Work / From spreadsheets to one system for the whole non-profit
October Changes
A band and non-profit running accounting, member management, leads and social media across a scatter of separate tools and spreadsheets, needing one place to bring it all together.
I play in October Changes myself, a Belgian electromelodic metal band, and help run the non-profit behind it. Accounting, member management, contact with venues and promoters, and social media planning all lived apart: a spreadsheet here, a separate tool there, a WhatsApp group for the rest. Nothing talked to each other, and every update had to happen in multiple places at once.
So I built a fully custom management system on Laravel, with Inertia.js and React for the interface. Not an off-the-shelf package that half fits, but a system shaped exactly around how a band and a non-profit actually work.
Four major pieces came together. Accounting for the non-profit's obligations. Band management for shows, planning and logistics. Lead management for venues, promoters and collaborations. And social media planning, so nothing gets lost between platforms.
One central system where accounting, non-profit obligations, shows, leads and social media come together, instead of separate tools that never talked to each other.
Everything keeping the non-profit and the band running lives in one system, instead of scattered across spreadsheets and apps.
What used to mean copying data back and forth between tools is now a single entry that flows through everywhere.
Adding new members, shows or leads costs no extra tooling, the system simply grows along.
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