For religious and cultural organizations & small businesses
Five things to keep running, and nothing that connects them.
Website, patrons and memberships, rentals, events and books — in one place, sharing one set of records. So a hall deposit is already attached to the booking it paid for, and the person who paid it is already on your list.
Because they share one set of records, a rental payment or a membership renewal lands in your books without anyone retyping it.
Why this exists
However you’re running it now, the pieces don’t talk.
Some of it lives in apps, some in spreadsheets, some only in one person’s head — and none of it lines up.
Maybe someone built your website years ago and nobody can change it now. Maybe the membership list is a spreadsheet, or a binder. Bookings come in by phone and email. Event tickets get sold at a table by the door. Some organizations pay for a handful of apps; plenty run almost entirely on volunteers’ time and memory.
Either way the pieces don’t connect. So someone holds them together by hand — usually a volunteer, usually on a weekend — working out which payment went with which booking, who renewed and who lapsed, and what the year actually looked like.
Marquetry makes the five things one thing, so there’s nothing left to hold together.
What’s included
The basics of each, done properly.
Every part shares the same records, so nothing gets entered twice and nothing needs matching up later.
Your website
Build new pages and edit existing ones yourself — no technical knowledge, nobody to call, nothing to wait for.
- Add and edit pages yourself, arrange your own menu
- Fifteen kinds of section — text, photos, tiles, events, forms, payments
- Your colours and typefaces, chosen from a set that always reads well
- Your own domain, your own branding, no Marquetry logo on your site
Patrons & memberships
One record per household or customer — who they are, what they’ve paid for, and how to reach them.
- One profile per person or household, with everything they have ever paid for
- Yearly memberships, prorated by the month for anyone joining part-way through
- Active, expiring and lapsed worked out from the dates — never from a field someone forgot to update
- The same record whether they rented the hall, bought a ticket or joined
- Members sign in and pull their own tax receipts, any time of year
Facility rental
Your rooms, your rates, your rules — and the paperwork that usually eats a weekend.
- Your own discounts: nonprofit, extended hours, weekday rates, or ones you invent
- Invoices and receipts in your own wording, with every discount shown and explained
- One invoice per date or one for the whole booking, whichever suits
- What is still owed is worked out from the payments, so it can never disagree
Events & ticketing
Run your own programmes without learning a ticketing platform, and without paying per ticket.
- Event pages on your site, with registration
- Ticket types at different prices, and discount codes
- Seating plans for round tables, not just rows — the layout a hall really uses
- Check-in from a phone at the door
- Buyers become patrons automatically — no separate list to reconcile
Books
Enough accounting to see the whole picture — and no more spreadsheets. Hand your accountant something they can actually use.
- Every payment, whatever channel it arrived through, in one place
- Categorise, split and merge — the way you would in a spreadsheet, but once
- Restricted and unrestricted funds kept apart all year, not reconstructed in January
- A statement of activities you can hand to your accountant or your board
And the parts nobody advertises but everyone needs. A record of who changed what, so a question in June has an answer. Email to your members without a separate mailing tool. A lending library, if you run one. A way to tell us something is broken without hunting for an address.
The part that saves the weekend
Money arrives every which way. It still lands in the right place.
Cash, checks, Zelle, cards, bank transfers, an online page — most organizations take money in more ways than they can comfortably track.
Every channel lands somewhere different, and none of them knows what the money was for. That’s the gap the spreadsheet exists to fill.
Because your bookings, memberships and events live in the same system as your payments, a deposit isn’t just a line on a bank statement. It’s already attached to whatever it paid for.
Where this came from
Built inside a working organization, not in front of a whiteboard.
Every part of this started as something one organization actually needed.
It ran a real hall before it was a product
Marquetry began as the systems behind a community organization in Ohio — the bookings, the invoices, the membership list, the reconciliation. Built by the person who kept it running, because nothing off the shelf fitted how the place actually worked.
So the details are the ones that matter
Discounts that stack in the order you apply them, and print showing their working. Memberships prorated by the month, because that is how you explain it on the phone. Restricted gifts kept apart all year. Details you only think of once you have done the job.
And we still tell you the limits
Compared piece by piece we lose to specialists, and if you already have accounting you are happy with, keep it — we hand off cleanly. What we replace is the weekend spent working out which payment went with which booking.
Built for
Small organizations without an IT department.
If one or two people hold the whole operation together, this is built for them.
Marquetry is early, and we’re building it with people like you.
[email protected]We’d like to hear how your organization actually runs — what you pay for, what you do by hand, and what you’d want first. Tell us and we’ll keep you posted.