Aplos vs PDS Ledger

Aplos provides web-based fund accounting software for nonprofits, churches, and other faith-based organizations. It tracks designated and restricted funds, grants, and a flexible chart of accounts. Financial and donation reports can be customized, including Balance Sheet by Fund and Income Statement by Fund. Organizations can create unlimited mobile-friendly giving forms and add a donation widget to their websites. The donor database stores communication activity, notes, relationships, giving history, and custom fields. Aplos includes budgeting, an audit trail, an API enabled from settings, and integrations such as Keela, Raisely, Ramp, PEX, Gusto, DonorElf, Church Community Builder, and Bloomerang. Data is encrypted with AES 256, stored in AWS in the United States, and backed up nightly. Lite costs $79 a month, Core $129 a month, and Advanced $229 a month. A Custom plan has tailored pricing. There is a 15-day trial and no free plan.

PDS Ledger is accounting software for parish financial management from ACS Technologies. It tracks up to eight years of balances on a cash or accrual basis and organizes accounts as assets, liabilities, income, or expenses. Parish offices can set monthly, quarterly, or yearly budgets and move budget data through spreadsheet import and export. Transaction tools cover records and rules, automatic check numbering, invoice entry, check printing and reprinting, and spending alerts. Documents can link to transactions, vendors, income sources, fixed assets, and employees. Dozens of predefined reports are included, while Easy Reports supports custom report design and field selection for printing or export. The software can extract contribution totals from PDS Church Office or Formation Office and integrates with PDS Ledger/Payroll. Within the Diocesan Financial Solution, financial data can be shared electronically with a diocese. Pricing is on request.