If you haven’t read the first part in this two part series please read it here first. Do a little fact finding – A scenario may be a person asking the church to help them pay a bill like utilities, phone, or gas. It’s appropriate to call a company’s billing department and let them know… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Contributions
Church Membership Management and Benevolence Ministry
What does church membership management and the Benevolence Ministry have in common? Let’s start with how the Benevolence Ministry gets it’s funding. Majority of the time this comes from the church’s members. It would be hard to fund this ministry without donors and the ability to track them in a church membership management system. With… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Encouraging Church Consistent Giving
If there’s one thing churches want to eliminate when it comes to receiving donations, it’s the Summer Slump. It’s that time of year when folks are taking vacations, attending graduations and weddings or spending weekends at the lake. The change in routine all too often causes a disconnect in regular giving, even though the light… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Selecting a Church Donation Software Conclusion
Read the Intro before proceeding. Concentrating on the basics throughout the entire selection process removes the mistake of choosing an overly complicated system. A typical weakness, of a feature rich system, is it’s complicated and difficult to use. This is what I call “fluff”. Typically, the complicated systems should only be in one place –… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Selecting a Church Donation Software Mistakes Intro
There are a lot of systems that accomplish donation tracking in some fashion. There are some that do the fundamentals and others that add fluff to their product offering. Each product will have its strengths and weaknesses, and most would probably accomplish what you need. So if majority of them will accomplish your task –… ⪼ Continue Reading…
6 Donation Mistakes to Avoid For Your Donors
Churches (or any nonprofit) input their donations in a donation software to ensure donors are provided a statement at the end of the year — not only for tax purposes but to communicate to the donors how their donations were used. Typically the statements are ran for the entire year (calendar year) irregardless what the church… ⪼ Continue Reading…