The team’s characteristics are an important consideration to ensure that the software will work for the entire church operation. Additionally, the team needs to come to a consensus on one church software solution that they all feel will do the job and that the church board will approve. While this sounds easy, it’s anything but easy. There… ⪼ Continue Reading…

A church can’t make a decision on a church software solution without discussing the security of each solution. There are many truths and myths in this area that are popularized in the media or other venues. This is where an IT person on the team can help a lot because they understand many of the… ⪼ Continue Reading…

Short answer – Absolutely! Data conversion costs should always be noted when comparing one church software to another. Why? If you take two similar products with a similar feature set and one church software vendor charges $1,000.00 for a data conversion and the other charges $300.00, all other things being equal, which one would you… ⪼ Continue Reading…

The short answer is – probably not. There are two major considerations. One is that a church that has 10,000 members has different software needs than a church that has 500 members. Secondly, the church software in the larger church more than likely has many components that a smaller church will not need. Most of… ⪼ Continue Reading…

The short answer is – No. While there are many good software companies for different sectors of industry (e.g. retail sales, telecommunication, or banking software), most will not understand the unique processes and compliance issues that churches have that set them apart. In other words, every niche sector has its own software that serves the… ⪼ Continue Reading…

No. The organization only has to provide an Internet-connected computer (PC, MAC, Linux, etc) with a browser (ie: Edge, Firefox, Safari, Chrome).