The Church Preferences window is a powerful aspect of the membership system. It provides the ability to customize the fields to track the information you desire to record.

• Link to Fund Accounting: If set to yes, CMO will seamlessly link all contributions entered into the system to the accounting side of CMO. Many Church Software products on the market today offer an accounting system but few actually link the Contributions entered for a given sunday over to the actual General Ledger. CMO has the power to do this and link the dollars to a specified checking account and revenue account.
• The top right section is for modifying the drop down lists that are displayed throughout the system. These drop down list include the status of a household, the relationship to a household and a persons occupation just to name a few. The system includes four default status codes of Active, Visitor, Inactive and Delete. Most churches will use this section to add more status codes such as Prospect, Active Non-Member, Shut-in, and Associate Member. Their is no limit to the number of items that can be added.
• Maintain Phone and Email Types allows the addition of contact information to track. Examples: Cell Phone, Fax, Beeper, Work Email etc..
• Maitain Special Events: Click here to change the different dates to track. Example: Birth, Baptism, Confirmation, First Communion, Transferred In, etc..