# Church Windows Reviews **Vendor:** Church Windows **Category:** [Church Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/church-management) **Average Rating:** 3.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About Church Windows Church Windows software is a church management solution that provides a way to track the church congregations, its happenings and its giving. ## Church Windows Reviews ### 1. Easy to use church management software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steven D. | Pastor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Church Windows?** 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. **What do you dislike about Church Windows?** 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. **What problems is Church Windows solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use church windows to track giving for tax purposes. Maintain membership records. We also use it to help in organizing church volunteers. It is much more efficient than using a spreadsheet or the old pen and paper route we used in the past. ### 2. Very affordable, not very user friendly **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Church Windows?** 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. **What do you dislike about Church Windows?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Church Windows:** I would recommend shopping around unless you are a very small church in need of cheap software. You will spend more time with this software as your organization grows, and their are more user-friendly programs out there. **What problems is Church Windows solving and how is that benefiting you?** This does track our members and donations just fine! I wish that it were easier to use ### 3. Church Database **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin I. | Priest in Charge, Religious Institutions, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Church Windows?** It is a centralized place to store all information about parishioners **What do you dislike about Church Windows?** Its email software sends emails one at a time which can be cumbersome when emailing a large group of people. **Recommendations to others considering Church Windows:** I would think about a cloud based software. **What problems is Church Windows solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communications and Finance ### 4. Unfortunate requirement of my job. **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Regina C. | Business Manager, Non-Profit Organization Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2017 **What do you like best about Church Windows?** Phone support, as they call back promptly. **What do you dislike about Church Windows?** 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 **Recommendations to others considering Church Windows:** With past experience choosing, purchasing, and creating a membership database, I would suggest there are several very good programs that are easier to use, both in membership and donations, a good software package for a non-profit does not have to have the word "church" in its name. Church Windows is attempting to update their program; I have great hopes it will be completed before my retirement! **What problems is Church Windows solving and how is that benefiting you?** Membership and donaiton entry ### 5. Review of Church Windows software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suzanne S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Church Windows?** Ease of use. Does everything I need in one package--accounting, contributions and membership. **What do you dislike about Church Windows?** All modules do not work exactly the same way. Updates are needed on the accounting module. **What problems is Church Windows solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking membership, preparing financial statements, recording contributions ### 6. Church Widnows Falls Short **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lauren B. | Pastor, Religious Institutions, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2017 **What do you like best about Church Windows?** 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. **What do you dislike about Church Windows?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Church Windows:** I would recommend it, but only to people who know computers and understand basic operating systems. It's not a difficult system once you get the hang of it, but if you don't understand computer basics, it's not for you. **What problems is Church Windows solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organization. In churches, organization is a huge obstacle. Using this program has helped eliminate some of the frustrations surrounding the loss of information. ### 7. Good Customer Service **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Church Windows?** 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. **What do you dislike about Church Windows?** It takes time to learn the system and can be hard for people who are not computer savvy. **What problems is Church Windows solving and how is that benefiting you?** Has all the software a small church needs in one place. ### 8. Excellent Software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tella J. | Operations Specialist, Non-Profit Organization Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2017 **What do you like best about Church Windows?** 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. **What do you dislike about Church Windows?** Always run into problems when updating to the newest version of church plus having to reconnect the links. **Recommendations to others considering Church Windows:** They should try the product **What problems is Church Windows solving and how is that benefiting you?** Started using church plus for accounting purposes and realize it was great storing addresses of our church members and photos. ### 9. Some things are okay, but it's not intuitive and seems outdated. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Church Windows?** the search feature for finding a member/visitor **What do you dislike about Church Windows?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Church Windows:** I'm not sure if there is anything better. I recommend using it from your harddrive rather than via cloud. At least, don't use it if you currently use VOS! **What problems is Church Windows solving and how is that benefiting you?** this is where we keep all of our membership data. Benefits--some reports aren't difficult to pull, so I guess that's a benefit. ### 10. CHURCH WINDOWS MAKES WORK FUN **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Church Windows?** I like the entire setup for entering new member information, donations, & accounting. **What do you dislike about Church Windows?** I don't dislike anything about Church Windows at this moment! **What problems is Church Windows solving and how is that benefiting you?** Donation Installations How well outlined things are in Church Windows - [View Church Windows pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/church-windows/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+16%3A35%3A37+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=c26b285b-5cf8-4d35-b3bf-8f5964d92512&secure%5Btoken%5D=a34a300374727aa1b5a5551bfc9733b56fc3cc7528212f9d604cb9a4a6be258d&format=llm_user) ## Church Windows Features **Platform Basics** - Membership Tracking - Donation Management - Congregation Communication - Worship Management - Event Planning - Church Accounting **Platform Additional Functionality** - People Management Specific Tools - Event Management Specific Tools **Agentic AI - Church Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top Church Windows Alternatives - [DialMyCalls](https://www.g2.com/products/dialmycalls/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (960 reviews) - [Text-Em-All](https://www.g2.com/products/text-em-all/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (815 reviews) - [Breeze ChMS](https://www.g2.com/products/yourgiving-inc-breeze-chms/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (127 reviews)