Non-Profits

Both Enterprise and Online offer Non-Profit as an option for defining the company type when ordering / setting up a company in QuickBooks. Unfortunately, there are some things that they drop the ball at:

 * In Reports, they continue to list "Profit & Loss" as various reports. Non-profits don't have P&L's but instead the report is called the Statement of Financial Operations, or sometimes more simply, Operations Statements.

 * While we can modify the report heading to manually change the name (taking our time for something that QB should do since they offer the option), we can't change the internal terms of Profit or Loss to read "Excess" or "Deficit.".

 * Non-profits typically have "Members" instead of Customers. True, they could have "Customers" as well. I suppose one workaround would be to identify these "Customers" as "Member" in the "Customer Type" field, but if we were also trying to use that field to identify a real "type" of business or organization or member, we'd have to come up with yet another workaround.

 * Isolating restricted funds from general (unrestricted) presents another problem, but by using Class Identification and some creative GL structures, most of that can be dealt with, it just takes more time.

If anyone (user, not QB Team Member) has experience with some ideas to make non-profits in QB a little better, please share. Not all ideas might apply, but some will and others may help with the spark of an idea. Thanks.