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Donor money, accounted for by line

Grant, budget and reporting systems for NGOs, foundations and implementing partners.

What it does

NGO & Grant Management

An NGO can be doing excellent work and still lose its next grant, because a donor report arrived late or a cost was charged to the wrong budget line. Grant accounting is unforgiving in a particular way: the money is not yours, and every shilling must be traceable to an approved line in an approved budget.

  • Grant register with donor, period, currency and approved budget
  • Budget lines with commitments, actuals and remaining balance in real time
  • Expenditure coded to grant, budget line, activity and cost centre at entry
  • Multi-currency: grant in dollars or euro, spending in shillings, rates recorded
  • Procurement workflow with quotations, approvals and thresholds
  • Activity and workplan tracking against deliverables
  • Beneficiary registers with disaggregation by sex, age and location
  • Field advances and retirement, with ageing of outstanding advances
  • Donor report packs in the formats each donor requires
  • Audit trail on every approval and every change to a budget
  • Payroll allocation across grants for shared staff

Tanzania

Tanzanian NGO obligations

  • NGO Act returns — annual returns and records for the Registrar of NGOs supported by live financial data.
  • Donor conditions — spending checked against the approved budget line at entry, so an ineligible cost is caught before it is incurred.
  • Multi-currency grants — the exchange rate applied recorded on every transaction, which is the first thing a grant audit tests.
  • Staff cost allocation — salaries split across grants by effort, with the basis documented.
  • Procurement thresholds — quotation and approval requirements enforced by value, as donor rules require.

How we work

Scoped first, built in phases

We look at the process

Not a sales meeting. We sit with the people who do the work now and find where the time and money actually go.

You get a written scope

What will be built, what it costs, how long it takes, and what is explicitly out of scope. In writing, before anything starts.

Built in phases

The part that hurts most is delivered first and put into real use, so value arrives before the whole project is finished.

Trained and supported

Your staff are trained on the real system with real data, and support continues after go-live.

Runs on your own server if you want it to. Internet in Tanzania is not guaranteed. Systems can be installed on a machine at your premises so the business keeps working during an outage, syncing when the connection returns.

Frequently asked

NGO & Grant Management — questions we get

Can it produce reports in each donor's own format?

Yes. Report templates are configured per donor, drawing from the same underlying transactions, so one expenditure appears correctly in every report that covers it.

How does it stop overspending a budget line?

Commitments and actuals are checked against the approved line at the point of requisition, so the block happens before the money leaves rather than at reporting.

Do field offices need internet?

Field entry can run offline and sync, which matters for teams working in districts with poor connectivity.

Can staff costs be split across several grants?

Yes, by effort allocation, with the basis recorded for audit.

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Tell us what your business actually needs

Describe the process that is costing you time or money. We will tell you honestly whether software is the right answer, and what it would take.

Phone+255 781 115 402
Emailinfo@pitech.co.tz
LocatedDar es Salaam
ServingTanzania
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