We are pleased to announce that Version 10 of Shepherd’s Staff is now available. With this comes expanded reporting and analysis tools and other exciting features, such as integrated email sending, donor-advised fund (DAF) tracking, bank transaction importing, and key infrastructure improvements.
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Membership
Version 10 streamlines your member management, ensuring accurate data and smoother day-to-day administrative processes.
- New reporting and analysis tools, including expanded marital status reporting and household filters
- Enhanced directory sorting, mailing labels, and Household Record reporting
- Automatic grade/section removal when a person is marked Removed
- Tools to identify inconsistent records
- Improved photo management (image rotation)
- Church register entry capabilities, including file attachment
Attendance
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Refined visitor tracking, allowing you to sort by ”Visitor,” “Prospect,” and “Guest”
- Month/year attendance analysis and reporting tools, now with subtotals and drill-down capabilities
- Advanced Secure Check-In labels for children, now including grade information
Contributions
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Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs)—charitable giving accounts that allow donors to contribute assets, receive tax benefits, and distribute funds to charities over time—and better visibility into contributor and pledge data
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New planning and budgeting tools for financial pledges
- New summary, trend, and analysis reports for giving by fund, envelope, year, month, pledge history, and giving method
Finance
- Bulk bank transaction reports
- Financial Statistics dashboard with analysis and graphs
- Book filtering, single-vendor payment reports, and “Prior Month” reporting
- Configurable journal entry numbering by fiscal year
- Account notes on Chart of Accounts reports
- Improved Budget vs. Actual reporting
General/Other
- Emailing directly from Shepherd’s Staff (with an active support contract)
- Reliability and performance improvements, including faster report generation and printing
- Time-saving copy feature for Task Manager templates
Stay Tuned for Updates
We hope Shepherd’s Staff 10 is a blessing to you and your team. For decades, our priority has been continuous improvement to the software, following technological advancements and meeting churches’ evolving needs. This remains true today and in the future. Please stay tuned for the next updates to the software!
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