Membership Database
Pictorial Directories
Personalized Communications
Census Reporting
Unlimited Number of Records

Turn your address and phone list into a powerful ministry management tool with ACS People™, the cornerstone of ACS. Each account entered into ACS People™ is available throughout the ACS People Suite™. Quickly and easily store contact information that is vital to your ministry needs. Mass change allows you to update your information once, instead of updating multiple records. You can also integrate your data with other ACS modules, saving you a vast amount of data-entry time. Keep your personal and family information up-to-date, secure, and consistent. Quickly and easily report on and communicate with individuals, families, and activity groups withe the industry leading membership database tool, ACS People™.
Key Features

Security
- Choose who has access to each part of your data
- Set security for each user and comment type
Data Input/Search
- Access records by multiple search methods such as first name, last name, envelope number, phone number, or primary address
- Group personal records by family
- Easily update the information within a group
- Unlimited phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and mailing addresses for each listing
- Import individual and family pictures from digital, scanned, or third party images
- Create and record unlimited emergency contacts, medical alerts, and pastoral comments
Customizable Fields
- Create unique, customizable list and data fields
- Edit windows with denominational preferences
- Flexible fields allow you to create additional information
Data Maintenance Tools
- Record Deactivation: deactivating an account automatically removes it from any search, filter, or label
- Mass Change: Quickly make uniform changes to all records
- Define Lists: Easily create new groupings and add new options to existing lists
- Family Lists: Merge households, edit family positions, and move children into their own family
- Edit Accounts: Delete or edit accounts easily
- Geocoding: Add longitude and latitude for Geocoding and interface with mapping software
Communication Options
- Mailing features support CASS address verification and records ZIP + 4, delivery point bar codes, carrier route, and line of travel bar codes. Plus ZIP code sorting and barcoding
- Set address activation dates for people with seasonal homes or locations
- Easily interface with e-mail programs, such as Microsoft® Outlook or Constant Contact®
- Easily take any group of records in your search results into your PhoneTree™ auto-calling system (requires additional equipment)
Graphs and Reports
- Produce customizable pie charts, line graphs, or bar graphs
- Export reports to programs like Microsoft® Excel or Word
- Choose from five categories of standard reports:
- Cards: Name Badges and 16 options for rotary and file cards.
- Directories: Fully customizable People Directory and 4 Pictorial Directory options.
- Lists: Create optional setup features using 18 different report options
- Extracts: In addition to Standard and Customized People Extract, you may extract data to use with Sign Us Up, Olan Mills™, Membermine™, Lifetouch™, PhoneTree™, PCA Directory, and your PDA.
- Statistics: Create 3 statistical reports with custom setup options
Activity Groups
- Store unlimited amounts of data for activities, committees, skills & interests, spiritual gifts, and small groups
- Retrieve information necessary for mailings, lists, and reports making it easy to create groups at once
- Customize the windows to meet your denominational preferences and terminology
Whether online, offline, or wireless, the passion that drives ACS Technologies is maximizing technology's value for ministry. We provide management solutions to nearly 50,000 faith-based organizations with focused development and service efforts in 6 key areas: megachurches, medium/large churches, and small churches, organizations, schools,
and the Catholic market. With leading brands ACS, PDS, Membership Plus, Headmaster, and The City, ACS Technologies enables churches to manage every vital area of their ministry from finances to relationships, from events and groups to giving and serving.
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All ACS software solutions come with comprehensive support and training options, including:
- FREE 90-day enrollment into our Preferred Client Program which provides unlimited telephone and email support, 24/7 access to the Online Knowledge Base, free software upgrades, plus much more.
- Comprehensive, context-sensitive Help documents accessible with F1 Key
- Access to a variety of training formats, including regional training schools, self-paced online videos, a national convention, and customized training online or at your facility
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