CDM+ Review

Some of the noticeable and unique features of CDM+ are found in its membership and attendance program or module. The software has the capability to view and organize an enormous amount of data that enables users to access and track the information of their members and visitors such as their names, phone numbers, addresses, states, countries, zip codes, family members and family members’ statuses.

Users can also access and receive a map and driving directions to help them easily locate the addresses of their members and visitors. This is made possible by the integration of CDM+ with MapQuest, an online web mapping service. The online web mapping service is directly accessible from the Address Records window of CDM+ where users can see the MapQuest functionality located below the address fields.

Meanwhile, the CDM+ attendance program assists users to track and evaluate the participation of church people. With this feature, they can record the attendance for all types of events such as committee, council, and board meetings, worship services, Christian education classes, annual congregational meetings, and retreats. An interesting component of this attendance feature is that it also enables users to track their visitors whose information are recorded into a separate database. However, when these visitors decided to join the church, such information would be automatically transferred to the membership database eliminating re-entering of data. CDM+ termed this instant data transferring process as “easy one-click transfer.” With these features, users would be able to easily communicate with their members and visitors while maintaining a record of their information which are instantly accessible.

Moving on, the payroll feature of CDM+ offers a level of automation that makes it one of the excellent components of its robust financial functionality. This feature highlights an automatic calculation of taxes and allowances, and state tax tables are also updated automatically. Since the church data management software is designed to respond to the dynamics of accounting unique to churches and nonprofits, the payroll system built in to it is flexible enough to address clergy tax options and expense allowances. Furthermore, with an iad of an accounting program, users can transfer payroll information to the general ledger effortlessly. They can also easily generate W-2s and 1099s as well as print 941 information. These fund accounting functionalities of CDM+ indeed removes the burden of calculating taxes and allowances unique to clergy and saves time as it promotes an efficient payroll management.

Another interesting feature of CDM+ is its church website management. It offers web ministry tools that allow users to maximize the use of their church website when it comes to disseminating up-to-date information online. Such tools are used to automatically publish database elements to the church website which are changes in the Facilities Manager program of the software that handles the availability of rooms, tables, chairs, and schedules for church events; event statistics, membership directories, online event registration, and online giving. Furthermore, the web ministry tools can be customized in accordance with the design preferences of users. This web management feature aims to expand ministries using the Internet.