Church Management System – An Aid to Transform Visitors into Members

The biggest challenges the churches are facing today is turning their first time visitor into a member of their church community. Due to the different tasks performed in the church such as maintaining its own budget, charities and service of worship, often the church authorities are not able to focus fully on their hospitality process.

How will the church management system help in turning your initial visitors into new members?

Software being a solution to stick your initial visitors sounds absurd, but undeniably it is the best way to connect to your visitors, gathering their information and for conducting the further follow ups.

Effortless Online Calendar– You can notify your visitors about the services and schedules of the church. The ChMs have an online calendar that helps your visitors to know about the events and schedule. 

The church and charity management software have functionality to integrate the database and schedule of the visitors. Usually not all of the people who you send invitations will be attendees; therefore, there is a risk in display the information of the service schedules. But through many ChMs you can instantly edit the website, sync it with the database and provide the right information.

Follow-ups - What was the first time visitor’s experience at your church? Did he or she make a connection to the church? There are a lot of questions like these which can help the church have a deeper understanding of the visitor. Through follow-ups you can determine how they felt and also convince them to visit again. ChMS can perform follow up by -

• Phone Call –The database you collected from the guest in the ChMs would aid you to call the visitors and thank them for coming; you can also tell them about the upcoming worship events to be organized in your church. Some church software have the capability to automatically place all your visitors into a queue and send them a follow-up call.
• Emails /Text Messages – Majority of the church software development today have a functionality to send text messages to the attendees. The highly effective software lets your email account to be linked to the church website and send mails to the people about the events and services the church is performing and how it is playing a role in the betterment of the society. 
• Information Gathering – You can speed up the assimilation process by knowing the people more closely and making them feel being the part of your church community on their first day.  Example – If you know the name of the visitor and address with name it will make them feel homely. Information will help you know about what makes them feel uncomfortable, do they agree to the ideas practiced in the church etc. 

With time churches have started using new technologies; church management software is one of the basic elements that churches need to keep a track of the members and visitors. These points mentioned above give some information on how the churches can convert their first time visitors into members.