Free Church Accounting
Mar 31st, 2009 by Nathan Jackson
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.
Fortunately, the Internet is full of sites that claim to be giving away free software, even for churches. However, sometimes these sites can be a waste of time. Below is a list of sites that offer free church software 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 useful page, but they don’t actually make any church accounting software. The site does have some useful links and is well established. This site has some great resources for children.
Churchtrac.com
Churchtrac’s software appears very user friendly. They also offer free software for small churches. In other words, if your church has less than 100 members the software is free. After 100 members the software is no longer free.
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.
