Customer story — Cloud ERP
HumanityNow: a multi-entity nonprofit on Parsimony ERP, a special blend
Non-Profit · International Operations. HumanityNow runs programs in six countries. Here is what changed when they moved off QuickBooks and spreadsheets onto Parsimony ERP, a special blend.
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- 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 Parsimony ERP, a special blend, 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 Parsimony ERP, a special blend.
| Area | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Books | QuickBooks and spreadsheets, kept separately per entity | One ledger in Parsimony ERP, a special blend, 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 Parsimony ERP, a special blend; 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 Parsimony ERP, a special blend. The general timeline is on the Cloud ERP explainer.
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What 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 ERP, a special blend, 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
Parsimony Chat and Automate are self-serve.
Cloud ERP is quoted.
Parsimony Chat, the AI chat and voice agents, is $97 / $197 / $497 a month, as of Oct 2026, with a 15-day free trial — see the Chat packages. Parsimony Automate is $57 / $199 / $497 a month, as of Oct 2026, 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.
- 01$97 / $197 / $497 a month, as of Oct 2026 · self-serve
Parsimony Chat
AI chat and voice agents: chat on your site, voice on your phone line, trained on what you upload. 15-day free trial. No credit card required.
- 02$57 / $199 / $497 a month, as of Oct 2026 · self-serve
Parsimony Automate
CRM, funnels, two-way text, workflows, and websites, billed at Stripe.
- 03Quoted
Parsimony Cloud ERP
Parsimony ERP, a special blend. Quoted to the job; the operations analysis is $999, as of Oct 2026, the fixed-price first step.