# ChurchInfo

Free software to help churches track members, families, groups, pledges and payments. This is an updated version of Infocentral (www.infocentral.org), with enhancements to track pledges and payments by family, automate donations by bank draft and credit card, and facilitate an annual pledge drive. This is an active development program with a commitment to frequent, stable releases.

A demo version is available here: https://host218.ipowerweb.com/~churchdb/churchinfo-1.1.2/Default.php. Feel free to play with this database to see if ChurchInfo will work for your church. The passwords for this demo database are: “demoadmin” for ChurchInfo Admin, “seemoney” for Typical Financial, and “nomoney” for Typical NotFinancial.

## Family

A family is a group of people who are treated as a unit. The obvious example would be a married couple and perhaps their children. The family members do not need to have the same last name, but they should live at the same address to receive newsletters and financial statements. Pledges and payments are tracked by family. Some churches call a Family a “Pledging Unit”.

## Person

A person is an individual associated with the church. A Person can be a member of a Family, and a person can also be a member of one or more Groups. A Person has individual contact information, such as a cell phone number and an email address. A Person also has a relationship with the church as “Member”, or “Guest”.

## Group

A group is a collection of people, such as the choir or the stewardship committee. Groups have many uses. Here are a few ideas: committees, church school classes, covenant groups, baby sitters. The possibilities are endless. ChurchInfo makes it easy to contact all the members of a group by letter or email.

## Pledges and Payments

Pledges and Payments are tracked for each fiscal year, with automated support for reminder letters. There is also automated support for generating donation acknowledgement letters for tax purposes based on the calendar year. The entry of payments is highly automated, with support for check and credit card scanners, automated deposit slip printing and electronic submission of credit card and EFT payments.

## Naturally Networked

ChurchInfo runs on any server that supports PHP and mySQL. The server may be in-house or at an ISP anywhere on the Internet. Any number of people may access the database simultaneously.

## Permissions

Access to financial data may be restricted to one or just a few individual users as appropriate. Most users just need access to the Person, Group and Family information to look up phone numbers, generate address labels and send email.

## Bug Reports, Feature Requests, Discussion Groups

Feel free to contact the development team using these links to this project on the SourceForge server: Bug report Feature request Support request Discussion groups