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Provides a comprehensive database to manage your members, households,
and various groups. Information is
the life-blood of a vibrant church. Revelations church management software offers extensive
member information management capabilities to capture, maintain,
and effectively use information related to your people. Combined
with the extensive communication power of the Internet, Revelations
will significantly enhance the quality and reliability of your
information.
Superior transaction
entry process and speed. Multiple
members may be set-up per household in a single window with
speed and easy navigation. Revelations is known for its superior
design that optimizes the transaction entry process.
Up to ten special
events per member. Revelations church management software supports
up to ten events for each person, such as; birthdays, baptisms,
marriages, first communion, and graduations. You will be able
to produce regular reports by special event type, providing
your church staff or lay people to send communications to members
on their commemorative event dates. Your church will sense a
deeper unity and appreciation for such attention to personal
detail.
Up to ten phone numbers
and email addresses. As your staff
communicates with, and makes visits to members of your congregations,
these features provide the utmost in convenience and flexibility.
All the information is stored with the member record in Revelations.
Assignment to multiple
households. We live in a time when
families are mobile and occasionally disrupted. Family dynamics
change through marriage, re-marriage, graduation, and other
events. Revelations church management software permits quick changes and even allows individuals
to be tracked as members of more than one family in the case
of re-marriages.
Multiple residential
addresses per household. Your church
may have members that reside in other cities during parts of
the year. If so, you will be able to stay in touch with them
easily by maintaining multiple mailing addresses for them. Revelations church management software
provides the ultimate flexibility in managing and communicating
with households in a congregation.
Group management with
versatile criteria and rapid set-up.
Groups can be set-up for various criteria, such as: choirs,
youth groups, Sunday School teachers, worship teams, ushers,
prayer chain, church boards, committees, or staff members. Revelations church management software
enables regular and targeted communications, which can be especially
valuable when meetings change or quick contact across a specific
group is needed.
Flexible talent identification
and tracking. Talents can be recorded
for each person in your congregation. Examples might include
talents like: pianist, custodian, mechanic, choir, teacher,
nursery, writer, marketer, carpenter, etc. Reports can be quickly
produced by talent category as well. This type of information
will allow your church staff to quickly empower the lay membership
when ministries or needs of the church body require specific
talents.
Recording attendance
for church services and special events.
Easy entry of attendance and reporting keeps you in touch with
attendance trends among individuals, households, and your entire
congregation. You will have the visibility if individuals or
households may be slipping away. Such timely information will
allow you to proactively touch base with vulnerable members.
Notes support.
This becomes a convenient and confidential electronic filing
system for Pastors or staff to keep notes about members and
specific issues.
Member status changes
and archiving are part of the individual database record.
This feature permits easy status change for inactive members
and allows for historical archiving and future communications.
Envelope flexibility. Envelopes may
be assigned to individual or households enabling efficient collections,
transaction entry, fund distribution, and reporting. The multiple
envelope numbers feature provides the utmost in flexibility
and efficiency while managing giving across a large and diverse
congregation.
Rapid batch recording
of contributions and streamlined fund distribution.
Batches of funds are quickly entered with the high-performing
transaction processing design of Revelations.
Batch audit, reconciliation,
reversals, and re-entry. Revelations'
reconciliation process ensures that all funds are accounted
for within a batch. When mistakes do occur in batch entry, they
are quickly corrected on an individual basis, or an entire batch
can easily be reversed without hassle and re-entered.
Multiple fund support.
By supporting multiple funds and
campaigns, your church can easily manage contributions to a
multitude of ministries and projects, such as:
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General
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Benevolence
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Missions
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Building
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Special
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Member pledging for
single or multiple funds. Your church
staff and volunteer leaders can easily initiate and manage a
new fund drive and then specify where each member's funds should
be directed.
Standard report list.
Revelations provides a comprehensive
list of standard reports that are easily selected and generated
with "point and click" navigation.
Customized reports.
User defined and customized reporting
can be accommodated with the report writer product option with
Revelations as well.
Contribution reports
and statements. With many statement
styles to choose from, the printing of contribution statements
for any time period will save you time and will be welcomed
by your members as they prepare to document their charitable
contributions at the time of tax filings.
Pledging reports and
statements. Your financial staff
will appreciate the analysis reports that provide a clear picture
of the giving patterns in your church.
Church directory printing.
Staff and members will be more informed
about the members and households with this useful informational
resource. No longer will a church directory and its important
information have to be tied to publishing a formal directory.
Accounting integration.
Revelations files can be easily integrated
into popular accounting programs such as Quickbooks. Icon Systems
provides file formatting and documentation to set-up the integration.
Exporting of information.
Data files can be exported to one
of several formats utilized by popular work processing, spreadsheet,
and database programs. This enhances Revelations value and your
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