Article in Church Business online. Looking for membership database software, financial management software, scheduling software or asset and inventory management software? Or some combination? This article may be helpful in determining what solution is right for your congregation.
An excerpt: "Think about what you want your software to do. Of course you'll want to keep track of people, but how? By the various kinds of relationships they have with your church (members, visitors, constituents, children and spouses of members and so on)? Do you need to know different kinds of telephone numbers (fax, cell, pager)? What about keeping information about their spiritual gifts and how they use them? Do you want to print your own directory? Is contribution entry going to be done onsite or from a remote location, such as a volunteer's home? Do you want to maintain vendor information files and be able to enter invoices? Is it important that you are able to do payroll and everything associated with it? Do you want to keep an asset inventory (quantity, location, value and description)? Are you going to use your CMS package on an individual computer or on a network with multiple workstations?"
Church Management SoftwarePosted on April 2, 2002 08:05 PM
How to choose the package that's right for you
By Nancy Armstrong and Brent Bill
Church Business 03/2002: Church Management Software