You Have the Tools. Here's What's Still Missing.
Muin is the nonprofit operating system built for mosques, foundations, and nonprofits — with deep integrations to QuickBooks, Gusto, and Stripe so you keep what works and gain everything that's missing.
Pricing and feature data sourced from each vendor’s public website and documentation as of March 2026, with links throughout. Muin integrates with QuickBooks, Gusto, and Stripe. If you represent one of the companies mentioned and believe something is inaccurate, please contact us and we’ll correct it promptly.
Muin: One Platform for How Nonprofits Actually Operate
Muin is a nonprofit operating system — a single platform that handles donor management, fundraising, fund accounting, grant management, volunteer coordination, board governance, HR, compliance, communications, and community programs. It’s built specifically for mosques, foundations, and nonprofits.
Where most nonprofit software forces you to choose between a donation tool OR an accounting tool OR an HR tool, Muin is all of them — with AI-powered document intelligence, workflow automation, and a mobile app built in.
And here’s the part that matters if you already have tools you trust: Muin integrates deeply with QuickBooks, Gusto, and Stripe. You don’t give up anything. You gain everything they can’t provide.
What Muin Gives Your Organization
Your Donors, Fully Visible
A community member gives $50,000 designated for your building fund. In Muin, that donation is linked to a full donor profile — giving history across years, household connections, communication preferences, pledge commitments, and segmentation (Major, Mid-Level, Grassroots, First-Time, Lapsed, Recurring, Prospect). The donor receives an IRS-compliant 501(c)(3) tax receipt automatically, and can manage their recurring gifts through a self-service portal.
Muin supports 15 contribution types — including Zakat, Sadaqah, Fitrah, and in-kind gifts — as first-class categories built into the data model, not custom field workarounds. Donors designate their fund at the point of giving, and that designation flows through to fund accounting, spending enforcement, and 990 reporting without anyone re-entering data.
Your Funds, Actually Protected
Muin provides true fund accounting — not tags on transactions, but real funds with real guardrails. Fund types include General, Restricted, Endowment, Capital, Designated, Program, Scholarship, Emergency, Donor-Advised (DAF), and Waqf (Islamic endowment).
Each fund has configurable spending rules with automated compliance enforcement. If a restricted fund approaches its spending limit, the system flags it. If someone tries to overspend, the system prevents it. Fund-level balance sheets, inter-fund transfers, and employee salary allocations across funds (for functional expense reporting on Form 990) are all built in.
For foundations: endowment management with investment performance tracking, spending rate methods (Rolling Average 12Q/20Q, Market Value, Custom), and distribution compliance monitoring.
Your Form 990, Built From Live Data
Muin includes a Form 990 prep workspace with section-by-section guidance — and an enhanced 990-PF workspace for foundations. Because your fund accounting, donor data, salary allocations, and grant activity all live in one system, the data is already organized for 990 filing. No manual GL-to-990 mapping. No exporting from three systems into spreadsheets. No paying a CPA $2,000–$10,000 every year to do what your software should do for you.
Your Fundraising, Purpose-Built
Create giving pages with fund selectors (Zakat vs. Sadaqah vs. Building Fund vs. General), embed live campaign thermometers on your website and lobby displays, and run campaigns — Annual, Capital, Endowment, Emergency, Ramadan, Peer-to-Peer, Matching, Giving Day — from one platform.
Accept donations via kiosk (tap-to-pay, QR, cash), mobile (NFC on iPhone and Android), text-to-give, and online giving pages. Track pledges across multi-installment schedules. Manage planned giving (bequests, charitable remainder trusts, gift annuities). Import bank statements with AI-powered donor matching.
Every donation flows through Stripe at your existing nonprofit rates. Muin adds the nonprofit layer: fund designation, donor CRM, tax receipts, campaign tracking, and recurring giving management.
Your Grants, Both Directions
As a recipient: Track your grant pipeline from identification through LOI, application, award, and reporting — all in one place with deadline tracking and funder profiles.
As a grantor (foundations): Manage grant programs with public application portals, scoring rubrics, disbursement tracking, grantee self-service portals, outcome measurement, and expenditure responsibility.
Your Programs and Community Services
- Program management: Enrollment, session scheduling, attendance tracking, and tuition with scholarship support
- Distribution events: Food pantry, clothing drives, and community assistance with check-in, service matching, and capacity planning
- Case management: Assistance requests including Zakat disbursement workflows with eligibility assessment
- Volunteer management: Self-service signup, position/capacity tracking, hours logging, waiver management with e-signatures, and AI-reviewed expense reimbursement
- Memberships: Tiered membership plans with public signup pages and self-service portal
Your Board, Well-Governed
Board meeting management (Regular, Special, Annual, Emergency) with resolutions, voting, and board package templates. Board members access a review portal with the materials they need — no emailing PDFs back and forth.
Your Facilities, Revenue-Generating
Manage community halls, classrooms, kitchens, outdoor spaces, and parking lots with booking workflows for weddings, funerals, meetings, community events, and religious programs. Tiered pricing by renter category (Member, Non-Member, Nonprofit, Hardship). Full booking lifecycle from request through deposit to completion. Calendar, blackout dates, and utilization reports.
Your Operations, Intelligent
- AI document processing: Upload an invoice, receipt, contract, or HR form — Muin classifies it, extracts structured data, and routes it to the right module automatically
- AI agents: Pre-built and custom agents for routine tasks across finance, compliance, HR, and nonprofit operations
- Workflow automation: Build automations in natural language — “When a donation over $1,000 comes in, notify the development director and create a thank-you task”
- Smart forms: Drag-and-drop builder with 30+ field types, conditional logic, payment collection, and post-submission automation
- E-signatures: Legally binding via BoldSign for contracts, waivers, and acknowledgments
- Multi-channel communications: Email, SMS, WhatsApp, and push notifications with campaign management, drip sequences, and a unified inbox
- Unified task inbox: Every approval, review, and action item across all modules in one view
Your Team, On the Go
The Muin Go mobile app gives your team:
- Tap-to-pay donations (NFC) on iPhone and Android
- Kiosk mode for unattended giving stations, donor walls, digital signage, and live appeals
- In-kind donation scanning — barcode, photo AI identification, and IRS-aligned valuation
- Event check-in via QR and NFC
- Employee time clock with timesheet management
- Expense submission with AI receipt scanning
- Document capture from your phone camera
- Distribution event check-in and serving
And It All Works With Your Existing Tools
Here’s what makes this practical: you keep QuickBooks, Gusto, and Stripe. Muin doesn’t ask you to rip and replace. It connects to the tools you already trust and adds everything they weren’t built to provide.
| Your Tool | What It Keeps Doing | What Muin Adds On Top |
|---|---|---|
| QuickBooks | General ledger, bank feeds, AP/AR, tax-basis accounting | True fund accounting with spending enforcement, automated account mapping, Form 990 prep, grant budget tracking, sync conflict detection |
| Gusto | Payroll processing, tax filings, W-2s, benefits, direct deposit | Employee onboarding workflows, leave/time tracking, certifications and training, volunteer management, fund-based salary allocation for 990 functional expenses |
| Stripe | Card and ACH payment processing at your existing nonprofit rates | Giving pages with fund designation, donor CRM, IRS-compliant tax receipts, campaign management, kiosk/QR/text-to-give, recurring giving portal, dispute surfacing, payment analytics |
QuickBooks stays your general ledger. Muin syncs invoices, vendors, customers, and chart of accounts bidirectionally. When data changes in both systems, Muin detects the conflict and lets you choose how to resolve it (QuickBooks wins, Muin wins, or review manually). Your accountant keeps using QuickBooks exactly as they do today.
Gusto stays your payroll processor. Muin syncs employees, departments, payroll runs, and PTO. When you onboard a new hire in Muin, they’re pushed to Gusto automatically — no re-typing names, addresses, and tax forms into two systems. Contractors sync as vendors for expense management.
Stripe stays your payment rail. Every donation processed through Muin flows through Stripe. Your nonprofit rate (2.2% + $0.30 on cards) applies. Muin adds a 0.5% platform fee that funds the nonprofit infrastructure — fund-designated giving pages, restricted fund compliance, automated tax receipts, and 990 data flow. Stripe processes the payment; Muin ensures it’s tracked, designated, receipted, and reported correctly.
Ramp is the one tool Muin can genuinely replace — expense management, approval workflows, vendor management, procurement, and budget controls are all built in. But if your organization prefers Ramp’s physical cards and 1.5% cash back, you can keep using Ramp alongside Muin.
Before and After: What Changes Day-to-Day
Month-End Reconciliation
Today: Export Stripe transactions. Export QuickBooks reports. Open Gusto for payroll data. Open Ramp for expenses. Spend 8–15 hours manually matching records across systems, building reports in spreadsheets.
With Muin: Donations, expenses, payroll visibility, and fund balances are in one system. QuickBooks stays your ledger — Muin syncs automatically. Reconciliation that took a weekend takes an afternoon.
Ramadan Campaign
Today: Set up a Donorbox page ($300+/year). Hope donors self-report which fund their gift supports. Manually enter donation data into QuickBooks. Send tax receipts one by one from a Word template. Track campaign progress in a spreadsheet.
With Muin: Create a Ramadan giving page with fund selectors for Zakat, Sadaqah, Fitrah, and general. Embed a live campaign thermometer on your website and lobby display. Donations flow through Stripe, land in the correct fund automatically, and generate IRS-compliant tax receipts. The donor gets a self-service portal to manage their recurring gifts.
Board Meeting Prep
Today: Pull financial summaries from QuickBooks. Pull payroll from Gusto. Pull expense reports from Ramp. Calculate restricted fund balances manually. Compile everything into a PDF. Hope the numbers add up.
With Muin: Fund balances, program spending, donor trends, and compliance status are in one dashboard. Board packages are assembled from live data. Resolutions and votes are tracked. Board members access a review portal — no emailing PDFs.
Zakat Disbursement
Today: Track Zakat collection in a spreadsheet. Receive assistance requests via email or walk-ins. Evaluate eligibility informally. Disburse from the general account and hope the restricted balance is tracked somewhere.
With Muin: Zakat is a first-class fund type with spending enforcement. Assistance requests come through case management with eligibility screening. Disbursements are tracked against the restricted fund. The balance is always current, always auditable.
What This Costs
A Medium Nonprofit (25 employees, ~$1.5M in annual donations*)
Today’s stack — to get the same capabilities Muin provides, you need 9–11 tools:
| Item | Annual Cost |
|---|---|
| QuickBooks Online Advanced (TechSoup) | $170 |
| Gusto Plus (25 employees) | $4,560 |
| Ramp (Free) | $0 |
| Stripe (nonprofit rate) | ~$33,450 |
| Donor CRM (Bloomerang or similar) | $1,200–$3,600 |
| Form 990 CPA prep | $3,000–$8,000 |
| QBO ↔ Stripe middleware (Acodei/HubiFi) | $360–$600 |
| Email/SMS communications (Mailchimp or similar) | $360–$1,200 |
| Volunteer management tool | $600–$2,400 |
| 9–11 vendors, total | $43,700–$53,980 |
And you still don’t have fund accounting, grant management, board governance, facility rentals, case management, e-signatures, smart forms, AI document processing, workflow automation, or a mobile app.
With Muin — 4 vendors, every capability above included:
| Item | Annual Cost |
|---|---|
| QuickBooks Online Advanced (TechSoup) | $170 |
| Gusto Plus (25 employees) | $4,560 |
| Muin Growth plan (annual billing, 25% nonprofit discount) | $1,791 |
| Stripe processing (via Muin, nonprofit rate) | ~$33,450 |
| Muin platform fee (0.5% on donations) | ~$7,500 |
| 4 vendors, total | ~$47,471 |
*Stripe fee estimates assume an average donation of $100. Your effective rate varies by average transaction size due to Stripe’s $0.30 per-transaction component.
Your vendor count drops from 9–11 to 4. One contract, one support team, one security review — instead of managing relationships with nearly a dozen different companies.
Your capability count goes up dramatically. Even the 9–11 tool stack doesn’t give you fund accounting with spending enforcement, grant management, board governance, facility rentals, case management, AI document processing, workflow automation, e-signatures, or a mobile app. Muin does.
Your staff gets their time back. If your team spends even 10 hours per month on cross-system reconciliation and manual data entry — a conservative estimate — that’s $4,200/year in hidden labor at $35/hour. With one unified system, that time goes back to your mission.
And the value that’s hardest to put a number on: data integrity. A donation designated for “Zakat” in Muin is tracked from the giving page through the fund balance through the salary allocation through the 990 functional expense report — automatically. In the current stack, that thread doesn’t exist. It’s maintained by hand, or it isn’t maintained at all.
What Muin Does Not Do (And Why That’s a Feature)
We’re direct about this:
- Muin is not a general ledger. QuickBooks handles double-entry bookkeeping, bank feeds, and tax-basis accounting. Muin integrates with QB — it doesn’t try to rebuild what Intuit has spent decades perfecting.
- Muin does not process payroll. Gusto handles tax filings, direct deposits, and W-2 generation. Muin syncs with Gusto and adds HR workflows on top.
- Muin does not issue corporate cards. If you value Ramp’s cards and cash back, you can use Ramp alongside Muin.
- Muin is in beta. We’re launching in 2026 with a 60-day free trial and 50% off for the first year. We’re building in the open, and some features are still being finalized.
- The 0.5% platform fee is real. On $1.5M in donations, that’s $7,500/year. It funds the fund designation, tax receipts, donor CRM, and compliance infrastructure that doesn’t exist anywhere else. It’s a cost — and we think it’s justified by what it enables.
These are architecture decisions, not gaps. The tools that are best at accounting, payroll, and payments should keep doing those jobs. Muin handles everything a nonprofit needs that those tools were never designed for.
For Mosques and Islamic Organizations
No other platform treats Zakat, Sadaqah, Fitrah, and Waqf as first-class fund and contribution types. This isn’t a custom field workaround. These categories are built into the data model, the giving pages, the fund accounting, the spending enforcement, and the 990 reporting.
This matters because Islamic giving has rules that general-purpose tools ignore:
- Zakat fund accounting with spending enforcement and restricted balance tracking
- Zakat assistance case management — intake, eligibility screening, disbursement tracking, all tied to the restricted fund
- Waqf (Islamic endowment) management with investment tracking and spending compliance
- Sadaqah and Fitrah as distinct contribution types with separate fund flows
- Facility rental management for your community hall, classrooms, and outdoor spaces — with booking for weddings, funerals, community events, and religious programs
- Distribution events for food pantry, clothing, and community assistance with check-in, service matching, and capacity tracking
- Volunteer management for community service programs with waivers, hours tracking, and expense reimbursement
QuickBooks, Gusto, Ramp, and Stripe are good tools. None of them were built to understand that a Zakat donation has different fund accounting rules than a general donation, or that a Waqf endowment has different spending constraints than a standard restricted fund. Muin was.
The Bottom Line
Muin is a nonprofit operating system — donor management, fundraising, fund accounting, grant management, HR, compliance, communications, volunteer coordination, board governance, case management, facility rentals, AI document intelligence, workflow automation, and a mobile app — in one platform, purpose-built for mosques, foundations, and nonprofits.
It integrates with QuickBooks (your ledger), Gusto (your payroll), and Stripe (your payments) so you keep what works and gain everything that’s missing.
Your vendor count goes down. Your capabilities go up. Your data connects. Your team gets their time back.
If you’re spending more time reconciling systems than serving your community — that’s the gap Muin exists to fill.
Want to see how Muin connects to your current tools? We’ll walk through your specific setup in 15 minutes — no pitch deck, just your data. Book a walkthrough.