Pre-buy question

[ccwebb]

Our church has a lot of snow-bird members. So we do our stewardship campaign in February when by then most of our northern members are here in Southern Florida.

As a result of this our stewardship year is different from our accounting year. The accounting year is the calendar year while the stewardship year is April 1 thru March 31st of the next year.

Questions:

In general, does anyone see a problem with using PC9+ under this situation?

Can I define a year different from the calendar year in contributions?

Anything else I should be thinking about under this situation?

Thanks!

Charlie

[NeilZ]

Our church has a lot of snow-bird members. So we do our stewardship campaign in February when by then most of our northern members are here in Southern Florida.

As a result of this our stewardship year is different from our accounting year. The accounting year is the calendar year while the stewardship year is April 1 thru March 31st of the next year.

Questions:

In general, does anyone see a problem with using PC9+ under this situation?

Can I define a year different from the calendar year in contributions?

Anything else I should be thinking about under this situation?

Thanks!

Charlie

I don't see a problem, as you determine what the pledge period is, so if your period is April through March, this year you would set the pledge period as:

04/01/2006 thru 03/31/2007.

You may have to adjust the dates on the reports as, if I remember right, they default to a calendar year, but other than that, I don't see an issue. You can even have both the northern and local addresses in the database, setup to switch whenever they are 'up north' and 'down south'.

Perhaps someone else may have seen an issue that I haven't with this.

[ccwebb]

Neil:

Thanks for the reply.

As you say, I'll see if anyone else has additional input.

Charlie