Church Community Builder vs. Shelby Systems

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 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.

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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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• Integration across modules
• Enable attachment of document images
• Free user support

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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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• Extra key strokes required when searching for account numbers
• Negative adjusting entries not allowed in account payable
• Financial report formatting is not intuitive

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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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• 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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• Provided us with a means to report financial information to stakeholders

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