Small Income. Big Compliance.
Community organisations run on volunteers and goodwill — then spend four figures a year on accountants, largely to reconstruct what happened from a shoebox of receipts. The fix isn't a cheaper accountant. It's arriving at year-end with books that don't need archaeology.
Accountable books from €19/mo · Websites from €500 · Honest advice, free
Where the Accountant Money Actually Goes
Most small organisations don't pay for accounting. They pay for reconstruction.
The shoebox year-end
Twelve months of receipts, bank statements, and grant letters land on the accountant's desk at once. Every hour they spend matching and chasing is billable — and none of it is accounting judgement.
Funds and grants in one big pot
Restricted grants, fundraising proceeds, and membership fees mixed in one bank column. Untangling which euro belongs to which fund — for the funder report and the regulator — is exactly the expensive kind of tidy-up.
The treasurer handover
The outgoing treasurer knew where everything was. The new volunteer inherits a spreadsheet with someone else's logic and a folder called "Misc". Every handover resets the organisation's financial memory to zero.
Accountable Books for €19 a Month
Rian Books is our Ireland-first bookkeeping workspace: every transaction keeps its evidence attached, so year-end stops being an archaeology dig. The Community Pilot is its community rate — for eligible charities, clubs, and social organisations.
What's in it
Fund, grant and donation tracking · membership charges, payments and arrears · bank CSV import and reconciliation · 100 evidence documents a month · up to 5 users including your adviser · volunteer treasurer onboarding.
What it hands your accountant
Year-end working schedules and an evidence export — organised books with the paper trail attached, so their billable hours go on accounting judgement, not reconstruction. Rian prepares for your accountant; it never replaces them or files for you.
Honest status
Rian Books is in a controlled pilot programme: we onboard organisations deliberately, with proper onboarding, rather than open self-serve signup. €19 per organisation/month. Interested? Register interest at rianbooks.com.
The Website and the Honest Second Opinion
A website your committee can run — from €500
One page done properly (€500), up to 5 pages (€1,000), or a self-editable site (€2,000) a new volunteer can update without calling a developer. Fixed quote first; you see the finished site before you pay. Registered charities: ask about community-conscious arrangements — you'll get a straight answer. Pricing.
Free software review
Describe how the organisation runs — the spreadsheet, the membership list, the grant reporting — and we'll reply by email with the honest fix, including "keep the spreadsheet, it's fine" or "use this free tool" when that's the truth. Start here.
Built by someone who gets small
JMS Dev Lab is a one-person Cork studio that builds and operates 15 software products, seven approved on the Shopify App Store. Small, accountable organisations aren't a niche we tolerate — they're what we are. The full story.