DocumentsIn both editions

Every filing from every organization, in one place

Financial reports, tax filings, insurance, minutes. Each one uploaded by the group that owes it, reviewed by the level above, and kept by year.

One term of filings, from the list you define to the report of what is missing

Every document a unit owes has a type, a term and a status. That is what makes the missing ones findable.
  1. You define the document types

    Annual Financial Report, IRS Form 990, Certificate of Insurance, Minutes, Budget, Bylaws. A state defines its own list. A school district defines a different one for its booster clubs.

  2. A new term opens in July

    Terms run July 1 to June 30 and are created each April. Most document types are filed per term. Bylaws and standing rules are not tied to a year.

  3. The task asks for it

    A task created on the schedule asks the unit for a document of a given type. A unit can also upload a document on its own, any time, without being asked.

  4. The treasurer uploads it in September

    One document can carry several files. PDFs are flattened so they look the same to everyone who opens them. The status reads uploaded.

  5. The council reviews it

    A document that arrives through a task goes to the approver. In review, then approved and stamped with the date, or rejected with a comment and back to the unit.

  6. Some documents file themselves

    A budget approved in BeeKeeper, FutureFund's accounting product, arrives in Connect as an approved budget. In the PTA Edition, the bylaws generator files the bylaws PDF as a document.

  7. The state sees every one of them

    The council, the district and the state see every document under them. The directory's Documents tab filters by district, council, term and document type, and exports to Excel.

  8. You run the Missing Document report

    Pick a document type and a term. The report lists every organization that has not filed it. That is your call list, and you did not build it.

A thousand units, each with a folder somewhere

Somewhere is the problem.
A shared drive with a folder per unit

Each district keeps its own, named its own way. The state office asks for a 990 and waits for someone to go looking.

Who has not sent it?

The answer needs a list of everyone who should have, checked against everything that arrived. Nobody has the time to make it twice.

The files left with the treasurer

Last year's financial review is on a laptop that belongs to someone who is no longer on the board.

What a document is in Connect, and why that makes it findable

A file in a drive knows its name. A document in Connect knows its organization, its type, its term, its status, and who approved it and when.

That is what lets the level above look across hundreds of units and see what is in, what is in review, and what has not arrived.
Every filing from every organization, without asking for it twice

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What every unit gets

Its own documents, by term

Everything it has filed, this year and every year before, organized by document type.

Upload from anywhere

Any level uploads documents for itself. Several files can go in as one document.

A status on every document

Uploaded, in review, approved or rejected. The unit knows where it stands without asking.

The approval date

When the council, the district or the state approves a document, it carries the date.

Old files, kept

Filings from before Connect are imported and marked as such, so a unit's history is in one place.

No second copy for the level above

The council, district and state see the document the unit filed. Nobody emails it up the chain.

And so much more
Four-level hierarchy
One login, every level
Scheduled tasks
Multi-level approvals
Weekly past-due reminders
Document types you define
Document review and approval
Filing by fiscal year
Missing document report
Compliance report
IRS filing status
Charity registry status
Board rosters by year
Roster copy-forward
Roster CSV import
Whole-organization export
Bylaws generator
Bylaws in Spanish
Saved recipient groups
Scheduled messages
Delivery and bounce tracking
In-app message center
Directory with export
Search across every level
Favorites
Membership sync
Dues payouts
Membership API
Read-only viewer access
Spanish interface

Frequently Asked Questions

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