Church Management Software

What is Church Management Software?

Church management software allows religious organizations to manage and keep track of service attendance, schedules, memberships, events, activities and operations. Compare the best Church Management software currently available using the table below.

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    Casebook

    Casebook

    Casebook

    Casebook is a leading provider of highly configurable human services software. We understand that every human services organization, social services agency, or community services nonprofit has unique needs and requirements. Our comprehensive cloud-based solution is designed to streamline operations from intake to reporting. Unlike generic information management software, Casebook is tailored specifically for the distinct needs of human services professionals. We have collaborated closely with industry experts to ensure that our platform effectively addresses your essential data management and reporting tasks on a daily basis. Select Casebook as your trusted human services software solution and discover the power of a platform meticulously designed to enhance service delivery and reporting, while optimizing your organization's overall efficiency. Contact Us to learn more about our purpose-built platform for human & social services and our scalable per-user pricing options.
    Starting Price: $29 per user per month
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    Jumbula

    Jumbula

    Jumbula

    Jumbula is an end-to-end Online Registration, Payment & Class/Camp Management system, designed to streamline back office operations. We supply businesses with a powerful administration dashboard and a set of management and marketing tools to promote and sell camps, classes, childcare, and afterschool programs. For end users and parents, we provide a modern and user-friendly registration experience. Our team strives to offer a cutting-edge and intuitive system that is secure, robust, and reliable. Jumbula is constantly developing new functionalities based on the needs shared by our growing community of clients. Some of our users' favorite features are the attendance mobile app, recurring billing, capacity and waitlist management, class reminders, website integration tool, customizable registration forms, and reporting.
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    Starting Price: $100/month
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    CharityTracker

    CharityTracker

    Simon Solutions

    A case management CRM that focuses on your clients, to measure real-world impact, not just data. Your Day Just Got Shorter - We know you’re busy and don’t have time for complicated software – We’ve changed that! Even your staff will enjoy using the system – No more headaches and missing data from reports so you can use your valuable time to serve more people. CharityTracker is a cloud-based, HIPAA compliant software that’s easy to use for nonprofits of all sizes. With no setup fees, hidden fees, or contracts, you can cancel anytime! Our time saving solution provides a secure way to streamline how you manage cases, record case notes & assistance, create reports, collaborate, set goals, measure outcomes, make referrals & prove your impact with change-over-time reports for your funders. We're at work in 2,200 communities! Book a free demo. Pricing starts at just $20/mo. user
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    Starting Price: $20.00/month/user
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    GivingTools

    GivingTools

    GivingTools

    Are you a nonprofit looking for an affordable online fundraising platform that includes features like donor-paid fees, free text giving, recurring gifts, and more? GivingTools is your answer! Highly secure and easy to use, GivingTools enables you to raise funds online through all sorts of appeals...from one-time and recurring gifts to capital campaign pledges, events, merchandise, and sign-ups. You can direct people to your giving page or you can embed your giving page or giving forms right on your website. GivingTools offers a beautiful interface, low rates (as low as 1.9%...no kidding!), and options like PayPal integration and flat-rate ACH giving. Through ACH giving, no percentage is taken from the gift! GivingTools includes text giving with every account...no added cost. No minimum use fees or other funny business, either. A free demo account gets you started quickly. Trusted by hundreds of nonprofits. We make online giving easy.
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    Starting Price: $0/month
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    Donarius

    Donarius

    Nuverb Systems Inc.

    Donarius by Nuverb Systems is a church management software designed to help church ministries and nonprofits manage members and keep track of donors, donations, pledges, and more. Trusted by over 2500 churches and ministries worldwide, Donarius is accessible from anywhere (like web-based software without the monthly fee). It offers users the ability to print donation receipts, understand church contributions, print offering envelopes, and communicate to members by mail/email. Here are some other things it can do: *email tax receipts and quarterly statements as a PDF *re-assign envelope numbers *record 'gifts in kind' *keep track of online donations and recurring ones (A.C.H.) *easily import online donations from your provider *import data from your current software so you don't have to re-enter data *export data to Excel and the desktop version of Quickbooks *can setup multiple users, each with their own privileges Download a free trial version at www.donarius.com
    Starting Price: $47.98/one-time
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    Duplie

    Duplie

    Duplie

    Easily schedule and manage your volunteers. Allow volunteers to register, self-service. Admins can send SMS/text messages, assign volunteers, sync to calendars, create recurring shifts and much more! Take your nonprofit to the next level by using our state-of-the-art platform today.
    Starting Price: $49.00/month
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    Raklet

    Raklet

    Raklet

    Raklet is an all-in-one membership management software to grow your organization. Build, grow and monetize your audience through memberships, newsletters and other digital tools. Import your contacts easily and create custom fields. Automate your messages through different channels. Collect one-off or recurring payments. Automate reminders & invoices. Be there for your people whenever they need you, wherever they are. With our mobile app for iOS & Android, you can engage your members on the go or let us develop a branded mobile app just for you. Engage with your audience through different channels like events, private messages, newsletters, and much more. Create your own digital membership cards to check in at the door, and help your members feel more engaged. Use our Zoom integration for online events to track attendees. Raklet's membership management tools enable you to run your organization from a single platform.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Churchteams

    Churchteams

    Churchteams

    For pastors that want to use today's church management software technology but don't have IT professionals on staff. We cover all the basics (membership, groups, online giving, contributions) and advanced (check-in, registration, workflow, email marketing, texting, workflow automation) features you need to keep all your people data in one place. Online giving is beautiful to use at the lowest price in the industry. Text-to-Church makes giving, registration, check-in, digital connection cards, links to anywhere, and access to my stuff as easy as sending a text. You will love our balance of on-demand and personalized training and support. For us, this is ministry first.
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    Starting Price: $37.00/month
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    BCMS

    BCMS

    BONGAS

    BCMS is a church management software that has been designed to assist Churches and other religious organizations with structuring and managing of daily operations. It facilitates all aspects of operating a Church: assisting with membership acquisition and retention, fund-raising, event planning, financial reporting, etc. We believe that Churches can focus more on loving people and helping them grow spiritually than spending thousands of hours on operational issues. BCMS has been designed with actual Church data and scenarios, tailored for the best convenience of Church administrators.
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    Starting Price: $10/month
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    Faith Teams

    Faith Teams

    Faith Teams

    Easy and Affordable church management software for small and mid-sized churches, including all the features you need for only $40/month flat rate [no up-sells or add-ons]. Our team will help move you in, and provide whatever you need to get started fast. Clean Database for your People & Families, Attendance Tracking, Kids Check-in (including label printing), Automated Guest Follow-up, Events Calendar, Online Giving, - Text-to-Give, Contribution Tracking & Reporting, Service Planner, Volunteer Scheduling, Email & Texting, Manage Groups, Track Benchmarks such as Salvations & Baptisms, Custom Forms (for Sign-ups and Registrations). Web-based so you can access anywhere, Free iOS and Android Apps so you can access info on-the-go, Unlimited Users so your entire staff can use it, and No Limit on the number of people you can add to your database. Incredible Customer Support and we’ll help you move your people in - Free.
    Starting Price: $40/month
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    Church Community Builder

    Church Community Builder

    Church Community Builder

    Cloud-based and powerful, Church Community Builder empowers church leaders by helping them engage with their members and give them opportunities to connect with one another and grow deeper in their faith. This user-friendly church software solution also helps users create effective and organized systems and processes that are accessible from anywhere. Primary features include check-in, volunteer management, contribution management, online giving, forms, metrics dashboards, guest followup, mobile apps, and much more.
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    Attendance Now

    Attendance Now

    Attendance Now

    Attendance Now is a church attendance app that makes tracking attendance easy. The mobile-friendly interface allows easy access from a phone, tablet or computer. Attendance Now also offers guest check-in, church directory, people management, custom reports, and custom data tracking.
    Starting Price: 10/month
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    Gyve

    Gyve

    Gyve

    Gyve is a platform that offers so much more than just donation processing. Gyve is a generosity platform offered by experts in understanding and engaging donors. We provide you tools, data, and results, to grow your donations beyond what you've experienced in the past.
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    Flocknote

    Flocknote

    Flocknote

    Ready for a smarter way to text message and email your members? Flocknote churches can reach all their members at a moment’s notice, resulting in higher attendance, increased stewardship, and a more connected church. Text messages have an astounding 99% open rate. Texting is the #1 way to get your message through when you need to, period. And when it comes to email, look no further. Write quick, simple notes, or customize your emails with colors, gifs, fonts, images, layouts, and more! Send polls, track RSVPs, embed videos, and attach files—our email composer is robust and easy to use, no matter how tech savvy you are! You have enough work on your plate—counting the number of texts and emails isn’t something else you should have to do! That’s why we offer unlimited standard text messages and emails for one low monthly price that’s tailored to fit your congregation size.
    Starting Price: $8 per month
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    Logos

    Logos

    Faithlife

    Logos is a ministry and sermon prep platform that cuts out busywork so you can be more focused and effective in your calling. Preaching the Word requires prayer, the Holy Spirit, and the right tools. And yet many pastors rely on tech created at a time when the hourglass was cutting-edge: the paper book. Search for a passage or topic and instantly find everything you need. You’ll discover gems that would have remained forever buried in a print library. When you have to squeeze sermon prep between that hospital visit and the deacon meeting, there’s no time to waste. Just search for your sermon passage or topic to find curated overviews. Or dive deep into trusted sermon resources. Every Logos package comes with a library of commentaries, sermon illustrations, quotes, counseling books, and other essential ministry resources. Look up a passage, and Logos scours your books, giving you quick links to relevant content in seconds flat.
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    Breeze Church Management

    Breeze Church Management

    Breeze Church Management

    Our mission is to provide small and mid-size churches the simplest church management software available, at a great price. With Breeze, manage attendance, securely check in children and print name tags, group contacts, mass email and text message contacts, offer online and text giving, run extensive reporting, and much more. Best of all, there's no contract, no setup fees, and we'll even move in your existing data at no cost! Start a free 30-day demo and see why more than 9,000 churches choose Breeze.
    Starting Price: $67.00/month
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    IconCMO

    IconCMO

    Icon Systems

    IconCMO is a church management software designed to help organizations take the hassle out of managing the church and instead focus on building their ministry. A truly web-based, online ChMS (Church Management Software), IconCMO allows easy management of membership, groups, communications, donations, pledges, fund accounting, AR/AP, check writing, reconciling, budgeting and even payroll. The platform also comes with a number of integrations that enable online giving, paperless transactions, background checks, email marketing, e-filing and more. IconCMO is a FASB compliant true fund accounting system and we are proud to announce that Icon Systems is now offering accounting services from bank reconciliations, accounts cleanup or monthly bookkeeping services!
    Starting Price: $35.00/month
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    GiveHub

    GiveHub

    GiveHub

    Increase your donations by capturing missed donor opportunities! Online Giving, Mobile App, Text Giving, Text Marketing, Giving Kiosks and Much More! Utilize our donation product suite and watch your donations soar. We also give you the ability to manage your donors, their families, their activity, involvement, groups giving and more, it evens sends out year-end giving statements. Customize the entire look and feel to accurately represent your organization. Donors can choose multiple funding options like one-time or recurring donations with credit or debit cards. We offer Event Registration and Children's Check-In at NO COST! Our church attendance software is the safest and fastest way to check in children for service. You will also be able to print labels for the kids and print receipts for parents. Event registrations are simple. Events and members can register and pay (if needed) and volunteer sign-up's are also quick and easy. Sign up for a live 30 min demo today
    Starting Price: $15/month
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    GraceSoft Church Reservation System
    GraceSoft creates the easy church reservation system for the churches to manage reservations for a church gathering, upcoming services, events. Manage members check-ins etc" An easy to use reservation software for churches to manage their members, visitors attendance and check-ins & details. The church administration can set the maximum capacity limits for each service or upcoming events, church gathering, etc. It is a very simple church management software and easy to use, can reserve in just three steps. Step 1 - Visit the church website & click the reserve seat. Step 2 - select the date and service time. Step 3 - Enter your registered email & name. The booking process is over. After the booking process, the user will get the confirmation mail for the reserved seat. Auto reminder emails can be set up and scheduled to send before the service In our church reservation software. Try 14 days free trial
    Starting Price: $59 per month
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    Servant Keeper

    Servant Keeper

    Servant PC Resources

    Servant Keeper is a complete church management system for church ministries and non-profits of all sizes. Trusted by more than 30,000 churches, Servant Keeper lets organizations easily track contributions and communicate with donors. Easy to use and customizable to every ministry, Servant Keeper also helps churches and non-profits store comprehensive member information.
    Starting Price: $250.00/one-time
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    Planning Center

    Planning Center

    Planning Center

    Planning Center is a set of software tools to help you organize information, coordinate events, communicate with your team, and connect with your congregation. As you use individual products, you contribute to the larger, integrated system, so you can do specialized work without siloing information. You can decide which products you want to subscribe to and which plan levels, scaling up or down based on what your church needs. Every product also has a free plan option you can always switch to, or cancel completely with no fees (contracts and cancellation fees aren’t our thing). Absolutely anyone on your team can use Planning Center, from your least tech-savvy admin to your resident software nerd. All the important information you need is quickly accessible so you can do your work behind the scenes efficiently. And for your congregants, you can provide a simple and engaging experience in a free mobile app and website.
    Starting Price: $14 per month
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    ACS

    ACS

    ACS Technologies

    It's not just about great teaching or youth programs or small groups or music or missions. It's everything together, and that's how we've approached our ministry solutions. Mix and match our tools and services to make a personalized ministry solution that's perfectly matched to what matters most to your church. Churches come in many different shapes and sizes. We’ve just about seen it all. That’s why we offer countless ways for you to personalize exactly what you need to support your type of ministry. Every personalized ministry solution starts with a ChMS cornerstone that can then be enhanced with any custom combination of tools and services. ACS Technologies is a ministry development company that helps churches identify their optimum ministry focus, educate their teams for maximum effectiveness, and provide them the right tools to make it all work together to build the Kingdom.
    Starting Price: $279.95/one-time
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    Continue to Give

    Continue to Give

    Continue to Give

    We offer the #1 cleanest, easiest online giving system with the most giving options. Text giving is great for events, or even regular givers who just love to give by text! Perfect for repeat givers, our giving app makes donating or tithing quick and convenient. We have teamed with Visa to bring you lower transaction rates thanks to Visa's new charitable giving rates program. We offer a complete donor and church management system. Our Customizable dashboard will keep you up to date on the stats most important to you. Our drag and drop form builder is simple and powerful. Our powerful tagging system will let you segregate who gets what based on tags and lists. Our system automatically tracks what is going on from giving, to small groups, to communications for every contact in the system. Lets face it, a promise to give is not the same as giving. Don’t ever lose a pledge again. Our powerful pledge management system will remind pledgers to give and track when they do.
    Starting Price: $15.00/month
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    Pushpay

    Pushpay

    Pushpay

    Pushpay is a leading technology company that delivers digital solutions to help churches achieve their missions. Our leading ChurchStaq, ParishStaq, and Resi Media suites simplify engagement, giving, administration, and video streaming—enabling our more than 14,500 customers to increase generosity, drive participation, and build stronger relationships with their communities.
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    Chaverware

    Chaverware

    Circuits & Systems Computers & Peripherals

    CHAVERWARE was introduced in 1993 as the FIRST Windows product in this market. Since this time we have grown through our reputation of excellent software and support. Over the years, we have brought together other similar products under one roof; TempleSoft, Marks, Congregation Connect, JVillage and ShulCloud. Primary areas of business include software applications for the non-profit markets with a concentration in the Jewish market and further specialization in the Synagogue market. The software applications for specific markets include Chaverware, The Gold Standard in Synagogue Membership Software®, and ChaverWeb, an online tool for the members of Synagogues using Chaverware to manage their own data, make donations, sign up for events, and pay their bills. This software is associated with membership databases and accounting systems. Circuits & Systems Computers & Peripherals Inc. is closely associated with Circuits & Systems Inc.
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Church Management Software Guide

Church leaders have so many responsibilities advancing their church’s charter and overall mission that when it comes to church administration and week-to-week operations, they require a comprehensive and capable yet streamlined church management system (ChMS). Fortunately, many solutions exist. From dedicated church accounting and bookkeeping applications to comprehensive suites capable of managing all concerns from financial to personnel to events, many management systems suites are capable of managing everything.

That said, selecting the right application can be a challenge. Church leaders must find a program that is easy to use yet capable of meeting current needs. Additionally, the system must be able to evolve with the church.

For anyone needing guidance on how to select the best church management software, the following buying guide will provide time-saving assistance.

What is Church Management Software?

In a church, behind the scenes of weekly sermons are the necessary administrative, personnel, and tax reporting tasks. Church management systems provide all the elements necessary to automate much of these tasks by facilitating communications, enhancing staff collaboration, and making daily operations a breeze. Although church management systems have varied functionality and price ranges, systems with common standard functions are available to meet the needs of organizations large or small. These standard functions are discussed below.

Church Management Software Features

Member Management

From standard address-book functions that track phone numbers and addresses to tracking volunteers and visitors, effective church management systems should offer church leaders a variety of member management capabilities. In addition to address-book functions, the system should offer database capability and allow list customization for such actions as charity events, contacts, and outreach. Finally, so that all this information is available at the touch of a keystroke, it should offer basic search capabilities and reporting.

Donation and donor tracking

Privacy and information-security needs require the software to provide secure organization and management of all donations, from individuals to large corporations to funds raised by events.

Accounting and bookkeeping

Perhaps the most basic of features, the church management software must provide secure accounting functionality. It should also offer the ability to create basic or complex reports as well as track money from multiple sources.

Events and facility administration

Right behind accounting functionality is the need for a church management software system to provide the ability to track events. Churches regularly hold events, both on and off site, so the ChMS must be able to track the details of those events. It must also track the event locations. Coupled with the accounting functions, it should be able to track outgoing payments or funds raised by events. It should also be able to provide reports on specific event-related property or equipment used in the event. This equipment can range from church vans to multimedia equipment to room tracking, necessary to prevent over- or double-booking. Other features should include modern deployment capabilities such as online or smartphone registration. Payment processing is a must-have feature along with the ability to track event-related funds and prepare event-specific reports.

Volunteering

Functions should include tracking of current, past, and future volunteer openings as well as information on volunteers such as history and availability. Scheduling functionality is an absolute must as is a volunteer’s preferred form of contact, phone or email, for instance, for outreach and follow-up.

Outreach

Church leaders should opt for a ChMS with comprehensive outreach and communication capabilities. As growing the organization is of importance, look for functions to increase member and social engagement. These features include the ability to manage email marketing campaigns, newsletters, and direct mail. Additionally, these functions should offer auto-update features and work in tandem with the event management functions to plan activity and track events.

Attendance and child safety

The church management software must have the ability to track both attendance of regular members and occasional visitors. Attendance tracking functionality should dovetail with event management functions for seminars, camps, fundraisers, retreats, and other events. Touch-screen capabilities will expedite the check-in process by allowing visitors to sign in by themselves. Additionally, functionality should be able to track children as well as guardian registration. Tracking should allow administrators to track child names by classroom or nursery, and functionality should also be able to track a person’s location throughout the day as events move between rooms.

Note: Although many of the standard features are offered in some form or another in many non-profit management software systems, a comprehensive ChMS, as opposed to a basic suite, offers options designed to serve the needs of specific churches and other faith-based organizations by effectively managing inter-organizational member relationships.

Church Management Software Features

Church Management Software Prices

Of course, prices increase with the number of available features. High-end systems will offer community members online communication and support as well as a full suite of attendance and security tracking options. Finally, high-end systems are best for organizations looking for volunteer-management solutions.

Conversely, inexpensive systems designed for smaller churches will offer basic functionality designed primarily to manage membership, e-mail, and finances.

Growing churches, large churches, or even mega-churches will obviously need a full-featured ChMS that manages every possible need. Small churches, however, can meet their budgetary limits and still manage their record keeping by selecting a church management software suite designed to provide only the essential operations and record keeping.

 

Types of Churches using ChMS

It might at first seem that organization administrators will immediately know which type of ChMS will meet their needs, but knowing how to match precisely a systems functionality with the specific needs of every church is very important. Identifying the basic needs of an organization will facilitate the process of church management software selection.

Small churches

In a small church, members might be well acquainted, but in order to maintain membership and financial levels, membership, attendance, and donation tracking capabilities are important. For a small church not able or interested in taking time to install a ChMS, vendors often offer installation services. For organizations with limited technology, online subscription services are also a common possibility. Subscription services are also known as “software-as-a-service,” and they can streamline administrative tasks without the need to establish a full-blown technology department.

Midsize to large churches

Midsize or larger organizations with member counts between 250 and 2,000 often have more resources. More resources typically come with greater financial tracking and reporting needs. Of course, increased financial tracking and reporting necessitate member and contributor information security. Greater security can be accomplished through full-service suites that offer double-entry accounting and reporting. Full-service suites can also track spending across a variety of domains: fund, project, or department. Just as important, they can automate other fiduciary requirements such as payroll, taxes, donations, and fixed-assets.

Corporate or Megachurches

Churches of this size typically handle memberships of 2,000 or more. In addition to having a vast number of members, corporate organizations and megachurches often have multiple regional or even national chapters. Some even have online and physical locations across the country. A few others are global. Such scale requires a ChMS with central database capabilities, so a leader can access and manage operations from any location. In fact, such a central database is the only way to accurately manage wide-scale outreach operations and events. Additionally, a full-featured ChMS is the only way to connect a vast number of members, volunteers, groups, and other integral personnel and allow them the ability to stay apprised of the larger organization.

Benefits of Church Management Software

Benefits Of Church Management Software

A church that successfully selects the best ChMS for its current and future needs can enjoy a variety of benefits.

  • Ability to keep a secure database of contacts, allowing visitors and members with reporting responsibilities up-to-date information for the best possible organizational and stewardship decisions

  • Increase membership engagement through company-wide communication capabilities

  • Tax-reporting compliance and audit protection through the secure tacking of donations through admin-panel processing and report generation

  • A more empowered membership via automated event scheduling

What to Avoid with Church Management Software

Churches often select the wrong ChMS. In doing so, they miss out on opportunities or fail to capitalize on the core features of the ChMS. The most common mistakes are as follows:

  • Mistakenly select church management systems that do not integrate between departments, have limited donation tracking or accounting features, or do not scale with the church’s growth

  • Failure to plan for basic accounting, bookkeeping, IRS compliance, or other tax-related issues

  • Select a non-standardized system that cannot integrate the technical requirements of different vendors

  • Failure to take advantage of ChMS vendor training, so staff can implement and benefit from all the features

Best Way to Choose New Church Management Software

For any church, large or small, shopping for, reviewing, and purchasing a ChMS can be overwhelming. Although many features are available to meet so many types of church needs, and although the process seems difficult, the process of properly evaluating a ChMS is critical for the ongoing success of the church.

A recent case study of buyers across a complex striation of organizations revealed four basic preliminary actions that dramatically increase the successful match of software with church needs. These steps include the need to review vendor or software company references, employing an attorney to review the software service contract, examining the vendor’s fiduciary and business viability, and submitting a request for proposal (RFP).

Organizations that focus on the “most successful” strategies while also avoiding the “least successful” strategies are able to maximize productivity and company growth. They are able to do this because they carefully identify their needs with the features of the software. In doing so, they are less likely to waste time considering software that will never meet their organization’s current or future needs.

Church Management Software Market Trends

Any church administrator knows that budgeting, donations, and IRS compliance are concerns capable of positively or negatively impacting the organization’s ability to grow, thrive, and meet the needs of members and their communities. Additional concerns to consider when selecting a church management system are as follows:

Cloud Technology

Online software systems available for purchase or available through subscription offer effective ways for churches to increase donations. Conversely, one of the chief obstacles to organizational growth is the inability of a ChMS to successfully handle financial management tasks. For small or large churches, cloud-based management software allows for real-time information retrieval, reviewing or program assessment—from any location.

Such ease of use makes possible strategic proactive decisions to increase growth. A recent case study determined that 80 percent of churches with weekly attendance of 1,000 use a cloud-based system to meet their needs and expedite sustained growth. Regarding small churches, 55 percent of successful small churches also use cloud-based systems. The study finds that churches employing cloud-based systems for online donations experience near double the rate of contributions.

Online Donations

In recent years, online donations to faith-based organizations have grown by over 15%. This increase in donations is a trend that experts expect to continue, so providing potential donors the ability to donate either online or via their smartphone is critical.

Social Media

Perhaps one of the best methods to increase communication among church members and volunteers is the use of social media. Sites such as Twitter or Facebook help facilitate member support. When combined with the use of social sites, outreach conducted via email significantly increases member communication.

Church Management Software Cost

The cost of church management software can vary widely depending on the type of software and the features included. For example, a basic platform may include core features such as membership management, donation tracking, and event scheduling for free or at a much lower cost than a more comprehensive package. However, more advanced systems can include built-in websites, communication tools such as email blasts and texting campaigns, financial reporting, analytics capabilities to track engagement metrics, volunteer management tools, and other integrations with third-party services such as payment processors for an additional fee. The cost of these packages can range from several hundred dollars per month up to thousands of dollars per year depending on the size of your organization and the features required. It’s important to research various vendors thoroughly to ensure you get all the features you need without paying for extraneous ones you won’t use. Additionally, many providers offer discounts or longer-term contracts that may help reduce costs while still providing everything your church requires. Overall, it pays to shop around in order to find the right pricing structure and feature set that meets your needs best!

What Software Does Church Management Software Integrate With?

Church management software can integrate with a variety of types of software, such as accounting software, membership databases, donation tracking databases, online giving platforms, email marketing platforms, calendar systems, project management tools and data analysis programs. These types of software allow church administrators to manage an array of functions within their organization from one source. For example, integrated accounting software allows churches to generate reports on donations or other income associated with their organization. Integrated membership databases allow administrators to quickly search for records on members or volunteers within their organization. Donations tracking databases allow churches to stay organized with who has donated and how much they have given. Online giving platforms allow donors to give money right over the internet which is then deposited into the church’s bank account. Email marketing platforms make it easy for churches to send out updates or announcements automatically and efficiently while calendar systems help keep church events organized and in view at all times. Project management tools help ensure that tasks are completed in a timely manner while data analysis programs give churches insight into trends related to their congregations activities. All these different types of software can be integrated with church management software to create an efficient system that makes managing a church easier than ever before!