Count Sunday's offering once and it becomes the bank deposit, every household's giving record, and the right line in the right fund. Online giving, year-end statements, pledge campaigns and the pastor's housing allowance paperwork come out of the same books, which are GAAP-compliant and double-entry.
Free 30-Day TrialThe counters fill in a tally sheet. The treasurer types the deposit into the accounting program. Someone else keys every envelope into a separate donor database. By January the donor totals and the bank don't agree, and nobody can find out why.
A member gives $500 "for the roof". Six months later nobody can prove that money was spent on the roof, because the books never kept it apart. An auditor, a denomination or the congregation will eventually ask.
Two counters enter each envelope, check and the loose plate cash.
One deposit hits the bank register. Each gift lands in its fund and on the member's record.
In January, email every member their IRS-compliant giving statement in one run.
The offering count is the only place anyone types a gift. The deposit, the fund balances and the member giving totals all come from it, so they always agree with the bank. If the count was wrong, unpost it, correct it and post it again.
A count screen built for the counting room: pick each member by name or envelope number, choose the fund, mark cash or check, and watch the currency, check and per-fund totals add up as you type.
General, Building, Missions and Benevolence funds are ready on day one, and you can add your own. Designated funds carry a donor restriction, so the Statement of Activities shows them as "with donor restrictions" until you spend and release them.
Each member's statement lists every gift with its fund and includes the written-acknowledgment wording the IRS requires, including "intangible religious benefits". Email the whole congregation in one run; members who prefer paper are listed for you to print.
Record "the Smiths pledge $1,200 to the Building Fund this year" and progress updates from their gifts to that fund. Campaign totals show pledged versus received, and each pledge shows whether it is on pace for the time of year.
Your own giving page — a link and a QR code for the bulletin — where members give by card or bank transfer, once or monthly. Gifts run through your own Stripe account and land in your books and on the giver's statement automatically, so there's no giving platform to reconcile against.
Record the board's designation, and BizBooks prints the resolution for your minutes and a year-end statement for the minister's tax return. It estimates the excludable amount (the lowest of designated, spent, and fair rental value) and warns if the resolution was adopted too late.
Giving to date against the same period last year, month-by-month charts, the number of giving households and the average gift. There is also a list of members who gave last year but not yet this year, for pastoral follow-up.
No. BizBooks Pro is full accounting software. It includes the church-specific money workflows (offerings, funds, giving statements, pledges, housing allowance) so you don't need a second program just to track giving. Attendance, small groups and child check-in stay in whatever ChMS you already use.
Yes. They include your organization's name and EIN, each cash gift with its date and amount, a description (but no value) of non-cash gifts, and the required statement that no goods or services were provided other than intangible religious benefits. If a donor received something in return, the statement shows its value and the deductible amount.
Each restricted fund carries a donor restriction, and each offering posts a separate deposit line for each restriction group. Your Statement of Activities shows those gifts in the "with donor restrictions" column until you release them for their purpose.
We add nothing. Gifts go through your own Stripe account at Stripe's published rates, straight into your bank — there's no platform cut and no monthly giving fee like the dedicated giving apps charge. Givers can also choose to cover the processing fee, which most do when asked.
Within about half an hour. BizBooks Pro runs on your own computer rather than in the cloud, so it collects completed gifts from Stripe on a schedule while the program is open, and you can press "Check for new gifts" any time. The giving page itself stays online around the clock whether your office computer is on or not.
Yes. Turn on the Preschool & Childcare Edition in the same company for tuition billing, subsidies and parent tax statements, or keep the school in its own company file.
It's included on Pro and every Nonprofit plan. There are no per-member or per-donor fees.
Free for 30 days, with the full Church Edition included.