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Cell or Mobile phone is an option for a phone type. Since cell phones would be belong to the individual rather than the household unit, you would enter cell phones on the personal profiles.

If they are still unposted, you can just delete the duplicate entries from the Modify Unposted Contributions Screen. If they have been posted already, you could delete old data in contributions and then reimport the contributions to add them back. In this case if you are also using accounting you ma...

Do you process these payments as separate checks? Or are they included as an additional income with their regular paychecks?

To make sure I am answering your question correctly. It sounds like you have three different checking accounts. One for the general giving, one for building, and a third for benevolence. What most people do is all deposits are made into one account and they move money to the other accounts. There is...

I know this is an old thread, but just curious. The statement of activities report without the restriction columns is the income and expense report. Is there a reason that report does not meet you needs?

For the future there is an easier way to do this in payroll. You can setup a taxable benefit item. This will increase the amount of taxable income without adding additional dollars to a pay check. This was originally added to handle the taxable benefit of certain life insurance policies, but should ...

If you do a restart in Fund Accounting, you will have to set your chart of accounts back up again. In this case it sounds like you want to use the delete data option in fund accounting. 1. Make a backup before you start. 2. Close all the accounting months you have posted transactions to. 3. Using th...

when you import a picture into PowerChurch, even in the higher resolution mode, it is down sampled to 800 x 600. This is normally enough resolution to print a 2x3 picture. Which is usually large enough for database type reports. We have done lots of work to make pictures look better in the built in ...

If you have check in, you can update the family photo from a manned kiosk station. If you need access to attendance information, you could run both PowerChurch and the check in kiosk at the same time and switch and forth between them.

You might want to also look at the detail changes in equity. It will show you the transactions that are closed into a particular equity account. Seeing the detail of what changed in donor restriction is what we had in mind for creating this report.

If you are trying to produce a contribution statement. The contribution statement "Full Fund Details" I believe also shows all that information.

When you entered the person's birthday, did you include the year?

Just to chime in here with a related topic. Your accounting treatment of the donation is a separate issue from the contribution receipting. Form a contributions receipting view it is a non-cash gift and there are special rules to receipt the donation. On the accounting side there are reasons to stil...

The accounting side yes. You could make an entry the debits the Office Supplies expense and credits the Kitchen Equipment income. This would show an increase it he Office Supplies expense and an increase in the Kitchen Equipment income. The problem is the contribution side. By turning in the receipt...

I have looked into sending text messages. There is not really a good way to send bulk text messages for free. Sending to vtext.com would require you get from each of members their cell phone carrier and if they change their carrier the messages do not bonce, so you wouldn't know that the message is ...