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Predefined Templates

Build a professional, user-friendly site.

With Refresh Websites, choose from sixteen pre-formatted templates and customize them with your church’s branding to take your virtual presence to the next level.

Unlimited Pages

Expand your website to all your ministries.

Create pages for each area of your church. You can create a page to welcome visitors, let congregants know about events in your church, share a staff directory – anything you want.

Graphics Library & Editor

Choose images that best represent your parish.

Select images from the gallery or upload and edit your own to customize your website to fit your church.

Analytics

Understand who is engaging and how.

View which pages people are visiting most, how people came to your page, where visitors are located, and so much more.

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Access ACS

You can accomplish so much more when you connect ACS to the cloud. Access ACS is a Web-based companion to ACS’s church management software. It

ACS Accounts Payable

Give your accounting staff the ability to: Select a Cash or Accrual method in setup to determine how invoice amounts are reflected in General Ledger

ACS Accounts Receivable

Give your accounting staff the ability to: Provide on-the-spot receipting which is convenient for ‘walk in’ payments. Create custom billing codes for convenient, accurate billing

ACS Attendance

You can’t start the conversation if you don’t know who was there. ACS Attendance organizes and tracks the attendance history for all of your classes,

ACS Background Checks

Safety Done Right in Volunteer Management Protect the people you care about with comprehensive background checks using advanced technology. ACS Technologies® and Verified First are

ACS Checkpoint

Check in with ease. Check out with confidence. You are right to be concerned for the safety and protection of children and youth on Sunday

ACS Church Life

A free mobile app to stay connected on the go. Want to make it easy for people to give to your church? They can

ACS Connections

Don’t let people fall through the cracks. Make sure your staff, members, and visitors feel connected to and a part of your ministry. ACS Connections

ACS Contributions

Manage all your ministry’s contribution information accurately and privately. When people give, they want to know their financial gifts are in safe hands. They want

ACS Facility Scheduler

Attempting to manage all of your people, events, and facilities in one calendar is madness. Churches simply have too many people, events, facilities, and changes

ACS Fixed Assets

Equip your accounting staff with the ability to: Provide your organization with an excellent way to keep up with inventory and produce reports necessary throughout

ACS General Ledger

Flexibility in record keeping with adherence to nonprofit accounting standards. ACS General Ledger is the ultimate tool for creating budget reports, income and expense statements,

ACS Organizations

Bringing important data together to support churches better. ACS Organizations is an application for multi-tiered organizations like denominations to store data about individual churches in

ACS Payroll

Ensure that your employees receive accurate payments. Set up specific pay types that may be assigned to an employee. Each type has the ability to

ACS People

The core component of your church management software solution. It’s your member database’s foundation and required for all other ChMS modules. ACS People is the

ACS Purchase Orders

Give your accounting staff the ability to: Control all outgoing expenses by ensuring accurate and on-budget spending. Configurable to give warning messages – or not

ACS SpeedCheck

Process contributions quicker with lightning fast remote deposits and integrated record keeping. With a single scan, your contribution funds are simultaneously ready for electronic bank

ACS Tax E-file

Quickly and securely file tax forms online. Filing W-2s, 1099s, and 1095s just got a whole lot easier with ACS Tax E-File. File all of

Childcare

An ACS™ integration with HeadMaster™ Software Childcare for the next generation. ACS™ with HeadMaster™ helps churches provide quality, individualized care to children, communicate with parents,

Constant Contact

Send email newsletters to everyone on your contact list and see who is opening them and what’s catching their interest. ACS Technologies is pleased to

Ministry Scheduler Pro

Save time and grow your ministries. ACS Technologies is pleased to partner with Ministry Scheduler Pro, a church volunteer scheduling software that integrates with Access

Online Giving

Abundant, the new eGiving solution in ACS, offers giving via text, mobile, online, and so much more. Giving is an important part of the spiritual

Streaming

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Websites

Share this information with others in your church. Download Brief Predefined Templates Build a professional, user-friendly site. With Refresh Websites, choose from sixteen pre-formatted templates

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You are doing the Lord’s work, and we truly believe there is nothing more important than the ministry you provide day in and day out. But ministry is not easy. There’s no single formula that works 100% of the time. It’s a constant challenge, and there’s always something new to tackle. That’s why we work extremely hard every day to provide the best church management software and service options.

You're never alone.

We’re here to partner in the the success of your ministry. If there is anything you need, please make us the first ones you ask. We’ve got your back.

We pass on what we've learned to you.

We’ve worked with churches of all different traditions, sizes, budgets, and teams. We’ve seen what works and how churches have made customizations for their unique needs. We’re happy to share what we’ve seen.

We've built ourselves around serving you.

We’ve built the largest support department in the industry and employ teams of people working on multiple aspects of ministry support. We’re confident we can provide you the best support around.

Migration Assistance

Change takes effort, but it doesn't have to be hard.

No one understands this more than you. You help people make life changes so they can grow and become all that God has equipped them to be, and so do we. We know changing church management software can feel daunting, but we’ve helped thousands of churches do it, and we make it as simple as possible.

Conversion

Moving your staff over to our tools is a clear, straight-forward process. Our team can work with you to develop a plan for mapping over your profiles, groups, and contributor records. We can also review your data after it has been converted and offer suggestions for any remaining clean-up.

Setup

We offer direct, one-on-one instruction from certified trainers who can walk you through key areas of your setup process. This 2-hour guided assistance is conducted online through our web conferencing tools and may be divided into two 1-hour increments if preferred. Any number of your staff are welcome to sit together for this training. Instruction will cover whatever areas you wish to prioritize for your training, such as: admin setup, managing people profiles, giving, ministry areas, and accounting.

Launch

With thousands of successful launches already to their credit, our launch team can help you utilize proven best practices to achieve your ministry goals. Many of our coaches are former church staff who understand how churches operate. We can help you implement whichever ChMS you choose effectively and launch it successfully to your staff and church.

Rollout

Rollout is the process of engaging your church family. For example, Realm® is an excellent tool for your ministry staff, but it also connects your church family in amazing new ways. So after you’ve transitioned your staff to Realm, we can equip them with ideas, materials, and guidance for rolling out Realm’s free mobile app (Realm Connect) to your entire church.

Personalized Training & Consultation

You're the place people look for answers, and so are we.

Software alone does not make ministry successful, so we’re here to help you with the other parts too. We’ve got over 40 years of experience, we’ve worked with tens of thousands of churches, and we understand the challenges you face every day. We can’t wait to share what we’ve learned with you.

Live Webinars

Our live webinars are led by certified instructors and are a convenient way to learn.

Rollout Planning

Rollout Planning consist of 1½ days of hands-on training led by one of our launch consultants.

One-on-One Coaching

Take advantage of our personalized training over the phone with a shared screen.

Launch Toolkits

Use proven launch resources to help implement your ChMS successfully with your staff and congregation.

Classes & Workshops

Invite one of our specialists to come out to your church and train your staff and run ministry workshops.

Annual Conference

Join hundreds of church leaders at our annual Ideas to Impact Conference and learn how to do real ministry better.

Unmatched Support

If you have to take calls in the middle of the night, so do we.

We’re passionate about supporting your ministry with service levels that consistently rank above our competitors. We offer several support options and have teams of people to help your ministry reach its full potential.

Smooth Onboarding

There's a learning curve with anything new, so we try to make it as simple as possible.

Responsive Call Center

Quickly get through to a massive team of people focused on answering your questions, big or small.

24/7 Online Help Center

Get tips and find answer anytime with our online help center—available from inside your ChMS.

Friendly Team Members

Our team is never more than a click or phone call away. If you need advice or ideas with any part of your ministry, just ask.

Success Coaches

We’ve put our most experienced team members on an elite team to make sure your ministry can succeed.

Regular Updates

Support also means continual improvement. We release updates as often as every two weeks.

Church Know-How

Learn Together. Serve Together.

Tap into a wealth of knowledge and master vital aspects of your ministry.

In MinstrySmart™, you and your entire team will have access to interactive courses, in-depth webinars, proactive strategies, and several learning experiences designed to dismantle silos and unite your church. You’ll be able to learn at your own pace and on your own time, all while being guided by our team of ministry experts. Be sure to bring a friend.

Community Insights

Serving your community better begins with understanding it better.

MissionInsite integrates many different proprietary databases so you can better understand your church and community at large. With these insights, your leadership and ministry teams will quickly gain additional knowledge and solutions they have been looking for, resulting in greater strategic vision and courses of action.

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Streaming

Expand your reach to an online community.

Realm Streaming allows your members who are unable to attend services or events to worship with you.

You can also bring new people into your church by providing a virtual experience for visitors to learn about your church’s culture, style, and programs.

Videos

Share content to connect with your congregation throughout the week.

Publish recordings of services or events for people who couldn’t attend. Connect with your congregation by sharing content tailored to programs like children’s ministry, missions and outreach, or small groups.

Mobile

Meet your viewers where they are.

All streaming and videos are mobile friendly, allowing your congregants and visitors to watch on their mobile devices or computers.

Branding

Maintain your church’s identity online.

Customize the look and feel of your streamed content and videos to match the branding and style of your church. Keep the focus on your message with an ad-free experience and the ability to add a special video to the beginning of your streaming or videos.

Analytics

Understand how your online community is engaging with your ministry.

Get a comprehensive understanding of who your viewers are and how they’re interacting with your church through viewership and utilization analytics.

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General Ledger

The heart and soul of church accounting.

ACS church accounting software is a flexible, easy-to-use, double-entry accounting system that adheres to nonprofit accounting standards and offers either a cash or accrual basis. Setup begins with the creation of your unique chart of accounts that interfaces with all the other financial modules and optionally with ACS Contributions and HeadMaster. You can track budgets and spending by fund, department, committee, and project. Budgeting and reporting have never been easier.

Accounts Payable

Keep track of what you owe and pay bills on time.

As your complete check writing and vendor management program, ACS Accounts Payable saves you time and coordinates the way your employees pay bills and issue 1099s. You can centrally process your outgoing funds, print checks, store vendor information, and keep track of your invoices with this church accounting software module.

Payroll

Save valuable time and avoid confusion by handling all types of payroll procedures with one central solution.

ACS Payroll handles the special needs of churches and pastors, from housing allowances to insurance. Accommodates multiple cost centers, so pay is charged to appropriate areas. Customize with additions & deductions to pay. With ACS church accounting software you’ll have everything you need to pay your employees with consistency and accuracy.

Or, learn more about ACS Tax E-file

Purchase Orders

The tools you need to help manage your spending.

ACS Purchase Orders automates your organization’s cash-flow planning process to help prevent overspending. You can also easily cross-check and reference your purchasing.

Fixed Assets

A reliable, centralized asset inventory and management system.

As a central inventory system for managing your organization’s equipment, ACS Fixed Assets tracks specific asset details from acquisition to depreciation to maintenance. Use it to plan, to document insurance claims, and to support good stewardship of plans and property.

Accounts Receivable

Effectively manage your outgoing billings and incoming payments.

Whether on cash or accrual basis, ACS Accounts Receivable is automatically integrated with ACS General Ledger, ACS People and other ACS church accounting software modules. The customized, unlimited revenue centers ensure accurate posting to the correct accounts, billing codes that offer easy handling of recurring invoices to given customers, and payment codes that enable efficient crediting of payments for multiple accounts at one time. You can create unlimited revenues and connect income to specific accounts. Unlimited charge items, with customized frequencies, means fast and accurate billing. Process automation enables you to produce batch invoices quickly.

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Process Giving and Contributions

Good stewardship starts here.

Track and organize your contribution details, run fundraising drives more effectively, and offer your members more ways to tithe or give — online or off.

Enable Multiple Forms of Convenient Giving

Abundant is FREE to get started with no monthly payment.

Empower your congregation with easier ways to give and your staff with better ways
to manage all your eGiving. Abundant™ is the one total giving tool your church needs.

Grow Your Giving: Connect with an eGiving Consultant at Giving Solutions

Speed through Batches of Checks

Lightening fast remote deposit capture.

ACS SpeedCheck will save your staff time and money by depositing funds and posting contributions automatically. It scans your checks and transmits information to any bank in the U.S. based on the electronic images it captures from the original items.

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ACS Technologies is a ministry development company that helps churches identify their optimum ministry focus, educate their teams for maximum effectiveness, and provide them the right tools to make it all work together to build the Kingdom. Our cornerstones either come ready to use, or you can fully customize your solution to meet your church’s specific needs.

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Manage Member Information

It's not about data. It's about people and how you touch their lives.

Families and individuals are the heart and soul of your organization. Managing information about them is crucial. You need a trusted system to capture information, track participation, and simplify communication. That’s what our cloud-based church management software (ChMS) is all about.

Provide Exceptional Pastoral Care

Tools to help you establish and develop meaningful spiritual relationships.

Ensure your staff, members, and visitors stay fully connected with your ministry. ACS provides powerful church management software contact tools in the cloud to help you become more responsive, proactive, personal, and informed about ongoing outreach at your church.

Also recommended: ACS Attendance and ACS Report Designer

Engage with Small Groups

Enabling people in your church to build relationships on a more personal level.

Small groups are one of the best ways to bring your church together, create lasting relationships, and bring focus to your ministry.

Manage Services and Special Events

Provide opportunities for the people in your church to fellowship.

Events bring your church together and create new opportunities for you to reach out to your community. But in order to pull them off successfully, you need the right tools to help you organize the countless details that go into each one.

Also recommended: ACS Attendance, ACS Checkpoint, and ACS Background Checks

Provide Peace of Mind with Child Security

Protecting the youth in your church.

Churches need to be proactive about the safety and protection of the children in their care. This means having in place the necessary security and documentation for dropping off and picking up family members from events like youth group, children’s church, and the nursery.

Get additional peace of mind with ACS Background Checks

Run Quick Background Checks

Keep your ministry safe with state-of-the-art background check technology.

Submit background check requests directly from your ACS software to Verified First without having to re-enter information. Verified First is a premier online pre-employment, volunteer, and tenant screening service used by Human Resource professionals, hiring managers, and volunteer recruiters.

Go Mobile

Enable your staff and members to do more on the go from their mobile phone.

ACS Church Life is an easy-to-use app that’s free and available to all current Access ACS and Facility Scheduler clients. Your church members and staff simply use the same username and password that they use for Access ACS.

Recommended modules: Access ACS and ACS Church Life

Download the ACS Church Life mobile app for iPhone or for Android

Multi-Site Church Administration

Coordinate church information across every location.

Churches with additional campuses can track information in one centralized system. ACS stores data about multiple ministry locations and tracks donations given at each location. Advanced controls enable administrators to create specific security rights to define the information available to authorized staff members.

Denominational Office Software

Bringing together vital information about the churches in your denomination.

Not only does ACS support the needs of the local church, denominations can take advantage of our connective structure to aggregate information from all of its participating churches. Dioceses, associations, districts, presbyteries, synods, conferences, and conventions use ACS to provide higher quality leadership and services to their member churches and organizations.

Denominational headquarters can track personnel and membership data from individual churches and roll up the data into comprehensive directories, accurate statistical reports, and comparative reports and graphs—all while communicating the right information to the right people.

Produce membership graphs to review patterns in statistical data and share them with your churches.
Manage contact information for your member churches and track your staff's communication history with them.
Search staff employment history by start or end date and easily find open staff positions.
Identify churches with a specific job opening and forward qualified candidates' information to them.
Customize Modules for all your churches: ACS People, ACS Contributions, Online Giving, ACS General Ledger
Add-on ACS Safeguard

Provide Quality Care to Children

Make common daycare tasks easier for your staff.

HeadMaster™ provides churches and childcare centers with administration, billing, accounting, donor tracking, and communication in a single, cloud-based solution.

Send email newsletters to everyone on your contact list and see who is opening them and what's catching their interest.

ACS Technologies is pleased to partner with Constant Contact. Constant Contact is helping ministries everywhere bring style and sophistication to their email campaigns and communications. With easily customized design templates, real-time response tracking, and features designed to help you grow your audience the right way, Constant Contact will change the way you interact with your visitors, members and fans.

Available to all ACS clients on ACS version 10.0 and higher
Send data from your database automatically into your choice of mailing lists
Get started fast with customizable HTML email templates
Create email campaigns in a snap with Constant Contact’s easy-to-use Email Wizard
Build, manage, and secure your email marketing contacts
Send email marketing communications and be confident they’ll get delivered
Get results fast with instant tracking and reporting
Extend the life of your email marketing when you add Email Archive
Access a stock image gallery of 3400 pictures when you add Premium Image Hosting
Get help every step of the way with FREE coaching & support

Billing is based on the number of email addresses in your account, not on the number of emails that are sent. Terms and pricing tiers are listed on the Constant Contact Web Site. Prepaid Nonprofit and Education discounts are also available and listed.

An ACS™ integration with HeadMaster™ Software

Childcare for the next generation.

ACS™ with HeadMaster™ helps churches provide quality, individualized care to children, communicate with parents, handle billing, and equip your staff to run a professional childcare service.

Provide Quality Care to Children

Access important information any time.

HeadMaster stores all of your information safely in the cloud behind a private, staff-only login so you can conveniently perform your administrative tasks anywhere.

Store all kinds of family contact information.

HeadMaster gives you the flexibility to add any number of addresses, contact numbers, and family member details if children split time between multiple households.

Keep immunization and health records handy.

Lookup a child’s immunization records, allergies, emergency contacts, or any other meaningful health information from the convenience of your connected device.

Monitor child to teacher ratios in real-time.

Maintain mandated staffing levels through out the day by using HeadMaster’s check-in system to see exactly how long a child attended the program and who picked them up.

Track details for field trips and other activities.

Use an unlimited number of custom fields to track important event dates, permission forms and releases, and event-specific rosters for those signed up to attend.

Add Value to Parents

Provide extra value back to families.

Connect with parents and students outside of the classroom by enabling them to go online and view School and Class announcements, homework, assignments, grades, progress, and communicate with teachers.

Communicate important details more often.

Your staff can quickly create personalized messages to your parents by inserting custom fields into your correspondence. Messages can be sent via email or printed for mail, and HeadMaster tracks and records all instances of communication.

Post events and reminders to a shared calendar.

Maintain a master calendar for your staff and families in HeadMaster, and publish the information online so parents can see what’s upcoming whenever they sign in. You can even include detailed notes for each calendar item.

Accept online and mobile payments.

Parents can sign in to see their outstanding tuition and lunch balances and make secure payments while online or from the mobile app.

Include the mobile app at no additional cost.

Parents can connect from anywhere with the free HeadMaster iPhone and Android mobile app. It gives families instant access to important information on their mobile device or tablet at no additional charge.

Billing Included

Tuition Billing

Track various tuition rates, fees, and discounts according to different frequencies. Generate invoices, post payments, and give parents the ability to see consolidated family balances and make payments online.

Lunch Program

Turbo-charge your lunch program by enabling teachers to enter orders from the classroom, providing summary reports to cafeteria staff, and giving parents the ability to order and pay online.

Add-ons

Accounting Software

In addition to billing, we provide a full fund accounting system that integrates with HeadMaster. By connecting accounting with student information, you can link tuition payments directly to General Ledger and calculate payroll based on time logs.

SMS Text Messaging

Modernize the way you communicate by using SchoolCast. Easily send important voice, email, or text messages to parents, faculty, and specific groups like sports teams and clubs.

Donation Tracking

Keep your donation information in sync with your family contact information and record contributions directly into your accounting system when bundled with ACS Financials.

Staff Background Checks

Run prospective staff or volunteer background checks directly from HeadMaster. This is an additional service offered by Verified First, one of our partners.

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Predefined Templates

Build a professional, user-friendly site.

Unlimited Pages

Expand your website to all your ministries.

Graphics Library & Editor

Choose images that best represent your parish.

Analytics

Understand who is engaging and how.

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Take your church ministry to the next level.

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We've got so much to share with you!

You're never alone.

We pass on what we've learned to you.

We've built ourselves around serving you.

Migration Assistance

Change takes effort, but it doesn't have to be hard.

Personalized Training & Consultation

You're the place people look for answers, and so are we.

Live Webinars

Rollout Planning

One-on-One Coaching

Launch Toolkits

Classes & Workshops

Annual Conference

Unmatched Support

If you have to take calls in the middle of the night, so do we.

Smooth Onboarding

Responsive Call Center

24/7 Online Help Center

Friendly Team Members

Success Coaches

Regular Updates

Church Know-How

Learn Together. Serve Together.

Tap into a wealth of knowledge and master vital aspects of your ministry.

Community Insights

Serving your community better begins with understanding it better.

Products

Share this informationwith others in your church.

Reach, engage, and disciple your congregation and online community virtually with unlimited streaming and video content.

WANT TO LEARN MORE?

Fill out your information and we will be in touch.

Streaming

Expand your reach to an online community.

Videos

Share content to connect with your congregation throughout the week.

Mobile

Meet your viewers where they are.

Branding

Maintain your church’s identity online.

Analytics

Understand how your online community is engaging with your ministry.

Feature Highlights

On-Demand

Products

General Ledger

The heart and soul of church accounting.

Accounts Payable

Keep track of what you owe and pay bills on time.

Payroll

Save valuable time and avoid confusion by handling all types of payroll procedures with one central solution.

Purchase Orders

The tools you need to help manage your spending.

Fixed Assets

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