Golden Gate Men's Chorus Hits a High Note with NetSuite.org
Company
Golden Gate Men's Chorus
Location
San Francisco, Calif.
Industry
Nonprofit
Applications Replaced
QuickBooks, Excel
Solutions
NetSuite NetSuite SuiteCommerce
“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.