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Blackbaud Church Management vs. Shelby Systems

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Blackbaud Church Management
Score 1.1 out of 10
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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
Shelby Systems
Score 7.3 out of 10
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Shelby Systems, a Ministry Brands company, offers church management software providing membership tracking, contribution processing, attendance tracking, fund accounting and financial reporting, volunteer management, small groups and contact management, nursery security and check-in, event registration, online giving and online registration.N/A
Pricing
Blackbaud Church ManagementShelby Systems
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Blackbaud Church ManagementShelby Systems
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Blackbaud Church ManagementShelby Systems
Considered Both Products
Blackbaud Church Management
KS
Kenton Sanders
Director of Operations
Chose Blackbaud Church Management
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 …
Shelby Systems

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User Ratings
Blackbaud Church ManagementShelby Systems
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Blackbaud Church ManagementShelby Systems
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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Ministry Brands
The three modules we use are well integrated and work together well. The membership module does not communicate with the financial modules if I recall correctly.
MJ
Marty Javornisky
Business Manager
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Pros
Blackbaud
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Ministry Brands
  • Integration across modules
  • Enable attachment of document images
  • Free user support
MJ
Marty Javornisky
Business Manager
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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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Ministry Brands
  • Extra key strokes required when searching for account numbers
  • Negative adjusting entries not allowed in account payable
  • Financial report formatting is not intuitive
MJ
Marty Javornisky
Business Manager
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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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Ministry Brands
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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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Ministry Brands
  • Provided us with a means to report financial information to stakeholders
MJ
Marty Javornisky
Business Manager
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