Compare Churchteams и Parish Data System

Benefits:

ChurchTeams is extremely functional. It has everything and more than many of the major players in the ChMS market. Church to Text is an excellent e... Read more

ChurchTeams is extremely functional. It has everything and more than many of the major players in the ChMS market. Church to Text is an excellent example. Their support and service is second to none. They are very responsive to enhancement requests and assistance with reports and any aspect of their system. Also their price is extremely economical.

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I can't really say there is anything I dislike. One of the things I mentioned to them was to enhance the GUI interface to have the slick feel of so... Read more

I can't really say there is anything I dislike. One of the things I mentioned to them was to enhance the GUI interface to have the slick feel of some of the newer platforms. In my opinion ChurchTeams has always been about function over aesthetics but I do know they are currently working to improve the GUI interface.

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I can't say enough about the support from ChurchTeams and I also appreicate their willingness and ability to implement almost everything we have re... Read more

I can't say enough about the support from ChurchTeams and I also appreicate their willingness and ability to implement almost everything we have requested or figure out a work around that meets our expectations. They are also always improving the software and releasing updates often and they listen to the ChurchTeams community.

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It is helping in assimilation at our church much better than we were doing.

Drawbacks:

It is very different from the system we were using. The old system was very basic and simple. I am not a good tech person and I was having diffic... Read more

It is very different from the system we were using. The old system was very basic and simple. I am not a good tech person and I was having difficulty navigating all the features this software had to offer. One thing that we really are missing is a generalized calendar to put all of our church events on. I know there are many out there, but it was nice using the calendar all in the same place one is doing all the other church system stuff in.

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It has been very good!

Benefits:

Overall Churchteams meets several needs for our organization at a price point that we can afford. We use church teams to - Keep track of member in... Read more

Overall Churchteams meets several needs for our organization at a price point that we can afford. We use church teams to - Keep track of member information - Capture information and follow up with first time guests - Kids' ministry check-in -Volunteer check-in - Managing Volunteer Teams - Small groups rosters - Keep track of people's discipleship journey (taking Next Steps). I love the fact that Church teams allows us to make notes shepherding between multiple pastors, elders and small group leaders. The same goes for Guest Follow Up. Church teams allows us to keep the follow up process running smoothly.

Drawbacks:

Clunky user interface. Navigation of the menus and features of church teams feels like just a mountain of black text on a white background. It's ha... Read more

Clunky user interface. Navigation of the menus and features of church teams feels like just a mountain of black text on a white background. It's hard to locate the things we need when we need them. Use of color and/or icons could make this more user friendly. I know Church Teams CAN do so many wonderful things but often it is a headache to figure out HOW to get Church Teams to do it. Setting up check-ins has way to many steps and crazy variables. Making us manually resize images and enter their html in order to get our logo to appear on name tags doesn't feel like something I as the user should be doing. The same goes for having us program our own booleans to print silent and format margins and download archived editions of Mozilla Firefox in order to run it on a Mac. We use the "Groups" Feature to do many things beyond just organizing small groups. We keep track of volunteer serving teams, outreach events and discipleship classes. However when creating a new "group" it's really time consuming to have to enter all the different required fields that really aren't applicable to all types of Groups. For example Serving Teams don't need a meeting time or location because they always serve Sunday Mornings at the church but the time varies from team to team and service to service. It's really pointless and time consuming to need to enter that information for all Groups when the majority of Groups don't require that type of information.

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Benefits:

The things that I like the most about Churchteams are its versatility, their customer service, and its overall effectiveness. Churchteams is help... Read more

The things that I like the most about Churchteams are its versatility, their customer service, and its overall effectiveness. Churchteams is helpful for everything from getting people registered for groups to facilitating communication in groups at every level (from group members, to leaders, to coaches, to pastors - whatever levels you need). I primarily use Churchteams for our small groups ministry, but the software also offers other church management options, including giving and event check-in. I've also never worked with an organization that was as committed to serving me as a consumer and pastor. We once had an issue with check in for which I submitted a service request a few days before it would be needed.[SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] called me to try to help me solve the issue and when we couldn't, [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] was prepared to call me while he was on vacation to make sure we got the issue sorted out in time for the event (thankfully we figured it out before he had to call me). I will also get periodic emails from [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] informing me that he is praying for me. I believe they make it a practice to pray for all of their clients. In terms of their effectiveness, Churchteams has helped us grow our small groups ministry from a dozen groups to 36 groups and add over 200 people to groups over the last 6 years through the ease of communication, assimilation, and website integration (among other features) that their software offers.

Drawbacks:

My biggest complaint is that generating reports with this software isn't very intuitive. Many times I have to experiment with various options to fi... Read more

My biggest complaint is that generating reports with this software isn't very intuitive. Many times I have to experiment with various options to find the data that I want. It's also not the most aesthetically pleasing interface.

Summary:

We use Churchteams to track all of our data for groups. It helps us keep track of the metrics that drive group health and it helps us maintain cons... Read more

We use Churchteams to track all of our data for groups. It helps us keep track of the metrics that drive group health and it helps us maintain consistent communication with our group leaders. As our number of groups has grown, Churchteams has become more and more vital to our groups management. On one hand, this is due to the volume of information that is being tracked, but it's primarily due to how effective we've found Churchteams to be.

Benefits:

The easy process of weekly donations and parishioner data is very important to our church. Overall this is a good software for a small to medium si... Read more

The easy process of weekly donations and parishioner data is very important to our church. Overall this is a good software for a small to medium size parish.

Drawbacks:

Notes tracking is lacking. There is no way to insert a note that will stay without it having the potential of it being deleted.

Summary:

In the last several months we have been able to gather more data and make it more useful for the parish since we utilize more features.

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I felt like the easiest thing to do, to be really honest was logging into the system.

Drawbacks:

I don't even know where to begin with what types of issues I had with PDS Church Office. It seemed like I had an issue with something everyday.

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Benefits:

PDS is designed for Catholic parishes and has everything you would possibly need to track from sacraments to attendence to religious education prog... Read more

PDS is designed for Catholic parishes and has everything you would possibly need to track from sacraments to attendence to religious education programs, etc.

Drawbacks:

The software is starting to get outdated. Syncing data between multiple "users" (databases) is cumbersome and the interface looks straight out of 1... Read more

The software is starting to get outdated. Syncing data between multiple "users" (databases) is cumbersome and the interface looks straight out of 1998 (still). Unfortunately, after you've invested years of effort, it would be detrimental to attempt to move all of the data to any other "church" system without significant costs

Summary:

Helps manage a Catholic parish

Benefits:

So many features for census software for a catholic church, you can build keyword reports, financial record keeping is simple and customer service ... Read more

So many features for census software for a catholic church, you can build keyword reports, financial record keeping is simple and customer service is so easy to use when you have on demand.

Drawbacks:

Update reporting so that you can build a pivot table, app does not offer an online directory and the overall look to the program is close to that o... Read more

Update reporting so that you can build a pivot table, app does not offer an online directory and the overall look to the program is close to that of an out dated AS400 program. Would love Realm but product is not ready for a diocese.

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