Best Way to Grow Church Offerings
Managing church offerings and tithes used to mean simply collecting cash and checks in an offering plate, counting it manually, then depositing it at...
When you first considered online giving for your church, were you mostly motivated by stagnant giving?
Nothing to be ashamed of; everybody was. It might have seemed like it was going to make all things related to giving easier, but it probably didn’t turn out that way for you.
Unfortunately, the very thing that made giving easy for your members created a nightmare for financial staff:
The truth is, all of these deficits were necessary evils in the early days of online giving.
When any new technology is introduced, users know that first iterations will be lacking. That’s why we have the bell curve of technology adoption.
Yet in the world of online giving for churches, platforms may have gotten slicker and simpler for givers, but the original and significant challenges for back office staff haven’t changed much. The platforms’ inner workings operate on the same fundamental structure and many of the above-named problems persist.
You may not like it, but what can you do?
It didn’t make sense to us to recreate the same old wheel. So, we at Vision2 set out to solve these and other issues.
Just one example? At Saddleback, fewer than 6 people can now process their weekend offering by the end of day on Monday, even though gifts have dramatically increased. Vision2 automates the processing of their checks and cash, too.
In our research, we discovered that the Executive Leadership doesn’t always know what’s going on behind the scenes with the church’s online giving platform. That’s why we’re sharing the story of an Executive Pastor who peeled back the layers of pain his current giving solution (that he’d inherited) was inflicting on his staff and his givers.
When Jim realized that his team’s time and frustration were real but hard-to-calculate expenses, he set out to uncover all the hidden factors impacting the church’s bottomline. He discovered that many of those first-generation limitations still existed everywhere … except at Vision2.
You can read about his journey by downloading our new before-and-after case study of a typical Vision2 client, Giving Growing Pains.
Managing church offerings and tithes used to mean simply collecting cash and checks in an offering plate, counting it manually, then depositing it at...
[This is the final post in our How to Bring Your Church Back Office to the Future series. View Part 1 here]
If you’re new to online giving, you may wonder if churches pay credit card fees. The answer is YES … and sometimes NO.