High quality, customer-friendly, and affordable turnkey solution for your synagogue finances and customer relations management system.
Why Choose Us?
Product
Full-service bookkeeping suite including payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable AND a synagogue management system in one packaged service.
Process
Complete start-to-finish solution with a focus on outstanding customer service. Proven process that is used daily by our founding members.
People
Experienced synagogue Executive Director and a certified professional bookkeeper who will handle all of your bookkeeping needs.
Here's The Deal
For a flat fee, you get ALL of the following in our full service package:
Bookkeeping
- Quickbooks Online Advanced subscription ($235 value)
- Financial report package prepared on a monthly basis
- Account reconciliation and on-going maintenance of the general ledger
- Endowment, restricted and named fund tracking and reconciling
- Basic accounting questions answered by a licensed CPA
- Process member credit card payments and deposit checks
- Process payroll and pay bills once approved
- Sales tax and 1099 filing (if applicable)
Payroll
- Paychex Payroll service administration
- Processing fees covered for the first 5 employees ($100 value)
- Payroll tax filings, W2s and 1099s included
Accounts Payable
- CorpayOne Spend Management subscription ($50 value)
- Online check payments and expense reimbursements
- Unlimited document storage
- Searchable database of bills and check requests
- Check signers can review and approve check payments from anywhere
Synagogue Management
- Member database management including:
- Recording donations and pledges into your preferred software
- Preparing monthly member statements
- Preparing annual donor tax statements
- interacting with members or donors when Synagogue staff is unable to answer their questions
- Reconciling member database to ensure it is consistent with Quickbooks records
Executive Director Advisor
- Liason to our entire suite of services
- Budget preparation assistance
- Answer questions about synagogue management software
Dedicated Certified Bookkeeper
- Experienced and certified to ensure the highest quality of service
- Available by phone or email during business hours to answer any questions you might have about your financials
- Respond to calls, texts or emails in 24hrs.
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Please note: Your synagogue will need to provide someone for non-financial database entry (ex. adding someone who joins your synagogue; inputting birthdays, anniversaries, etc.) and handling any snail-mailings; a point-person for initial member inquiries about their financial accounts (i.e. you're the "front line" with your own members) although we're happy to advise you on any questions from your members that you are not able to answer; and a knowledgeable point-person if we have questions about your invoices, member billing, financials, etc.
Still on the fence?
To do a comparison for you, our closest competitor would charge you "only" $1,800 per month for a 100 member Synagogue, but:
- No accountant assistance
- No synagogue Executive Director guidance
- No payroll provider
- No online check payment system
- No synagogue database management system included
- No cemetery database included
- No QuickBooks included
- Potential hidden fees
At SynaBooks, for the same size Synagogue, we charge you a flat rate of $1,500 per month which includes all of the above with no hidden fees.
Now, let's take a look at the average costs of hiring a bookkeeper and obtaining the necessary software. The median salary for a full-time, full-service bookkeeper in Louisville, KY is $49,400. Additional software needs can add up to another $5,000 per year, not to mention consulting fees for accountants and an experienced synagogue Executive Director. At Synabooks, for a single flat fee, you'll get a dedicated full-time bookkeeper, CPA assistance, all required software and a synagogue Executive Director to guide you every step of the way.
Choose SynaBooks for better service, less stress, and more peace of mind!
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Our Story
Lauren Potter is a professional bookkeeper with experience in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. She is a certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and a member of the Digital Bookkeeper Association. Currently, she manages a portfolio of private clients in the region, including Keneseth Israel Congregation in Louisville, KY.
Yonatan Yussman, Ed.D., is the Executive Director of Keneseth Israel Congregation, in Louisville, KY, and has worked in the Jewish non-profit world for the past twenty three years. He knows from personal experience exactly what you need to operate your synagogue's finances and customer relationship systems.
Lauren and Yonatan recognized that the available options for synagogues did not meet their needs. Therefore, they created a system that really works: an affordable, easy-to-use, customer-friendly, high quality, full-service bookkeeping and synagogue management package that can be replicated across North America.
They know what works because they do it every day.
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