From Acolyte:
Acolyte Technologies is a software developer based in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. We have been developing software solutions for more than 10 years to a number of non-profit organizations. Acolyte’s church software was initially developed in 1990 for a large church in Brampton to satisfy its many and varied needs. It has since been adopted by many other churches, both large and small. In the process many more functions and features have been incorporated to the software based on the suggestions and requests of its users.
Top Features
- Additionally offer School Management and Accounting System
- A Profiles Module to help you in effectively planning your Parish Programs
- Efficient data entry. Through tight integration and attention to details, you need not enter most information more than once. Next time you have to enter it, you simply click on it from a lookup table.
- You can also remove non-essential fields that you do not use from being displayed.
Additional Features
- User selectable font for the windows and for the reports.
- Extensive, powerful and flexible reporting capabilities. You can define records to include in the report, sort by any field, choose different name formats, etc.
- A user customizable module you can use for specific application such as Sunday School.
- Sacraments applicants preprocessing capability. It can generate sacrament schedules, course attendance sheets, list of applicants, etc.
- Can post donations directly to Acolyte Accounting.
Parishioners Module:
- E-mail enabled. You can send e-mail to one or a group of parishioners with a push of a button.
- Lookup table to minimize errors and eliminate retyping of the same information such as names, occupations, religions, etc.
- Parishioners donations can be displayed and entered from within the module
- Ministry involvement of each family member can be displayed and entered from within the module.
- Displays and tracks parishioners pledges.
- Flexible and powerful reporting capabilities. Twenty different reports.
Donation Module:
- Fast data entry
- Multiple funds tracking
- Batch processing reduces data entry for each donation to 2 fields: Envelope number (or name) and amount.
- Sixteen donation reports with 5 different tax receipt formats to choose from.
Ministries and Facilities Scheduling Module:
- Each ministry table can be customized with additional fields to fit the ministry requirements.
- Each ministry table is linked to the parishioners table for names, addresses and phone numbers.
Sacraments Module: There is a separate module in Acolyte Church Management Software for 6 sacraments (Baptism, First Eucharist etc.) and can generate certificates.
Mass or Liturgy Schedules Module:
- Schedule for eucharistic ministers, lectors, servers, ushers, etc.
- Mass or liturgy stipends tracking
- Mass or liturgy intentions list
Quick Facts
- Cost: $360-700. Based on # of families.
- Platform: Windows
- Website: http://www.acolytesoftware.net
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