ParishSOFT vs. Realm Church Management

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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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.

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

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• Tracking attendance
• Running reports, both financial and membership-related
• Nursery check-in

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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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• Notifcations
• Connecting with other social media platforms

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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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.

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

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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.

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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• 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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• Class sign-ups
• Event attendance
• Communication within certain groups