When Your Mission Runs Deeper Than Your Systems Can Handle
This organization doesn’t just manage donations, they engineer, build, and deliver innovative water purification systems to communities around the world. That means they operate like a complex global business:
- Designing blueprints for custom water pumps
- Sourcing and managing part inventory
- Coordinating builds and installs across 8 countries
- Managing international costs in multiple currencies
And on top of that? They’re a nonprofit.
Which means their accounting must handle:
- Restricted fund management
- In-kind donations
- Project-based audit trails
Before Techfino, their ERP simply couldn’t keep up. So, they worked around it - country offices submitted spreadsheets, emailed receipts, and waited for the U.S. team to manually enter and reconcile everything.
Accounting happened in triplicate. Reporting took weeks. Mistakes were inevitable. And as inefficiencies mounted, so did stress. Overhead grew, team members burned out, and the mission - the very thing they existed to serve - was slowed by the very tools meant to back it.