What is System of Record?
The one tool your team agrees is the official home for a kind of information, such as donors or contracts. When copies disagree, this one wins and the others get fixed to match.
1 official home · copies match it
A system of record is…
Write it in your own words in the app.
In real work
The board named Salesforce the system of record for donors, so the old gala spreadsheet is fixed to match it, never the other way around.
In the illustration
Three loose ledgers show three addresses for one donor; each is held up to the registry book, and a stamp corrects every copy to the registry's address.
List what lives where in your workspace: for donors, files, volunteers and money, name the system of record and every copy that must be updated to match it.
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