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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have been working with churches and their church management systems for nearly three years and one of the things that I find interesting is the fact that for some churches the ministries use of the central database is optional!  The reasons vary from: the system does not do what we need it to do; it is too hard to use; there is not enough ...

This is a great story by someone who evidently goes to a church without Fellowship One. It is a story about The Church with the T-Rex in its lobby. Would someone attending your church have a similar experience? Many times we are so familiar with our church and the experience that we have in it that we do not take into account the experience of ...

In my last blog, I commented about the difficulty of a church writing its own software.  In my humble opinion, an even worst business practice than a church writing its own software is modifying a software package that was designed to support another industry or feature set.  This is just a bad idea, period.  I remember trying to do ...

I am always skeptical of a church that even contemplates writing its own Church Management System (ChMS).  In fact, even before I was involved with the spin out of what was known as Switch at the time from Fellowship Church, I questioned the church’s efforts of writing its own software.  It is a complex and expensive ...

Fellowship Technologies recently released our new reporting functionality we call Reports 2.0.  Reports 2.0 is our foundational work that will help move Fellowship One reporting to a whole new level.  This new release really leverages the power of AJAX so that the screens do not refresh when reporting parameters are changed or ...