For Parishes
Compare ParishSOFT Accounting to QuickBooks®
QuickBooks is a great system for small business owners managing their own bookkeeping. For parishes and dioceses, however, ParishSOFT Accounting offers a decisive advantage with its built-in controls and all the functionality of a program designed specifically for Catholic churches and schools.
ParishSOFT Accounting
- Web-based, nothing to install
- Unlimited users, support, and updates
- Single database for all organizations:
- No import/export or “sync”
- All information is real time
- Proper controls by design:
- Locked down chart of accounts
- Closed periods
- User permissions by function
- Nonprofit reporting that reflects church ministry
- Designed for churches, schools, and nonprofits
- Includes diocese tools for controls, reporting, audit, support, and access
- Single license; single login
- Users browser only, accessible anywhere
- Part of fully-integrated church management software suite that integrates with parish offering program
QuickBooks
- Requires desktop “client” installed
- Per user fees, updates, and upgrades not included; separate support for hosting
- Multiple databases:
- Requires import/export for consolidation and reporting
- Requires workarounds:
- Must search and clean up “unauthorized accounts” in chart of accounts
- User can modify prior periods
- User can modify checks
- Secular reporting designed to show profit and loss
- Not designed for nonprofit (fund) accounting
- Requires export to separate database for consolidated reporting
- Requires two licenses for parish and school; requires multiple logins in some cases
- Uses Terminal Services (not Citrix, browser, other)
- No church management suite, no integration with offertory