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features
View the upcomming features and enhancements for version 7.6 to be released in 2008.
Click on the links below to see information about the specific features of Shepherd's Staff. Click here for a printer-friendly version.
At Shepherd's Staff we are committed to a standard of excellence. This requires keeping a "finger on the pulse" of our customers, listening to feedback, and striving towards meeting their current needs. We also look ahead to anticipate future needs based on computer and societal trends.
It is our intention and desire to provide for our customers changing needs by continually improving our service and product. Through occasional UPGRADES we can not only provide enhancements to the existing applications, we bring a variety of new features to the program, based on what you, the user, have requested.
With Shepherd’s Staff version 2007, our current version, over 90 new features and enhancements have been added to assist you in your important ministry work. We strongly encourage you to stay current with our system, and we make it easy and cost-free by providing it with our service contracts.
If you have a previous version of Shepherd’s Staff we encourage you to download the demo of our current version. Installing the demo will not conflict with your current data.
Upgrades and Enhancements in Shepherd's Staff 2007
Membership
Attendance
Contributions
Finance
Report
Writer
Scheduler
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Track information on an unlimited numbers of individuals, households and subgroups easily–including email addresses |
| Send email to individuals or groups right from the program |
| Create convenient lists of members who share common characteristics, talents or needs using the Subgroups functions |
| Create custom reports and mailings with automatic export to Microsoft Word or Excel |
| Save time and repetition by conducting Mass Updates on records (a handy feature when telephone area codes change) |
| Make the best use of your church's resources by keeping running totals of all church statistics and up-to-date records of member talents, training and activities |
| Find qualified candidates for staff positions with Ministry Position Manager |
| Print everything from Rolodex cards and name badges to comprehensive church directories using over 20 standard reports and powerful report customization options |
| Save money and make mailing tasks simpler by generating your own mail merges, labels with postal bar codes and ZIP+4+2 coding for carrier routes, along with postal summary reports |
| Generate weekly reports on important spiritual dates for members–such as birthdays, anniversaries and baptisms–no special occasion ever goes unnoticed |
| Use the automated schedule generating system to set up visits and record your confidential notes securely |
| Update and maintain all of your records quickly and easily with practical, user friendly data management utilities |
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Keep track of "snowbirds" by using the Alternate Address feature |
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Enter attendance by simply highlighting and selecting attendees |
| Add or remove non-contiguous names from any list, with point-and-click ease |
| Find absentees for any event with an easy to use report |
| Categorize attendance events into five user defined groups |
| Track attendance for an unlimited number of events |
| Show attendance patterns for the entire church, specific groups or individuals, using a variety of lists, graphs, and reports |
| Search record grids fast by using single-letter prompts to jump directly to records of names beginning with that letter |
| Entry screens display full Names and Nicknames in batch lists |
| Discard outdated records easily |
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Enter attendance using nothing more than the keyboard |
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Volunteers can enter attendance at home and bring in files on disks to update church records |
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| Contributions postings can automatically create deposits in the Finance module |
| Easily prepare IRS-approved personal giving reports and self mailing statements (with Post Office approved bar codes) easily |
| Use an unlimited number of contributor and offering categories |
| Track pledges for any period of time, including weekly, monthly and yearly |
| Use lists, reports and graphs to analyze pledges and contributions for entire church, specific groups or individuals |
| Print a contribution statement for a single envelope number |
| Add, combine, change, or delete member envelope numbers quickly, at anytime of the year |
| Use special data handling features to enter pledges and offerings quickly |
| Volunteers can enter offerings at home and bring in completed file on disk to and post to the church's records |
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Create statements suitable for use in Canada |
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| Import budgets directly from Microsoft Excel |
| Use double-entry bookkeeping and keep a complete audit trail as you work |
| Set up and organize charts of your accounts |
| Track an unlimited number of accounting funds, accounts and vendors |
| Enter and analyze budgets easily with four built in budget calculation methods |
| Balance your bank statements in record time with easy to use on-screen reconciliation, reports, and work sheets |
| Set up checks, deposits, and journal entries to process automatically |
| Prepare and print checks directly from your computer |
| Connect to Intuit's payroll program to process your payroll with Shepherd's Staff data |
| Flexible and convenient check writing, printing, and tracking |
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Get a true running balance directly from the General Ledger |
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Make creating W2's and 1099's simpler by easily printing account totals by vendor |
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View current account balances automatically when adding checks |
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Number your own checks or switch off numbering for pre-printed checks |
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Restore Finance seperately to make working from home easier |
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| LCEF Export Utility |
| Design an unlimited number of custom reports - or use one of the 75 Pre-designed formats |
| Develop reports using standard database sorting methods and information drawn directly from Shepherd's Staff |
| Enjoy full data security, since Report Writer cannot write to The Shepherd's Staff, there's no need to worry about accidental changes |
| Limit access of data easily with the log-in security features |
| Use your reports any time you want Report Writer saves the format for every report you create |
| Choose reports from a convenient list that includes handy descriptions back to top |
| Automatically generate LCMS Youth List report |
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| Schedule rooms, rentals, services, cleaning, and special meetings |
| Prevent conflicts of room and resource usage |
| Manage ministry and bus routes |
| Schedule recurrent events |
| Record physical assets and values |
| Track equipment usage and inventory |
| Schedule volunteers and church staff for events and meetings |
| Produce calendars for each room |
| Track and schedule vehicle maintenance |
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