Donarius vs Aplos: Which is a better fit?

Deborah H.: Hi. My name is Deborah, and I am the pastor and president of a ministry. I'm going to be giving a review on Donarius. I give it a five, and for any more reviews that you'd like to see, just go below and click. The programs that I was using before I actually got involved with this program that we're discussing right now, Donarius, we were using Excel, and I just had a really hard time figuring it out myself. I found it not so easy to use. The other thing was it wasn't really geared to what we were looking for, which was church activity. That is why when we found the program that we're using now, we were so happy. It really helped us. The reason why we chose to go with Donarius is, first of all, it's very user-friendly. Also, the company itself, when I try to talk to someone, I just send an email out. They get right back to me. Another thing is it's really geared for what we're looking for, which is church-type and ministry-type activity, so it was perfect for us. Also, the price was lower than any competitor that I was looking at, so we went with it. When we first got Donarius, and they give you very simple user-friendly instructions on downloading it, so there was no problem with putting it on the computer. It took a little time just because I wanted to make sure I had everything right, but it's just inputting all the information where it needs to be. Once it's done, you're good to go. Then you just do your regular monthly reports. The only thing was just taking a little time to put everything in, but it was not difficult at all. It's so user-friendly. For those of you who are looking for a program, if you have a ministry or a church, I really think this is the program for you, because what I find, as I said before, it's user-friendly, you can bring out quarterly statements for people. You can let a person know exactly where their money has gone, into what projects, how much they gave. It's amazing. Tax receipts just print up, just like that. There's just so much. You can actually have pictures of your donors, if you want a picture. We do a support a child program, so you can put the picture of the child who they support. It's just an amazing program, and if you're really looking for something that's going to benefit your church, and be easy to use, yet very beneficial for your church operations, then I would go with this program.

Don M.: Hi, my name is Don. I'm the pastor in a small-town church. My rating for Aplos would be a four. For more reviews like this, click below. We use Aplos on a day-to-day basis for the financial accounting of the church, but also for membership database and for donations tracking. What I like most about Aplos is that it's easy to use. We were in a situation where, when I arrived at the church, they were still on a paper ledger, had never used a computer at all, had a lot of fear of using a computer. So, when we made that transition, there was some fear, but once they got into it, they found it was easy to use. The only thing I dislike about Aplos is that there's not a hard file backup on our local computers, that it's all cloud-based, which these days is normal, but I'm a little old school. I kind of like to have a hard copy, at least on a drive somewhere of the data.