Every small museum produces the same four documents forever, and assembles each one by hand, on a deadline, from spreadsheets in four places. Tally keeps the numbers and writes the documents. Drop a CSV, or type it in. No integration, no IT ticket, no procurement.
Whatever you already run exports one — ticketing, POS, a spreadsheet. Map the columns once; Tally remembers the shape.
For the museum whose attendance number lives on a clipboard by the door. This month, five fields, ninety seconds.
Connectors are optional accelerants, never prerequisites. Tally works standing completely alone.
Deliberately not on this list: Altru, Tessitura, PastPerfect. Those integrations cost more than they return at this size — their CSV export is the integration.
Monthly total, with school groups underneath it. Summer peaks, the spring-break spike, the school-year shoulders.
Students by district, this school year.
New against lapsed, twelve months. The gap is the number a development director watches.
Five fixed views, and that is on purpose. There is no query builder and no drill-through — a dashboard nobody opens was never the problem worth solving. These exist to feed the documents in the next step.