MinistryPlatform isn't just great software. We do Church!
In every shape and size and form, our people know what it takes to help your church with data problems of all sizes. And we use that knowledge to deliver the most flexible Church Management System on the market!
Here’s the church
Here’s the steeple
Open the doors …
We are all about the people. The same way you are. The same way Christ is.
Our heart is to help you serve and bless the people that God has brought to your church. We want to give you the tools to see how they are engaging, who might be falling through the cracks, what their stories are, and to ultimately help usher them into their next step toward Christlikeness.
We can help you manage complex family scenarios with ease.
We can help you to track milestones and accomplishments.
We can show you at-a-glance engagement levels, participation, and activities (or lack thereof).
And if our system doesn’t happen to have that one field you need to track important data right out of the box, don’t worry!
We’re customizable – from fields to pages.
You already have a way of doing church. We don’t want to teach you a new one. So now you can focus on what’s really important: The People!
Groups are where people can gather, learn, grow, and serve. They are the cornerstone of discipleship, accountability, and ministry. Groups are important to us because that’s where the people are.
So. Yep. We do Groups
In MinistryPlatform speak, the word “group” can refer to any collection of people. And the possibilities are endless:
If you want to track Sunday School classes, small groups, and leadership studies … MP can do that. If you want to track usher teams, greeters, and worship band … MP can do that. Basically, if you can dream it, MP can track it.
And we’ve got all kinds of fun bells & whistles to take your groups management to the next level:
Our check-in system is not just for kids!! (But it’s also for kids!!)
We have an entire suite that helps you check-in the young, the old, the new, the seasoned, and everything in between. So many customizations available that we can hardly list them all, but ok twist our arms, we’ll give it a shot. You can customize:
There are so many things our events can do, we figured it’d be a shorter list to tell you what they can’t! :)
Events: Your church has them. And so we support them.
We’ve got you covered from everything that happens on weekends (Sunday school, worship services, new visitor classes) to conferences, retreats, breakfasts, VBS, marriage seminars, camps, and so on, I think you get the idea.
And every event can be configured to include any combination of the following:
We’re kinda proud of all we’ve built into our events and would love a chance to show them off. Sign up for a tour!
Church isn’t the place for stagnant faith.
We want to see lives changed, growth happening, people coming to know Jesus more intimately and living their lives the way he would want them to.
And many of the steps that it takes to get to life change can be tracked, making it easier for the church to see where their people are in these processes and where they may need assistance or to be ushered into their next step of Christlikeness.
That’s where we come in.
This is one of the areas where our system really shines!
See, reports are great. They are. In fact we give you over 200 of them right out of the box. But typically reports will get saved as a digital file and/or printed. And then what?
That’s why we loooooooove our Advanced Search. You can filter data the same way a report would, but do it right inside the platform so you can see the results – and then – the magic happens! You can select some or all of these resulting records and take immediate action on them: Email them, text them, send a task regarding them to another person on staff, filter them further, run demographics, export them, save them, share them with another user, print labels, … the options are seemingly endless.
But the point is that the results are actionable.
When you run these Advanced Searches, you have in essence sliced and diced your data real time. And then you can do something with it! Liiiiiikkke: Setting up a notification.
If Advanced Searches are the peanut butter, Notifications are the jelly.
A Notification can send an email to a user, or a group of users, with a snapshot of the resulting data and links back into our system. It can also send an email to the people that are the resulting data, using an email template and a schedule you determine ahead of time. For instance:
All of these can be accomplished with an Advanced Search and a Notification!
When you start using these on a regular basis, you’re gonna be like, “Report? Report, who?”
We like our system the way we like our baked potatoes: Fully loaded!
You get over 200 reports on day one. And more than half of them integrate directly with a customizable selection of records. That pretty much translates into infinite reporting possibilities!
All of our reports are exportable into a variety of file types. And we love coming up with new reports every few months to help make ministry easier, it’s truly one of our favorite things.
And because all of our reports are built on top of SSRS (Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services), that means they are customizable. And third parties can design reports for MP!
Want a comprehensive, alphabetized list of all of our reports? We can hook you up.
But you may want to settle in and get your scrolling finger warmed up first. It’s a long list. :D
We’ve got your contributions covered from scanning or manually entering them into MP, to exporting journal entries and bank reconciliations to your accounting system, and all the stuff in between like:
You can scan checks or envelopes (or both!) and the image files are easily accessible in the donation record in MP.
And! Our security permissions can get pretty granular (down to the field level!) so you decide who can see, edit, or manage anything stewardship related. Or who shouldn’t.
We know you want to be just as diligent tracking funds as you are with spending them. Our system can help!
MinistryPlatform provides a powerful set of features that allow churches to focus on ministry.
We chose to start with a platform because it allows churches the freedom to address unknown requirements in unknown ways. The Platform allows new fields, tables, and structures to address problems that each church may need to solve. By focusing on dealing with the data problems, we can release the church to focus on ministering to people.
The Platform also allows almost any functionality almost anywhere you need it. We say “almost” to cover our bases, but seriously … this is awesome!
The fully integrated API allows churches to expand “beyond the platform,” and our ecosystem of integrations allows the church to have a single consolidated silo of data, while allowing a myriad of applications.
MinistryPlatform provides churches the power and flexibility they need to address the ever-changing landscape of ministry.
