ParishSOFT Review - why 4 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Mar 12, 2022

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What is ParishSOFT?

ParishSOFT is a cloud-based church management software designed for effective coordination and ease of administrative burden of churches. The software comes with features such as:

• Family Suite: ParishSOFT provides a family Suite that gives access to member records, online giving history, program management, and more in real-time from any device, any time.
• Accounting: With ParishSOFT, Church admins have instant access to any internet-enabled devices financial records and reports. This feature eliminates the complicated, stressful, and time-consuming church bookkeeping.
• Giving for Parishes: This feature makes it easy and convenient for parishioners to provide with online giving. This feature enables members to securely offer one-time or recurring contributions from their desktops, smartphones, or tablets.
• Facility Scheduler: With this feature, Church admins can organize all parish events, facilities, and equipment with ease and confidence. Church admins can track everything happening at their parish and make sure its running smoothly.
• ParishCast: Church admins can engage members with ParishCast, ParishSOFTs rapid notification system. This feature enables admins to quickly relay information from routine announcements and emergency communications to parishioners the way they want to see them.

ParishSOFT is a church management software that started in 1998. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. The company has a workforce of up to 200 employees.

Who is it best for?

The software is a useful solution for faith-based organizations of all sizes and a variety of types. It can be used by churches, parishes, educational institutions, and dioceses etc. Diocese of Knoxville is among the notable clients of the software.

Main features and functionalities

The software maintains entire member history including current contact data and family relations and facilitates quick creation of personalized emails. It allows creation of pictorial directory for all members or a ministry group in addition to generation of census reports. It also facilitates tracking of all contributions, accepting on-time and recurring gifts offline and online, and sending personalized letters to members.

Parish Data System helps in the creation of personalized contribution reports and generation of printed certificates for different sacraments. It also helps in the tracking of student enrollments, attendance, service and permanent records. Other capabilities include background checks for all adults, electronic storage of all sacramental register information, pledge management, and others.

What is the actual cost?

ITQlick pricing score is 6 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for ParishSOFT.

Pros

• ParishSOFT makes posting contributions fast and accurate
• End-users have all Parish information in one platform that they can access from anywhere
• The IQ feature is excellent and very easy to use and create reports

Cons

• Users complain of the inability to create simpler, data-specific reports with the user-chosen fields feature

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of ParishSOFT vs alternative software solutions.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Is ParishSOFT right for you or your business?

Pastors/Church admins seeking to drive their churches missions through technology and services will fit well with ParishSOFT. ParishSOFT is purpose-built for Catholic organizations by Catholics. ParishSOFT enables parishes and dioceses to enlarge their ministries through an integrated suite of software solutions. Examples of parishes/churches with ParishSOFT are St. Vincent de Paul Parish, Cathedral of St. Peter, Diocese of Sioux Falls, SD, Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish Cambria Heights, NY, St. Cecilia, Cincinnati, OH, etc.