Giving: your church's giving records in one place

Giving keeps your church's giving records in PraisePad: every gift with its date, fund and how it was given, cash and checks counted by two people, year-end statements in a few clicks, and reports for the pastor and the finance committee. You keep your giving provider: bring its gifts in from Planning Center or from its export file.

Turning it on

An owner turns Giving on in Settings, under Modules. It's included. The Giving page then walks through four steps: how your church takes gifts, your funds, who can see giving, and bringing this year's gifts in, so January's statements cover the whole year.

What you see

• Giving managers see every gift and giver, statements, reports and settings, once their two-step code is entered. Only an owner makes someone a Giving manager.
• Owners, admins and a finance committee see totals: this month against last year, by fund against budget, households giving. No names.
• Counters see the batch in front of them and nothing else.

The Giving home

For a manager: this month so far with a chart of the last weeks (last year dashed behind), each fund against its budget with a line for where the month should be by today, the latest gifts, and a list of what needs a person: gifts to name, batches to verify, statements out of date.