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Blackbaud Church Management vs. Faithful Steward

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Blackbaud Church Management
Score 1.1 out of 10
N/A
Blackbaud Church Management software is designed to connect all staff and volunteers with one holistic view, automated processes and easy-to-use software to manage all your programs , and provide data to better understand congregants and the various ways they interact with your house of worship with a single source of data, and finally keep church membership engaged with multi-channel communications.N/A
Faithful Steward
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Daikonia is a Swedish faith-based development organisation working with local partners for a sustainable change for the most vulnerable people of the world. Faithful Steward Desktop is a software based solution that runs on a local computer. The Faithful Steward Web edition runs on our servers from a browser. Faithful Steward Desktop provides standard features for desktop software for church as well as many church management software features that are unique.
$20
per month
Pricing
Blackbaud Church ManagementFaithful Steward
Editions & Modules
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Faithful Steward Web - Membership Management
$20
per month
Faithful Steward Web - Church Accounting Software
$25
per month
Faithful Steward Desktop
$199
one-time fee per installation
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Blackbaud Church ManagementFaithful Steward
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Blackbaud Church ManagementFaithful Steward
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Blackbaud Church ManagementFaithful Steward
Likelihood to Recommend
Blackbaud
I believe this system was overpriced and under-supported. From experience, it is very clunky and lacking features that churches would find helpful. There are no scenarios for which Blackbaud Church Management is well suited. It is not appropriate for churches. I would avoid it at all costs. They were also not willing to assist in moving to another system.
KS
Kenton Sanders
Director of Operations
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Diakonia
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Cons
Blackbaud
  • Not geared toward churches
  • Missing much functionality
  • In my opinion, horrible and incompetent support
  • No ongoing support for their system
KS
Kenton Sanders
Director of Operations
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Diakonia
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Alternatives Considered
Blackbaud
In my opinion, Blackbaud was by far the worst experience we have had with any church management system. We initially moved away from Shelby Systems to FellowshipOne. In an attempt to consolidate church management and accounting into a single system, we moved from FellowshipOne to Blackbaud Church Management to accomplish this. Both FellowshipOne and Shelby wer far superior systems.
KS
Kenton Sanders
Director of Operations
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Diakonia
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Blackbaud
  • A negative ROI
  • Difficulty in moving data to another system
  • Caused a lot of extra work to fix all the errors that came in implementation
KS
Kenton Sanders
Director of Operations
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Diakonia
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