Church Management Software and Faith-Based Software Solutions provided by Shelby Systems, Inc.

This suite of applications in Shelby v.5 is designed for use by churches, parishes, and other ministries, which track individual information. These offices typically serve as a gathering point not only for membership information, but also for information regarding prospects, attendance, family life centers, and other information concerning their congregations. Flexibility with user-defined fields and dated comments assure churches of tracking individual congregational needs and denominational concerns.

“When other churches ask what software we use – I always point them to Shelby. We have the best relationship due to their special care for their users. They continue to strive to improve and enhance their software every day. They are quick to hear the needs of the church and provide a solution. Their support line is extremely easy and fast, too. Not only is Shelby a good software product, but I find it is flexible to meet the needs of small and large churches regardless of the denomination. If you want progressive church software – Shelby is the best.”

Janie - San Antonio, TX

Attendance

Use Attendance to track as much data as your organization requires. Every study class, choir, team, and committee. Every worship service and communion. Note trends for prompt follow-up needs to help you "close the back door."

Check-In

Check-In is at the center of your check-in system plan. Improve the speed and efficiency of your attendance tracking. Seamless integration with Shelby's Membership and Attendance modules unite your organizational information with attendance statistics. Assure peace of mind by implementing nursery security capabilities with receipts, labels and time-stamped records to help you know where your members are at the touch of a button.

Contact Management

Looking for a way to improve follow-up communication with your members and visitors? Shelby’s Contact Management module can help. Easily assign and manage tasks, effectively ensure staff and volunteer accountability, and efficiently track the progress of assigned tasks. Task assignments are routed quickly via e-mail. From hospital visitation by pastoral staff to youth group projects, Shelby’s dashboard link keeps everything at your fingertips.

Contributions

Contributions equips you to record giving history and associate it with pledges, purposes and Membership information. This not only allows you to prepare giving statements for contributor tax records, but also enables you to track giving trends.

GlobaFILE

GlobaFILE is the backbone of the ShelbyCHURCH suite of modules. It serves as a central storehouse for all demographic data for individuals and organizations. This means no re-keying information multiple times. Regardless of the person's relationship to your organization, the information is accessible by all appropriate modules; even data unique to your organization with Custom Tabs of unlimited user-defined data.

Groups

With the significant growth of small groups, Shelby users needed additional tracking capability. Shelby programmers developed Groups to manage the various kinds of small group models - basic Sunday education classes, cell groups, G12, 5x5, affinity groups, and specific ministries such as Purpose Driven groups.

Membership

Membership stores information related to people who participate in your ministries and activities and who are involved in the life of the congregation. It also tracks information related to organizations, classes and committees and empowers you to communicate more effectively.

Misc. Names and Addresses

Miscellaneous Names and Addresses stores information on people and businesses that do not fit into the categories of Members or Prospects. Examples include: persons receiving benevolences, former members, personal contacts of staff members, businesses donating services, attendees at seminars, and people on sermon CD mailing lists.

Multi-User Licenses

Any organization with multiple staff members using Shelby v.5 software simultaneously needs a multi-user license to allow access to any/all of the applications in the suite of modules. Without a multi-user license, only one person at a time can access your Shelby v.5 software.

Pose n' Print

Put names with faces by using Pose n' Print to associate photos with a person's information. Print staff and regional photo directories quickly and easily. Pose n' Print integrates with Shelby GlobaFILE, Membership, Prospects, Misc. Names and Addresses and ShelbyWEBVIEW.

Prospects

Use Prospects for tracking guests and visitors who are beginning to participate in the life of your church, but who have not decided to become members. Data stored here moves with a few clicks to Membership when the person becomes a more active participant.

Reaching

Reaching works within the Membership module to serve as a contact management tool for your outreach and evangelism departments. This module also helps you manage your ministry and outreach efforts when working with individuals who might be prospects for your organization or who are active participants needing special support. It supplements the efforts of such programs as Evangelism Explosion, F.A.I.T.H, and GROW

Registrations

Vacation Bible school, youth ski trips, women's retreats, sports leagues, weekly potlucks. Sound familiar? Shelby's Registrations module empowers you to organize your events - whether they are recurring events or one-time functions. Track relevant details related to event attendees, record payments, print name badges and photo directories. Reporting options allow you to print activity rosters with event attendees and export data for personalized confirmation mailing or receipts.

Resource Calendar Plus

Managing resources for events can be quite a struggle at times. Resource Calendar can help you gain control. Assign people, places or things to specific dates and times to organize your activities. Review and approve events for specific departments. View event calendars by day, week, month or any given date range. Avoid scheduling conflicts with equipment, rooms, and even staff! All in one module. All with Shelby.

Servant

Use Servant to match volunteers with ministry positions based on spiritual gifts, passions, skills, talents and interests. Encourage accountability with training notes, e-mail-notices, and exit interviews. Increase participation in activities and grow your church.

Shelby QuickTips Reference Sheets

A quick guide to have at your fingertips whenever you need a simple reminder about the most common functions in a module.

ShelbyEZ-VIEW

Looking for a way for management to access donor information without bothering support staff? Want to be sure that they don’t have a chance to mess up your records? Give them EZ-VIEW – and everyone will be happy!

ShelbyPROFESSOR v.5 ShelbyCHURCH CD

With your multimedia-equipped PC, you can now learn the different aspects of the Shelby software at your own pace. A separate PROFESSOR is also available for the ShelbyFINANCIAL applications. By using Interactive Multimedia Computer Based Training (IMCBT), you may review lessons as many times as needed to become familiar with the different processes.

ShelbyQUERY

This feature enables you to produce reports utilizing your expertise of Microsoft SQL. It is designed to meet those unusual reporting needs for users who have some experience with report writers, especially SQL.

SSTips

SSTips is an electronic newsletter delivered directly to you via e-mail once a month. This subscription-based publication offers an extra edge to Shelby software users by communicating specific how-to details to help you more effectively complete your work.

Terminal Server Optimizer

This utility enables you to optimize the use of your Shelby v5 software. It takes advantage of programming that improves Shelby software performance in a thin-client environment where the programs are running over communication lines such as direct dial-up, Internet dial-up, or LAN.

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FREE Online Training

Receive up to 30 minutes of FREE Online Training for each Shelby software module you buy. The FREE Online training offer is valid for one year from the date of purchase and is limited to the specific Shelby module purchased. This offer excludes shelbyconnections (third-party) products and multi-user licenses. Contact training via phone at 800.654.1605 or via e-mail to take advantage of this offer.