Accounting software for NGOs and charities in Bahrain

A BenefitPay transfer from a donor, cash dropped in a box at a Ramadan tent, a corporate cheque, a standing order into your BBK or NBB account, and a grant tranche from a foundation abroad. By the time the treasurer sits down at month end, nobody remembers which deposit was which, and the bank statement is just a wall of numbers that has to be matched to a WhatsApp thread.

A donor gives BHD 5,000 specifically for school bags. Six weeks later that money is sitting in the same account as your rent and salaries, and you genuinely cannot show — line by line — that it was spent on school bags. That is the single fastest way to lose a repeat donor or fail a grant audit, and a shoebox of receipts will not fix it.

Your licensing ministry expects annual accounts and a general assembly presentation. Your board wants to know what the Isa Town programme cost this quarter. Your grant funder wants a budget-versus-actual for their project only. Three different cuts of the same data, all rebuilt by hand every time, usually by one exhausted volunteer.

Bahrain's VAT registration threshold is BHD 37,500 of annual taxable supplies (voluntary registration from BHD 18,750). Pure donations and grants generally are not taxable supplies — but charity shop sales, paid training, ticketed events, sponsorship packages and venue hire can be. Most small NGOs have no idea which side of the line their income sits on, and no records clean enough to find out.

Record cash, card, BenefitPay and bank transfers as they come in, with the donor name, the campaign and whether the gift is restricted or unrestricted. Bank feeds and reconciliation match your BHD account lines to what you recorded, so the treasurer's month end is a review, not an archaeology dig. Receipt scanning reads photographed invoices and vouchers, so volunteers can capture spending on their phone the day it happens.

Tag income and expenses to a fund, project or grant, and Tallium AI keeps a running balance for each one. At any point you can show a donor exactly what came in for their cause, what has been spent, and what is left — with the supporting receipt attached to each line. No more hoping the bank balance tells a story it cannot tell.

Income and expenditure, balance sheet, cash position, spend by project and budget-versus-actual are all built in and refresh as you post. Export what the board needs before the meeting instead of the night after it, and give your external accountant read access — unlimited users means that costs you nothing extra.

If any of your activity is a taxable supply, Tallium AI tracks it separately from donation income, stores your VAT account number on invoices, applies the right rate at the point of sale, and produces the figures for your VAT return (NBR). If you are under the threshold you simply leave it switched off and keep clean books anyway. Please confirm current rules with NBR or a local tax professional before deciding whether your NGO must register.