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Realm Church Management

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What is Realm Church Management?

Realm 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.

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Excellent Software for Mid-Size Churches!

Verified User
Director in Corporate (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I utilize Realm for event planning, registration, and other communication within out congregation. Through Realm I am able to announce upcoming fundraising and other program events. I can reach out to people who may be interested in volunteering or people in our church community who may want to connect in other ways.

Pros

  • Registration
  • Communication Feed
  • Scheduling
  • Groups

Cons

  • Notifcations
  • Connecting with other social media platforms

Return on Investment

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

Alternatives Considered

Planning Center

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise, Procare, Sandbox Platform

Best and Faster Data base "Realm"

Mantosh Kumar
Consultant in Professional Services at Capgemini (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • It is faster then other Data base
  • It support multiple platform
  • It free of cost, and easy to integrate in project
  • It has good Documentation.

Cons

  • As it has all type of necessary feature which should have any Data base.
  • If we can save full structure in Realm easily then i think it will be good for developer.

Most Important Features

  • Realm Queries are very easy to understand and use
  • Easy to install.
  • It is very light weight.
  • It is free.
  • It support multiple platform.

Return on Investment

  • Because of Realm our app is very fast and light weight.
  • It has all types of features that should have any Data base, because of that we actives all required features of the app.

Alternatives Considered

SQLite

Other Software Used

SQLite, dbForge Studio for MySQL

We found a new Realm of possibilities by moving over to this software.

Incentivized
Eve HathawayView profile
Office Administrator at Maple Grove United Methodist Church (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

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

Cons

  • At the time of my departure from employment at Maple Grove UMC, there was no way to run a report with children's names listed on the same row (excel sheet) as parents. This made it difficult when we needed to do a merge letter that includes both parents/guardians and children.
  • The process to "roll up" grade levels each year was tedious.

Return on Investment

  • This is not my area (finance), but efficiency increased when we moved from Church Windows to Realm.
  • Formatted reports are a huge plus--no need to create a merge document for handouts to be in a usable format.

Other Software Used

G Suite, Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft Office 365