For religious and cultural organizations & small businesses
Five things to keep running, and nothing that connects them.
Marquetry gives you the basics of each — website, patrons and memberships, rentals, events and books — in one place, sharing one set of records. Simple enough that whoever ends up running it can actually run it.
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.
- Create pages, edit them anytime, arrange menus
- Build forms that collect real submissions
- Event and calendar pages that update themselves
- Your own domain and branding
Patrons & memberships
One record per household or customer — who they are, what they’ve paid for, and how to reach them.
- Patron and household profiles with full history
- Yearly memberships, prorated for anyone joining mid-year
- Renewal reminders, lapse tracking, optional auto-renew
- Blast email from ready-made templates
- Post to Facebook and Instagram
Facility rental
A self-serve rental portal set up around your rooms, rates and rules.
- Public availability and rental requests
- Your pricing, deposits and approvals
- Invoices and receipts sent automatically
- Calendar that stays current everywhere
Events & ticketing
Set up your own programs without learning a ticketing platform. Seating charts included, coupons included, nothing extra to license.
- Event pages and registration
- Seating charts for assigned seats
- Coupons and tiered pricing
- Check-in on the day
Books
Enough accounting to see the whole picture — and no more spreadsheets. Hand your accountant something they can actually use.
- Revenue and expenses in one view
- Payments matched to what they paid for
- Basic statements you can hand to your accountant
- Restricted and unrestricted funds tracked
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.
Being straight with you
Deliberately basic. That’s the whole idea.
We’d rather tell you the limits up front than have you find them later.
We’re not the best at any one thing
If you compare us piece by piece, we lose. A dedicated website builder does more than ours. A dedicated email platform does more than ours. Proper accounting software does far more than our books. That’s fair — each of them does one thing and does it well.
Most organizations don’t need the best
Most small organizations would use a fraction of what those tools offer, and plenty aren’t using anything like them today. What they lose either way is the hours spent every month piecing things together by hand. That’s the part we’re actually replacing.
And if you do, keep what works
If you already rely on something for one of these — proper accounting, a site you’re happy with — keep it. We’ll hand off cleanly rather than ask you to give it up. Marquetry is for everything that isn’t covered.
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.
info@getmarquetry.comWe’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.