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Church management software features comparsion

 

Comparsion

Church management software and their functionalities that can be found on internet**

	ACTS	ACS	bvcms	Ignite CRM	Logos	CDM+	Church Ledger	Church Info	kOOL
Version	1.1.0	*	*	*	*	9.1	*	1.2.12	R42
Multi-user	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Web-based	Partial	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Free	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Open source	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multilingual	Chi	Eng	Eng	Eng	Yes	Eng	Eng	Eng	Eng
Membership	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Activity & Check-in	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Venues & facilities	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Accounting	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Donation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Fixed Asset	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Library	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Sunday school	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Calendar	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Personnel Management	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Visits	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Web services#	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No

Vendor Details


*   If no version is specified, just refer to date 25 Feb 2013
** If there is any mistake or changes, please feel free to contact us to correct the information
# Web services include member login, check-in, donation, venue reservation, etc

Analysis

Regarding the above system comparison, we will find out

• The functionality of free church system (except ACTS) are relatively simple which may not cover the entire church operation.
• Church system with more functionalities are not open source. Nobody can participate in the development or make modification.
• Church software with multi-language interface is rare and it is not free and open code.
• All the free church software (except ACTS) are mainly for the church in-house management that do not provide online services to the members, such as online access to a personal donation records, venue reservation, etc.

The direction of ACTS is in response to the above situation, and look forward to develop a valuable church management system.

• The principle is to reduce the church administrative work of pastors and the staff which let workers devote themselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.
• Free to use, to allow all churches to enjoy the benefit of this ministry.
• Open source code, so that more brothers and sisters can provide advices and participate in development.
• Design for the churches in worldwide and cover most of their practical usages.
• Running in web-based system structure, so that users can use in anywhere and no need to install.
• Provide flexibility for large to small churches. Small churches can find it easy to use while big churches can work with the powerful functionalities.
• Enable churches to provide online services to the members which reduce the burden on staff to provide manual services and information.

Famous church management software

The following systems are powerful and have great reference value for understanding the church management software

• Church 360
• IgniteCRM
• ACS
• Logos CMS

ACTS current development

• Library module
• Multilingual interface
• Custom reports

Would you like to join us to develop new features? You can contact us

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Let workers devote themselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word