If you’re a campaign treasurer, you already know the drill: precision under deadline pressure, with your regulatory agency watching. What you need is software that understands the rules your agency enforces — federal, state, and local — handles multi-committee workflows, and matches the way a treasurer’s day runs.
ISPolitical (ISP) is political campaign management software that automates a treasurer’s “busy work” so they can charge for their expertise and knowledge. That automation includes things such as data hygiene, financial reports sent directly to staff and committees, reconciliations, alerts and warnings.
No contracts. No minimums. Unlimited support included.
If you’re juggling a federal candidate committee, a couple of state PACs, and a leadership PAC in the same cycle, ISPolitical was built for you. Switch between committees in one click. Print checks across all of them in a single batch. Schedule financial reports per committee. Set user permissions so a bookkeeper can work on one client without seeing the rest of your portfolio.
TurboFile is the hub that ties it together: file multiple pre-generated, saved compliance reports across all your clients from one consolidated page. No logging in and out, no juggling tabs. It’s the setup most professional treasury firms and compliance consultants use ISP for.
ISP supports the FEC disclosure forms treasurers file most often.
- FEC Form 3: Receipts and Disbursements for House and Senate authorized candidate committees
- FEC Form 3X: Receipts and Disbursements for PACs, party committees, and other non-authorized committees
- FEC Form 3P: Receipts and Disbursements for presidential committees
- FEC Form 1: Statement of Organization (used to register a new committee with the FEC)
- FEC Form 2: Statement of Candidacy
These are the time-sensitive filings that catch treasurers off guard: short windows, hard deadlines, and real penalties for missing them. ISPolitical’s compliance alerts notify you when one of these reports is due, so the filing window doesn’t pass before the report is even on your radar.
- FEC Form 6: 48-Hour Notice of Contributions or Loans of $1,000 or more received in the final days before an election
- FEC Form 24-IE: 24-Hour Notice of Independent Expenditures
- FEC Form 48-IE: 48-Hour Notice of Independent Expenditures
- FEC Form 5: Independent Expenditures filed by non-committee filers (individuals and groups not registered as political committees)
Reports are generated from the transaction data already in your account: no separate data entry to build a filing, and no second system to cross-check against. Every form pulls Schedule A, Schedule B, and supporting schedules from the same records you’ve already entered.
Professional treasurers don’t use general-purpose accounting tools like QuickBooks or spreadsheets. Campaign finance has reporting rules and form requirements those tools weren’t built for. Campaign treasurers use political-specific platforms like ISPolitical, which handle FEC report generation, contribution itemization, conduit and earmark reconciliation. ISP supports most state and local reports and can easily build support for agencies we don’t have yet. The treasurer software category exists because federal campaign finance reporting has enough quirks (Column C reset reports, joint fundraising committee transfers, aggregation across election cycles, and RFAI responses). Our purpose-built tool saves dozens of hours per filing.
Reconciliations in ISP are built around how FEC reporting works: cash-on-hand on the compliance report must match the register, and the register must match the bank statement. ISP’s enhanced reconciliation tools surface mismatches between register cash-on-hand and compliance report cash-on-hand (a common RFAI trigger), keep deposit batch expenses connected to the deposits they came from instead of stranding processor fees on separate lines, and tie every reconciled transaction back to its supporting documentation in the same record. New integrations for automated reconciliations and payments are on the way, /sk our team for the latest on what’s available and what’s coming next.
ISP onboarding is built to move at campaign speed. Accounts get set up day or night, since political campaigns don’t wait for business hours. Historical data import is included with support, so if you’re migrating from another system or coming in with existing committee records, our team handles bringing that data into ISP as part of onboarding. Unlimited support and training are also included, which means there’s no extra cost for getting your staff up to speed on the platform, whether that’s one treasurer or a full compliance team.
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