Church Windows Reviews & Product Details

It has all the features we need to do things from tracking giving, maintaining membership records, and organizing volunteers. It's great because we do not neeed a subscription. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have never had any problems with using it. The only improvement it could use is a facelift as the user interface has dated graphics, but that's minor because we have volunteers in their 70s who use it comfortably. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This software does provide everything needed to track members attendance and donations. But it can be a little clunky on the back end and requires a lot of education for new staff. It is not intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish this were a more "user friendly" program so that we could authorize more staff to make edits and use the software. As it is now, we need to have one or two people who are designated to make edits because of the multitude of little database specifics involved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a centralized place to store all information about parishioners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its email software sends emails one at a time which can be cumbersome when emailing a large group of people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Phone support, as they call back promptly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am required to use this program. This is one of the most convoluted, non-user friendly, tiresome, irritating, program I have ever had t o use. I have worked both in the private industry and the US government using a lot of different software. Example, if you or a past employee enters a "visitor" to your church, it will stay in the system FOREVER; there is not way to ever delete a name and address. Our church is in a high tourist area..names added in 1998 for one summer can never be deleted. Next, different sections for Member and Visitors...if you are seeking information on one name you have to go in and out of two different screens and sections of the program to verify and/or to find them!. Okey, now let's go to donations. If a past employee went crazy entering different donation codes....good luck attempting to make it more usable. You will be required to wade thru outdated no longer used codes moving them around in order to record a $5.00 donation. At year end good luck with the donation letters. If you accidently use the wrong setup, one family may have a document a big as our town's phonebook! I use Church Windows because I have tol Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use. Does everything I need in one package--accounting, contributions and membership. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

All modules do not work exactly the same way. Updates are needed on the accounting module. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the fact that Church Windows provides a place where all the church records and trends can be kept together, which makes it easy to search for specific things, like attendance within past year for the purposes of voting privledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like how the interface is rather complicated. I have managed it but my staff have difficulties as they haven't grown up in the computer age. It's very difficult for them to navigate this software, which requires more work on my end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once you understand the system it is easy to maneuver. There IT department is great with handling any questions you may have. You can also find many videos on their sight to help you do your own troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It takes time to learn the system and can be hard for people who are not computer savvy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great software which can be used for both accounting software and directory. You can store names, addresses, as well as photos you can print detailed list of donations for parishner. Easy to set-up and provides excellent customer service. I also like the quick tasks option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Always run into problems when updating to the newest version of church plus having to reconnect the links. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the search feature for finding a member/visitor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data mining processes are not intuitive. It's difficult to remember all the steps I took to achieve the report I was hoping for. And then when I try again next time, I can't remember. "how did I do that last time?" VERY frustrating. I've worked with IRL sales data, and while the information and analytics of that are more complicated, the process to get to the data was so simple. I also don't understand why things don't autopopulate. Examle: when a church member dies, I must mark them "dead" in three different places. It would be much easier to mark it in one place and the software do the rest. Another hitch in the success of Church Windows at our office is that it resides on our "cloud", VOS ... Virtual Office Systems. As a result, it is super slow. Although we were told they work together, Church Windows runs MUCH faster outside of VOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the entire setup for entering new member information, donations, & accounting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't dislike anything about Church Windows at this moment! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.