[itdiscuss] Church Accounting Software

Wed Oct 15 14:19:36 EDT 2008

We use Shelby Financials plus SignUsUp for online giving/registration.

Chris Ockerman
Director of Finance and Information Systems
Ward Evangelical Presbyterian Church
40000 Six Mile Road
Northville, Michigan 48168-3956
248.374.5962
www.wardchurch.org

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We are using ACS for Windows. We are looking to move to ACS OnDemand,
and
have a meeting with ACS reps on 10/23 to see what they have to offer.
Fellowship Tech made a good presentation last month at the Church IT
meeting
in Atlanta. We are also looking into switching to them.

Bob Cameron
System Administrator
First United Methodist Church Lawrenceville
770-963-0386 ext 158#

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   1. Re: Church Accounting Solutions (Dave Ketcham)
   2. Re: Church Accounting Solutions (Mark Burleson)
   3. Re: Church Accounting Solutions (Dustin Drewery)
   4. Re: Church Accounting Solutions (Jason Powell)
   5. Re: Church Accounting Solutions (Baines, Walter)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:06:34 -0700
From: "Dave Ketcham" <dketcham at northcoastchurch.com>
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Shelby.

Dave Ketcham

North Coast Church

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Dan Barber
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Just a research question: how does your church manage its financials?
Shelby? ACS? Microsoft Dynamics? We have been slightly unhappy with our
current system...we are investigating any alternatives and would love
input. For reference our size is the 500-1000 person range.

Dan Barber

Network Administrator

Kirk of the Hills, PCA

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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:31:54 -0500
From: "Mark Burleson" <mark at markburleson.com>
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LifeChurch.tv uses MS Dynamics SL with FRx server and Forecaster
Rhema is using SL as well.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Dan Barber
<dbarber at kirkofthehills.org>wrote:

>  Just a research question: how does your church manage its financials?
> Shelby? ACS? Microsoft Dynamics? We have been slightly unhappy with
our
> current system?we are investigating any alternatives and would love
input.
> For reference our size is the 500-1000 person range.
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> Dan Barber
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> Network Administrator
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> Kirk of the Hills, PCA
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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:46:47 -0500
From: "Dustin Drewery" <ddrewery at crossroadsokc.com>
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We use a Quickbooks online to manage all the accounting side and
Fellowship
One for all our contribution records.. we're currently in the 800 - 1300
range.  As far as I know, it works pretty good for us.  We used to use
ACS
but F1 and Quickbooks being totally online made things a whole lot
easier
for our administrative staff.  Only drawback has been speed but that's
really a separate issue for us involving way too many people trying to
share
a t1.. once we get our faster connection put in, we shouldn't have
problems
at all.

Dustin Drewery
IT Director
Crossroads Church
Oklahoma City, OK
405-634-1495
CrossroadsOKC.com

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Shelby.

Dave Ketcham

North Coast Church

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Just a research question: how does your church manage its financials?
Shelby? ACS? Microsoft Dynamics? We have been slightly unhappy with our
current system.we are investigating any alternatives and would love
input.
For reference our size is the 500-1000 person range.

Dan Barber

Network Administrator

Kirk of the Hills, PCA

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MS Dynamics/Great Plains and F1 for contributions

Jason Powell
IT Director
Granger Community Church
630 E. University Drive
Granger, IN 46530
574.243.2022 * jpowell at gccwired.com * GCCwired.com
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and I'm on Facebook
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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Dan Barber
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Just a research question: how does your church manage its financials?
Shelby? ACS? Microsoft Dynamics? We have been slightly unhappy with our
current system...we are investigating any alternatives and would love
input. For reference our size is the 500-1000 person range.

Dan Barber

Network Administrator

Kirk of the Hills, PCA

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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:43:46 -0700
From: "Baines, Walter" <walter.baines at tricityministries.org>
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Owing to the complexity of our ministries - church, pre-school, academy,
college, and mission board - we went with Microsoft's Great Plains
Dynamics for our Accounts Payable, Payroll, and General Ledger.  We
currently use SchoolMinder for both the Academy and College, but are in
the process of implementing Blackbaud for the College by next Fall.  We
use ACS for some church people functions and for contributions.

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Subject: [itdiscuss] Church Accounting Solutions

Just a research question: how does your church manage its financials?
Shelby? ACS? Microsoft Dynamics? We have been slightly unhappy with our
current system...we are investigating any alternatives and would love
input. For reference our size is the 500-1000 person range.

Dan Barber

Network Administrator

Kirk of the Hills, PCA

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