomes a balanced entry, so the plate and the books reconcile themselves.

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The store posts here

Candle-desk and bookstore sales land as journal entries, idempotently, never double-counted.

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Feeds the reports

Budget variance, fund balances, and the diocesan census all read from the one honest ledger.

The honest answers.

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Is it really double-entry, or just a donation tracker?

Real double-entry. Every gift and expense posts a balanced journal entry to a proper general ledger, so your trial balance ties out and your statements are the ones a nonprofit auditor expects.

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Do we still need QuickBooks?

Most parishes cancel it. ParishBooks is built for a parish, with fund accounting and giving that posts itself. If you want to keep QuickBooks, it syncs both ways, or exports cleanly with no connection.

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Can it handle 1099s and payroll?

Yes. A 1099-NEC worksheet and e-file are built in, and payroll runs through Check or Zeal, which file and remit the taxes while Symphonia posts each run to your ledger.

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How do gifts get onto the books?

Automatically. Every online and in-person gift posts a balanced entry as it happens, so the plate and the ledger always agree without a data-entry night.

The QuickBooks you get to cancel.

See ParishBooks keep your parish's books balanced, with your own accounts, in a short walkthrough.