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You will be happy to know that
choosing the Church Helpmate church management software system does NOT
mean that you must abandon the data held in your current
system. Whether your current system is another commercial church
management software product, or your own “home grown” product, it is very
likely that your existing data can be transferred over into Church
Helpmate. We have provided this service to many of our new customers -
making their transition to Church Helpmate almost as easy as just flipping a
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Allowing Helpmate to handle your data migration, provides
you with:
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Peace of mind. Our data transfer personnel are
intimately acquainted with the Church Helpmate table and field structure
designs. Our years of experience in transferring data from other
systems into our products will enable us to choose the most effective
transfer process to meet your specific needs.
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Minimal downtime during your transition period to
Church Helpmate. You have just purchased an incredibly useful tool in
Church Helpmate - but it won’t be worth much to you initially if all of
your existing data is still in your old system. You certainty don’t
want to have to re-enter your existing data into Church Helpmate (that
could take months!). Our typical “turn-around” time for data transfer
services is between 1-2 weeks (this is the time from when we receive your
existing membership data files until the time we deliver to you your data in
a Church Helpmate data file). However, longer turn-around times
may occur during the months of December and January - due to the high volume
of projects that are typically ordered during these months..
Upon completion of your project, we will provide your converted data
to you and you will simply restore this
data into your Church Helpmate program (using the program's easy-to-use
restore function) and all of your data will be in Church Helpmate - it
doesn't get any easier!
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The price associated with our data transfer services
will depend on several factors:
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Similarity in table
and field structure between your existing data files and the Church Helpmate
structure
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The areas (or
sections) of data to be included in the transfer (for example, is contribution
or attendance information to be included in transfer?)
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Total size (record
count) of existing data files
For a typical data transfer project handling basic household and individual data
(i.e. names, addresses, phone numbers, special dates, etc.), you can expect fees
around $225-$275 (again, depending on the above factors). Additional data
transfer including group membership/activity, contribution/pledge, and
meeting/attendance data would require additional fees.
Once we are able to view first-hand your existing data’s table/field design we
will generate a formal quotation which will include firm pricing and expected
delivery for your data transfer project.
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What Products &
Data Formats Do You Support? |
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Since 1997, we have converted data from most of the
other church management software products. If you are transitioning to
Helpmate from another commercial church management software system (which is
typically the case with most of our new customers today), it's more than
likely that we have processed conversions from your system to Church Helpmate.
Here is just a sample of some of the products from which we have transferred
data to
Church Helpmate:
| ACS |
CCIS |
Church Data Master (CDM+) |
Church Partner |
| Church Planter
Management System (CPMS) |
Church Windows |
Church Watch |
Donor Perfect |
| Faithful Steward |
ICMS |
Membership Plus |
Parish Data Systems |
| PowerChurch |
Quick Church |
Servant Keeper |
Shelby |
| Shepherd's Staff |
Themes |
UMIS |
Microsoft Outlook |
| Logos |
Roll Call (By the Book) |
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We can also transfer data into Church Helpmate from any of
the following data file types:
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Microsoft Access (*.mdb)
(all versions)
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Microsoft Excel (*.xls)
(all versions)
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Microsoft
Visual FoxPro (*.dbf)
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dBASE (*.dbf)
(versions III, III+, IV, and 5)
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Paradox (*.db)
(versions 3.x, 4.x, and 5.0)
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Lotus 1-2-3
spreadsheets (*.wks, *.wk1, *.wk3, and *.wk4)
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DBISAM (.blb, .idx,
.dat)
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Delimited text files
(files with values separated by commas, tabs, or other characters; must be in
MS-DOS or Windows ANSI text format)
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Fixed-width text
files (files with values arranged so that each field has a certain width; must
be in MS-DOS or Windows ANSI text format)
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Have questions about our
Data Transfer Services, please
contact Helpmate sales.
We would love to hear from you!
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