Content Management System For Churches

How To Create A Website Or CRM For Your Church In Minutes

To be able to connect with the younger generation and share with them the message of love/peace that the Lord commanded us to share, a church needs a strong digital presence .

To be able to efficiently cater to the needs of the flock, a church need to have within it the tools that enables it to do everything in a manner that they are above reproach.

Web Hosting Magic work with churches to create websites and install an application to manage every aspect of the church's administrative task.

The only cost that comes with this is for the hosting resources needed to keep the website or/and CRM online.

For churches without a developer or a web designer, our team can assist you in finding the best one to make the transition easy.

As a son of a clergy-man, I watched my Dad and the church's staff struggle with the administrative side of their mission.

This wasn't limited to the parish alone, but even impacted on the effectiveness of the church's leadership at the head church.

If only they have had access to the Church CRM .

It could have enable them to be more successful stewards to the flock that was entrusted into their care

Church CRM is an open-source CRM system anyone can use to build relationship management platform to help run a church from one place.

ChurchCRM can aid a church in running its congregation by giving the church staff:

• the ability to group members into families.
• the ability to upload family and members photo.
• the ability to email Sunday School class, teachers, and parents with the click of a button.
• the ability to email all families at once requesting info verification.
• the ability to generate end-of-year donation reports.
• the ability to generate Sunday School class reports with child and parent contact information.
• Dashboards : that gives you quick view about your members.
• Data Import : import data from a comma-separated value (.csv) file.
• Maps : visualize members' home addresses with Google Maps integration.
• Mailchimp : Integration with MailChimp lists.
• Finances : a finance function for tracking tithes, pledges and gifts.
• Fundraiser : used for events where members are buying and selling items and/or services to benefit the church.
• Volunteers : used to keep track of talent and the willingness of volunteers for specific tasks
• Calendar : keep track of events and member birthdays.
• Canvass Support : ChurchCRM includes comprehensive support to facilitate an every-member canvass effort.
• ... and more.

Being open-sourcedmeans that it is free and that you have the permission to tweak the source code to meet your unique needs.

The process of installing the Church CRM is just a matter of clicking a couple of buttons.

Once the web-based application is installed, you can access it from anywhere using any modern browser or device.

How To Install A Church CRM

Before proceeding with the installation, please make sure that you have created a web hosting accountand that you have received your cPanel login credentials.

If you haven't received your cPanel login username and password, please contact our Account team to resend these to you.

With these in hand, visit churchdomain_name.com:2083 and log in.

If you haven't make changes to your DNS so that you can be able to access port 2083 via your domain name, then you can use the hostname.domain_name.com.

Scroll down to Softwares and look for Softaculous Application Installer .

Click on it. The page will load and you will all the web applications that are available to your hosting account.

Using the search field, search for "ChurchCRM ".

Optionally, click on the ERP (Enterprise Relationship Management) and select ChurchCRM.

Click on Install Now .

Choose Installation URL to install the software.

Please check to ensure that you are installing it on the right domain or sub-domain especially if you have multiple domains.

On our systems, this could be either "https" or "https://www" since every domain we host have access to automatic SSL/TLS certificate.

To install ChurchCRM on your main domain that it becomes your core website, delete the "churchcrm" listed on the directory.

To install ChurchCRM on a folder so that it will be available at https://churchdomain_name.com/churchcrm , leave it as it is or edit to be just https://churchdomain_name.com.com/crm .

Type in the Admin Username .

Create the Admin Password .

We recommend that you create a strong password either by visiting 1Password Password Generatoror using our system's password generator.

If you want to send the installation details to your web developer or web designer, fill his or her email address in the "Email installation details to ...." space provided.

Click Install .

That's it.

Your church's CRM is now installed and the system will give your administrator URL once the installation is completed which often is in less than a minute.