LINSEED
What does Linseed do?
In an era when so many excellent and affordable online services and tools are available, it is easy for your data to become scattered throughout many different platforms. Linseed provides a powerful user-friendly holistic general-purpose database for your community and the programs you offer - in such a way that you won't need to turn to other software for your daily tasks. Features & modules include: People • Households • Organizations • Family Relationships • Programs • Events • Memberships • Registration • Attendance • Images • Payments • Donations • Invoicing • Online Product Sales • Bank Deposits & Reconciliation • Credit Card Transactions • Notes & Tags • Email Templates • Surveys • Website integration • Online Forms • Farming Harvest & Distribution
What sets Linseed apart from other software platforms?

LIFETIME MULTI-GENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS with PEOPLE and FAMILIES: Linseed is designed to manage many ways that a person might be part of your community: from an interested newsletter recipient, a program applicant, a program participant, an alumni, an aspiring staff member, a contracted employee, a donor, a board member, or a parent of a future student.

UNDERSTANDING COMPLEX FAMILIES: Linseed easily accommodates the details of complex relationships between families, households, children, and adults. We model and communicate clearly between parents, step-parents, social workers, custodians, foster-parents, and children with multiple households

HASSLE-FREE CLIENT EXPERIENCE: Linseed data is highly secure and password protected, however through the use of secure links, your clients and participants can submit forms and update personal information without ever having to deal with creating user accounts, passwords, and two-factor authentication headaches.

SUPPORTING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: We believe that your staff should be as familiar as possible with your clients, customers, and program participants - and Linseed is carefully designed to facilitate knowing people rather than just aggregating data and information. Photographs add personal connection to client records. All incoming data from web forms is quickly and gracefully reviewed by humans before being added to the database.

POWERFUL COMMUNICATION TOOLS: Templated transactional emails (“registration welcome confirmations”, “thank you for your application”, “please complete these missing forms on your portal”, “here’s how to arrive for your program”) are quick and easy to personalize and send. SMS text messages are sent and received for short quick communications. Brevo integration makes it easy to send beautiful mass emailed newsletters and appeals.

FULL WEBSITE INTEGRATION: Create an upcoming future program or event in Linseed, and it will instantly appear on your website, complete with marketing photographs, dates, times, pricing, and registration options.

EXPORTING & REPORTING: Easily choose from dozens of reports designed for printing on paper - including mailing labels, checklists, and sophisticated analysis tools. Export data to CSV or Excel files.

MOBILE APP: Access Linseed from your mobile device to see upcoming calendar events, contact information, or emergency information for incident response.

APPROPRIATE ACCESS LEVELS: Program leaders can get limited access to Linseed in order to see information about their students and make pre-program or post-program notes - without accessing finances or confidential information.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Linseed works hand-in-hand with accounting software like Quickbooks to manage tuition charges, product sales, invoicing, statements, and payments. Linseed integrates fully with STRIPE for seamless processing of credit card payments and donations.

FUNDRAISING: Receive and process donations directly into Linseed through your website. Manage complex fundraising appeals, annual grant-writing cycles, and sophisticated long-term fundraising campaigns engaging staff and board members in the soliciting and collection of pledges and major gifts.

SITES & INCIDENTS: For expedition programs, a GIS map allows staff to contribute notes about campsites and areas of interest. An incident database records notes about any safety, medical, or behavioral issues that affect the flow of a program.

DIETARY, MEDICAL & BEHAVIORAL NEEDS: Smoothly capture initial assessments of prospective students' special needs. Manage medications in the field with up--to-date prescription forms.

HIRING, CONTRACTING & PAYROLL: Hiring portal manages the recruitment and hiring process all the way through contracting, timesheets, and payroll.

AUTOMATED BACKUP: A complete backup of data in Excel spreadsheet format is delivered weekly to your administrator via email.

How much does it cost to use Linseed?
The costs of developing and operating Linseed are shared by multiple non-profit organizations on a sliding-scale basis. Participating organizations sign an annual contract for services each December, at which point the monthly Linseed fee for the coming year is calculated based on each organization's annual gross income from revenue and donations. How is the annual income calculated? Typically it is the largest number from one of these reports: (a) a board-approved annual budget (b) the most recent accountant-prepared financial statements (c) the most recent available IRS form 990.
COST CALCULATOR:
YOUR ANNUAL GROSS INCOME:
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YOUR MONTHLY LINSEED FEE:
$
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What is included in the monthly fee?
NUMBER OF USERS:UNLIMITED
NUMBER OF RECORDS:UNLIMITED
MODULES & FEATURES:ALL AVAILABLE
TRAINING & TECH-SUPPORT:ONE HOUR PER MONTH (Not accumulated: use it or lose it!)
Other considerations:
INITIAL DATA CONVERSION: If your data is scattered across mutiple spreadsheets and applications) it may take some significant effort to consolidate it into Linseed during your initial installation. We offer 4 hours of free technical support for consulting and data conversion, after which we will bill you for any additional time needed.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
& TECH SUPPORT:
Onboarding many new staff? Expanding into new program initiatives? Launching a new fundraising campaign? It will be worth your while to get training and tech support in how to best use Linseed.
CUSTOM FEATURE DEVELOPMENT:We will attempt to accommodate you if you have special needs that are unique to your organization, however you will find that most of what you are looking for already exists within the current platform!
COST:Our current rate for additional data coversion, tech support, and custom feature development is $65.00 per hour.
CREDIT CARD FEES:via STRIPEIf you wish to process revenue and donations from credit cards directly within Linseed via the Stripe Platform, you will pay transaction fees to Stripe. Credit card fees typically average around (3.50%) (+ 30 cents) per transaction.
HOW DO I JOIN?
Currently Linseed is accepting new organizations by invitation only.
If you have learned about Linseed through a friend or peer organization, please reach out to them to ask for a referral, or reach out to us at inquiries@lineeed.works