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All I can tell you is what the church treasurer, who is an accountant, and our Stewardship Elder, who is also a tax accountant, recommended be done at my old church.

As is usual with any sort of advice on taxes, check with your own accountant/auditor to be sure

What we did at our last church. was to add the contribution to the system as off the day of the contribution, when it was turned over to the stock account at Merrill Lynch. After that day, anything that happens to the value of the stock is no longer creditable to the person who gave the stock. This ...

I was entering contributions and clicked on the magnifying glass to select the individual. Now I have both screens open and neither one will close. I try to exit Power church and it won't. I shut the computer down and it comes back up to the exact thing. It's stuck and will not do anything. Help No...

When I first set up Power Church I must have selected to have the SS #s on the pay checks. I really don't want them there and so did as the book says by going into accounting setup and unchecking that box. But each time I shut boot up my computer it's checked again. What can I do so that it will be...

Not necessarily ... at my last church we had an AD network setup, and I was able to print to any shared printer on that network.

OK ... are there any other printers on the network that you can try to print to ??

I just now installed a backup of the PC8 directory onto my servers here at home, ran NetSetup on my wife's Win2K laptop, and ran the Contribution Statements report that crashed two XP Pro/SP2 machines at church in identically the same way. Worked like a champ under Win2K Pro/SP4. One of the previou...

Are there any specific error messages coming up ??

I have only been using power church for a couple of months. We just started using a check reader and it seems to be working great. My question is .... How do most of you handle your deposits? We are making 1 deposit a week but are wanting to keep the PM offering separated from the AM offering. We a...

A sister church of ours is considering using PCP for their accounting. Since it is August (almost) and as far as I can tell, there is no place on PCP9 to put beginning balances, will they have to use two separate bookkeeping reports for the first year. They are now using Quik books but would love t...

I currently have 6 checks that were issued to an individual and a health care provider, this individual has returned these checks which I need to void and we will leave the funds sitting in the account until she submits medical bills. My question is do I just void the check and it the funds will be...

I currently have 6 checks that were issued to an individual and a health care provider, this individual has returned these checks which I need to void and we will leave the funds sitting in the account until she submits medical bills. My question is do I just void the check and it the funds will be...

FWIW ... I just did a test and it doesn't look like the Reply to block is being added to the headers (edited for security): Received: from isp.com ([99.99.99.999]) by isp.net (kcin02) with ESMTP id <20060715113007102008p2lne>; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:30:07 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [99.99.966.198] Receive...

Is there a way to default the profile status to VISITOR, when setting up new profiles during contribution entry? I know that this can be manually entered at the creation of the profile, but was hoping that it could be set as a default profile setting. In a word ... no. There is no way to set the pr...

Got a couple of questions for anyone who can help We do a Wednesday night study and the church pays for the materials. Often folks will help defray the cost of the matrials by making a donation to to the church to help pay for the books. We let everyone keep the books regardless of whether or not t...

I am currently heading the committee in change of selecting a new accounting/contribution tracking system for our church (about 550 avg Sunday attendance). I would like any advice anyone has to offer. Specifically, if you could comment on how well Power Church has meet your needs. Other software we...