A Quick Look at Reporting for Churches

Put Your Data to Good Use with Reporting

With effective reporting, you can use the information stored in your church database to transform the way you do ministry.

What Can You Do with Reporting

What is reporting? It is so much more than viewing a couple charts on attendance, or pulling a financial report  once a year for your annual meeting.

Reporting affects your daily operations (from your ability to communicate well with your members to showing them they’re valued). It also helps your ministry in making long term decisions about finances and classes. Plus, reporting can cut time spent on administrative tasks, from mailing, to coordinating volunteers.

Here are just a few examples of how ministries use Servant Keeper reports:

• Creating birthday reports
• Creating event and class rosters
• Printing directories (in a variety of layouts) in seconds
• Printing out name tags or mailing labels of an entire list of people
• Tracking attendance patterns by different variables including age, family, event
• Giving history
• Communion tracking
• Appointments scheduled and completed by staff

Again, that’s just to name a few. But from that small sampling, it’s apparent that reporting can be used in every area of your ministry, by the majority of your ministry team, from the pastor to Sunday School teachers.

In addition to a wide array of reports at your fingertips, you should also look for these additional features:

User-Friendly Reporting That’s Fast

Reporting in Servant Keeper is fast and easy. The user simply chooses a report, selects the options they want for the report, and in seconds, the report is produced.

Customizable Reports

In Servant Keeper, reports can also be completely customized to fit your ministry. Add and remove fields, change the layout, update styling and more. Do whatever you need to make the report more relevant and useful to your ministry. No matter what you need to report on, you can edit a pre-built template, or build your own in Servant Keeper, and report on almost any field you track!

Shareable Report Templates

When you build reports in Servant Keeper, you can also share your templates with other Servant Keeper users. So your work helps other ministries, and likewise, you can benefit from others’ reports.

Share reports with other Servant Keeper users.

Save as PDF and Share with Others

With Servant Keeper’s built-in PDF writer, all reports can be saved as PDF files, or emailed to anyone the user desires increasing the overall power and usefulness of the database. Plus, you can secure the reports you send so they can’t be opened without a password.

Dashboard Reporting

Servant Keeper dashboards allow your ministry leaders to see a real-time view of metrics that can reflect your ministry’s health. See monthly income, your budget, pledges, and more.

Dashboards presents information on your ministry without tying it to individual members and givers. This allows you to view and discuss trends in your ministry while maintaining anonymity of your members.

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