Church Windows vs PDS Ledger

Church Windows provides church-management modules for membership, scheduling, donations, accounting, and payroll. Membership stores family records and involvement; Scheduler organizes calendars, locations, equipment, and event duties. Donations tracks pledges and giving, while Accounting uses fund accounting with reporting, exports, and direct imports from Donations and Payroll. Payroll generates checks, reports, and tax forms, updates federal and state tax tables and forms, and supports electronic filing through Aatrix. Web and Desktop editions have identical features: Web uses secure remote desktop access, while Desktop is installed locally. Desktop requires a 64-bit Windows computer. Web pricing includes one shareable seat with one user at a time; each additional concurrent seat costs $50 per month. Plans start at $19 a month for one Desktop module with Standard support on a 12-month contract. A free working trial is available, with Windows download access; Mac or Web trial access requires calling the company.

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.