PowerChurch as an Accountant/Church membership program

[PastorFill]

Hi Everyone,
I'm very new here and have not purchased PowerChurch yet but I am wondering how PowerChurch works as a church membership AND as an accountant package. Ideally, given the size of our church (approx 100), we would like a package that functions well at both. I would like to know particularly from a Canadian perspective since that is where we reside.
Thank you very much in advance for your reply.
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Kind regards,
Phillip

[CorinthBC]

I can't give you a Canadian perspective, but otherwise, I've been pleased with PowerChurch on both fronts as well as for payroll. I use it at two different churches. Both have a "membership" of 300-400, but actual attendance is closer to the 100 you were asking about.

Now, if your "person" is not coming from an accountant background, the accounting side has a learning curve. I had worked with Quickbooks for several years until the price went through the roof. PowerChurch is considerably different...more of a pure accounting program. It was a challenge for me to get it set up initially. I had to think back 40 years or so, back to a high school accounting class, to bring back definitions for terms like equity, liability, debits vs. credits, etc.

After that initial 3-4 months figuring everything out, it's been smooth sailing.

The nice thing about having the membership stuff in the same program is that you can enter weekly contributions and post them to the fund accounting. Before we bought PowerChurch, I had been entering lump sum deposits in Quickbooks and using an ancient membership program to track individual contributions.

[NeilZ]

Hi Everyone,
I'm very new here and have not purchased PowerChurch yet but I am wondering how PowerChurch works as a church membership AND as an accountant package. Ideally, given the size of our church (approx 100), we would like a package that functions well at both. I would like to know particularly from a Canadian perspective since that is where we reside.
Thank you very much in advance for your reply.
--
Kind regards,
Phillip

I can give you some information on the Canadian options. In Contributions, you can print the full set of your required Revenue tax receipts. You also have a separate line for your postal codes.

As mentioned, the Accounting does have a bit of a curve, but Powerchurch offers video training on all aspects of the program, a buy once, and have access forever.