System Features

System Features 

Designed for Charitable Organizations - All of the FIMS modules are designed specifically for charitable organizations. This is particularly important within the financial management area. Fund accounting, as practiced by many governmental agencies and universities, is substantially different from the fund accounting needs of charitable organizations. Charitable organizations often have a significantly larger number of funds, or multiple projects, and greater coding and reporting needs than other organizations.

Integrated Modules – All FIMS modules are designed to work in conjunction with each other. Integration eliminates the need for redundant data entry, which saves both user and system resources, and enhances data integrity. For example, you only need to enter name and address information into the system once (in the Profile Management module), and all of the other FIMS modules can access this information for reports or other purposes.

User Friendly, Yet Sophisticated - FIMS features the Progress language, online help, Data Grids, tabs, and menus for navigation and entry, the Windows calculator, and a full graphical user interface (GUI).

User Definable - FIMS is extremely flexible. You can create and define an unlimited number of codes. The system maintains data integrity by forcing the proper use of a valid code in each field, and drop-down boxes in code fields simplify the selection process.

The General Ledger account key is also user definable. This allows you to specify the names and lengths of up to eight separate General Ledger account segments, including the Division, Class, Type, Sub-Type, Fund, Account, Functional Expense, and General Ledger Account Type.

User Control for Reports - Users can easily control the selection criteria and sort order for all pre-designed system reports and control which fields to subtotal in financial reports. FIMS also provides several user-defined reports and exports that allow users to select the actual fields that they want to include in the exported data.

Unlimited History- FIMS maintains a complete history of all transactions entered into the system, including transactions involving Gifts, Pledges, Grant and Scholarship Applications, Grants, Contacts, Accounts Payable, and General Ledger.

Inquiries - With the availability of historical data it is easy to perform instant onscreen inquiries in summary or detail for Donors, Grantees, Funds, or your organization’s total activity.

System Security - A comprehensive security system allows the system administrator to easily control user access to all FIMS functions, including read or write access.

Progress Language - FIMS was created in the Progress relational database language. The Progress language is the best on the market today and runs on many different types of systems. It reduces development time and the amount of time that is necessary to implement custom programming or reports – resulting in more productive systems at the lowest possible cost.

Online Help – Comprehensive online help is included with FIMS. You can either view the help on your local system or view the most recent updates via the

NPact web site – both from integrated FIMS menus. You can also create your own user-defined help to document information and procedures that are specific to your organization’s business processes.

Importing Data - The flexibility of the Progress language, along with FIMS’ special conversion programs means that we can import much of your existing data into FIMS.

Exporting Data - FIMS has a powerful exporting capacity that allows user to export data into presentation, spreadsheet, or word processing software to create personalized letters, reports, or illustrations for a variety of purposes (for example, donor statements).