Category: Credit Card Processing
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Are These 3 Church Software Services on a Collision Course?
There are lots of church software services that are doing great things to serve staff and congregants alike. Increasingly, I see these 3 software categories on a collision course. It used to be that you’d have to find a different vendor for each of these: electronic giving church management software (ChMS) mobile app But already […]
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Could this Free App Make Recording Church Offerings Easier?
Recording church offerings before it all goes to the bank can be complicated for portable churches. Here are a couple of ideas to make the job easier and more secure for your Offering Counting Team. Portable churches have a special challenge when it comes to recording church offerings. You have to collect the offering, count […]
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Get These 3 Free Products from Google for Nonprofits
Google has plenty of free* products generally, but there are a few premium services they offer only to qualifying nonprofits. Check out these 3 free things you get from Google for Nonprofits: This just in: since publishing this post, I’ve discovered that Google for Nonprofits has recently updated their process. Now you must register with […]
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What Do I Do with My Church 1099-K?
Most of you church planters are getting your church 1099-K right about now. Every year I get at least one frantic email asking about what the church should do. Here’s what you need to know: What is a Church 1099-K? The short answer is ‘just information’. It’s simply the total of all the credit card […]
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How to Use a Prepaid Card for Petty Cash
It is essential to keep good financial records for your church, including having a reimbursement system that creates paper trail for all church expenses. But what happens if a staff or volunteer can’t front the expense and wait to get reimbursed? Using a prepaid card for petty cash may just solve your dilemma. I prefer […]
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You Need a Church Reimbursement System
You need a church reimbursement system to create a clear record or paper trail of all the expenses for your church plant. If you don’t, your church could lose its nonprofit status. Your church is a nonprofit, which means that all of its cash & assets need to be used for nonprofit purposes. If you don’t […]
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Church PayPal Plugin for WordPress
The following is a guest post by Dave Phillips of Passion 4 Planting, a church plant project manager and coder extraordinaire. Wouldn’t it be great if you could start accepting donations from your church plant website without hiring a programmer? You can! All you need is a WordPress-based website and a plugin that’s connected to […]
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How to Do a Church Plant Name Change
Sometimes you just can’t get around a church plant name change. Here’s what you need to do. There are a couple of things that might be forcing the name change: You incorporated early with a placeholder name and now you’ve settled on the permanent name You incorporated early with a name that is a complete […]
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3 Keys to Handling Church Donor Info
Part 4 in a 4-part series on How to Count Church Offerings In America today, the information that comes through the church offering plate needs to be safeguarded as much as the money itself. Here are 3 keys to handling church donor info: Keep it Organized At the end of the year, your tax-savvy donors […]