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Because funders ask which of their money paid for which hours, and the answer lives in three places: a timesheet, a payroll run and somebody's memory of who was working on what.
Every report is therefore a reconstruction against a deadline, and the confidence in it is lower than anybody would like to admit.
People are personnel records with contracts, patterns and cost rates. Time logged in Loop against a project carries that cost, and a project can be a grant-funded programme.
So staff cost by grant, by period, is a query rather than an exercise — and it reconciles with payroll because both read the same record.
It is not a fund accounting system and it does not manage restricted fund balances. Books handles the money; Nest holds the people and their time.
And it will not write the funder's report. It supplies figures that reconcile, which is the part that usually takes the week.
Fixed-term contracts carry end dates that surface before they lapse, so a renewal is a decision rather than a discovery. Volunteers are personnel records with their own patterns and no payroll.
Offboarding removes access across every product at once, which matters when contracts genuinely end.
Products, not integrations. Each one reads the same record, so a join is a permission rather than a sync job with a mapping screen behind it.
Yes, through Loop projects, carrying cost rates from the personnel record.
Yes, as personnel records with their own patterns and no payroll.
Yes, before they lapse, as work with an owner.
Half an hour on your own numbers is usually enough to say whether Nest is the right place to start.