User Support Forum

I'm finding that I have to do a whole lot of abbreviating in PCP 11.5 when entering company name or account names, etc. Is there a way to increase the field size/length in PCP?

I would like to know how others are handling payment for individuals who are not Employees (W-2) of the church. 1. We give $100.00 every Sunday to the Prison Ministry Chaplain to help him with cost of gas and lunch for his visits to the prisons, etc. Over the course of the year it would amount to ab...

How do I track gas & electric that is the same Vendor? I"m setting up a new vendor in PCP 11.5. The vendor is Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). This vendor provides both gas and electicity and they send us one bill for both. I want to be able to pay the bill with one check, but have the ability to rep...

We bank with Wells Fargo bank and have been able to download a csv file of all the data, but I'm not sure how I can get this into PCP. I think you would better off putting this CSV information into a spreadsheet, like MS Excel, and using that to show trends. That is what spreadsheet software is goo...

FWIW .... the IRS says that there is no specific length of time financial records need to be maintained but they do give a guideline of 4 years for income and expense records according to IRS Pub 1828, Tax Guide for Churches and Religious Organizations. Now, do you really need to put all that data ...

For a contribution check that bounced, go to contributions -> view posted contributions. Navigate to the contributor and select the contribution from their list of contributions. Select the reverse button at the bottom of the screen. This will create a reversal entry. If your bank charged you any a...

How do I record checks that are bounced by the bank? Are these contribution checks or checks written by the church ??? Contributions checks from outside, but you bring up a good point. What about checks written by the church that bounced (if any). I'm going back in history so I don't know if any ch...

How do I track gas & electric that is the same Vendor? I"m setting up a new vendor in PCP 11.5. The vendor is Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). This vendor provides both gas and electicity and they send us one bill for both. I want to be able to pay the bill with one check, but have the ability to repo...

How do I record checks that are bounced by the bank?

FWIW .... the IRS says that there is no specific length of time financial records need to be maintained but they do give a guideline of 4 years for income and expense records according to IRS Pub 1828, Tax Guide for Churches and Religious Organizations. Now, do you really need to put all that data ...

I can't answer your first question from the PowerChurch perspective. They might have a good reason for choosing 4-years to go back to enter stuff. I can answer from a user's perspective. It would take a long time to go back and enter 4 years worth of transactions. Usually, at our annual meeting, th...

I just purchased PCP 11.5. I have no accounting experience, so I'm still learning this "fund accounting" stuff. Our church did not have any detail reports in the past and only provided summary reports in MS Word....yes lots of manual calculations that were prone to human errors! I would like to go b...