Shepherd’s Staff

From Shepherd’s Staff

Shepherd’s Staff is fully integrated church management software currently being used and appreciated in approximately 6,200 churches nation-wide. It is the only church management software on the market today both developed and sold exclusively through a not-for-profit Christian organization, making it genuinely a computer product designed “by church people, for church people.” Tracking Membership, Attendance, Contributions, and Finances becomes simple with this convenient, “user friendly system.”

Top Features:

The full, exhaustive list is available on their site.

Membership:

• Create custom reports and mailings with automatic export to Microsoft Word or Excel
• Use the automated schedule generating system to set up visits and record your confidential notes securely

Attendance:

• Enter attendance by highlighting and selecting attendees
• Find absentees for any event
• Show attendance patterns for the entire church, specific groups or individuals, using a variety of lists, graphs, and reports

Contributions:

• Easily prepare IRS-approved personal giving reports and self mailing statements (with Post Office approved bar codes) easily
• Track pledges for any period of time, including weekly, monthly and yearly
• Print a contribution statement for a single envelope number

Finance:

• Import budgets from Microsoft Excel
• Double-entry bookkeeping. Complete audit trail as you work
• Enter and analyze budgets easily
• Balance your bank statements in record time with easy to use on-screen reconciliation, reports, and work sheets

Report Writer:

• LCEF Export Utility
• Design an unlimited number of custom reports – or use one of the 75 Pre-designed formats
• Enjoy full data security, since Report Writer cannot write to The Shepherd’s Staff, there’s no need to worry about accidental changes

Scheduler:

• Schedule rooms, rentals, services, cleaning, and special meetings
• Prevent conflicts of room and resource usage
• Manage ministry and bus routes
• Schedule volunteers and church staff for events and meetings

Quick Facts

• Cost: Not listed.
• Users: 8000
• Website: http://www.shepherdsstaff.org/staff/
• Platform: Windows
• The company was founded in 1869!

Stephen Bateman

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