Organizations 
Comprehensive Solutions for Denominational Offices
Dioceses, conventions, associations, conferences, districts, synods, and presbyteries all use Organizations to provide higher quality leadership and services to their member churches. Denominations representing states and provinces across North America rely on it to keep membership and personnel data from individual churches. This data provides a basis for communication and statistical analysis and enables denominational offices to maintain accurate records, produce vital reports, and support the operations of their respective faith communities.

 

Benefits

Stay informed and serve your churches better.
  Information management is not simply about having a place to store your data. It's about using data to identify needs and solve problems. Organizations helps denominational offices stay aware of the trends and the changes that occur at member churches. Then by following these trends, denominational offices can develop services and materials to meet the needs of their member churches.
Expand the capabilities of what you can accomplish.
  Organizations manages crucial information about your churches, but it also integrates with other ACS Technologies products to handle your other business needs such as accounting, contribution records, pledge campaigns, event registration, payroll, and more. By integrating Organizations with our other products and services, you will receive the broadest, most comprehensive information management package available to denominational offices today.
Entrust your data to the experts.
  ACS has been providing solutions to denominational offices for nearly two decades and has been creating software applications for the faith-based community even longer. Our unique blend of expertise, sensitivity, support, and connection to the faith-based community equips us to provide the best possible solutions. We listen to the specific needs at the denominational office level and consistently incorporate new features and functionality into our software.
Customize it to fit your precise needs.
  Denominations differ in many ways, especially with the data they record and track. Organizations is completely customizable and accommodates the differences that distinguish one denomination from another. Not only can you customize the fields for the information you gather from churches, you can build levels to represent your structure, create specific titles to correspond with the staff configurations of member churches, and run specialized reports according to virtually any criteria.
Communicate more effectively with churches and their staff.
  Whether you are on the phone, mailing a newsletter, or emailing a report, Organizations inherently facilitates communication between your office and your member churches and their staff. By managing all your church data in one system that is shared throughout your office, your staff can create labels, group email, or instantly pull up information during a phone conversation to connect with a caller.



 

"We have definitely been able to provide better service to our member churches."

Becky Witt
-- Hamilton County Baptist Association, TN

 

Uses for Organizations

A denominational administrator may use Organizations to produce a 10-year membership graph to see patterns in statistical data and then send it to all the listed churches.
When a great youth pastor candidate becomes available, the denominational office can perform a search to identify all churches without a youth pastor and then send the candidates information to them with a targeted mailing.
The director of missions can log into Organizations to produce a directory of all the Spanish speaking churches.
When it is time for updating last year's church staff information, an office administrator can save time by simply copying data from one year to the next and correcting only the necessary changes.



Highlighted Features
 
Member Login
Hierarchy Setup
Different denominations have different levels within their overall structure. Organizations enables your office to create an unlimited number of levels that accurately represent the hierarchy of your denomination. Once the hierarchy is setup, you can establish a relationship between individual organizations.
 
 
Change Requests
Historical Data
Not only does Organizations help your office keep current, accurate information, it also keeps data from previous years. This enables your office to look up or export staff information and statistics to compare them to similar data to any point in the past.
 
 
Internal Messaging
Statistical Entry
With up to 200 customizable fields, your staff can quickly enter vital demographic and statistical data about your churches. This data helps to provide quantitative information and is extremely useful when providing analysis and reports.
 
 
User Administration
Mailing Labels
Whether you are sending an annual report, monthly newsletter, or spontaneous letter, Organizations can quickly produce mailing labels to address your churches or the individual staff members at your churches. Simple and practical, labels are one of the many solutions ACS Technologies provides to assist your organization with its mailing requirements.
 
 
Group E-mail
Reporting
Organizations has several different reporting options that will help turn your data into useful information. Reporting provides the necessary analysis and documentation for year-end reports and provides several different options for distributing your reports.
 


About ACS Technologies
ACS Technologies (www.acstechnologies.com) is the leading provider of information management solutions for churches, schools, and other faith–based organizations and has made its biggest contribution to the industry with its powerful church management software, ACS™. Founded in 1978, the company offers a host of other technology solutions including HeadMaster™ administration software for private schools and the Extend Platform™, online content management for building Web sites. In addition, PDS™ (Parish Data System), the leading parish management software for Catholic churches, is an ACS Technologies solution. ACS Technologies has been in business for 27 years and is a privately held company headquartered in Florence, South Carolina. With sales and training offices throughout the U.S. , ACS Technologies has over 300 employees. Over 22,000 different organizations rely on ACS Technologies for their daily operations— the largest client base in its market.
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