Contribution Statement Windowed Envelope Examples

One of the nifty little features in Church Membership Online is the ability to print a contributions statement formatted specifically for windowed envelopes. This reduces the workload of sending out contributions statements as you don't have to print out the To and From addresses on envelopes. Here are two examples of window envelope dimensions that will work with our contribution statement windowed envelope formatting.

Single Window

Contributions Statement Single Windowed Envelope Example

Double Window

Contributions Statement Single Windowed Envelope Example

New Feature Announcement! Envelope Contributions

By Aaron at January 18, 2012 01:59
Filed Under: Church Membership Online, Church Membership Online Updates

If you require an envelope contribution feature for simple, accurate, confidential recording of weekly offerings then Church Office Online has just met your need.

Our Envelope Contribution Feature maintains confidentiality because it does not require the name of the individual or household to appear on the envelope that is placed in the offering.

Envelope Contribution Benefits

  • Simplifies record keeping
  • Maintains Confidentiality

How simple is it?

First, with your Administrative, Pastoral, or Financial user login enter the number in the “Envelope Number” field located in the individual’s record in the overview tab then select “Save”.

Second, go to Contributions and select the “Add Envelope” contributions where you will enter the date, envelope number, category and amount of contribution. The program automatically assigns the contribution to the individual.

Envelope Contributions Video Tutorial

There is a very short video tutorial which will also show you how to export a file to permanently assign those numbers to Individuals or Households and use it to help you get started.

Empower Your Congregation With Church Office Online

Have you ever…

… worked hard to produce a Church Directory only to have it outdated once it was published?
… been asked to call or email a group of people only to find that contact addresses given didn’t work?
… wondered how much you gave to the church or where you were on your pledge before the end of the year?
… showed up for a church event or meeting that was cancelled or moved and you didn’t know about it?
… forgot to leave a forwarding address and you knew people in your church would be trying to get ahold of you?
… been overwhelmed with trying to keep up with the constant changes in peoples email addresses and phone numbers?

It’s Time to Empower Your People with their own Individual Secure Access to your Church Office Online program allowing them to:

  • Update Their Own Household and Individual Contact Information
  • View Monthly Anniversaries & Birthdays within their Church
  • View and Print their Online Church Directory
  • Make Connections to others in your church from the Online Directory with Simplified Email Links
  • View an active Church Calendar of Meetings, Activities, and Services

By empowering your people with this application you can:

  1. Save money and time by only printing off Church Directories for those who do not have internet and email service.
  2. Increase the opportunity for Connection of your people via email, phone, visitation or mail with updated contact information.
  3. Increase giving and promote good stewardship by adding the ability for members to see exactly where they are in their giving and pledges at any time instead at of the end of the year.
  4. Decrease the administrative load and time from your staff by enlisting members to update their own contact information.
  5. Enable ministry

First, your church must have a subscription to Church Office Online.

Second, simply enter their email address in their Individual Record and then distribute the Me.ChurchMembershipOnline URL in a letter, email or bulletin to your congregation.

That's it; we do the rest.

URL Address https://me.churchmembershiponline.com

Answers to common questions regarding use and security of Me.ChurchMembershipOnline

Q: How secure is Me.ChurchMembershipOnline?
A: The access is password protected, encrypted and all data vaulted.

Q: What can an Individual view and change in their record?
A: Individuals will be able to only view: Monthly Birthdays and Anniversaries of Church Members, Church Directory, their Contributions/Pledges, and Church Calendar
A: Individuals will only be able to change their own general contact information ( i.e. Address, Phone, Email, Birthdate, Anniversary Date) and change their password login.

Q:Will a person be able to see or change records of other individuals?
A:g>A: NO, only their own household members and just their address, birthday, anniversary information.

Q: Can a person change their contributions?
A: NO, they can view and print only.

Q: Can a person print some of the reports?
A: YES, the Church Directory and Individual Contributions Statement is printable to PDF, just locate the PDF print Icon/text.

Q: Is there a way a person can be taken off the Online Church Directory?
A: YES, just contact your church administrator and request not to have your name listed in the online Directory. All that needs to be done is for them to check the box “Exclude from Directory” from the Individual Record on the “Options” tab.

Q: If I have a problem signing in to Me.ChurchMembershipOnline who should I contact?
A: First contact your church administrator/secretary as most issues are due to not having the right email address entered into the main program or two or more people having the same email address.

Q: Can I have the same email address listed for more than one person in the main program?
A: NO, to do so will not allow the program to generate a successful login to Me.ChurchMembershipOnline.

Q: How much extra does it cost for our church to use Me.ChurchMembershipOnline?
A: It is a free application that comes with your paid subscription to Church Office Online.

Child Check-In Release

By Aaron at October 29, 2011 01:53
Filed Under: Church Management, Church Membership Online

We are always hard at work improving our church management software, Church Membership Online. Thanks to your feedback and suggestions we have updated Church Membership Online with some exciting new features and enhancements. This release is live now and is highlighted by our new Child Check-In feature.

Church Child Check-In Feature

Using Church Membership Online, you can now quickly and easily create Child Check-In rosters and print out check-in forms before a Ministry event, Sunday School, etc. You can also specify how many blank rows (or create an entirely blank check-in form) you want on each roster.

Child Check-In Features

  • Create Ministries to track classes or groups and add children as "Attenders"
  • Create a Ministry Child Check-In roster and auto-populate the children's names
  • Create a blank Child Check-In roster
  • Define as many blank Child Check-In rows per roster as you like
  • Save the Child Check-In roster to Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF, etc.

Enhancements and Updates

In addition to the new Child Check-In feature, we also released a several requested enhancements and updates.

  • We added Gender and Ministry filters to the Mailing Labels.
  • We added a Windowed Envelope option to the Individual Contributions in REPORTS (so no need to run off labels - just purchase #9 Standard Windowed Envelopes; window must be 1 inch from left and 3/4 inch from bottom).
  • Also in REPORTS we allowed for specific categories in Contributions Overview. So you can request a report on one category if needed.
  • We added a rolling total to the Add Individual Contributions feature. This gives you a quick sum of all contributions entered at that time.

We hope you like the new features and enhancements! As always, feel free to contact us for any reason.

Aaron
Church Office Online

Announcing New Feature Enhancements

By Aaron at August 22, 2011 07:48
Filed Under: Church Membership Online, Church Membership Online Updates

Church Membership Online continues to receive new features and enhancements based on your feedback. We want to provide the easiest to use, least expensive and most feature rich church management software possible. We believe the following updates help us get a little closer to that goal.

Slick New Picture Upload, Resize and Crop

New Crop and Resize features have been added to Picture Upload for individual and household records.

  • Images are automatically scaled and resized to fit in your church picture directory.
  • Crop an uploaded image to just use part of the image for a perfect church directory picture.
  • New image upload feature provides real time feedback upload status and completion percentage.

Image upload example

The new feature does require that you have Flash installed on your system. If you do not have Flash go to : http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer

Improved Event and Meeting Attendance

Recording event and meeting attendance for your church functions just got a lot faster and easier.

  • View and mark attendance for just those individuals who are on the Ministry List assigned to an Event / Meeting.
  • No more saving attendance lists; attendance is recorded immediately after you check the box next to an individual.
  • Quickly and easily record attendance for any individual in your church, even if they aren't part of the ministry.

Dashboard Contributions Admin Toggle

You now have the ability to remove the display of Contributions on the Dashboard for users that don't have finance priviledges in Church Membership Online.

To change the Dashboard Contributions display:

  1. Log into Church Membership Online as an Administrator user
  2. Click on Admin -> Church Settings
  3. Change the "Show Dashboard Contributions To All Users" setting
  4. Click "Save"

We hope you enjoy the new features. If you would like to provide some feedback or suggest a new feature please let us know: http://churchofficeonline.uservoice.com/

Aaron
Church Office Online

Announcing New Reporting and Analytics Release

By Aaron at July 17, 2011 08:30
Filed Under: Church Membership Online, Church Membership Online Updates, General

Church Office Online’s church management software just went live with a NEW report generator for ALL reports!

Church Management Reporting

With Church Office Online’s NEW report generator you now have the ability to examine and probe data, export reports to Microsoft Office Word and Excel for further analysis, and even present them as PowerPoint documents.

Report Export Options

All reports now feature the option to export to

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word
  • Acrobat PDF
  • CSV
  • Rich Text
  • Tiff Image
  • Web File

Improved Graphs

You will also notice a big improvement in the look and design of all graphs. With the added exporting to Power Point presentations will be a snap and look professional. Church management software has never been so easy.

Contributions Chart

The Contributions and Attendance features now include a three month at a glance overview graph to give you a quick health check of your church's progress in those areas.

Attendance Overview

Custom Fields Reporting

We have also added the ability for you to create reports of your CUSTOM FIELDS. You can select one or more Individual or Household custom fields and even add a filter. For Instance: You created a “Hobbies” custom field for Individuals and you want to know who your photographers are. Just select “Custom Fields” in REPORTS and click on the “Add Custom Field Report Criteria” and select “Hobbies”, then type in “Photography” in the “Has Value“ field then “Run Report”.

Custom Fields Report

New Mega Menu Navigation

You will notice we did away with the left side bar and designed a Mega Menu which you can view by placing your mouse/arrow over the Menu Bar. This opens up the whole width of the page for viewing data and reports along with added one click speed to access areas of the program from the Mega Menu. We believe this change offers a significant improvement to the user experience of Church Membership Online.

Mega Menu Navigation

Questions or Comments?

If you have any questions or comments about the changes, please be sure to let us know at http://churchofficeonline.uservoice.com/

We hope you enjoy the changes and new features.

Aaron
http://www.churchofficeonline.com

New Feature - Pledge Campaign Management

We have added another highly requested feature to our church management software, Church Membership Online. You now have the ability to create, track and manage Pledge Campaigns.

Pledge Campaign Management

Quickly and easily create pledge campaigns linked to contribution categories. Pledge campaign totals are automatically updated when contributions are made for the category and dates specified.

  • Create and manage pledge campaigns
  • Visual graphs indicate total amount pledged and total amount collected
  • Pledge totals are automatically updated when contributions are made

Individual Pledge Management

Individual pledge management allows you to track individual pledge amounts, total amounts given and total pledged amounts for pledge campaigns.

  • Create and manage individual pledge amounts
  • Visual graphs indicate total amount pledged and total amount collected per individual
  • Individual pledge totals are automatically updated when contributions are made

Pledge Campaign Video Tutorial

Click here to view our Pledge Campaign video tutorial

Pledge campaign reports will be released soon

We hope you enjoy this new feature!

Church Office Online

Pledge Campaign Video Tutorial

This is an overview of how to use pledge campaign management features in Church Membership Online.

Announcing New Church Support Features

By Aaron at April 11, 2011 17:01
Filed Under: Church Membership Online, Church Membership Online Updates, General

Great Support Just Got Better

Church Office Online is committed to providing the best in support at NO cost to you. We believe great church management tools must be backed by great support. Take a look at our support life lines below.

Phone Support

  • Toll Free Support 1 (800) 220-2402
  • Monday - Friday 8am-5pm. Pacific Time

Online Knowledge Base, Issue Tracking and Feature Requests

  • Every page in Church Membership Online has a "Feedback and Support" quick link located in the bottom right of the page.
  • Issue tracking allows you to submit a service ticket for any issue and receive instant email follow-up and progress.
  • Instant answers are provided while you type your issue, providing you with instant solutions to your questions.
  • Feature requests allow you to submit suggestions and follow up with status, vote and popularity results.

Video Tutorials

  • Growing collection of step by step video tutorials.
  • New tutorials added frequently.

Click here to learn more.

New Feature - MailChimp Mass Email Integration for Churches

By Aaron at April 03, 2011 03:56
Filed Under: Church Membership Online, Church Membership Online Updates, General

We have released a major new feature in Church Membership Online that integrates your church database with MailChimp. You can now synchronize all of your Church Membership Online email addresses into MailChimp and create E-Newsletters, announcements and improve your overall church communication.

This integration is free with your Church Membership Online account. In addition, MailChimp offers a completely free account for up to 2,000 email addresses.

This means you can take advantage of mass email communication for your church at no cost!

WWe have posted the following information to help you get started using MailChimp with your Church Membership Online account.

Video Tutorial

http://blog.churchofficeonline.com/post/MailChimp-Video-Tutorial.aspx

Step by Step Getting Started Guide

http://blog.churchofficeonline.com/post/MailChimp-Step-By-Step-Tutorial.aspx

MailChimp Review for Churches

http://blog.churchofficeonline.com/post/Review-of-MailChimp-for-Churches.aspx

Aaron
Church Office Online