Finance

My wife loves Ascribe. She was using a "homemade" Excel spreadsheet for a while, as she came on-board as financial stewardess for the church. Her frustrations with the thing led to her searching the net for alternatives, which led her to Ascribe. The printing of the yearend statements went very well. ... we're very pleased with the financial system thus far. As long as my wife is happy with it, that's all that matters, & she's raving about it to others

Todd Warfield

Hope Chapel Pearlview

Ascribe allows you to securely track financial giving for each person and household. To do so, you first create a deposit. Then contributions are entered into the deposit. Each contribution details the gift types (i.e., cash, check, goods, credit card, PayPal, electronic funds transfer, stock, real property, and life insurance) and how the gift(s) should be allocated to funds (e.g., general funds, advertising, etc). An unlimited number funds can be established to meet your exact needs. Once all the contributions have been entered for a deposit, the deposit can then be posted.

Add contributions to deposit
Anonymous contributions
Post deposit, export fund totals and print reports
Funds
Fund income reports

Add contributions to deposit

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The contribution entry form has been optimized to require as few steps as possible to ensure quick data entry.

type first few letters of a person's name
use mouse to select name of person in search results
fill in check number for contribution (amount auto-prefilled based on the person's previous contribution)
optionally fill in or alter the person's mailing address
hit the Enter key to save and the form reloads, ready for the next contribution

Anonymous contributions

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Entering anonymous contributions are even easier. Just fill in the amount and submit.

Post deposit, export fund totals and print reports

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Once all contributions have been entered into the deposit, begin the accuracy check process and post the deposit. The deposit fund totals can be exported to a Quickbooks Intuit Interchange File (IIF) for automatic import into Quickbooks. Also printed reports can be generated such as a deposit summary for easy depositing of the batch contributions to the bank.

Funds

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Set up funds that make sense for your congregation. Monies received in contributions can be allocated to these funds. You may browse through amounts received in a given fund over time.

Fund income reports

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Ascribe reports aggregate totals of income by fund by week, month, quarter or year. If comments were added in fund allocation these will be added up and reported as well. This can be used for getting totals of amounts allocated to a certain missionary while not needing to create an entire fund for that missionary.

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