I do not know of any off-the-shelf collections management software
packages that also handle accounting. With fully-featured accounting
software available for very little money (Quickbooks runs about $200), I
wonder if such an all-encompassing solution is viable for companies
making collections management software for small museums. Does anyone
have statistics on what software small museums use for accounting and
for memberships?
Best wishes,
Will
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Behalf Of Reine Hauser
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 2:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Museum Database Programs
As a small historic estate museum, we are new users of Past Perfect, but
are very happy with it so far. We've been using it for our membership
database, and will be using it for collections, too, in the near future.
It's been simple to use, the company is very responsive, and the
database is VERY well designed. But then, our membership is relatively
small-we only have a few thousand records.
It doesn't have an accounting feature, so we use Quikbooks (which is
linked to our gift shop POS system.) I'm hoping that someday Past
Perfect will develop a POS system for museum gift shops!
Raiser's Edge is the state-of-the-art. However, unless you have a
membership department with at least a couple of full time employees, I'd
avoid it due to price, and complexity (it requires extensive off site
training.)
Hope this helps!
Reine Hauser
Executive Director
The Graycliff Conservancy, Inc
http://graycliff.bfn.org
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