I am considering purchasing power church for our church - I see many positives posted. What are the negatives ?
Thanks in advance.
JR
Considering Purchasing PC
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With the latest version, I don't see that many. However, what are your plans for using it at the church, all functions, or only certain modules?? (IE: Membership only, accounting only, etc).JR wrote:I am considering purchasing power church for our church - I see many positives posted. What are the negatives ?
Thanks in advance.
JR
With any program you'll have to make adjustments to your workflow that may cause a slight we've always done it that way why change? reaction in your staff and ministries.
I'm currently IT support at church we joined when we moved to Pittsburgh. They've had Powerchurch for a few years, but it was only used extensively by the treasurer to track contributions & accounting. I finally have the church secretary using the membership module, now trying to get the stewardship & finance commission to realize that the system will speed up the Sunday counting, and is a vast improvement over the tally sheet, paper & pencil, and adding machine they use now.
Neil Zampella
Using PC+ since 1999.
Using PC+ since 1999.
use of power church
I recognize the potential so, ,my goal is to use all modules.
JR
JR
use of power church
I recognize the potential so, ,my goal is to use all modules.
JR
JR
We have used PC+ for about 5 years. We have been through several versions. Initially when we started, the biggest hurdle was learning how to use the system.
We purchased the system to record membership contributions. I had just been appointed the head of the finance department. At the time, we only had one computer that was not capable of holding our membership data.
We currently have 2 computers that we use for PC+. One is used for the accounting module and the other is used to record membership information. For 2007 we will still have 2 computers, but they will be networked. Currently, we receive a disk that contains the contribution breakdown. We use that disk to upload the data into the accounting module.
One critical mistake that we made in the beginning is not assigning a debit and credit account number in the contribution module. When we started uploading this information into the accounting system, we ended up doing a lot of manual entries because the disk were blank.
Sign up for the technical support. We would not have made it without them. Also, I read the entire manual. This gave me a better understanding of how the modules interact with each other. I am not a big reader, but it helped me discover our mistakes and was an easy read.
We purchased the system to record membership contributions. I had just been appointed the head of the finance department. At the time, we only had one computer that was not capable of holding our membership data.
We currently have 2 computers that we use for PC+. One is used for the accounting module and the other is used to record membership information. For 2007 we will still have 2 computers, but they will be networked. Currently, we receive a disk that contains the contribution breakdown. We use that disk to upload the data into the accounting module.
One critical mistake that we made in the beginning is not assigning a debit and credit account number in the contribution module. When we started uploading this information into the accounting system, we ended up doing a lot of manual entries because the disk were blank.
Sign up for the technical support. We would not have made it without them. Also, I read the entire manual. This gave me a better understanding of how the modules interact with each other. I am not a big reader, but it helped me discover our mistakes and was an easy read.