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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ParishSOFT

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AParishSOFT, a Ministry Brands company, provides church management software designed to streamline operations, foster collaboration and improve communication. The ParishSOFT church software is designed to help Catholic churches, dioceses, and other organizations become more effective in their ministry and to save time and money. They include free web solutions with a web page, email, online calendar, and facility scheduler.

    $19

    Realm Church Management

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ARealm is a church management system from ACS Technologies, designed to create real ministry opportunities by making it easier for your church family to connect with each other throughout the week.N/A
    Pricing
    ParishSOFTRealm Church Management
    Editions & Modules
    ParishSoft
    $19
    High Volume
    $25k
    Most Popular
    $49
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ParishSOFTRealm Church Management
    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
    ParishSOFTRealm Church Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ParishSOFTRealm Church Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ministry Brands
    ParishSOFT is well suited for general accounting purposes and for keeping parishioner databases. ParishSOFT is not as good if you want to export and analize specific data.
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    ACS Technologies
    In my current project, I am saving the full model into the Realm Database. it takes very little time to integrate into our existing project. So it helps us to save a lot of time and easy to fetch data and CRUD operation with any type of data. and according to our need, we can modify it as well.
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    Pros
    Ministry Brands
    • Posting deposits, creating bills, Journal entries, and running reports.
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    ACS Technologies
    • Tracking attendance
    • Running reports, both financial and membership-related
    • Nursery check-in
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    Cons
    Ministry Brands
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    ACS Technologies
    • Notifcations
    • Connecting with other social media platforms
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Ministry Brands
    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
    Incentivized
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    ACS Technologies
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    Usability
    Ministry Brands
    The platform is intuitive and user friendly, but it needs work to make it more functional. The ability to export into Excel is there, but the data has to be "cleaned up" before it is usable. It would be great if you could upload data as well as download data, especially in the budgeting files.
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    ACS Technologies
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    Reliability and Availability
    Ministry Brands
    If we have had an outage it has never been long enough to affect our business processes.
    Incentivized
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    ACS Technologies
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    Performance
    Ministry Brands
    They are cloud based and ParishSoft has not affected out speed and integration processes.
    Incentivized
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    ACS Technologies
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    Support Rating
    Ministry Brands
    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
    Incentivized
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    ACS Technologies
    Our transition to Realm was fantastic. We had a rep do two days of training with staff. She also provided us with a step-by-step plan for our rollout to the congregation. In addition to the fabulous customer service team, the "help" section of the Realm website is useful--it includes written answers and also video tutorials/webinars. The search function in the help section is built effectively.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    Ministry Brands
    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
    Incentivized
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    ACS Technologies
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    Implementation Rating
    Ministry Brands
    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.
    Incentivized
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    ACS Technologies
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ministry Brands
    As mentioned previously, this is a corporate wide installation, and meets the needs of our business.
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    ACS Technologies
    From my experience Realm is fatter than SQLite. Realm has less Query and is easy to understand. even new developers also can use it In his/her project. It has a good document so a new developer can read and understand and apply it to the project. SQLite is old and not so easy to understand. we need to add a third-party library to easily use SQLite.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Ministry Brands
    The annual renewal of the license for usage of the product is extremely reasonable.
    Incentivized
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    ACS Technologies
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    Scalability
    Ministry Brands
    Has met every need we have to assist us in managing the process around the need.
    Incentivized
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    ACS Technologies
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Ministry Brands
    • During one major upgrade to the offering module, we lost a lot of productivity because the changes had not been tested. Until the bugs were fixed, which took several weeks, we had to pay for additional help to get routine tasks completed.
    • We completely lost all integrity of our parishioner postings one year because of a "glitch" that ParishSOFT would not support fixing unless we paid an hourly rate...even though the error was on their part.
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    ACS Technologies
    • Class sign-ups
    • Event attendance
    • Communication within certain groups
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