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Would we need to include Payroll on our chart of accounts if we normally use an outside vendor (ADP) to handle all of our payroll? Depends ... how are you going to enter those expenses into Powerchurch? ADP is doing everything, tax forms, and so on? So do you need to break down your personnel costs...

Sorry for the delay in responding, I appreciate your advice! Its all fixed now. Yes, Backups worked OK when I triggered them from the Utility menu - the suggestion about needing to fill in the "start in" field on Task Scheduler was what fixed the issue. Thanks for pointing me to the KB article, but...

Hi everyone, We’re trying to improve the administrative side of things in our local church, especially finances and donation tracking. Until now most of it was handled manually (spreadsheets + paper…), but it’s getting harder once proper reports or financial checks are needed. I often see discussio...

We use window envelopes for mailed annual Contribution Statements, which means we need to fold the statement at the right place in order to have the mailing address show in the envelope window. There is that nice horizontal line on the Contribution Statement dividing the Address section of the stan...

Is there any plan to create a default filter in Maintain Family List? It would make viewing much simpler if we could set a default filter of say ACTIVE. Then all deceased an, inactive, transferred members will no longer be listed. It would make updating and reporting so much easier. There are such ...

DaleFile wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 24, 2026 3:21 pm

Is there a report you can run to tell if an account hasn't been used for x amount of time?

I don't recall ... but you can go to the account in the chart of accounts, and click on DETAILS, then look at the activity tab. You can click on the previous year button to see when there was any activity.

how do I complete posting for 2025, my church has been closed for several months due to weather. I haven't been able to finish posting for 2025. what should I do? Need to finish posting November and December. Just go in and post as normal. Select the transactions that should post in November, and s...

Back in April, 2025, we switched checking accounts and I had to reverse some contributions to get the funds moved into the new account. Looks like I did one too many reverses because when I run a Fund Summary Report for April from the Contributions Module vs Income and Expense from the Funds Accoun...

I have several Pass-Through accounts which should not have been Pass-Through. If I reverse the income/Contributions (as you stated was an option), what happens to the expenses that were entered against that income account? Its always a good idea to create a new topic, as the original one is over 14...

Woohoo! Thank you for your help. Doing what you suggested doubled the negative amounts so I had to do the opposite of what you said. The numbers then matched the withholding for January. Thankfully we haven't had our board meeting so I could redo January's reports. Thanks again! Sorry about that .....

Thanks for the reply. Still contemplating how to proceed. You are correct those two accounts are negative. For reference for posts to follow. Still thinking and more to share when it isn't so late. From Chart of Accounts 2205 Taxes Payable Group 2215 Federal Withholding 2217 SS 2219 Medicare 2220 S...

On the balance sheet is a line under liabilities named federal withholding.It increases each month by the amount of Social Security and Medicare. It never goes back to zero , just keeps increasing. We have one employee, the janitor. In payroll the pay items use default GL accounts. Do I have someth...

RivertonCC wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 11, 2026 9:26 am

It Worked! Thank you.

Good to hear ...

Hi, I forgot to check a box on the pastor's W-2, the "Retirement" box in box 13. Does PowerChurch tax filing do W-2C forms? Did you already submit the W-2s to the Social Security Administration? If not, get a typewriter and 'X' the boxes on his copies, and the one you send to the SSA. That said, it...

Yep. FA. Just tested, I don't see that .. the first thing that appears is the list of months and number of transactions to post. Click the button to post, and the next is the posting confirmation and the button to post. I'm also not having issues with printing reports. Not sure what could be causin...