Managing a Church’s finances can be extremely challenging, especially on a limited budget. To make things worse, the economy is currently down meaning your church probably isn’t receiving as many donations as before. Finding some free church accounting software could save your church money.

Many Internet sites offer free church management software. However, these offers can be misleading. The following is a list of web pages that offer free church software along with any potential hidden costs.

The author of this article is not the owner of any of these sites, the author is simply trying to raise awareness.

Churchradius.com

Church Radius offers some free, web based church accounting software. This software requires connection to the Internet.

Church Radius’ software appears to be genuinely free (not a bad deal!). One major consideration is the fact that all of your Church’s valuable data will be stored on the Internet – not the most secure place in the world. Also, free online software is usually riddled with banner ads.

Sunday Software

Sunday Software is a useful page, but they don’t actually make any church accounting software. The site does have some useful links and is well established. This site has some great resources for children.

Churchtrac.com

Churchtrac makes and sells church accounting software. The software appears very user friendly. They even offer the software for free for up to 100 contributing members. In other words when you start accounting for your 101st member, they start charging you.

Churchbizonline

Churchbizonline is actually what shows up first if you type in “free church accounting software” into Google (at least it was the day in which this article was written). The site actually only contains a link to Open Office. Open Office is the free version of Microsoft Office. It has nothing to do with church accounting software.

Finding free software can be challenging. Hopefully this list will give you some ideas, though it is likely that you will have to spend some money to get quality software. Good luck accounting for your church.