Expand your diocesan processes beyond the scope of parish data system.
All of your parishes record important contact, giving, and sacrament information about their parishioners; wouldn’t it be nice to have it all in one location without needing to sync data or look at a range of reports from your parishes? MinistryPlatform offers you the most robust, flexible platform built to manage all of your parishes, parishioners, operations, and facilities. Configure the platform to support the particular needs of your diocese and parishes. While parishes see their own information, the diocese can see information for all the parishes. Extensive security and permissions provide you the ability to manage who has access to different data.
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One source of truth in real-time.
If your Diocese standardizes across parishes using PDS, you spend time syncing data between the multiple PDS applications to view parish data. With MinistryPlatform, no more syncing! You’ll have one application across your diocese — one server, one database, one source of truth. Give your parishes access to only their data while you view data in real-time.
Run more robust diocesan-level reports.
No more piecing together reports from multiple sources to get a true vision of your diocese. MinistryPlatform is standardized with more robust reports showing real-time data at the diocesan level across parishes. View every parish’s finances, sacraments, registrations, and more at the diocesan level, while each parish only sees its own data.
Take personalized communication to the next level.
PDS allowed you to send letters and statements via email. But options were limited on customizing your emails to match the branding of your Diocese. The professional communication function provides you full capability to create and implement a communication campaign right from MinistryPlatform. You have the option to email or text, plus push information to the diocesan app. A drag and drop template editor gives you even more options, and parishioners can view your message from any device.
Maintain data quality and integrity.
PDS provided you a Log of User Activity, but that required you to exit the page you were currently on to view the log and search for a specific entry. MinistryPlatform gives you an audit log on the field level showing you who changed what and when on the page you’re viewing. When we find data that doesn’t follow what we consider Best Practices for data integrity, you’ll see our Data Integrity Views, usually starting with the word “Fix”, so they are easy to find throughout the platform.
Manage financial projects across your diocese.
Viewing financial data across your diocese with PDS meant syncing parish data from PDS Church Office to PDS DioOffice. MinistryPlatform removes the need to sync when managing financial projects. Donor records, and their pledges, are private from one parish to another, while diocesan staff can view all of the individual pledges and the entire Appeals or Campaign process. Plus, streamline your follow-up conversations with any set of donors.
Visit the Parish page for a feature comparison between Parish Data System and Ministry Platform.