Feature Preview: Pledges
In my new role as Elder of Technology at MBCC we’ve been discussing new Stafftool features that would help make things easier for us moving forward. One of the first things that came up was fleshing out the contributions section, beginning with support for pledges. Everyone is facing an uncertain future with the economy the way it is, and churches are no different. Pledges help a church get a feel for what the next year is going to look like financially and plan accordingly.
So, pledge support is coming soon. It’s really easy - every person’s record can have pledge records added as seen above… pledges are based on a yearly cycle, and can be set as a certain amount every week, 4 weeks, or year, and Stafftool will do the rest.
The above form, where the person pledged to give $500 every 4 weeks during 2009, looks like this when you view their contributions tab. As you can see, the total yearly pledge is calculated, and the person’s progress toward meeting that pledge is shown. Simple.
As I said, this feature is still being worked out, but this initial functionality is almost ready to go. The next post will be a preview of another feature that will help make getting these pledges set up even easier - automatic information update requests for everyone in your organization. Even if they don’t have a Stafftool account set up, as long as you have their email address you’ll be able to send them a request to keep their information up to date, including their pledge. Stay tuned!
1 year ago