Features

Online Group Access

• Online Access: Your members can view every group, volunteer opportunity, bible study, team or committee that you'd like to show them. Each group can have their own description and custom fields of information or properties. Your members can sort, filter and view descriptions of all the group opportunities your organization offers.
  
  Looking to join a Men's Small Group in a certain city ,on a particular night of the week, or at a certain time? Just filter the groups by type, then city and choose your day & time. It's that easy.
  
  Your members can join any group they choose and once approved in the administrative system, they can even log-into the group online and view it's members or E-mail them all if you allow it. Your members can create new groups (if allowed) and once approved those groups will be shown online reducing your administrative and maintenance work considerably. Group Meister truly builds relationships, community and the kingdom.

Administrative Access

• Custom Admin Log-ins: Give your admins as much or as little access as needed to the online administrative system.
  
  
• Families Records: View & manage all of the families in your congregation. A single address for a multitude of family members saves your money on postage. Family photo, create custom properties for all families to meet you organizations specific data collection needs. Unique family passwords to allow the families to update their own information (if allowed). Wedding dates, family relationships and custom family classifications
  
  
• People Records: Personal records on every individual, custom admin notes, pictures, groups they belong to, custom properties / fields of information to meet your organizations every need. Custom classifications for your members to organize in any manner.
  
  
• Selection Process: Choose people or family records from a variety of ways and filtered views. Put them in the cart and use that data set for a multitude of purposes like exporting it to Excel, sending special correspondence etc.
  
  
• Finances: Donation Batch Entries and Donation Envelope Manager, Custom Donation Funds
  
  
• Data / Reports: Custom CSV Export which allows you to choose fields of information to export to Excel and many filters to focus the results. Custom reporting features allow "Free Text Queries" in SQL giving you the ultimate flexibility for your IT staff. Template reports allow you to filter the information you need first from pertinent fields, then run the report for Donation Summary, End of Year, Groups & Roles & Members Directory. Create a PDF Members Directory for all your members or just specific groups, roles, classifications etc and choose the fields of information you want to be included in as little as Two Clicks.
  
  
• Group Types: Create Group Types ( I.e. Mens, Womens, Children, Couples, Singles, Classes, Sports, Volunteer). Your members can filter the groups you set to show publicly by these types to easily find exactly what they are interested in.
  
  
• E-mail Group Types: E-mail an entire group type in a single click.
  
  
• Group Approval: View approved & unapproved groups that need your approval.
  
  
• E-mail Specific Groups: E-mail all members in a specific group in a single click.
  
  
• Public or Private Groups: Create public (shown to your members online) or private groups for your internal teams.
  
  
• Password Protect Public Group Creation Process: If you want to control who is creating groups, just assign a password to create particular types of groups. Use different passwords for different types or use none at all.
  
  
• Sort Groups: Adjust the sort order that groups can are displayed.
  
  
• Group Assignment Helper: A system that allows you to view members who are not in particular groups of your choice. Filter by gender, zip code, name, family, newest entries. Use records you have placed in the cart.
  
  
• Custom Properties: Create custom property fields for People Records, Family Records and Groups which will allow you to store virtually any type of information you wish with your own field titles.
  
  
• Custom Property Types: Create custom property types to categorize the custom properties you create for the ultimate in categorization of your custom information.
  
  

Utilities

• Backup: Back up to your own local hard drive at your convenience. Off-site backups performed daily automatically protecting your data from even the worst situations.
• Import / Export to CSV (Excel spread sheets): CSV import and export. Export allows for custom field selections and many filters. Build your own custom list of records to export by adding records to the cart, then exporting the cart.
• Company Information: Easily brand the system with your own logo and company or entity name.