Jordan Bogart
Articles
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Import from Web Tools
The Web Tools feature of Shepherd's Staff allows you to enter contribution batches, even when you're away from the church. When you get back to church, you'll then be able to download your contribu...
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Import/Export Shepherd's Staff Batches
The Import/Export Shepherd's Staff batch utility allows you to create an offering batch on one computer that has Shepherd's Staff, export that batch to a file, and then take that file to another co...
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Swap contributions for two envelopes
You may encounter a situation where you had two givers' envelopes transposed, and each giver has been getting credit for the other's offerings. In this case, there may be several offerings that nee...
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Top givers
The Top Givers view allows you to see the top "X" number of givers to a particular fund or set of funds. This view can be handy, as your church may want to somehow recognize these contributors, or ...
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Giving ranges
The Giving ranges view allows you to see both total and individual giving in dollar ranges that you specify over the period of time you specify. This is helpful to be able to see how many givers yo...
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Sum by contributor, fund, year
The Sum by contributor, fund, year report is a view that will show you contributions from each contributor, to each fund, for each year they gave. Every Contributor/Fund/Year combination gets its o...
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Sum by contributor, year
The Sum by contributor, year view is a view that will show you each contributor, and the total that they contributed in each year. The data grid for this view will show you the envelope number and ...
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Sum by fund, year (across)
The Sum by fund, year (across) view shows similar information to the Sum by fund, year view, but instead of each year having its own row, each fund has its own row, and each year has its own column...
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Pledges
A pledge is a record you can enter for a contributor that lets that contributor establish a giving goal to a particular fund over a specific period of time. Pledges help the church in setting budge...
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Batches
The Batch utility in the Contributions module of Shepherd's Staff allows you to enter multiple offerings quickly, compartmentalize workflow, and even work from home. Offering Batches let you type o...