If you’re trying to master the unique challenges of fund accounting while trapped by the limitations of simple spreadsheets, it’s time to look at Sage Intacct. Only Sage Intacct fund accounting software gives you the clear, real-time visibility you need to efficiently and proactively pursue your organisation’s mission and manage your growth, while reducing fund accounting process costs.

Sage Intacct fund accounting software helps nonprofits and fund administrators:

• Easily manage and track funds and grants
• Increase productivity by automating manual processes
• Ensure appropriate stewardship of funds and donations
• Deliver real-time reporting and visibility to stakeholders
• Manage access and permissions to geographically dispersed employees and volunteers

From compliance reporting to generating outcome metrics and providing real-time visibility, Sage Intacct allows non-profit organisations to spend less time on administrative tasks and more time on what really matters achieving their mission. Sage Intacct's non-profit accounting software features:

• Strong core accounting: Our key core accounting features provide the foundation for your financials: a dimensional general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, order management, purchasing, and Sage Intacct Collaborate to communicate with your team in real-time.
• Multi-entity and global consolidations: Push-button consolidations aggregate transactions in minutes across your non-profit organisation with multiple entities, currencies, grants and donors, and locations.
• Fund accounting: Create separate closes for each revenue source along with a regular series of specific reports including the statement of activities, statements of financial position, statements of cash flow, and Form 990.
• Reporting and dashboards: Gain real-time visibility into every aspect of your organisation’s finances; whether you’re interested in which funds were used for each project, the performance of your organisation by location or team, the expense tied to each volunteer or employee, or any other aspect unique to your organisation.
• Control and compliance: Reduce risk and cost with automated workflows, internal controls, and streamlined compliance using built-in non-profit-specific reports and FASB and IRS-compliant financial statements.
• Revenue recognition: Save time with automated revenue recognition by streamlining ASU 2018-08 and IFRS 15 compliance.
• Visibility and transparency: Benefit from increased insight for faster financial decision-making by combining financial and operational data in new ways.
• Grant tracking and billing: Improve delivery, reimbursement, reporting, and audit of your grants with centralised and automated grant tracking and billing functionality.
• True cloud technology with open APIs: Track metrics central to your organisation's operations and programs by leveraging key data from donor management, payroll, budgeting, CRMs like Salesforce, and other existing or future systems important to your organisation.

Non-profits need accounting software that can track donations, distributions, and expenditures. They must provide reports that share the details of how and where their funds are spent and allocated. A non-profit should also maintain a statement of financial position that reflects the available assets that can be used to support its mission. Non-profits accounting software automates a number of tasks to save time and ensure full compliance.

Yes. Managing restricted funds and grants is one of the areas where Sage Intacct for nonprofits genuinely stands apart. Unlike general accounting software, Sage Intacct is built to handle the complexity of fund restrictions — tracking each grant, donation, or restricted income stream separately, with full visibility across your organisation.With Sage Intacct, your finance team can:

• Set up and manage multiple funds with individual restrictions and reporting requirements
• Monitor grant spend in real time, so you always know what's been used and what remains
• Automatically allocate income and expenditure to the correct fund or programme
• Generate funder-ready reports that demonstrate compliance and appropriate stewardship
• Maintain a clear audit trail for trustees, donors, and regulatory bodies

For charities managing multiple grants simultaneously — each with its own conditions, timelines, and reporting obligations — this removes the manual reconciliation that typically falls on already stretched finance teams. The result is less time on administration and more confidence when reporting to funders.

Sage Intacct for nonprofits is designed to scale — which means it works for organisations at different stages of growth, not just large, established charities. Whether you're managing a single programme with a small team or overseeing multiple entities across different regions, the platform adapts to where your organisation is now and where it's heading.

For smaller charities, the immediate benefit is replacing time-consuming manual processes — spreadsheets, disconnected systems, and end-of-month reporting bottlenecks — with automated workflows and real-time visibility. You don't need a large finance team to get value from Sage Intacct; the software is built to do the heavy lifting.

As your organisation grows, Sage Intacct grows with you. Adding new programmes, taking on additional grant funding, expanding into new locations, or consolidating multiple entities — all of this is supported within the same platform, without the need to migrate to a different system later.
The key question isn't size — it's complexity. If your charity is managing restricted funds, reporting to multiple funders, or finding that your current software is slowing your finance team down, Sage Intacct is worth serious consideration.