Are you a Fellowship One customer, but you ask yourself whether your church is really using the system to its full potential? Have I got a deal for you!Many of our customers have been asking us to sponsor a users’ and developers’ conference and so this year we are. It is being held May 17-19 in Frisco, Texas (just north of Dallas). We ...

Last night I received a call from the field from one of our Delivery Managers. For Fellowship Technologies, a Delivery Manager is a consultant who works with a church partner (customer) to assist them with their implementation of Fellowship One. The purpose of the call was that the Delivery Manager wanted me to know that the church partner could ...

Sometimes we come across a church that puts a halt to a software selection process because they come to the realization that they may not need a new church management software solution. Why? Because they find out that they are underutilizing what they currently have. Of course, many times they are encouraged to not look for another solution by ...

I recently returned from a lunch with the head of IT for a mega-church here in Dallas, who also happens to be one of our customers.  One of his parting comments was one I have heard him say several times before about the size of his IT staff versus that of the typical mega-church in America.   The comment refers to the fact that many ...

In part 3 of my 3 part series on software cost consideration I will address the value-based pricing concept and explore why the value that the software provides is more important than the out-of-pocket direct costs, or for that matter, the overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).When considering what software solution to buy, the real measurement to ...

In part 2 of my 3 part series on software cost consideration I will address the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) concept and why the price of software itself, whether it is a SaaS (Software as a Service) or of the client-server flavor, is just a portion of what needs to be taken into account when considering your software alternatives. To start ...

This blog entry is the first of three planned blog entries concerning Fellowship One pricing. Subsequent entries will address the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) concept and a look at the Value-based Pricing (VBP) concept of software. At the recent NACBA conference in Chicago, Jeff Pelletier and I conducted a break-out workshop about ...

When a church considers its brand, does it ever think about its church management system?  Often, when a church thinks of its brand, it thinks about its outreach message—meaning the logo, web site, and marketing, but rarely does it consider its church management system.  Quite often, the church management system is just referred to ...

After recently watching several churches modify their process for children’s check-in to accommodate our check-in module, it occurred to me how much “queuing theory” comes into play.  How a church establishes its check-in queue can make all the difference whether a family believes they are waiting a long time or ...

A fundamental building block that will allow a church to better care for its people is better quality information.  However, if the church’s ministries are allowed to NOT use the church management system and its underlying database of people, they will end up keeping valuable information somewhere else.  That central database is ...