Church Management Software

If you're in the market for Church Management Software, Jason posted about a new article on Church Management Software at Ministry IT. This is a good informational article about several of the systems that are available and what they do. It also includes contact information for the various companies that provide the software.

Here at GCC we use Fellowship One as our Church Management solution along with Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) as our General Ledger accounting solution. We're very happy with both solutions.

I like Fellowship One's scanner based contribution processing and online giving tools. Check images are attached to contributions which eliminates a lot of paper. I also like the ability to search for, locate, and merge duplicate records. The check-in application is pretty cool too.

Great plains offers a great solution for General Ledger accounting. It's got good access security. It offers modules for many different applications. We use Bank Reconciliation, Fixed Assets, and A/P regularly. It's expandable and upgradeable. We use a reporting tool called FRx for writing and running reports.

At this point, Fellowship One and Great Plains do not integrate, but that doesn't offer a huge challenge to us.