Giving Overview

The Giving application tracks all funds which come into our church as donations.  It offers the capability to assign incoming funds to a specific category, which can then be associated with an account in our bookkeeping application.  The Giving application has a module to generate giving reports for our church members, which we do on a semiannual basis.

The design of the Giving application has restrictions to limit it for only tax-deductible contributions, but, we have implemented ways in our data entry procedure to handle some non-deductible donations, and to communicate that on congregant giving reports.

Although the application has the capability to transfer fund information directly into QuickBooks, we don't currently use that capability, as we feel it may be confusing and not practical.

Due to the confidential requirements of the process controlled by Giving, there is very limited access granted for access.

Giving is acquired on a subscription basis, and the monthly cost is determined by the average number of donations entered monthly.

Giving is almost entirely accessed through a Windows workstation.