Jordan Bogart
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Task Manager
The Task Manager is a utility for creating task templates, automatically generating tasks from your templates, and completing tasks once they are done. You may also delete tasks that are no longer ...
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Registering Your Database
Registering your database is required if you plan to use WebTools or upload a backup to CTS for safekeeping. Doing this will also tell you if you have an active or expired support contract. It will...
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Add Users
Once you have purchased Shepherd’s Staff, you must choose someone to serve as the system administrator. The system administrator has full access to all functions and utilities in Shepherd’s Staff. ...
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Events, Rooms, and Inventory
With Scheduler, you can prevent conflicts with rooms and resources and improve communication in your congregation. Use Scheduler to prevent conflicts of room and resource usage; schedule recurrent...
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Accounting for Churches
There are several important differences between accounting for nonprofit organizations (such as churches) and business accounting. One of the main differences is how income and expenses are recogni...
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Envelopes
Using Contributions to manage offerings parallels the “real-world,” manual way of doing it. Keeping accurate offering records, knowing the status of pledges, and staying in touch with your contribu...
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Multi-Purpose Check-In
Shepherd’s Staff Check-In is also used for securely checking in children for childcare during a church service and provides verification at pick-up time to make sure the correct person is picking u...
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Record Attendance
The Attendance module records attendance for any number of events (services, meetings, etc.), displays attendance statistics and history, and produces summary and detailed reports. Attendance utili...
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Households
Membership starts with adding Households. Every person in Shepherd’s Staff must reside in a Household. All information you must enter in order to create a new Household is labeled in blue on this t...
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Church Dashboard
The Church Dashboard display is meant to provide a quick snapshot of your church’s current data and statistics, displaying recent data from the Membership, Attendance, Contributions, and Finance mo...