What are you using??

By Mr. Keith McMillen, MBA -…
October 27, 2020, 12:37 pm EDT

Here in Las Vegas, NV we have little daily contact with other UU congregations as they are 100's of miles away. We have been using Church Windows for several years as it was the only solution we could find that combined membership, pledge tracking with accounting in one package. It is not the easiest system to use and requires several monthly general ledger entries just to keep it close to accurate. As we have no paid accounting staff, finding someone to handle this task is getting to be tough. Also, this is a simple networked operation on older equipment and can not be connected to Apple workstations. So we are searching for something else.

We have looked at standalone systems and not been impressed, so we are looking at cloud based solutions. The two products that seem to answer our needs are from ACS Technologies and APLOS. Each offer us a chance to try it out, but before I get a testing team together and tackle one of these, I thought I would ask you folks if anyone has experience with either of these two products, or chose another product that you feel is superior to either. It needs to include tracking, membership, donations, pledges, check book and other accounting issues dealing with cash basis accounting (but fund based style).

I look forward to hearing from a few of you.

Thanks for your time

Keith McMillen

Treasurer, UU Congregation of Las Vegas