I run the accounts for a couple of clubs with similar needs. Setup one accounts file for each club so they are kept separate. I have not bothered with the complexities of the business features (invoices etc) as I have not found them necessary.
I am a person who is treasurer for organizations and gnucash is certainly suitable.
One issue though. It is unfortunate that that the "invoice" system is limited to "business features" and the assumption that accounting will be on the accrual basis (and that invoiced amounts are "receivables" << the members of many organizations want to receive invoices for membership fees, etc. >>
HOWEVER -- this cannot be considered a fault of gnucash since many of the commercial alternatives share that same defect << even when the product is being sold as "the non-profit version" >> The general case situation for non-profits is that they need invoicing capability for BOTH "receivables" (say billing for services provided) and "non-receivables" (like membership dues -- there is NO legal obligation to continue paying those). To make things even worse, members may be making "pledges" which ARE receivables but only under conditions of the pledge AND members usually want those shown on a "unified statement".
The sad truth is that the "small non-profit" market probably isn't large enough to support the creation of accounting systems so specialized. So we get by with work arounds.
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