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EFC Tithes & Offerings Management System

Spreadsheets Out. Secure Giving Platform In.

A secure, role-based church giving platform that replaced error-prone spreadsheet and paper bookkeeping — with a real-time dashboard, one-tap batch Quick Entry, centralized member profiles, one-click PDF giving statements, automated tax summaries, and clean Cash App fee reconciliation. Built so a single volunteer can run the books in minutes.

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Project

EFC Tithes & Offerings Management System

Client

Evangelical Fellowship Church (EFC)

Industry

Faith / Nonprofit (Church Financial Administration)

Location

Mt. Olive, NC

Client Type

Small-to-mid-size local church

System Type

Custom Financial & Donor Management Platform

Retail Value

$18,000

Client Investment

$5,750

01The Challenge

What was broken before the platform

Manual spreadsheet and paper bookkeeping caused math errors and lost entries — every mistake meant hours of reconciliation.

No fast way to log a full Sunday's gifts — recording each offering by hand took hours every week.

Member giving history was scattered across notebooks and spreadsheets, with no single source of truth.

Year-end donor tax statements were built by hand — slow, error-prone, and stressful every January.

No real-time totals — leadership could not see how giving was trending without manually tallying the books.

Untracked Cash App fees broke deposit reconciliation — the numbers never quite matched the bank.

Sensitive financial and member data had no access control — anyone with the spreadsheet had everything.

02Our Solution

The system we built

We built a secure, role-based web platform (Admin and Overseer roles) so sensitive giving and member data is protected and access is controlled.

A real-time dashboard shows year, month, and week totals instantly — leadership always knows exactly where giving stands.

A Quick Entry batch form lets a volunteer log an entire Sunday's offerings in minutes, with inline member search and the ability to add a new member on the fly.

Centralized member profiles store every gift per person — with one-click PDF giving statements ready any time.

Automated weekly and monthly reports generate themselves, with both PDF and Excel export for the books and the board.

Donors who cross the $250 IRS tax threshold are auto-flagged, so year-end statements are accurate and effortless.

An editable Cash App fee log captures every processing fee, so deposits reconcile cleanly against the bank — no more mystery gaps.

03Key Features

Everything a spreadsheet can't do

Role-Based Authentication

Admin and Overseer roles with secure login, security-question recovery, forgot/change password, and automated welcome emails.

Real-Time Dashboard

Live year, month, and week giving totals with trend, payment-method, and category charts — always current, never tallied by hand.

Quick Entry Batch Form

Log an entire Sunday's offerings in one pass, with inline member search and add-a-member-on-the-fly so nothing slows you down.

Offerings Ledger

A complete, filterable ledger of every gift — search and filter by member, date, fund, payment method, or amount.

Member Management

Grid and list views, full member profiles, and per-member giving totals — a single secure source of truth for every donor.

PDF Giving Statements

One-click PDF giving statements and year-end donor tax summaries, with automatic flagging of donors over the $250 threshold.

Weekly Reports

Reports grouped by service date so leadership can review any Sunday or span at a glance, with timezone-correct dates.

Monthly Reports

Automated monthly summaries with full PDF and Excel export — ready for the books, the board, and the accountant.

Cash App Fee Tracking

A collapsible, editable Cash App fee log captures every processing fee so deposits reconcile cleanly to the bank.

In-App Invoicing & Emails

In-app invoicing with PDF generation, plus automated account and welcome emails — communication handled automatically.

04The AI Layer

Smart automation and rules — not hype

Automated Aggregations & Roll-Ups

The platform continuously rolls up every gift into instant live totals by year, month, week, fund, and payment method — no manual tallying, ever.

Timezone-Safe Smart Dates

Every offering is recorded with timezone-correct date handling so a Sunday gift always lands on the right service date and the right reporting period.

Automated Report & Statement Generation

Weekly reports, monthly summaries, and donor giving statements are generated automatically as clean PDFs and Excel files — built in seconds, not hours.

Rule-Based Tax Flagging & Fee De-Duplication

Donors crossing the $250 IRS threshold are auto-flagged for tax statements, and fee de-duplication logic keeps Cash App reconciliation clean. Smart rules and automation — not hype.

05Before vs. After

The transformation

Area

Before

After

Bookkeeping

Spreadsheets & paper, manual math

Secure web platform, automatic totals

Weekly entry

Hours logging each gift by hand

One-tap batch entry in minutes

Totals

No real-time visibility

Instant live year/month/week totals

Tax statements

Built by hand every January

Auto-generated, $250 threshold flagged

Cash App fees

Untracked — deposits never matched

100% tracked, deposits reconcile cleanly

Member history

Scattered across notebooks

Single secure source of truth

Access control

None — open spreadsheet

Role-restricted Admin/Overseer access

06Results & Metrics

Measurable impact

6–8 hrs/wk

Manual bookkeeping eliminated

Reclaimed every single week

Minutes

Weekly entry time

Down from hours of hand-logging

Auto

Year-end tax statements

Generated, not hand-built

100%

Cash App fees tracked

Clean, reconciled deposits

Secure source of truth

All members & gifts in one place

Real-time

Giving visibility

Live totals at a glance

07Investment vs. Value

$5,750 all-in — $18,000 in comparable value

Client Investment

$5,750

$4,500 dev + $500 training + $750/yr hosting

Estimated Retail Value

$18,000

Value Delivered

$12,000+

saved vs. comparable agency build

Evangelical Fellowship Church received an agency-grade giving-management platform — comparable to roughly $18,000 of custom development at retail — for $5,750 all-in ($4,500 custom development + $500 admin & staff training + $750/year cloud hosting). The system eliminates roughly 6–8 hours of manual bookkeeping every week, automates donor tax statements, and gives leadership a single secure source of truth with real-time giving visibility.

08Who This System Is For

Built for churches and faith-based nonprofits

Small-to-mid-size churches that collect weekly tithes and offerings and need a fast, secure way to record and report them.

Ministries and faith-based nonprofits that must issue accurate year-end donor tax statements without the January scramble.

Volunteer-run organizations that need simple batch entry anyone can learn in minutes — no accounting background required.

Congregations accepting gifts across cash, Cash App, and check that need clean reconciliation and tracked processing fees.

Church leadership that wants real-time visibility into giving trends and role-restricted access to sensitive financial data.

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