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Help your church make generosity simple with secure online, mobile, text, recurring, stock, and crypto giving. Whether members give from the pew, at home, or on the go, ACST makes every donation easy to complete and every gift easy to manage.
Members open the app, tap, and they’re done. View giving history, manage recurring gifts, and track pledges — all from their pocket.
Your members text a keyword and an amount. That’s it. No login, no app download, no friction. Perfect for in-service moments and spontaneous generosity.
Custom-branded giving forms that embed anywhere on your site. Members give on their schedule — one-time, recurring, or split across multiple funds — without ever leaving your page.
Meet your members in the apps they already use every day. No card numbers to type, no accounts to create. Just tap and give.
Donors can give stocks and cryptocurrency directly through your giving forms. These non-cash gifts often mean bigger donations — and potential tax benefits for the giver.
Members schedule weekly, biweekly, or monthly gifts with saved payment methods. Consistent giving for them, predictable revenue for your church — with no follow-up needed from your staff.
Brand your giving forms, choose your funds, set your preferences
Embed anywhere on your site, share via text or app — no developer needed
Gifts sync automatically, reports run themselves, statements go out hands-free
Members open the app, tap, and they’re done. View giving history, manage recurring gifts, and track pledges — all from their pocket.
Your members text a keyword and an amount. That’s it. No login, no app download, no friction. Perfect for in-service moments and spontaneous generosity.
Custom-branded giving forms that embed anywhere on your site. Members give on their schedule — one-time, recurring, or split across multiple funds — without ever leaving your page.
Meet your members in the apps they already use every day. No card numbers to type, no accounts to create. Just tap and give.
Donors can give stocks and cryptocurrency directly through your giving forms. These non-cash gifts often mean bigger donations — and potential tax benefits for the giver.
Members schedule weekly, biweekly, or monthly gifts with saved payment methods. Consistent giving for them, predictable revenue for your church — with no follow-up needed from your staff.
ACS Technologies is proud to partner with like-minded organizations who share the goal of furthering the Kingdom by supporting ministries in their missions. We work closely with our partners to develop integrations and solution offerings that fill gaps and simplify the daily work of pastors, leaders, and church staff. We are committed together to providing outstanding customer service and support to ensure long-term success for the ministries we are blessed to serve.
BoodleBox empowers ministries to affordably access top AI models, responsibly share and assess AI-generated work, and collaborate with AI and each other.
BoxCast has been revolutionizing church streaming since 2013 with our intelligent, automated video platform. We equip ministries with the technology to maximize their message and foster deep connections, regardless of distance. We’ve expanded our offering to include RemoteMix for superior remote audio mixing, an AI-powered sharing tool for creating engaging social media clips, and so much more.
Connect with your congregation through email, SMS, and more. Our partnership with Constant Contact allows you to better engage with your people today.
Engiven is the #1 donation platform for cryptocurrency and stock donations. Engiven accelerates your stock and crypto giving, so you can accelerate your Kingdom impact.
eSPACE is the leading church facility management software with plans and pricing to meet every church budget. With eSPACE you can schedule and manage conflicts for facilities, manage work orders and assets, and integrate with HVAC, Digital Signage, Doors, and Lights systems.
By combining all we offer, united, Gloo, and ACST provide a virtually limitless set of tools, services, and resources that help churches be truly people-centered ministries. Bottomline: We help you meet people where they are… and then take them to the next step, all with a holistic view and understanding of that person and their faith journey.
AI speech translation and live captions in over 80 languages. Their plug-and-play solution makes it easy to hear live speech translation on any mobile device.
Kingdom Metrics helps churches move from guessing to knowing when it comes to attendance. Our AI-powered sensors provide accurate, consistent counts at every service, freeing volunteers for real ministry while giving leaders the data they need to plan, grow, and shepherd more effectively. With Kingdom Metrics, churches gain clarity and confidence in one of their most important measurements: who’s in the room.
KleerCard is the #1 spending solution for ACS Technologies’ ministry partners: corporate cards, expense management, bill pay, and reimbursements in one place.
Logos is the world’s premier Bible study platform, equipping individuals, church leadership teams, and educational institutions for in-depth Bible study, sermon prep, Greek and Hebrew studies, and more. Know the Word. Know God.
MinistrySafe resources are designed and overseen by sexual abuse legal experts who understand the risks inherent in ministry programs.
Access a robust library of online sexual abuse trainings covering a variety of topics in multiple languages. MinistrySafe Members can also choose from seven pre-created packages or customize searches to address program needs for background checks.
Nelco is our trusted filing solution, providing you with a simple and completely electronic option for filing W-2s, 1099, 1095, and 941 forms. This partnership makes it easy and efficient to complete your year-end reports and forms in minutes.
The StudioC is an innovative, Christ-centered agency that combines technology, marketing, and data to help churches grow and engage their members. With a team of experienced church and agency professionals, they offer discipleship and member engagement strategies, a personalized messaging software solution, and a custom data platform. StudioC believes in simplifying technology and tailoring it to the specific needs of churches, providing strategy, services, customized data solutions, and omnichannel messaging.
We are pleased to offer you a collection of the most popular auxiliary items that you’ll need to work in companionship with our church software. On your behalf, we’ve established partnerships that provide you with the best pricing, service, and quality products. Here you’ll find a wide variety of beneficial options to help you manage your ministry better.
Vanco and ACS Technologies know your members need to be able to give and make payments from anywhere, anytime, and you need to manage giving and payments efficiently. Vanco is ACST’s preferred and trusted merchant provider.
Protecting your community is a top priority. That’s why it’s crucial to find the right fit staff and volunteers to live out your mission. Verified First helps churches and religious organizations screen their staff and volunteers so you can focus on what’s important: your mission and your congregation.
ACS Technologies has partnered with Yearli to provide W-2c, 1099-INT and W-2G filing in Realm Accounting. Yearli has three options designed to fit your budget and business needs.
Our community analytics tools provide demographic information to empower you to identify prospective members, cultivate your members, and make informed decisions for the growth of your ministries to accomplish your mission.
View demographic, socioeconomic, and religious preference data about your church and community to make informed decisions on changes you may need to make in your worship, ministries, leadership, and outreach efforts to maximize attendance and engagement.
Whether you’re consolidating churches, planting a new church, or opening a school within your church, our community analytics give you tools to know what church is best for your members, the most ideal location for your new church plant, and family data for you to estimate enrollment and other needs for your new school.
Use data to view financial information within your church so you can better plan your capital campaign and target large donors with tailored messaging.
ACS Technologies strives to build community analytics software to help you turn insights into ministry impact. To explore our community analytics software options, please visit one of our brands:
MissionInsite is a cloud-based technology platform that bridges the gap between data and decisionable information by answering the “where” and “what about” questions in your organization and community.
To build a stronger church community, you must first know who makes up your church community. By learning who they are, where they live, and what their household and work lives look like, you can understand their needs and what they may have in common. Then, use that data to build small groups to encourage bonding of those who have similar interests within your church family. Check out Building Small Groups with MissionInsite to learn more.
MissionInsite enables organizations to see the communities they serve by integrating a variety of key behavioral, socio-economic, financial, religious, and demographic characteristics. MissionInsite answers “where” questions about your members, donors, users, locations, boundaries, housing developments, special programs, and the community at large. By visually presenting the locational relationships, questions are answered and decisions can be made – simply and easily.
Data tells you everything you need to know about your church’s health. Your members’ data allows you to connect with them on a personal level and see how they are engaging with your ministry. Your financial data keeps your church on track for budgeting, expenses, and other financial needs. Your attendance and involvement data keep you in the loop of those ministries that are growing and those that may need a little help along the way. Utilizing data at the beginning of every effort within your church ensures you’re not moving blindly, but instead serving your church in meaningful ways to encourage growth and engagement.
“I don’t know how I would do our strategic missionary planning without MissionInsite. You’d never know if your vision for the future, your direction that you’re going, and the goals that you’re setting are realistic or achievable because you don’t have that data as your basis for making some of those decisions. So, to me, that’s a critical element of the planning that you can’t do without.”
“MissionInsite has been instrumental in helping the churches we work with to get a real sense of who is around them and if that fits with their current programming or if maybe they need to transform their programming or relocate to an area better suited to their current participants. I can’t imagine being able to do the work we do without MissionInsite’s reports. Without knowing who is around them (and that has often drastically changed since the church was built), there is no real way for them to decide on future missional programming.”
Our mission trip solutions give you all you need to bring participant needs, fundraising, communications, references, and more together in one place with automated reminders and fundraising pages to make sure your trip planning goes smoothly.
There’s many moving parts when planning a mission trip. Bring all of those parts together and set up tasks with due dates, assign them to participants, and set up automated reminders. Plus, templates save you from starting from scratch each trip.
Empower participants to raise the money needed for mission trips with personal fundraising pages that can be shared through social media, as well as a general trip fundraising page to share with your church to raise awareness and accept donations.
Provide participants with all the necessary information and use automated reminders to keep them on track with what’s needed along the way. Schedule planning meetings, provide a checklist, and set up fundraising milestones to make sure they’re meeting their goals.
ACS Technologies strives to provide mission trip software that prepares your participants to serve and relieves you of stress during the planning process. To explore our mission trip software options, please visit one of our brands:
Take your missions, camps, and retreats to the next level with management tools, including personal fundraising, applications and regulations, document tracking, reporting, and more.
A mission trip is a short-term opportunity for volunteers to serve and share their faith with others through outreach. Some are designed for specific skill sets or age ranges, while others are open for all who are willing and called to serve. During mission trips, participants connect and help local communities achieve goals, such as building a church or school building, while also learning from the local people. This is a great time for participants to share their experiences with Christ with others in hopes of bringing others to know Christ.
Start with utilizing a tool that pulls all of your planning and trip management into one place. GoMethod handles everything — applications and background checks, references, requirements such as passports and documents that need signing, fundraising, and participant updates. Pulling all of that data into one place makes it easier to manage your trip from start to finish.
A successful mission trip can be viewed in a number of ways. From the administrative perspective, your trip was organized well and funds were raised in a timely manner to meet all of the objectives of the trip. There were no details that were missed along the way, and every participant felt prepared and ready ahead of time. From a faith perspective, your participants spread the gospel through serving others, while also strengthening their own relationships with God.
Utilize GoMethod to create a general fundraising page for your mission trip. Funds can then be transferred to teams or participants. You can also set up a fundraising page for each participant with personalized messaging and a photo for them to share with friends and family through email or on social media.
“Go Method gave us the opportunity to have one-stop shopping. We can streamline the process and have information transparency for everyone involved.”
Our engagement solutions aid you in building processes to improve healthy growth by focusing on your people and their experiences, measuring ministry effectiveness, and understanding your entire ministry as a whole to make informed decisions moving forward.
Prevent visitors from falling through the cracks with follow-up tools to nurture and guide them along tracks to move from first-time visitors to involved members of your church.
Deepen the relationships within your church and guide members along their spiritual journeys by communicating new opportunities for involvement and capturing important information like prayer requests through online forms.
Know what’s working and what needs improvement by viewing form stats, where visitors and members are within tracks, and how your team is doing on completing actions to continue pushing engagement to its fullest potential.
ACS Technologies strives to build engagement software that automates your processes to allow you to connect personally to each visitor and member, no matter how large your ministry. To explore our engagement software options, please visit one of our brands:
Growth Method is a Ministry Engagement Platform that manages and automates essential ministry processes, communications, and assimilation tracks to help you pastor people better.
Church engagement is all about how your people are involved with your church. From starting as a new visitor to playing a specific role in carrying out your church’s mission and vision, a person’s engagement level grows as they become more involved in your church. What is the main purpose of engagement?
Engaging members starts with knowing who they are, their interests and involvement, and other preferences. From there, tailor your messaging and content to fit each member through personalized outreach to better connect with them and show them opportunities specifically for them to engage with your ministry. Growth Method is a ministry engagement hub that facilitates engagement by providing your staff with communication methods, task tracking, and processes to promote engagement.
Understanding the preferences of each generation in your church will help you better engage them. Check out our blog series Generational Views on Faith to read what we learned from the American Belief Reports.
Involvement depends on a person’s interests, availability, and preferences. Offer many opportunities for your people to serve in your church. Think about ways all ages can be a part of your ministry and present those opportunities often to continuously remind people of the ways they can be involved. Track people’s interests, skills, and preferences in your church management software to find those who may fit a specific volunteer role and reach out to them when that role needs to be filled. The more opportunities you present with flexible times and requirements open the door for more people to become involved.
We encourage small groups and church wide events to bring people together. Small groups allow those with similar interests and lifestyles to connect and support each other on a more personal level while also growing in faith and prayer together. Church wide events bring all of your people together in one place to connect and grow together as a church family. Promote both your small groups and church wide events often so your people never miss an opportunity to fellowship with one another.
“Growth Method is about being welcomed and is the first step for someone needing help getting into a small group. Time after time, people are blown away that you’re personally texting them. That personal communication aspect goes a long way.”
Screening in all areas of your ministry is vital in ensuring your children, vulnerable adults, finances, and more are safe in your hands. Our partners at Verified First provide the most comprehensive background checks for churches, as well as years of experience helping churches choose the best screening options for their ministries.
Volunteers are present within your ministry almost every time the doors are open. Be sure you’re screening each and every volunteer, from nursery workers to bus drivers to those on your finance committee, to ensure your ministry is protected at all costs.
Starting with your pastoral leadership to ministry leaders to your church secretary, cover each level of your staff with proper screening so your church and member information isn’t compromised.
You may have staff or volunteers who have been in your ministry for years, and you think you know them, but that’s not enough. Renew background checks often to maintain trust within your ministry.
ACS Technologies strives to provide background check solutions that keep your people, assets, and church safe week after week. To explore our background check software options, please visit one of our brands:
We’ve partnered together to bring you the most comprehensive screening solutions integrated with our church management solutions to fully protect your ministry.
You should run a background check on any new staff member or volunteer before they start serving in your ministry. There is no legal precedent regarding how often a background check should be run, but some insurance carriers will deny coverage unless churches repeat background checks every 12 months. You should check with your local jurisdiction for how often they are required in your state.
There are many searches available for you to run when screening your staff and volunteers. These include:
Motor Vehicle Report
National Sex Offender Public Database
Sex Offender Registry
County Criminal Database Search
Unlimited County Criminal Database Search
Statewide Criminal Database Search
Nationwide Criminal Database Check
Employment Verification
Education Verification
Credit Check
Social Security Trace
Check out our Know Your People guide for more details about each search and what they cover.
Yes! Background checks protect against the risks posed by employees and volunteers. One incident of fraud or abuse could be enough to put your entire church community at risk.
Churches run background checks to see any possible risks ahead of someone serving on staff or as a volunteer in their ministry. Most of us think of risks to our children and youth ministries, but it goes beyond that. Also, consider roles that are responsible for reaching out to or visiting senior or vulnerable adults, those driving your church vehicles, and those handling any financial or personal data within your church.
“Our background checks were always a manual process. I signed up for background checks through Realm. Our manpower is so valuable. I don’t want our people manually entering data for background checks when Realm holds all that information and makes it automatic. I want our people involved in ministry not paperwork.”
“We really appreciate the ease and security of background checks through Realm and Verified First!”
Our communication tools provide you with multiple ways to engage your audience and pull them into your ministry with tailored messaging and branded content.
Stop sending mass blasts for everything to everyone, and instead send focused emails to targeted groups that share what they care about so you can increase engagement and reduce unsubscribes.
Communicate quicker and more efficiently by sending a mass text to all your members or a text to a single group about a specific event or need.
Share ministry updates, live streams, group and event information, and more through mobile apps that can be customized to fit your ministry and integrated with your church management solution. Plus, support your pastoral staff with a mobile app to help them as they take ministry out of the office and into the community.
Utilize our website tools to reflect your ministry online and show what’s important for new visitors and members, such as events, ministry opportunities, groups, and more.
ACS Technologies strives to build communication solutions that help you reach beyond the doors of your church. To explore our communication solution options, please visit one of our brands:
Equip every person in your church – staff, pastors, leaders, and members – so they can be better informed, connected, and ready to grow your ministry with the Realm Connect mobile app.
Refresh Websites gives you a welcoming virtual front door to your church to attract new visitors and keep your congregation engaged.
Built for MinistryPlatform, the PocketPlatform custom-branded mobile app gives you a content hub with personalized experiences for your members.
Communication is vital in building relationships with your members and guiding them forward on their discipleship journey. Communication doesn’t start when someone becomes a member of your church. Instead, it starts the moment a prospective visitor views your church’s website to consider if they would like to visit your church. Your website is the first communication channel they view, or maybe they view your social media accounts to see images and listen to the streaming of your service ahead of visiting. Think about communications as the invisible string connecting everything within your ministry. From your church’s website and social media accounts communicating to new visitors to your church’s mobile app, texts, emails, and worship announcements speaking to your members, keeping everyone connected through personalized and meaningful communications ensures your visitors and members are engaged with your ministry and continue to grow as a church family.
Church communications can be improved by moving away from the “tell-all” mindset and into a personalized, “tell me only what I need to know” perspective. For example, those in your senior adult ministry don’t need to know the location for the children’s Christmas play practice has changed, but the parents of those children do need that information. Develop a communication strategy that is based on telling members what they need to know about the specific ministries and events they are involved in while still communicating details for church-wide events or ministry efforts. This will allow your members to better engage with the ministries they care about while not missing details due to an overload of information.
“Ministry Platform, Growth Method, & Pocket Platform have been instrumental in helping us engage with our church in more meaningful ways. I believe that data is can inform us and help us tailor our care for our church attendees. Seeing people instead of rows of data (but not apart from the data we know about them) bring purpose to what we do in the data world, and Ministry Platform helps us do just that. All of our systems help us make a big church feel much smaller, to help us ensure that no one falls through the cracks, and to come alongside them in their walks with Jesus in meaningful & impactful ways.”
“Realm packages all of your communication tools together on your desktop, laptop, and with the Realm Shepherd and Realm Connect apps.”
Our accounting solutions were built with the Church in mind to bring all of your financial needs under one roof. Integrate with giving, contributions, and your church management solution to automate and simplify your accounting processes.
Remove the need to fit your ministry to accounting software, and instead, use true fund accounting tools that allow you to build your general ledger to match your funds and ministries.
Your staff is the backbone of your ministry day in and day out. Ensure they receive their pay, time off, and benefits with payroll solutions built to track ministry-specific details for pastors and leaders within your church.
Be better stewards of the gifts given to your ministry by tracking every dollar in and out with accounts payable and accounts receivable tools.
Build your budget based on the goals you’ve met and the goals you’re setting for the future, then track how your spending and saving compare to your budget to adjust year to year.
Reporting is necessary when it comes to the finances of the church, but it shouldn’t be a hassle. Start with standard accounting reports and customize them to drill down to specific time periods, funds, and more to keep your leadership in the know.
ACS Technologies strives to build communication solutions that help you reach beyond the doors of your church. To explore our communication solution options, please visit one of our brands:
Realm Accounting empowers your church to seamlessly manage income and expenses, account reconciliation, and fund disbursement.
ACS Financials is a flexible, easy-to-use, double-entry accounting system that adheres to nonprofit accounting standards
Simplify your financial management tasks with a full accounting solution for your parish.
Church accounting software should be designed specifically for the church. True fund accounting allows you to build your general ledger based on your funds and organize them to best fit your ministry. An integrated accounting solution allows you to better manage your church’s donations and finances by giving you the tools you need to track gifts and post them to your general ledger all in a single solution. ACS Technologies offers ACS Financials and Realm Accounting, which are both built and designed for churches to provide ministry-specific features to make managing your church’s finances easier.
Church financial records are important for tax-related purposes and transparency. You need to record and track donations, expenses, income, payroll, disbursements, and any other transactions coming in or out of the church. You’ll also need to build a church budget, do a bank and credit card reconciliation, provide giving receipts and tax statements to your donors, manage vendors and provide tax reports they need to file each year and provide reports to your leadership to give them an overview or detailed look at your church’s financial health.
The best accounting software for churches is one that is designed for churches with ministry-specific features, such as fund accounting, church financial reports, departmental expense tracking, and integrated payroll software designed to manage ministry/clergy details. Realm Accounting and ACS Financials are the top accounting software for churches.
Church finances should be handled with care, with anyone who is handling the finances of the church being properly screened to protect your church’s financial data. This may include church leadership, staff members, volunteers helping to count donations each week, and those on your church’s financial committee.
“It took them three days to reconcile all the credit card transactions and the bill pays, putting all that information into Realm Accounting. So, the first project I worked on was to take all that data, transform it, and create an import for Realm. I’ve got two imports built, and I reduced that time from three days to a couple of hours.”
“Realm Accounting has been a blessing to me and my church. The easiest accounting software I have used in my 15 plus years of church ministry.”
Our giving solutions provide the digital giving tools you need, such as online, mobile app, and text giving, to enable contributors to give when they need to from where they are in the way they prefer.
Remove barriers that may prevent contributors from making a gift to your ministry by providing multiple ways to give and convenient giving options, such as setting up recurring gifts, covering processing costs, splitting gifts to multiple funds within one transaction, and saving their payment methods for quicker giving in the future.
Campaigns drive your major ministry goals, but you need to run them effectively and efficiently for maximum success. Online pledging and pledge tracking allows you to promote your campaign, accept pledges, and report campaign progress.
Communication tools combined with our giving solutions ensure you’re able to thank contributors for their generosity, as well as target specific giving groups for tailored messaging.
Remove blinders in making decisions around campaigns, financial projects, and more as you dig into the giving trends within your church and find the ways your givers prefer to give, who gives the most or least, top giving times throughout the year, and more.
ACS Technologies strives to build giving solutions that increase your donations to help you reach your ministry goals. To explore our giving software options, please visit one of our brands:
Realm eGiving fuels your ministry by offering multiple giving options to fully accommodate your congregation’s needs.
PDS Abundant makes it easier for your parishioners to give and for your parish staff to manage all of your donations.
ACS Abundant provides multiple giving options for your congregation and tools for your staff to better manage tithes and offerings.
MP eGiving is the preferred giving integration for MinistryPlatform, with real-time transaction updates and a streamlined giving experience for your contributors.
Giving powers your church to continue ministry and outreach efforts. Like many, your efforts to reach people for the Kingdom of God continue to increase, which has you wondering how you can increase giving to better support those efforts. Consider how you are allowing donors to give to your church. Offer intuitive and familiar giving options, such as online giving, text-to-give, and mobile app giving. Include how your members and visitors can give in weekly bulletins, worship slides, newsletters, and any other regular communication channels. Feature giving on your church’s website so it is easy for donors to find how to give. Don’t stop with how to give. Communicate where tithes and offerings go so your donors can see the impact their donations make.
The Bible is filled with scriptures about giving. Check out Tithing Scriptures in the Bible to read more about what the Bible says about tithes and offerings.
Giving is not only a vital part of your ministry, but a large part of the Christian walk as we are called to give a portion of what God has given us. Your church should encourage faithful giving as it is an important part of your members’ discipleship journeys. Read Tithing and Offering Messaging Ideas to see how you can step into your donors’ minds and talk about giving in an impactful and meaningful way.
Start by looking at the options for online giving with your church management software. Some church management software allows you to turn on online giving and start the merchant application process through the software itself. Once your merchant application is submitted, you’ll receive a notification that you can start using online giving once your account is live. Then, add your giving link to your website and promote your new giving ways to your church.
“It’s phenomenal to be able to manage cash flow when giving is online and particularly when it’s automated with Realm.”
I like the online giving option because our members can make it part of their weekly budget or monthly budget. It’s not “reach in your pocket and see what kind of change you have.”
