Customer story — Cloud ERP
HumanityNow: a multi-entity nonprofit on managed ERPNext
Non-Profit · International Operations. HumanityNow runs programs in six countries. Here is what changed when they moved off QuickBooks and spreadsheets onto managed ERPNext.
- 6 countries on one ERP
- Monthly close: 3 weeks → 4 days
- 40+ hours of manual work saved a month
HumanityNow is a Parsimony customer, not an affiliated company. Read more at humanitynow.ai.
Case record
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The challenge
HumanityNow was running operations across 6 countries using a patchwork of QuickBooks, spreadsheets, and manual reporting. Monthly financial close took 3 weeks and the team had no real-time visibility into budgets.
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The solution
Parsimony migrated HumanityNow to Frappe Cloud ERP — a fully managed ERPNext deployment with custom modules for multi-currency accounting, grant tracking, and procurement across 6 country entities.
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The result
Monthly financial close dropped from 3 weeks to 4 days. The operations team gained real-time visibility into 6 country budgets from a single dashboard. HR, payroll, and procurement are now unified, saving 40+ hours of manual work per month.
What changed
Before QuickBooks. After managed ERPNext.
| Area | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Books | QuickBooks and spreadsheets, kept separately per entity | One ERPNext ledger covering all six country entities |
| Monthly close | 3 weeks | 4 days |
| Currency and grants | Tracked by hand, entity by entity | Multi-currency accounting and grant tracking modules |
| Procurement, HR, payroll | Separate manual processes | Unified in ERPNext; 40+ hours of manual work saved a month |
Case file
Monthly close: three weeks to four days.
Monthly financial close dropped from 3 weeks to 4 days. The operations team gained real-time visibility into 6 country budgets from a single dashboard. HR, payroll, and procurement are now unified, saving 40+ hours of manual work per month.
- Monthly close (was 3 weeks)
- 4 days
- Country budgets in one dashboard
- 6
- Manual work eliminated per month
- 40h
Published on this page. No other HumanityNow figures are published.
Common questions
About the migration.
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How long did the HumanityNow migration take?
Typically weeks, not quarters. HumanityNow went live in about two weeks, moving six country entities off QuickBooks and spreadsheets onto managed ERPNext. The general timeline is on the Cloud ERP explainer.
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What ERPNext modules did HumanityNow turn on?
Multi-currency accounting, grant tracking, and procurement, built as custom modules across the six country entities and unified with HR and payroll. These are the same module categories described on the Cloud ERP page.
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Is HumanityNow part of the Parsimony family of products?
No. HumanityNow is a Parsimony customer, not an affiliated company. HumanityNow runs its own service — done-for-you AI chat, voice, and task agents backed by human experts — at humanitynow.ai. Its ERP runs on Parsimony's managed ERPNext, which is the subject of this page.
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Does Parsimony work with other nonprofits?
Yes. Multi-entity nonprofits with the same close-time and reporting problems fit the same Cloud ERP setup described here; see Enterprise ERP for multi-entity detail. Parsimony also runs a free chatbot program for qualifying nonprofits — see the nonprofit chatbot page.
Pricing
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Parsimony Chat, the AI chat and voice agents, is $97 / $197 / $497 a month with a 15-day free trial — see the Chat packages. Parsimony Automate is $57 / $199 / $497 a month with a free trial on every plan (30 days on Startup, 7 on Professional and Premium) — see the Automate plans. Cloud ERP is quoted to the job: call or send the form and we put a package together.
- 01Quoted
Cloud ERP
Managed ERPNext on Frappe Cloud. Quoted to the job; the $999 operations analysis is the fixed-price first step.
- 02$97 / $197 / $497 a month · self-serve
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- 03$57 / $199 / $497 a month · self-serve
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