Countaline
for Nonprofits
Countaline is simple software for the treasurer of a small nonprofit. See how much of each grant is spent and what is left, keep restricted money apart from money you are free to use, and print a board report and a funder report without building them by hand.
This is a pre-order: Countaline is not finished yet. Founding members get the first version by February 15, 2027.
Become a founding member — $99 for the first year
Full refund if we miss March 15, 2027, or if you change your mind before it ships. Paid once; nothing renews by itself.
Spending on pace · report due Jan 31
On track
A demo for the nonprofit edition is coming in December. Until then, book a 15-minute call and we will walk you through it with numbers like yours.
Grant tracking
For each grant: the award, the period, the budget lines, what is spent and what is left, and whether spending is on pace. Report due dates are listed so none sneaks up on you.
Replaces: the grant spreadsheet with one tab per funder and formulas nobody trusts.
Money given for a purpose stays in its own fund until it is spent on that purpose. Your free balance is always clear.
Replaces: the moment you realise the "available" balance included next month's grant money.
Each month, a PDF with free and restricted balances, income and expenses by fund, and a short note of your own.
Replaces: the evening spent building the board packet.
Print a report for one grant: budget line by budget line, spent against awarded. At year end, print an acknowledgment letter for each donor, with your own wording.
Replaces: copying numbers from the books into the funder's template by hand.
Handover
When a new treasurer takes over, you give them one handover file with the full history, the grants, the balances and the past reports. Export everything to CSV at any time.
Replaces: the "ask the old treasurer" phone calls.
In the first version, your records stay on your own computer. Countaline runs in your web browser and keeps your organisation's records there, not on our servers. We never see your donors' names or amounts, unless you choose to share them with us for help or a setup call, and only for that.
Because the records live on one computer, Countaline reminds you each week to save a backup file. Keep it on a USB stick or in your own cloud folder; restoring takes a minute. The same file is your handover to the next treasurer.
Online access, where other officers and board members use their own devices, comes in spring 2027 and is included for founding members.
$99 for the first year
$249 in total for the first year
Our promise: If we do not ship the first version of this edition by March 15, 2027, you get a full refund. If you change your mind before it ships, write to us and we will refund you in full. Your first year starts when you get the first version, not when you pay. Paid once: nothing renews by itself. Before your year ends we email you, and you choose whether to renew at your locked price.
After the first year, the normal price for new customers is about $29 to $39 a month. You pick your option on the Gumroad checkout page.
I'm Dr. Feras Hakkak. For more than twenty years I have designed business systems: how money, records and sign-offs move through an organisation. Volunteer treasurers do that same job, often with a spreadsheet and a folder of paper slips, and the next treasurer has to start again. I built Countaline to make that job simple and safe.
Every founding member can reach me directly. If you would like to see it with your own numbers first, book a 15-minute call.
PhD in Engineering · founder of The Vera Standard, Hyderabad, India
In the first version, your records stay on your own computer and never reach our servers, so we never see your donors' names or amounts. Corrections are added as linked entries, so there is a trail of who did what. Read the details on our Data and Privacy page.
Countaline reminds you each week to save a backup file. Keep it on a USB stick or in your own cloud folder. On any computer, open Countaline and restore the file; it takes a minute.
The board gets the monthly report as a PDF. When online access arrives in spring 2027, board members can also have their own logins.
You give the next treasurer the handover file. They open it in Countaline and see the full history, the funds and the past reports. Nothing is lost.
No. Countaline keeps clear records of grants, restricted funds and spending, and exports them to CSV for your accountant or reviewer. It is not accounting software and we do not give tax or legal advice.
They are full accounting systems. QuickBooks needs class workarounds for restricted funds; Aplos does fund accounting properly but costs more and does more. Countaline does less, on purpose: grants against budgets, restricted money kept apart, the board report, the funder report and a handover file. If you need a general ledger, one of them suits you better.
Yes. It runs in a web browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox) on Mac, Windows or Chromebook. In the first version, keep your books on one computer.
Yes. Pay with the organisation's card, or pay yourself and hand in the Gumroad receipt for repayment. If you need an invoice, write to us.
We will email you at least 30 days before. As a founding member, your price stays at $99 a year for as long as you stay. The normal price for new customers will be about $29 to $39 a month.
The first version of this edition arrives by February 15, 2027. Your first year starts when you get it, not when you pay. If we have not shipped it by March 15, 2027, or you change your mind before it ships, you get a full refund. Paid once; nothing renews by itself.
Your records are on your own computer, and you can export everything to CSV at any time. Nothing you have entered depends on us staying in business.
Not in the first version. You record money in and out yourself, or bring it in from a spreadsheet where the page says so. We will ask founding members what to build next, and bank import and budget vs actual are high on that list.
Countaline is made by The Vera Standard, the studio of Dr. Feras Hakkak, in Hyderabad, India. We answer email within one working day, and calls fit your morning or early afternoon (US time). Write to theverastandard@gmail.com.
Join as a founding member for $99 for the first year. Full refund if we miss March 15, 2027, or if you change your mind before it ships. Paid once; nothing renews by itself.