setting up accounting in PC

[rena]

I currently have powerchurch software V10. Have only ever used the membership module for church membership information and for recording contributions, etc.

We have always written our cheques manually. However we are looking to switch over to printing our cheques with the powerchurch software. The accounting part of the software has never been set up.

Is this where I would start first. Would I need to upgrade to a higher version of the software. Is there much of a difference in V10 and V11.5?

Also when you upgrade to a newer version, is it possible to loose data? I have always been scared to do this in case this should happen.
Would appreciate your input.
Thanks
Admin at Grace

[NeilZ]

I currently have powerchurch software V10. Have only ever used the membership module for church membership information and for recording contributions, etc.

We have always written our cheques manually. However we are looking to switch over to printing our cheques with the powerchurch software. The accounting part of the software has never been set up.

Is this where I would start first. Would I need to upgrade to a higher version of the software. Is there much of a difference in V10 and V11.5?

Also when you upgrade to a newer version, is it possible to loose data? I have always been scared to do this in case this should happen.
Would appreciate your input.
Thanks
Admin at Grace

There are major differences between v10/10.4 and v11.5, in all areas of the program. However, accounting is much the same, but there have been improvements there too.

You can see them here: https://www.powerchurch.com/products/pcplus/?id=130

That said, upgradings is a good idea because v10.5 is no longer being updated.

As far as losing data, I've really not heard of anyone 'losing' data during an upgrade if they just follow the instructions in the manual. What happens is that the installer will install the new program in its own directory, when you start the new version, it will ask you if you are upgrading from an existing version. If you say yes, it will then READ your v10.5 database and then load that data to the v11.5 database.

Your old v10/10.4 data is not touched, its still available until you decide to uninstall v10/10.4.