Early in January, based on instructions from the Area Committee, we purchased a license for Quick-books Online for $75 to begin using for the Treasury beginning immediately. In the absence of a Treasurer, Laura G. picked up the group contribution checks from the post office and used QBO to track the contributions, generate deposit summaries and generate the list to use in the mail merge for thank-you letters. There was some trial and error with QBO and with the mail merge, but two deposits were made and around eighty thank-you letters generated.
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