PowerChurch Software Newsletter - Year End 2013

Welcome to 2013's belated year-end edition of the PowerChurch Software newsletter. In this issue, we dig into the archives for some of the more useful articles from year end newsletters past, review some important updates regarding tax filings for 2013, and discuss the process of reassigning envelope numbers each year.

From the Year End Newsletter Archives

Making a Year-End Checklist
It is a good idea to document your year-end processes, planning what needs to be done, who's going to do it all, and how to do it. Before the year-end madness begins, you should make a checklist. Save a copy somewhere so that you can refer to it next year when, hopefully, your processes will be a little more organized. Read More...

Year-End House Cleaning
The article linked above starts out with running the Inactive Profiles report then suggests several tasks you can do to clean up your database with the aid of this report. We thought this issue of the newsletter would be an excellent opportunity to expand on this a little bit, with step by step instructions. Read more...

Contribution Statements
The contribution statements in PowerChurch Plus are configurable in so many ways the options will not fit on one form. The Contribution Statements report is made up of a several step process. Before we get to that point, though, there are some options you may not be aware of. Read more...

Reassigning Envelope Numbers

This article has been moved to Reassigning Envelope Numbers

Tax Forms and E-Filing in the New Year

Below is a list of tax forms and services, along with what versions of PowerChurch Plus are supported:

• 1099-MISC Form - Versions 11 and 11.5 will work with compatible forms for 2013. Version 11.5 can e-file 1099-MISC forms.
• W2/W3 Form - Versions 10, 11, and 11.5 will work with compatible forms for 2013. Version 11.5 can e-file W2 forms.
• 941 Form - Versions 11 and 11.5 will be updated once new forms are published for 2014. Version 11.5 can e-file 941 forms.

Visit powerchurch.nelcoportal.com to register an account for the PowerChurch E-file service. There you can choose which services you would like, including state and federal electronic filing, print and mail service, and even e-mail service. If you plan to print forms rather than electronic filing, we recommend Dynamic Systems. Their tax forms, computer check stock, and other business forms are the ones we used when developing those features in PowerChurch, so everything will line up without issue. Visit their web site to order or view sample products.

Forum Q&A

The Support Forum on our web site is a very active online community of our users and Tech Support staff members. There you can browse through thousands of questions and answers, or post your own.

From Payroll:
Q. When a check is printed on November 25 for a December 1 payroll, does the check post for November or December?
A. Change the date of the check to December 1 and post it to the month of December.

From General:
Q. I just installed PowerChurch on a Windows XP machine and reports are rounding off dollar amounts.
A. Check the Regional and Language Settings in the Control Panel. Make sure that "number" and "currency" options both show two decimal places.

From Contributions:
Q. I would like to delete all church members who have not given since 1/1/2012. Is there a way to do this all at once?
A. The IRS mandates that you retain four years of contributions history, so if they have given in 2010 or 2011, you need to be able to have ready access. That said, there is not a "mass delete" function in Membership.