Case Study: Hunter Street Baptist Church achieves streamlined accounting and faster audit readiness with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT

Hunter Street Baptist Church - Customer Case Study

Hunter Street Baptist Church, a large congregation based in Hoover, Alabama, needed a reliable nonprofit accounting solution after its previous software failed—leaving the team unable to write checks or pay vendors and facing an imminent audit with a vendor threatening to shut off access. The church chose Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT in 2023 to address urgent operational and procurement challenges.

By partnering with Blackbaud, a third‑party IT firm, and npAutomate, Hunter Street went live on Financial Edge NXT in three weeks (well ahead of the six‑week target). Implementing Expense Management and view‑only reporting streamlined invoice requests from 40–50 users, enabled non‑financial staff to self‑serve, saved the administrator roughly a day’s work, and improved overall accountability and efficiency.

Hunter Street Baptist Church

Michael Langston

Church Administrator