New second church set up

[rclevenger]

I am now attending a church that is a merger of two churches. One of the churches, the "legally" surviving church, is a licensed user of PowerChurch (church C). A fresh start up of all financial records is needed for the combined church (church G). The "old" records (church C) need to be maintained in order to issue contribution statements for Jan to June in January. Is there a way to set up a second church? Could we then copy the membership module of church C to the new set up and only have to add the other church's (church F) members? Thank you for any help.

[NeilZ]

I am now attending a church that is a merger of two churches. One of the churches, the "legally" surviving church, is a licensed user of PowerChurch (church C). A fresh start up of all financial records is needed for the combined church (church G). The "old" records (church C) need to be maintained in order to issue contribution statements for Jan to June in January. Is there a way to set up a second church? Could we then copy the membership module of church C to the new set up and only have to add the other church's (church F) members? Thank you for any help.

There are two possibilities :

1. Do a Powerchurch backup of the current database.
2. Install another instance of PCPlus in a different directory.
3. Start the program, DO NOT select the option to "upgrade" from a previous version. Have the system setup a new database. It will ask you for the church information and the registration number, enter that data, and let the system create an empty database. The program will then close.
4. Restart the program, then RESTORE the previous backup to this new instance. You then have a complete copy of the original database available for access at any time.
5. You can then use the original instance of the program and add the other church members to that database. Using the Contributions -> Setup -> Delete Old Data function, you can then clear out the contributions data to start from scratch. If you're going to restart accounting, do that using the Restart Accounting button under File -> Preferences -> Accounting

or do the easiest bit of all:

1. Do a backup of the current database. Put it on a CD, label it as "PreMerger Backup" and place it in a secure location.
2. Do the actions in item 5 above.
3. In January, do a backup of the new data.
4. Restore the data from the stored CD
5. Run the reports
6. Restore the new data from the backup made in item 3