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Give the Gift of Giving Back: 7 Ways to Make Holiday Volunteer Opportunities Sparkle

The holiday season is fast approaching and with it, plenty of opportunities for engaging your faith community in volunteer opportunities. Even in the busy-ness of the holidays, many will make time to give back through volunteering. Volunteering has many proven benefits, not just to the organization, but to the volunteer as well, so be sure […]

Steps to a Successful Event Registration

There are three Basic Steps to a Successful Event Registration Form: For your convenience, we’ve provided an Event Registration template that can be found in your Form Manager, located on the far-right side of your Giving Portal. This template was built using the most commonly used Form Fields for event registration forms, but you have […]

Your Digital Front Door

Is your church missing out on making a good digital impression online? Every church has a front door often with well-planned greeters stationed near it to welcome guests and members. They give a friendly smile, say hello, or hold the door to help someone in a wheelchair get in easily. All these things make a […]

Experience Counts: 5 Lessons from Shelby System’s 45 Years of ChMS Leadership

It began in 1976—the founders of Shelby Systems recognized early that ministries would benefit from better solutions to manage their membership and financial needs. They were passionate about providing effective and efficient tools that helped ministries and nonprofits increase their impact on the world. For decades, that passion has continued, and 45 years later Shelby […]

The Ultimate Church Tech Stack Bundle Guide

Some churches struggle when their systems fail to sync successfully. Others may have budgets that only allow for the adoption of a few vital pieces of software, leaving them with outdated systems or doing a lot of the work manually. The solution for any church dealing with these issues—or trying to avoid them—is bundling systems that work with each other. […]

10 CHURCH ACCOUNTING EVALUATION QUESTIONS FROM SHELBY SYSTEMS CHMS

When I first started working for JCPenney the store manager gave me this piece of advice, “Do everything in a way that no one will ever question your integrity.” For the past 50-plus years, I have tried to conduct myself in keeping with his words of wisdom. Years later while teaching QuickBooks at Midland Junior […]

What Will Be On The Upcoming Financials Release (8.10)?

This financial news is brought to you via the Alfred Johnson blog. We hope you find it useful. The next Financials release will be a minor upgrade, containing only 3 small enhancements, and 50 bug fixes. Most of our programming time was devoted to making Financials run faster. Lots of long hours and late nights […]

Shelby is Coming to California

We’re heading out all over the US this year to show you our software up close and personal! Allow us to share with you the next steps on our product roadmap along with viewing the features and benefits of using Shelby Arena and Shelby Financials Online, our browser-based church management software. See how these products […]

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