Golden Gate Men's Chorus Hits a High Note with NetSuite.org


Golden Gate Men's Chorus

Company

Golden Gate Men's Chorus

Location

San Francisco, Calif.

Industry

Nonprofit

Applications Replaced

QuickBooks, Excel


“NetSuite.org is the perfect solution for us, especially our SuiteCommerce webstore. We'd be spending a lot more time and energy on financial record keeping if we didn't have NetSuite to handle it.” Golden Gate Men's Chorus

Customer Success

  • The nonprofit Golden Gate Men's Chorus (GGMC) relies on NetSuite as a seamlessly integrated solution for financials, inventory and its ecommerce webstore.
  • As an early cloud adopter in 2001, GGMC has reduced its administrative record-keeping overhead and benefited from simple web access and ease of use.
  • The SuiteCommerce website supports critical revenue generation through online sales of tickets to about 12 GGMC concerts a year in the Bay Area.
  • The ecommerce storefront also sells CDs, T-shirts and other merchandise, and accepts donations from supporters.
  • With SuiteCommerce, GGMC handles about 95 percent of its transactions online, saving time and money over previous phone and paper mail processes.
  • NetSuite reporting delivers on-demand financial visibility with drill-down detail for strong accounting practices.
  • Flexible reporting enables easy reporting on cash flow, budget vs. actuals and projected budgets for the board of directors.
  • NetSuite also handles payroll for a small part-time staff and helps streamline compliance with IRS requirements for nonprofits.

Challenges

  • Small part-time staff was challenged to keep up with multiple financial and management tasks using QuickBooks and Excel.
  • GGMC wanted to introduce ecommerce without committing inordinate time and resources to integration between a webstore and financials/inventory.

Solution

  • Software donation through the NetSuite.org corporate citizenship program helps the 58-member GGMC, founded in 1982, focus expenditures on its mission of sharing its joy of male choral music across the Bay Area rather than on managing the back office.
  • Anywhere, anytime access to NetSuite through a web browser and single unified data set were viewed as key advantages during solution evaluation.

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