Jordan Bogart
Articles
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Check Payments
A check payment is any disbursement of money from a bank account for which a physical check is written. They are similar to deposits in that one side of the transaction will always include the bank...
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Entering Contributions
Entering Offering Batches is similar to how you enter offerings in Shepherd's Staff. It is a simplified and easy to use version of the Offering batches screen. Entering a name or envelope number i...
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Pledge progress
The Pledge progress report provides a report that will let you see how your contributors are coming along with their pledges. This report will show you how much a person has pledged (committed to g...
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Add/Edit Offering
Offering records represent the contributions your contributors have made to your church. This article walks you through creating and editing individual offering records. Note: If you're trying to a...
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Behavior
The Behavior view of Shepherd's Staff allows you to look at the activity of your givers in several different ways. Knowing this information can help you reach out to contributors for different reas...
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Sum by fund, year
The Sum by fund, year view is a view that will show you total contributions to each fund for each year. The view will show the year, the fund, the number of contributors you had to that fund during...
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Attendance Dashboard
The Attendance Dashboard provides a quick snapshot of your Attendance data. This includes information about attendance types and different attendance events, and can show you a cross-section of you...
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LCMS Youth List
Each year the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) Office of Rosters and Statistics compiles a list of youth from each congregation who are aged 5 to 17–1/2, and their anticipated year of graduati...
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My batch numbers reset back to 1. Will this cause any problems? [FAQ]
No. The batch number is just an internal counter in Shepherd's Staff, and it doesn't cause a problem if there are multiple batches with the same number. The date of the batch is the more important ...
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Introduction to Events
Events are the heart of the Scheduler module. They allow you to track the things going on in the church and make sure that rooms, inventory, and contacts do not overlap. An Event is defined as any ...