bakoffice Reports is five screens, not fifty. Every feature below exists because a small nonprofit asked for it — and nothing was added to justify a price, because there isn’t one.
The whole organization, above the fold
Open it Monday. Know where you stand by 9:03.
Most small nonprofits don’t have a reporting problem. They have a noticing problem — nobody sees that the food closet stopped filing until the grant report is due. Home is built to make that impossible to miss.
For a two-person shop: “What’s missing” is the whole feature. It is the difference between finding out in January that October was never filed, and finding out in October.
Find the number, prove the number, send the number
The tab that answers the grant officer.
Every report your team files — by text, by phone or on the web — lands here.
For a team with no data person: saved searches and the download together are your whole reporting workflow. Build the filter in October, reload it every quarter, download, attach.
Two ideas. That’s the whole model.
Say what you do. Say how often you’ll say it.
A Program is a service area — the soup kitchen, the food closet. A Collection groups them. Set a rhythm and bakoffice starts keeping score.
For a small nonprofit: set the rhythm honestly, not aspirationally. “Weekly” on a program you file monthly just makes noise. bakoffice measures you against what you said.
If they can text their kid, they can file a report
The reporting method that needs no training, no rollout and no help desk. It is the same system the rest of this page describes — reached from a phone that has never visited a website.
Everyone who touches the work, in one list
Volunteers won’t log in. They’ll text.
Reporters, volunteers, donors and supporters live in one place, with the permissions that keep each of them in their lane.
For a volunteer-run program: give a new volunteer their one program with review switched on. After a clean month, switch review off and stop checking.
Configure it Tuesday, don’t think about it again
Twenty minutes, once.
The settings worth having are the ones you set on day one and never revisit. These are those.
For a nonprofit worried about being trapped: your structure is copyable and your data downloads as a spreadsheet from the Activities tab, whenever you want, without asking us.