Your church deserves a clear financial picture, not a spreadsheet nightmare. One Church Software's accounting module is built specifically for how churches manage money: multiple funds, restricted gifts, vendor bills, budgets, and a board that expects accurate numbers every month.
Whether you’re the church administrator handling the books in-house or a bookkeeper managing finances for multiple congregations, One Church Software gives you the tools to do the job right — built specifically for how churches handle money.
Built Around How Churches Think About Money
Churches don’t just have one bank account. You have a general fund, a building fund, a missions fund, restricted gifts — each with its own rules. One Church tracks every dollar by fund automatically. customization.
Connect Your Bank. Let Transactions Come to You.
One Church connects directly to thousands of banks through Plaid. Transactions pull in automatically multiple times per day. No CSV files, no copy-pasting.
Bank Reconciliation Without the Headache
Complete Bill Tracking for Church Operations
Rent, utilities, insurance, contractors — they stack up. One Church gives you a complete view of everything your church owes, organized by vendor and due date, so nothing falls through the cracks.
Print Checks Without Leaving the System
Stop Guessing. Start Comparing Budget to Actual.
A budget that lives in a spreadsheet isn’t really a budget, it’s a hope. Build your annual budget inside the system and compare it to actual income and expenses at any point during the year.
Facility rentals, partner billing, school partnerships — if someone owes your church money, you need a way to track it, invoice it, and collect it.
Your chart of accounts tells you what the money was for. Your funds tell you which pool it came from. Accounting tags answer the third question: which ministry drove it?
Tag Income and Expenses by Department, Ministry, or Campus
Financial Reports Included
One of the biggest headaches in church bookkeeping: keeping your giving records and your general ledger in sync without double-entering everything.
You don’t have to be an accountant to set this up. Most church administrators are live within a week.
Define your chart of accounts (checking, savings, income, expenses) and create your funds (General, Building, Missions, etc.).
Coming from another system? Enter your opening balances for each account and fund. The system keeps everything balanced as you go.
Link your bank through Plaid. Set up banking rules so recurring transactions categorize themselves. Minutes a week, not hours.
Budget to Actual. Balance Sheet. Statement of Activities. Run any report for any date range and share it with your board with confidence.
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No. Most church administrators set up their chart of accounts and funds themselves with the help of our training resources and support team. If your church works with an outside accountant or bookkeeper, they can be given their own login with accounting-specific permissions.
Contributions specifically tracks donations and handles donor tax statements. Accounting handles your complete financial picture: all income, all expenses, assets, liabilities, budgeting, and reporting. The two modules work together seamlessly, contributions post to accounting automatically when you close a batch.
Yes — fund accounting is the foundation of the system, not an afterthought. Create unlimited funds, track restricted and unrestricted net assets separately, and see a real-time breakdown of each fund's balance across your accounts.
Yes. One Church integrates with Plaid to connect directly to thousands of banks and credit unions. Transactions import automatically multiple times per day. If your bank isn't supported by Plaid, you can import transactions manually via CSV.
Yes. Upload a scan of your blank check stock, position the print fields visually on the template, and you're ready to print. Print from the check queue individually or in bulk, and print directly from an accounts payable record — record the payment, select Check, and queue it for printing in one workflow.
Statement of Activities (Income Statement), Statement of Financial Position (Balance Sheet), Trial Balance, Budget to Actual, Expenses by Vendor Summary, Transaction List, and General Ledger — all filterable by date range, fund, account, and accounting tag. Reports can be exported to PDF or CSV.
Accounting tags are an optional extra reporting dimension you can apply to income and expense lines. Create tag groups like "Department" (Youth, Music, Operations) or "Campus" (Main, North) and tag transactions as you enter them. Then filter or group any report by that dimension — without changing your chart of accounts or fund structure.
Yes. Bank connections through Plaid are read-only, your bank credentials are never shared with One Church Software. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest using industry-standard practices.
