Church Windows vs Sevastack

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.

Sevastack is an NGO management platform for Indian NGOs, trusts, societies and Section 8 companies. Its donor CRM supports PAN validation, donation history, segmentation, CSV import and manual entry. The platform generates 80G receipts with QR verification and supports Form 10BD and 10BE reporting. For FCRA work, it tracks FC-4 returns, foreign contribution reports and compliance deadlines with advance reminders. Donation pages accept UPI, Razorpay, NEFT and QR codes; donations settle directly into the NGO's bank account, with zero Sevastack platform fees. Accounting tools include financial statements, fixed asset depreciation, a TDS register, bank reconciliation and a read-only CA portal. Other functions cover CSR proposals, utilization certificates, volunteers, beneficiaries, employees, payroll, leave and reimbursements. The free plan includes 50 donors, 2 projects, unlimited 80G receipts and a public donation page. Starter costs ₹624 a month, billed ₹7,490 yearly; Growth costs ₹1,666 a month, billed ₹19,990 yearly; Scale costs ₹2,499 a month, billed ₹29,990 yearly. Enterprise uses custom pricing.