Case Study: Sandals Church achieves a 450% faster monthly close and real-time financial visibility with Sage Intacct

Sandals Church finds its financial sanctuary in Sage Intacct

Sandals Church is a fast-growing Southern California nonprofit with nine campuses and about 11,000 weekly attendees (plus 4,000 online). As expansion and tithing-driven revenue increased, the church struggled with an inflexible legacy accounting system that required 30 charts of accounts, heavy spreadsheet work, limited financial visibility, and a 45-day monthly close—hindering timely budget and operational decisions.

Moving to Sage Intacct’s cloud financial platform gave Sandals a flexible chart of accounts, dimensional reporting, and real-time dashboards used across campuses. The change cut the monthly close from 45 to 10 days, boosted accounting productivity ~20% and finance efficiency ~45%, supported 25% annual donation growth and 30% attendance growth, enabled rapid campus expansion, faster audits, and better program-level insights for informed decision-making.

Sandals Church

Amber Cheong

Director of Finance