Features of Shepherd's Staff
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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| Discard outdated records easily |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 |
| Contributions postings can automatically create deposts 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |