Need some help managing your Church’s finances? The tough economy has many churches looking for ways to save money. To save money, it helps to track where the money is going. Your church can save money by finding some free church accounting software.

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 has no vested interest in any of the following sites. The author is trying to save the reader’s time by creating a synopsis of the offers for free church accounting software.

Churchradius.com

Church Radius is an Internet based software site. They offer free church accounting through the Internet. In other words in order to access your accounting information you need a connection to the Internet.

This is a great deal; a major drawback, however, is the fact that having all of your church’s information stored on the Internet can be dangerous. Another drawback is that web-based software is frequently plagued with annoying banner ads. A necessary evil to provide the software for free.

Sunday Software

Sunday Software is a well known site for anyone serious about church software. Unfortunately the site doesn’t actually make or sell any church accounting software. Nonetheless the site does have some great resources for churches.

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.