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 Newsletter for
ParishSOFT Users & Friends | Winter 2010 |
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'Tis the Season . . . for Tax Preparation
| With ParishSOFT, there's no need to dread year-end and taxes. Take heart! We've got training classes, tax change tips, and tax forms to help you tackle your year-end tasks like a pro.
End-of-Year Essentials Classes Register for this teletraining today and take the stress out of year-end. (Course Agenda)
Tax Change Tips
Find information on HIRE qualifications, W-2 health care reporting, and 1099 changes for 2012, in our November 2010 issue of ParishSOFT Offerings on http://www.parishsoft.com. Tax Forms
Order 1099s, W-2s, envelopes, and more on
www.parishsoftforms.com
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Hits $28.8 Million | 340 Churches.
21,000 Families.
$28.8 Million in direct-deposited annual giving.
ParishSOFT makes it easy to get started. Call 866.930.4774 x1, or register for our free Online Giving Made Easy webinar to learn more. All webinars are in Eastern Standard Time.
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Microsoft® Office 2010 Compatibility Notice
| | Are you upgrading to Office 2010? Be sure to choose the 32-bit installation and not the 64-bit option.
Like most of your other software, ParishSOFT applications and reports are compatible with the standard 32-bit version of Microsoft Office 2010, but if you vary from the default installation and end up with the 64-bit version of Office 2010, your ParishSOFT reports will not work properly. For more on this known issue with Microsoft Office, please visit office.microsoft.com.
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Welcome New Customers
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So far, 812 new customers have purchased ParishSOFT in 2010. See which parishes in your diocese are using the same tools as you on www.parishsoft.com/parishes
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Merry Christmas!
On behalf of the entire ParishSOFT staff, may you
have the gift of faith, the blessing of hope,
and the peace of His love at Christmas and always.
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Learning, Faith and Friendship at
2010 Users' Conference
 Nearly 200 staff, clergy, and volunteers from 45 Catholic and Orthodox parishes and dioceses gathered in faith and friendship at the third annual Users' Conference November 8-10, 2010, in St. Petersburg, Florida, to learn new ways to use technology to fuel ministries, deliver the Word, and keep connected with the people we serve.
Learn why the Church needs to embrace technology, like YouTube and Google, and which priest left the conference inspired to burn his paper rolodex and use his ParishSOFT data more fully for ministry.
Read More.
Fall 2011 Users' Conference
Anaheim, California
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See the New Ministry Scheduler
  The ONLY Web-based scheduling program that integrates seamlessly with your ParishSOFT technology is in final testing now at select customer sites. Ministry Scheduler offers self-serve tools for ministers; super-smart, accurate scheduling; and easy management of all your ministries, groups, and volunteers.
Contact your ParishSOFT representative at 866.930.4774 x1 to schedule a January product tour today. View the product brief here.
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Online Giving? Why Not!
If you're thinking about offering Online Giving to your parishioners, we've got everything you need to get started, and the 340 parishes already using the system are giving us great feedback. See what St. Jude (Monroe, CT), St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (Carlsbad, CA), and St. George and Blessed Sacrament (Worcester, MA) shared about their Online Giving programs. Read More.
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Technology Corner: v3.7.23 Available Now
Does Father get writer's cramp, signing all those contribution statements? Add his electronic signature to your statements when you update to version 3.7.23.
Also in this release, Orthodox sacraments, commemorative contributions, new organization setup fields, and (Read More). See the full release notes for a complete list of enhancements.
In November 2010, we released version 3.7.22 of our Parish Suite. We then discovered some inconvenient (but harmless) informational messages were popping up when ParishSOFT Reports or Tuition was opened -- but only when Offering & Pledges was not the first module a parish opened after updating to 3.7.22.
The version 3.7.23 update remedies those messages and delivers all of the 3.7.22 enhancements to parish suite users. Update today! http://www.parishsoft.com/updates/psreleasenotes3723.pdf.
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Win an iPad: Contest Extended to Jan. 12, 2011
 What's working great in your church?
Have you implemented something new that you learned at Users' Conference?
Tell us about it, and you could win an iPad if your church submits the best success story!
To enter, send your article and photo to info@parishsoft.com by January 12, 2011. Click here for contest rules.
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