Church Windows vs Aplos Comparison

It definitely makes church management way easier than doing it manually.

May seem quite too complicated to use for older users

I like the church lingo, and it's easy to understand.

I haven't come across anything up to this point. We're only six months old at this point; maybe as time goes on, I'll have more to say.

It shows us the breakdown of what coming in an expensed.

It's not really a church program for church business you have to create all of the accounts and hope you doing it correctly or things will not process correctly and you can't delete files once the number is used that you created to associate with the file.

Menu layout; integration between accounting and contributions; like the ability to enter a person in contribution management and it automatically gets entered in people database; reports are what I need; flexibility in making improvements to the system; they listen well; ease of use, don't necessarily have to be a CPA to use it.

the refreshing after entering a transaction takes 2 or 3 seconds instead of a split second :-)

Thanks for the positive feedback, William. We have done a lot of work since your original comment to improve the speed of the software, so I hope it is now lightening fast for you.

Aplos software is simple to use and the fund accounts can be easily customized and updated to fit your churches budget categories. Great for volunteer church treasurers. You don't have to be an accountant to use this software. After populating the people management tool and the account set up, all you have to do is enter contributions and maintain the check registry. All of the calculations are...

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We have had some compatability issues with Internet Explorer 9 in regard to downloading reports. However, the technical support folks at Aplos were quick to respond with a fix. We are a small church so I'm not sure if it would meet all the needs of a larger church. Aplos is expanding their capabilities.

This is extremely affordable software for everyday Church needs. Their customer support is extremely helpful. Interface is easy to manage.

I haven't had any issues with donor management and this software. It's a great purchase for organizations.

What I like most about the Aplos software are the many features it offers that make the business aspect of our ministry so much easier to handle than it was before. Within Aplos, we get the extremely beneficial multi-level fund accounting, donor management, event registration, website building, etc. As we are growing, we are also applying other features of the software. It just keeps getting better!

Initial integration of this software into our church usage had its "hiccups" but not because of Aplos. It was a "learn-as-you-go" process for me.

I love how this is specifically for churches. So it uses church language and makes it easy to organize everything.

It doesn't have as much functionality as Quickbooks Online. Quickbooks Online has a better budgeting feature and you can do more with it.

Ease of use, affordability, cloud environment

Reports do not pull what I want (very few other software programs do however - I'm picky)

Features, usability. I am still learning but the software helps provide great clarity for the management of account of our church.

Not too sure. Still learning how to use the software and maximise on its features. Will keep you informed if i have some ideas. Happy to share.

Thank you, Gurpreet, for the review! We are happy to hear that you like our product and customer service.

It's obvious the creators of Aplos designed this platform with church accounting in mind. I really like how flexible and customizable it is!

I do wish the reporting and descriptive graphics were a little more dynamic. This would help when presenting budgets to staff, boards or investors.

Aplos has allowed our HR client, a large regional church group, to continue their mission during covid with operational and financial efficiency.

The one drawback with Aplos is the initial setup. This requires a serious time and manpower commitment to ensure that everything is setup and functionally correctly. Once we went live, things ran very smoothly.

The software is easy to use and not too expensive. Minimal accounting or bookkeeping experience is needed.

I saw the software worked great when our church was small. As it grew the amount of accounting required a program that could keep track of individual versus batch transactions.

Written for churches by individuals from church/nonprofit world. Training webinars and videos are excellent. Customer service is quickly responsive. Best I have used in 30 years

No obvious short comings. They are continuing to develop the product and partnering with other products integration

I would recommend this to any church that has been using other accounting software and has been having issues. This software is designed to make your life easier.

Pricing plans might not fit certain churches as 1 user is the cheaper plan.

I am the Treasurer for our non profit church. We are able to easily keep records for our contributors, expenses, and income. The software is simple but effective.

I have yet to try the bank reconcilation and payroll but I am sure it will integrate nicely once I spend the time to get to know more of the product.

We made the transition from paper to online accounting via Aplos. It is very easy to make entries and retrieve reports, keep up with contributions and even church membership.

Users with little computer experience could be put off a bit but that would be the case with any online accounting system.

Thank you for the valuable review, Don! We appreciate the fact you're enjoying Aplos.

It's ease of use. For the church staff with no accountant that has to handle finances via committee, Aplos is near perfect. Reports are easy, data entry is easy, reconciling is easy.

In order to track who gives what, you will need to duplicate your entire database of people into it first, then maintain the duplication. This ultimately led us in another direction. If there was a way to tie in an already-existing database (we use Elvanto), then we would have been sold.

It is online, and mostly attractively put together. The support is integrated into the interface. It is available through most any computer with a web browser.

It is not a robust accounting system. For example, there is no way to track a group of Memorial Funds within one overall Memorial Fund. They offered suggestions for work arounds to this, but the general response for this and most other questions I had was, "Unfortunately, we don't do that." They claimed on their marketing materials that you could track attendance at various worship services, but you...

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Had the privilege to do some work for my church and used this software to help with the funding and loved it. It was very user-friendly, had lots of features and widgets to make our lives easier.

Apart from the program itself, it doesn't have a lot of ways for one to do some customization on templates and different stuff you'd like to do, but overall, great buy!

I like the fact that it is an on-line accounting product and I can access it from home, on the road, or wherever I am. The reports are excellent for our use. I have had very good customer support and the pricing is very acceptable.

Have made suggestions for product features, but they have apparently not been a priority or they haven't felt the features were needed

To do the accounting for a small, independent church, I find APLOS to be very easy to use, forgiving of mistakes and changes, reliable, and very well designed. It has done everything that we have asked of it! Never has there been any lost data.

Usually, I can think of ways to improve a product but I have never once thought: "I wish that APLOS would do this differently."

I love that this software is cloud based. All entries are automatically saved and easy to correct or delete. Because it is "in the cloud" I can access from anywhere.

Instead of using accounting terminology, they use simpler words or methods. It all makes sense, but I had to get used to words such as tags and purposes.

Thank you, April, for the review! We are happy to hear that you like our product and our tech support.

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When I came on board as treasurer we were using the software inefficiently and not taking advantage of functionalities that would help us. I worked with the team asking questions about my needs and they translated those needs to functionality. Within a very short time I created funds and tracked financials that gave a much better picture of our finances.

I was not around for implementation so I am unsure if the problems were the Aplos or GVC team related. Now I understand the software, it is critical to plan the uses than implement .