Over the past few decades, churches of all sizes have realized the effectiveness of technology to run the administration and other process efficiently. Every church expects to grow over a period of time. But most of them struggle to manage different types of functions such as preparing a sermon, organizing worship service, providing pastoral care, managing membership databases, sending messages, organizing community and religious events, fundraising, tracking finances, report generation, etc. with the traditional paper and spreadsheet. Hence to manage, streamline and automate the workflow of the church nowadays remarkably large numbers of churches are making the utmost use of user friendly and accessible Church Management Software.
Immense benefits
For a healthy church it is imperative that the staff, volunteers and guests should feel special and valued. The church is the place of worship and is a high traffic area hence it is no cakewalk to manage all the aspects of church smoothly and effectively. The over flowing administrative tasks can take a toll on the staff. If staffs feel frustrated in managing the day to day functions then it might result in mistakes. Implementing the software that is specially built for the smooth running of the church can offer ample of benefits
- Improve communication
- Reduced exposure to fraud
- Centralized database
- Personalized emails
- Efficient financial reporting
Invest little time
As the demand for the ChMS is increasing so does the number of software providers is also at a constant rise. But unfortunately not all the providers offer high performance software. Hence never choose any software randomly rather invest little time and consider certain factors
- Check the license and authenticity of the provider
- Read the reviews and rating in reliable forum
- Ensure the software has all the relevant features as per your church needs
- Prompt response of efficient technical support
- Free trial of the software for certain period
- On the go access via mobile responsive and cloud hosted solution
- Protection and safety of personal information stored
- Flexibility to cancel the subscription any time
Handy features
Features of the software have advanced features and other might have basic features. Some of the common features that can incredibly enhance the overall functionality of the church are
- Membership management such as names, date of birth, addresses, numbers, email and social-media IDs
- Attendance tracking
- Donation management
- Calendar management
- Communications and outreach
- Child check-in and security
- Reports and Dashboards
- Congregation Management Tools
- automate guest follow-up
- schedule volunteers
- tags & custom fields
- forms
