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# Parish Data System

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> Church software that allows Catholic parishes to implement stewardship campaigns, manage member details, and contribution information.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **2.7/5** by 15 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses Parish Data System?

Since 1978, Parish Data System has served Catholic parishes, schools, and dioceses worldwide.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **2.7/5** | 15 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 2.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support Software | 3.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 2.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 2.6/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 40% | (4/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: ACS Technologies
- **Founded**: 1978

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: $72.00
- **Pricing model**:  (Free Trial)
- **Target Audience**: 11–50
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- Attendance Tracking Software
- Donation Management Software
- Event Management Software
- Member Directory
- Membership Management Software
- Online Calendar
- Online Giving
- Pledge Management
- Small Group Management
- Volunteer Management Software

## Category

- [Church Management Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/20046/church-management/software)

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## Reviews

### "Bookkeepers Dream" — 5.0/5

> **Maxine** | *30 January 2024* | Religious Institutions | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
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> **Pros**: Love the reports and bank reconciliations and the On Demand program.
> 
> **Cons**: Sometimes it freezes up - not sure if it is the internet or the program since I use On Demand
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> Absolutely love it - very easy to use and learn.

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### "PDS Church Office" — 5.0/5

> **Vicki** | *16 September 2020* | Nonprofit Organization Management | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10
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> **Pros**: PDS Software was very reliable.  We did not have much down time at all.
> 
> **Cons**: It wasn't geared toward a Catholic Church.  Its excellent software for protestant churches, but it falls short for what we need to record our Sacraments etc.
> 
> Great experience with recording information but the reports were not easy to use.

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### "Parish Data Systems needs major overhaul" — 1.0/5

> **Matthew** | *5 October 2020* | Religious Institutions | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10
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> **Pros**: PDS holds parishioner data and donation contributions.  It is uniquely Catholic in design, and holds Sacramental information.  It is organized by family, rather than individual (like Catholic churches organize records). If you have questions, someone is available by phone to help solve issues.
> 
> **Cons**: PDS isn't reliable.  We lost cell phones data once and had to use a backup to restore.  Another time the user levels permissions just changed, so all employees could see financial giving, and not just the accountant.  It is not user friendly and buttons are in odd places.  Data is not organized well and not all data can be pulled in reports like we would like them.  When we run reports of the whole parish, the report often crashes and takes forever to run.
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> We are not happy with this software and are currently looking to change.  It seems to have been a solution in at one time, but is built on an older platform that doesn't upgrade well.  It needs a major overhaul.   There are many other church management systems out that does so much more these days.

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### "Disatisfactory" — 4.0/5

> **Mari** | *16 September 2020* | Religious Institutions | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10
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> **Pros**: I felt like the easiest thing to do, to be really honest was logging into the system.
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> **Cons**: I don't even know where to begin with what types of issues I had with PDS Church Office. It seemed like I had an issue with something everyday.

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### "I like PDS and would recommend it." — 4.0/5

> **Dan** | *30 July 2021* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The easy process of weekly donations and parishioner data is very important to our church. Overall this is a good software for a small to medium size parish.
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> **Cons**: Notes tracking is lacking. There is no way to insert a note that will stay without it having the potential of it being deleted.
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> In the last several months we have been able to gather more data and make it more useful for the parish since we utilize more features.

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