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Clear Blue Accounting

ClearBlue Solutions delivers an accounting application suite that is unique to multi-level nonprofit contribution management and bottom-up reporting. It ties together the local collections offices with their organizational leadership offices on one accounting system and chart of accounts so that as churches or local offices post their books periodically those posted receipts are available to the leadership offices in real time for reporting and tracking. The leadership office structures the chart of accounts that the entire organization will use but local offices and churches can customize the chart of account further for their unique purposes. Leadership visibility into collections level books can also be customize from fully transparent to completely private depending on an organizations oversight and audit policies. The subscription price is in direct relation to the size of your membership so you are assured of a predictable and adjustable expense.

The ClearBlue Accounting Suite consists of three modules for use by churches and their denomination leadership organizations; BackOffice^TM, Enterprise^TM, and MemberPort^TM. These are available via secure VPN (virtual private network) connection from our data centers with regular backups and full operational redundancy for absolute security and reliability. Your accounting data is kept secured, separate from other customer data, and only accessible by you and those you contract for auditing purposes. There is no equipment to buy or staff to maintain. Subscribers simply need an internet browser to access the system securely from anywhere 24 hours a day.

ClearBlue BackOffice operates at the local church or office level and offers a fully featured fund accounting system that integrates the General Ledger with contributions and membership management, allowing for the entry and reporting of member contributions. Fully GAAP, FASB and PII compliant, BackOffice has a complete list of features including cash and contributions, pledge drive and membership management. Quality assurance features such as audit trails on all transactions, roll-back and roll-forward capability on transactions, regularly scheduled backups and redundant transaction logs work to ensure secure and reliable data. Regular pledge and tithe receipts can be automatically allocated by percent or hierarchy to specific accounts and funds from one contribution by leadership, local office, or the member making the contribution.

ClearBlue Enterprise contains all of the functionality of the BackOffice module but serves also as a major collection and reporting module for the nonprofit leadership. Posting the books at the local level makes those accounts, down to transactions and receipts detail if desired, visible to the leadership office for reporting and inquiry. The organization's chart of accounts is maintained in the Enterprise module and any changes are brought down to each BackOffice automatically and are immediately available. Pledge drives and funds can be created and maintained at both the Enterprise level and at the BackOffice level. And with ClearBlue Enterprise there is no limit to the number of reporting levels supported above the BackOffice level to bring together an entire national or international organization of any dimension. Adding new BackOffice or Enterprise installations is seamless.

ClearBlue MemberPort is the online portal for contributing members to access information on their accounts. Members will be able to manage accounts by updating personal information, making tithe and pledge payments online, setting up automated electronic funds transfers (EFT) through credit card or pre authorized checking payments, and downloading statements and tax forms. The MemberPort will also be a source of local church and denomination information, newsletters, pledge drive status, church school roster, calendar of events and even free family email accounts free of spam and unwanted solicitations. ClearBlue Solutions is currently working with online providers to provide a full Microsoft Office virtual desktop and email to members.

How We Compare

ClearBlue Accounting provides a unique solution
ClearBlue Accounting offers an organization-wide solution that benefits all levels of multi-tiered contribution based nonprofit organizations and church denominations. It is flexible enough to support any number of reporting levels so that leadership over a region of local offices can report up to another level, say to a state or national leadership office. ClearBlue Accounting offers a flexible level of security throughout the hierarchy from full transparency top to bottom, to a restricting visibility to only summary accounts and standard reporting. ClearBlue Accounting is current with legislative requirements for privacy and security in banking and finance, utilizes the benefits of electronic funds transfers (EFT), and supports fund accounting.

Advantage over other accounting solutions
The primary advantage of the ClearBlue Accounting is that it is a solution for an entire organization with direct benefits for the congregations and any number of managing leadership entities that the congregations report to. The ClearBlue Accounting is a top-down solution for the organization with centralized management of the chart of accounts and automating the reporting of all local offices and congregations up to every leadership level. Other accounting solutions' focus is on the congregation alone with reconciliation and reporting up presenting a monthly time-consuming hurdle.

None addresses all of these crucial needs of the entire organization together in one solution:

Full General Ledger with Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Point of Sale, Cash Management, Asset Management fully integrated with the GL.
Significant cost savings from removing the monthly manual overhead of contributions receipt collection from the congregations.
Significant cost savings from eliminating the need for in-house data processing and maintaining an IT infrastructure.
Real time and accurate reporting of all congregation contributions activity to leadership. When congregations post their periods it is immediately accessible for reporting.
A GAAP compliant Accounting platform enforcing regulatory security and best accounting practices throughout the organization.
Nonprofit specific Form 990 regulatory reporting.
Dynamic and flexible cash and account management.
No additional office computer equipment requirements or maintenance costs. No downloads, updates, patches or additional memory. Use your internet browser from anywhere.
Secure internet delivery with regular backup and on-demand recovery procedures that guarantee operational continuity.
Electronic banking incorporated in the system for recurring scheduled cash receipts and cash disbursements such as vendor invoices.

Nowhere will you find an accounting solution that as closely addresses the needs of the nonprofit community, which ties the multiple reporting levels of an entire organization onto one system seamlessly and securely, and that provides the significant benefits of our list of features.

World-Class Service and Support
ClearBlue Solutions is dedicated to world-class customer support services to ensure that our customers have minimal negative impact from issues and full support when the need arises. Along with phone and online support available our customers will have their own account representatives that will have the authority to escalate and manage any issue with key problem solvers within ClearBlue Solutions. Our goal is for our customers to will feel that they have a variety of avenues in which to seek assistance.

In addition, our partnership with major computer dealers, accountant services, internet providers and other key vendors will ensure we have the ability to provide a “one-stop-shop” of solutions for our customers and significant benefits to their contributors. Finally, we intend our infrastructure to be an industry leader in security and service uptime.