The task of management can be considered far removed from the task of ministry, or at least a “necessary evil.” However, good management is needed to accomplish almost anything worthwhile, and a lack of good management can hinder even the best of intentions. Efficient church management can save time, money, and streamline ministry so more can be accomplished. Church-Link helps you get organized and stay organized via a useful set of on-line tools.



Church management features:

Data Consolidation: Many organizations (churches included) suffer from "data diffusion" - no one quite knows where everything is. Church-Link provides a single, flexible, organized, and secured location for all forms of information: documents, meeting notes, counseling records, financial information, expense reports, presentations, educational curricula, sheet music, audio / video files, and much more.

Organize contacts such as vendors, neighboring churches, denominational directory data, visitors, and evangelistic prospects (click here for more information on how Church-Link can serve as a tool for evangelism).

Store, organize, and publish documents such as church policies and by laws, meeting minutes, accounting spreadsheets, document templates, graphic design elements, etc.

Manage and advertise events with a full-featured calendar module:

• Link your events to media-rich custom pages that present a polished, professional image.
• Manage location and schedule conflicts.
• Allow users to enroll and pay on-line for special events such as seminars, conferences, retreats, and concerts.
• Enable users to subscribe to your calendar and receive automated email notifications of new and updated events.
• Employ multiple calendars on your site to support various groups, ministries, or individuals. Then aggregate event information from any number of calendars into a master calendar for a “big picture” view of everything that is going on in your church.
• Export events to Microsoft Outlook

Provide answers with the FAQ (frequently asked questions) module that supports an unlimited number of question-answer combinations and displays each as an expandable / collapsible section.

Organize and plan your meetings with the Meeting Organizer: Assemble all materials and details in preparation for a meeting in one easily accessible on-line space. Follow up on action items with linked task lists.

Manage your membership:

• Customize member profiles to capture specific data according to your needs.
• Display member photos and contact information with the Address Card view.
• Organize members into custom roles, ministries, and groups. Leverage reporting functionality that instantly shows you who is doing what. Filter the output for any member to display all roles to which he or she belongs.
• Enable self service member profile changes, greatly reducing the administrative task maintaining accurate member information.
• Inventory membership characteristics such as education, training, occupation, skills, and spiritual gifts
• Export member directory data into Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PDF, HTML, and Tiff formats
• Export member data as Microsoft Outlook contacts

Generate mail merge data for processing by Microsoft Word mail merges.

Generate email newsletters targeted to specific groups or your entire congregation.

Stay informed via a variety of reports. Custom reports are available by request.

Make resources available via the on-line store, which allows you to sell books, recordings, or any other items using either Authorize.net or PayPal (you can make items available for free as well).  Store features include categories, products (list and details), mini cart (with integrated controls), full shopping cart (including multiple ship/bill to addresses/recipients), reviews (including a review admin for approving reviews), order history (customer and admin viewable), and provider based gateways.

Solicit congregational response via the Surveys module which generates an easy-to-complete survey to which members can add their input. Survey results are rendered as a bar chart and include the number of individual responses.

Gather important feedback from your congregation using the Feedback module

Track and delegate tasks using the Task List, which provides a simple and efficient way for individuals or teams to record and track progress of items in a to-do list. Tasks may be assigned to other members, prioritized, categorized, and tracked against due dates, percent complete, and status.

Publish multi-page, interlinked web content using the Wiki module to circulate policies, manuals, or any other content.

Generate custom forms and lists to capture any combination of information according to your needs.

Generate printable publications from HTML content converted to PDF format (including text, styles, images, etc.)

Schedule volunteers to serve in specified roles at various events, or for pre-determined time periods

Enable on-line giving with the Donations module