Donor management in ExpensePlus vs in ChurchSuite

However, you will need to choose either ExpensePlus or ChurchSuite for managing donors and claiming Gift Aid on donations.

Donor management in ExpensePlus

There are many tools in ExpensePlus to help you manage your donors and donations:

• Viewing donation reports
• Streamlined gift aid management
• Managing donor pledges
• Recording donor communications
• Tracking donor engagement
• Producing donor statements
• Tagging donors (enabling you to filter donor reports and actions by tag)
• Integration with LoveGiving (enabling you to accept online donations and Gift Aid)

By using ExpensePlus to manage Donations and Gift Aid there is no risk of anyone with access to ChurchSuite being able to see your donor-giving data (because there is no need for donations data to reside in ChurchSuite to begin with - indeed you can simply keep all your finances, donations and gift aid management all in one place inside ExpensePlus.

Donor management in ChurchSuite

So why might you choose to use ChurchSuite instead of ExpensePlus?

ChurchSuite has many of the brilliant tools you will find in ExpensePlus, including claiming Gift Aid. The main advantage of using ChurchSuite for processing and managing donations and Gift Aid is if you are already using that system to do so (because continuing will avoid you having to migrate this into ExpensePlus)

Here are some of the other advantages of using ChurchSuite:

• You can provide access for church members to view their own giving data (if you wish to do so)
• Church members can update their Gift Aid declarations themselves (this is a really handy feature!)
• You can send out donor communications directly via ChurchSuite (your church members will be already familiar with getting emails from ChurchSuite, so if you send out annual statements to donors and are happy to do this via email, then this can be timesaving feature)