The reconciliation marathon
Fundraising exports a spreadsheet, finance keys it into the general ledger, and the two numbers still don't match. Month-end becomes a hunt for the difference.
Ignite Finance
Gift to statement,one record.
Ignite Finance is the platform's financial truth layer: gift, batch, pledge, and recurring processing that flows straight into journal entries, trial balance, and balance-verified GL extract, so development and accounting share one record instead of reconciling two systems.
30 minutes. Live product. Real data. No deck.
- AI teammates included, no premium tier
- No per-seat fees
- Your team approves every AI action
The actual screens
From the gift to the journal.
Ignite Finance running end to end: gift activity, the batches behind it, the funds it lands in, and a fiscal year that balances before anything reaches accounting.
These screens are built and pending the v1 release gate.
Gift processing is instrumented at the source.
Amount, count, batch volume and the activity trend read off the same records development enters — not off an export somebody re-keyed.
Batches are first-class records with their own state.
Each batch keeps its own count, amount, date, status and entry type, so high-volume entry stays fast without losing the audit trail.
Donor restriction is recorded where the money lands.
A fund carries its code and its restriction classification, so restricted and unrestricted revenue separate at entry instead of at month-end.
The fiscal year balances inside the platform.
Debits and credits agree on the journal before anything is handed over, and the general ledger leaves as a balanced CSV or XLSX file.
The month-end tax
Two systems never agree at month-end.
Development reports one number. Accounting certifies another. Closing the gap between them is somebody's week, every single month.
Gifts on the wrong record
A donor-advised fund check arrives from an intermediary, and crediting it to the donor who deserves it is a manual detective exercise every time.
A ledger held together by exports
Batches, pledges, and recurring gifts live in one system; the statement lives in another. Every handoff is a chance for the numbers to drift.
One record, from the gift to the statement.
Process once
Enter a gift once. It carries all the way to the statement.
Gifts, batches, pledges, and recurring giving run through one engine that feeds journal entries and trial balance directly, with no re-keying between tools.
- Batch defaults keep high-volume entry fast and consistent.
- Pledges and recurring gifts post on schedule automatically.
- Journal entries and trial balance generate inside the platform.
Hand off clean
Give accounting a file that already balances.
The GL extract engine verifies balance and adds a checksum before anything leaves the building, then exports to the CSV or XLSX your accounting system imports.
- Balanced, checksum-verified extracts every time.
- Export a file QuickBooks, Business Central, or any GL imports.
- What you hand accounting is already reconciled.
Credit it correctly
DAF and intermediary gifts land on the right donor.
First-class payor records track the third party that sent the money and the donor who earns the credit, so soft credits stop being a manual chore.
- Donor-advised funds recorded as first-class payors.
- The check from Fidelity Charitable credits the right constituent.
- Adjustments handled in the platform, not a side spreadsheet.
One set of numbers
Development and finance stop arguing about whose report is right.
Because fundraising and finance share one record, the gap closes at the source, and Ignite Intelligence reasons over the same numbers everyone else sees.
- Development and accounting read the same record.
- Month-end stops being a reconciliation project.
- Financial confidence from gift to GL, by design.
Everything in Ignite Finance
Every capability works on the same live record as the rest of the platform.
- Batch, gift, pledge & recurring processing
- Journal entries, trial balance & ledger export (CSV/XLSX)
- GL extract generation with balance verification & checksum
- Payment gateways: Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.Net; ACH via Payflow
- Non-cash gifts & batch defaults
- Adjustments engine
- Third-party payor records for DAFs & intermediaries
- Pledge installments
Proven foundation
Built from the ground up on a modern, AI-first architecture.
A genuinely new platform, informed by our history and experience with 20 million+ constituent profiles across our nonprofit customers.
4.5/5
Average on G2.
20M+
Constituent profiles managed across the StratusLIVE platform family.
$1B+
In annual giving processed across the StratusLIVE platform family.
“One source of the truth about our contacts, donors, and partners that is easily kept up to date.”
Robert W.
Director of Fundraising Operations & Digital Solutions
Verified review · G2
“A powerful tool that empowers our team members to not only enter new data but also see a historical perspective of our donors and corporate partners.”
Maria M.
Director of Investor Management
Verified review · G2
“Removes the need for manual import and export of data.”
Charmaine V.
Small-business nonprofit
Verified review · G2
Ignite Finance works inside the loop.
Ignite is not a database with a chatbot bolted on. Truth, intelligence, and action share one operating model, and Ignite Finance plays its part in it.
- Constituent Support
01
Ignite Finance captures the truth.
Profiles, records, and context give the platform a trustworthy foundation to reason from.
02
Agents read the context.
Digital teammates work from that record, researching, drafting, and preparing next steps.
03
Your team approves the action.
Ignite prepares drafts, tasks, and recommendations, then waits for human approval before meaningful updates.
Two systems never agree. One record always does.
| A CRM plus a spreadsheet | Ignite Finance | |
|---|---|---|
| Month-end | Export, re-key, hunt for the difference | One record; the numbers already agree |
| Gift to GL | Manual journal entries after the fact | Journal entries generated on entry |
| DAF gifts | Detective work to credit the donor | First-class payor records, soft-credited |
| The extract | A file you hope balances | Balance-verified with a checksum |
| Source of truth | Two systems, two numbers | One record, one number |
Pricing that behaves
No per-seat fees. No AI surcharge. No surprises.
Add your whole team without a licensing conversation. AI teammates come with every subscription, because intelligence should be how the platform works, not an upsell.
Whole-team access
Gift officers, events staff, finance, leadership. Everyone works the same record.
AI included
Every AI teammate is part of the subscription. There is no premium intelligence tier.
Transparent editions
Revenue-based pricing you can read without a sales call. Usage alerts and caps keep it predictable.
Questions
Asked by every team that switches.
Direct answers, because you've sat through enough vendor slides.
Book a Discovery CallHow does Ignite Finance work with our accounting system?
The GL extract engine generates balanced, checksum-verified extracts with clean CSV/XLSX export that your accounting system imports, whether that's QuickBooks, Business Central, or any general ledger. Journal entries and trial balance live inside the platform, so what you hand accounting is already reconciled.
What does 'donation to statement' actually mean?
Every gift, pledge payment, and recurring charge is processed once and carries through to journal entries, trial balance, and GL extract inside the same platform. Development and finance look at the same record, so month-end stops being a reconciliation exercise between the CRM export and the accounting system.
Which payment methods can donors use?
Stripe, PayPal, and Authorize.Net gateways, with ACH via PayPal Payflow, and Apple Pay and Google Pay through our integrated giving experience. Donor-advised funds and other intermediaries get first-class payor records, so the check from Fidelity Charitable credits the right donor.
Walk through Ignite Finance.
See the platform's truth, intelligence, and action loop at work on your data.
See gift-to-GL in a live demo- Live in 4–8 weeks
- No per-seat fees
- Your team approves every AI action
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