Church Community Builder vs. ParishSOFT

Church Community Builder is ideal if you are seeking to connect your church members to your pastoral staff and to one another in an effective way. If you are looking to plan major events (like our church's 25th Anniversary Service, for example; or our annual Marriage Conference), then Church Community Builder will be incredibly helpful to you! Church Community Builder is also helpful for distributing items like membership applications and mass emails.

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The system fits extremely well with our non-profit requirements and provides us the capability to report to our congregation their payments to the Church. The system is set up for recurring events and not one time events. This would not fit a for profit business very well.

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• Helps church members connect with one another.
• Provides church leaders with church members contact info readily and efficiently.
• Helps register attendance at retreats and other church events and functions.

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• Posting deposits, creating bills, Journal entries, and running reports.

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• "Processes" option can sometimes be a bit confusing
• Mass communication process (via email) is a bit confusing
• Mass communication process (via text message) seems to be lacking

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• The only thing I can suggest is frequency of memorized transactions, to allow for bimonthly billing. Right now, the system allows for 26 week cycle.

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We have been on ParishSoft for over ten years and it is interfaced with all of our critical systems. We know the system as well as our users. Changes in systems never go very well

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For the simple reason of ease of use.

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If we have had an outage it has never been long enough to affect our business processes.

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They are cloud based and ParishSoft has not affected out speed and integration processes.

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Sometimes the support team is very busy and can take a while to get in contact with them. When we do, the individual is very knowledgeable about the system and they collaborate with us for solutions

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Just like any system, while trying to explain your issue, it was difficult to be on the same page. ParishSoft was very patient through this process

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Implementation was seamless. ParishSoft assisted us at the time of downloading our existing information from the system we were on and uploading the information into ParishSoft. We found no errors in the conversion.

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Far and away, Church Community Builder is an incredibly superior product to PowerChurch. PowerChurch did not nearly feature all of the useful tools that Church Community Builder offers. Church Community Builder's greatest advantage over PowerChurch would be its accompanying Lead App, which allows me as a Pastor to easily pull up the contact information of any church member simply from my iPhone - PowerChurch didn't offer anything even remotely that useful. Choosing Church Community Builder was a clear no brainer.

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As mentioned previously, this is a corporate wide installation, and meets the needs of our business.

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The annual renewal of the license for usage of the product is extremely reasonable.

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Has met every need we have to assist us in managing the process around the need.

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• We have seen increased connection between pastoral staff and church members
• We have been able to more effectively put on excellent church-wide events
• We have been able to systematize our membership application process (and also keep a better paper trail)

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• This ParishSOFT that we use is a company-wide product, and meets the needs of all our churches, schools and other entities.

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