What Would Be a Slam Dunk in the New FInance Module?

Hi Joseph,
Yep - you are right there - in fact, what we are talking about is most definitely *not* a replacement for quickbooks or any other accounting software.  It's more around roles and permissions - to illustrate, some of the actions we are talking about are: 

1. ​Member Invoicing/Tracking​ - that the new dashboard for finance officers shows a view of who hasn't paid their dues so they can contact them, along with whose dues are coming up, etc. 
    
2. Ticket Management: When a chorus 'signs out' 20 tickets to a member, it shows up on their dashboard that they have them 'checked out' and creates a to-do for them to sell them.  As the tickets are returned, there is a check-in system that updates the finance person as to how many are outstanding and who has them, etc, as well as updates the member, so they keep on top of what they are responsible for.  This may or may not be tied to an actual location with seating plans, etc (another request).
    
3. Budgets​: The primary purpose of budgets would *not* be primarily for the finance officer to keep the books (although it might look like that from the sound of it).  It would be more of a high-level budget that would show up on the dashboard of the role it is assigned to, so if Membership is assigned $2000/year for advertising and programs, it would show on their dashboard how much they've used, etc.  (this is relatively low on the list, and would only occur if it naturally linked in to other elements).  The requests we've had is basically to be able to link into Quickbooks and the other major accounting programs to provide reports and top level views that would be linked to roles/permissions.
    
4. Donor Management: ​There are many groups who use our software who have an extensive donor management need, where different levels of donors automatically show up on the public site, and if they donate, their info appears in the contact list and management area for the person handling that information.  This would be a 'lite' program (not competing against any major current donor systems out there), and instead would be tied into contact lists and the task management area (custom workflows).  
    

Of course, the basic upgrade would be user flow for marking members as paid as well as other details that are minor we can improve on today's system.  However, we have probably 50-150 choirs using Groupanizer now who need donor management because they rely on community and corporate sponsorship for their monetary needs, and in the same breath, we also realize that the current majority of our groups rely on their own members for 'dues' and other financial infusion, so this may not be as important to that segment.  
No worries though guys - this is the brainstorming phase (it's a year out for sure) - we're hearing from a small, but mighty portion of our groups who want something that is slightly different from everyone else's needs, and we want to be sure that we don't miss them while we build for the majority.  :)
Hope this helps elucidate things a bit more!

Kari