CHURCHINFO
- Apache
- PHP
- MySQL
About
ChurchInfo is a free church database program to help churches track members, families, groups, pledges and payments. Our feature set is comparable to expensive church management software packages. Our users are supported by an open-source community of people who volunteer their time and energy to make this technology available to all churches.
We are launching a product which will configure and publish ChurchInfo, an open source CRM software solution which is embedded pre-configured tool with LAMP and ready-to-launch VM on Azure that contains ChurchInfo, Apache, MySQL, Linux, PHP (LAMP).
Features:
Naturally Networked:
ChurchInfo runs on any server that supports PHP and mySQL. The server may be in-house or at an ISP anywhere on the Internet. Any number of people may access the database simultaneously.
Family:
A family is a group of people who are treated as a unit. The obvious example would be a married couple and perhaps their children. The family members do not need to have the same last name, but they should live at the same address to receive newsletters and financial statements. Pledges and payments are tracked by family. Some churches call a Family a “Pledging Unit”.
Person:
A person is an individual associated with the church. A Person can be a member of a Family, and a person can also be a member of one or more Groups. A Person has individual contact information, such as a cell phone number and an email address. A Person also has a relationship with the church as “Member”, or “Guest”.
Group:
A group is a collection of people, such as the choir or the stewardship committee. Groups have many uses. Here are a few ideas: committees, church school classes, covenant groups, baby sitters. The possibilities are endless. ChurchInfo makes it easy to contact all the members of a group by letter or email.
Pledges and Payments:
Pledges and Payments are tracked for each fiscal year, with automated support for reminder letters. There is also automated support for generating donation acknowledgement letters for tax purposes based on the calendar year. The entry of payments is highly automated, with support for check and credit card scanners, automated deposit slip printing and electronic submission of credit card and EFT payments.
Volunteer Tracking:
ChurchInfo allows you to create “Volunteer Opportunities” like baking, lawn-mowing, babysitting, letter-stuffing, etc. These opportunities may be assigned to people, making it easy to locate them when the need arises.
Permissions:
Access to financial data may be restricted to one or just a few individual users as appropriate. Most users just need access to the Person, Group and Family information to look up phone numbers, generate address labels and send email.
Mapping:
The latitude/longitude coordinates of each Family may be used to plot the congregation on a map, or to find the nearest neighbors in the congregation for a particular family.
Canvass Automation:
ChurchInfo provides support for conducting an every-member canvass, and capturing the results in the database. The canvassers receive briefing sheets with information about each family to be contacted. During or after the contact the canvasser enters comments in the database.
Sunday School Support:
Classes may be defined as Groups with roles “Teacher”, “Student”, “Liaison”, and then special Sunday School reports may be used to generate class lists and attendance sheets.
Church Info Reports have following Features:
- Group Membership
- Contact Lists
- Reports on Groups and Roles
- Members Directory: Printable directory of all members, grouped by family where assigned
- Letters and Mailing Labels
- Birthdays: Members with birthdays in a particular month
- Family Member Count: Returns each family and the total number of people assigned to them.
- Membership anniversaries: Members who joined in a particular month
- Person by Age: Returns any person records with ages between two given ages.
- Person by properties: Returns person records which are assigned the given property.
- Person by Role and Gender: Selects person records with the family role and gender specified.
- Person Count
- Recent friends: Friends who signed up in previous months
- Select all members: People who are members
- Select database users: People who are registered as database users
- Total By Gender: Total of records matching a given gender.
- Volunteers: Find volunteers for a particular opportunity
- Volunteers: Find volunteers for who match two specific opportunity codes
- Advanced Search: Search by any part of Name, City, State, Zip, or Home Phone.
- Families to canvass: People in families that are ok to canvass.
- Finance Reports
- Financial Reports: Pledges and Payments
- Canvass Automation: support for conducting an every-member canvass.
- Pledge comparison: Compare pledges between two fiscal years
- Type virtual machines in the search.
- Under Services, select Virtual machines.
- In the Virtual machines page, select Add. The Create a virtual machine page opens.
- In the Basics tab, under Project details, make sure the correct subscription is selected and then choose to Create new resource group. Type myResourceGroup for the name.*.
- Under Instance details, type myVM for the Virtual machine name, choose East US for your Region, and choose Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for your Image. Leave the other defaults.
- Under Administrator account, select SSH public key, type your user name, then paste in your public key. Remove any leading or trailing white space in your public key.
- Under Inbound port rules > Public inbound ports, choose Allow selected ports and then select SSH (22) and HTTP (80) from the drop-down.
- Leave the remaining defaults and then select the Review + create button at the bottom of the page.
- On the Create a virtual machine page, you can see the details about the VM you are about to create. When you are ready, select Create.
It will take a few minutes for your VM to be deployed. When the deployment is finished, move on to the next section.
Connect to virtual machine
Create an SSH connection with the VM.
- Select the Connect button on the overview page for your VM.
- In the Connect to virtual machine page, keep the default options to connect by IP address over port 22. In Login using VM local account a connection command is shown. Select the button to copy the command. The following example shows what the SSH connection command looks like:
bashCopy
ssh azureuser@10.111.12.123
- Using the same bash shell you used to create your SSH key pair (you can reopen the Cloud Shell by selecting >_ again or going to https://shell.azure.com/bash), paste the SSH connection command into the shell to create an SSH session.
Usage/Deployment Instructions
Step 1: Access ChurchInfo from Azure Marketplace and click ON Get it now button.
Click on continue
Now click on create
Step 2: Now to create a virtual machine, enter or select appropriate values for zone, machine type, resource group and so on as per your choice.
Click on Create;
Step 3: Use the browser to access the application at http://<instance ip address> replace <instance ip address> with the actual ip address of the running instance.
Login Details:-
Username – admin
Password – adminchurchinfo
Step 4: Now change your password according to your choice.
Enjoy Your Application.
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Highlights
- It is Naturally Networked, and tracks Family, Person, Group, Pledges and Payments
- t provides Volunteer Tracking, Permissions, Mapping, Canvass Automation and Sunday School
- Helps you maintain group membership, contact lists, Members Directory, Birthdays, Family Member Count, Membership anniversaries
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