Easily Manage Your Finance Tasks With Our Church Accounting Software

Yes, they do. Since churches manage money from various contributors, financial accountability is required to maintain member and donor trust. Churches may also need to file reports to authorities or even pay taxes in some cases. Therefore, churches need accounting to ensure money is spent wisely and legally.

ChMeetings Accounting is a module within the ChMeetings Church Management Solution that lets you perform essential accounting tasks for your church. You can use this module to manage church financial resources, track fund balances, create budgets, run reports, and more.

First, you must go through a setup process to create the necessary records for your accounts, funds, income and expense streams, permissions, etc. Then, you can import transactions manually or sync your bank accounts to add them automatically. Whenever a financial transaction occurs, it must be added to your accounting - whether that means money received or spent. Whenever you need to transfer money between accounts, you can do so; and you can attach the relevant documentation to justify the transfer. You must periodically compare your bank statements with your accounting records in ChMeetings, to make sure they are identical in terms of records and balances. This is called “Reconciliation” and should be done regularly; for example every month and at the end of the year. Whenever you need to check your funds in detail or you need to provide accounting data; you can generate detailed reports such as your Balance Sheet, income Statement, Fund Reports, Category Reports, and more.

We think it’s very easy. All you have to do is export QuickBooks transactions for the desired period and generate a QIF or QBO file. Then, you can simply import it into ChMeetings, and you’re done.

No, you don’t. The features are very easy to use as long as you possess essential accounting knowledge that many of us are already familiar with. Here are ChMeetings support team that will help you become a bit more acquainted with accounting.

While you may not be legally bound to do so, depending on your location, we strongly recommend hiring an expert accountant to at least perform regular record reviews, and go through periodic reconciliation. It’s important for your finances to be accurately recorded and sometimes, legal requirements can complicate the accounting process. This is why it never hurts to have a professional take a look. That said, ChMeetings does not require you to hire an expert accountant.

Fellow Church Management Software Providers offer Accounting modules with very similar sets of features. The only major difference we found between ChMeetings and other apps is that, for the moment, ChMeetings does not offer payroll. We continuously add new features to the platform as a whole and to the accounting module specifically so we may add this in the future. If you do not require payroll now, then we think ChMeetings is a great choice, because it offers similar functionality to other apps, while being one of the most affordable solutions out there. ChMeetings is also very user-friendly. We compared to other platforms on Capterra and loved to see that, at the time of writing, ChMeetings received the highest overall user satisfaction rating, of 4.9. No other All-In-One Church Management Solution is rated higher than 4.8.

Yes, you can. Security is key, even more so when it comes to financial information. ChMeetings lets you configure access permissions for the module, for each user role, to ensure that only authorized servants have access to accounting data.

Sometimes, you may receive funds that don’t get to your bank account. For example, some countries may allow churches to keep cash without being required to deposit it. For these cases, you can easily record your giving transaction using our Contributions module, and then deposit it to your accounting. This records the giving transactions and ensures that the corresponding amounts are accounted for.

Absolutely! You can export your transactions to Excel, and then import them to any tool of your choice. Excel files are very widely supported, so you should not have compatibility issues with any up-to-date accounting solution.

Yes, you can. Just disable the Accounting module from your Account Settings, and you’re good to go.

The Accounting module does not cost extra and you can have it with any plan starting with Small. Please see our price plans for more details.