Church Windows review
Bottom line
Church Windows is an integrated church management system that covers membership, scheduling, giving, fund accounting, and payroll under one subscription. Its clearest strength is included support, with unlimited phone and email help on every tier. The main cost to watch is the Web version, which runs roughly three times the Desktop monthly price, and subscriptions run on a 12-month contract. Churches that want one integrated system with responsive support and a choice between hosted and local installs should consider it.
What is Church Windows?
Church Windows is church management software from Computer Helper Publishing, built for churches that want to track membership, giving, events, accounting, and payroll in one system. It addresses a common problem for church offices: keeping congregation records, pledges, and fund bookkeeping in separate tools that do not talk to each other. The company has been building church software since 1987.
Day to day, the Membership module holds family records, group involvement, and volunteer opportunities, and it can email members and groups. Scheduler shares church calendars by email or exports them to a church website, and it assigns people to duties at events. Donations tracks pledges and giving, produces detailed reports, and emails donation statements in place of mailed ones. Accounting uses fund accounting to track each fund separately, and it imports members' giving and payroll wage and tax totals directly. Payroll generates checks, reports, and tax forms, with tax tables regularly updated and electronic filing through partner Aatrix.
Church Windows is sold on a subscription basis that depends on the number of licensed modules, the support tier, and whether the church uses the Web or Desktop version. Monthly Desktop pricing for one module on the Standard tier starts at $19, and annual Desktop subscriptions save 10%. Web versions cost more, starting at $69 per month for one module, and each additional Web seat costs $50 per month.
What sets the product apart is that support is included in every subscription tier, with unlimited phone and email help from the company's own staff. The company is the sole developer and sells directly rather than through resellers. Churches can choose a hosted Web version, where updates and backups are handled for them, or a locally installed Desktop version that they manage themselves. Training ranges from recorded videos and webinars to live online and on-site sessions.
Who it's for
- Small to mid-sized churches
- Churches that need fund accounting and payroll
- Church offices with volunteer administrators
Who should look elsewhere
- Churches that want month-to-month billing without a contract
- Organizations that need extended weekend phone support
Typical uses
- Tracking member families, groups, and volunteers
- Sending donation statements and managing pledges
- Producing fund-based church financial reports
- Running church payroll with tax form filing
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