Free Church Accounting
Managing money is difficult. It is perhaps even more difficult to manage a Church’s money with a limited budget. In today’s poor economy many churches are feeling the financial crunch. If you are looking for a way to save a few dollars, then maybe finding some free church accounting software can help.
In the wild world of the Internet you will find several sites that claim to give away free software for churches, but these sites can be misleading. Below is a list of some of these sites as well as their true cost.
The author is not the owner of any of these sites. The author only hopes to save time for those who may be interested in accounting software for churches.
Churchradius.com
Church Radius offers some free, web based church accounting software. This software requires connection to the Internet.
This is a great deal; a major drawback, however, is the fact that having all of your church’s information stored on the Internet can be dangerous. Another drawback is that web-based software is frequently plagued with annoying banner ads. A necessary evil to provide the software for free.
Sunday Software
Sunday Software is a well known site for anyone serious about church software. Unfortunately the site doesn’t actually make or sell any church accounting software. Nonetheless the site does have some great resources for churches.
Churchtrac.com
The good news is that Churchtrac actually makes church accounting software. They offer the software for free to small churches. In order to qualify as a small church, your church must have fewer than 100 contributing members.
Churchbizonline
If you searched for the term (free church accounting software) at Google, then the first site you came across was probably Churchbiz. No offense to this site, but it actually doesn’t offer any church accounting options. It offers Open Office for free, but this is definitely not accounting software.
Finding free software can be challenging. Hopefully this list will give you some ideas, though it is likely that you will have to spend some money to get quality software. Good luck accounting for your church.