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by timmorgan 5455 days ago
Church Management System (ChMS) refers to a database system to track member/visitor information, donations, volunteer efforts, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_management_software#Chur...
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pbhjpbhj 5455 days ago
What research have you done so far on the current offerings? Do you have a list - presumably there are some on Freshmeat/github/Sourceforge/... somewhere.

Some quick leads:

* http://www.churchaccountingsoftwareguide.com/church-manageme... mentions ChurchTrac, ChurchDB and several others including a couple of user comments.

* http://www.churchcommunitymatters.com/category/chms/ blog posts about "Church Community Builder" the author might be a useful contact; http://www.churchcommunitymatters.com/questions-to-ask-when-... looks particularly pertinent

* http://www.ccmag.com/page/index.php?pageid=16&articleid=... is a review of ChMS from late 2010.

* http://www.churchdb.org/ "Church Info" a ChMS

* http://www.capterra.com/church-management-software directory listing of about 80 (?) different systems with star ratings, reviews and a filtering system

* http://www.christianitytoday.com/cbg/officequip/chmangsoftwa... CT section on ChMS

HTH. Grace and Peace.

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