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Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/acs-parish-data-system-profile/reviews/) # Parish Data System 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - User Reviews ## Overview Parish Data System 2.7 [(15)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/acs-parish-data-system-profile/reviews/) Pricing Pricing available upon request Top Alternatives ### About Parish Data System Parish Data System (PDS) from ACS Technologies is a hybrid church management solution that caters to parishes, schools, dioceses and helps them to manage, automate and organize their day-to-day operations. The solution can either be deployed on-premise or hosted in the cloud. PDS offers users various modules to manage finances, contributions, communications, events, reports, schools and childcare and more. In addition to church management features, PDS offers users tools to handle processes unique to Catholic institutions such as a sacramental register for recording, indexing and searching baptism, confirmation, communion, marriage and death records, 'Formation OfficeTM' module for tracking religious-education data and coordinating tuition, fees, contributions and fundraising and a diocesan communications solution, which synchronizes databases across parishes, schools and dioceses. Additionally, PDS supports integration with other ACS Technologies products, including The City which is a social platform where church members and leaders can connect and collaborate. Support is offered via phone and email. ## Parish Data System User Interface ## Popular Parish Data System Alternatives Main Product Parish Data System 2.7 [(15)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/acs-parish-data-system-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 2.33Ease of use - 2.22Value for money - 3.20Customer support - 2.60Functionality Pricing Available upon request Alternative Product [Planning Center](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/planning-center-profile/) 4.7 [(1138)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/planning-center-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.44Ease of use - 4.53Value for money - 4.58Customer support - 4.54Functionality Pricing Available upon request Alternative Product [Chmeetings](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/chmeetings-profile/) 4.9 [(162)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/chmeetings-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.82Ease of use - 4.87Value for money - 4.87Customer support - 4.69Functionality Pricing Starting at $12.00 per month Alternative Product [Gracely](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/gracely-profile/) 4.8 [(23)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/gracely-profile/#reviews) Ratings Breakdown - 4.87Ease of use - 4.95Value for money - 5.0Customer support - 4.57Functionality Pricing Starting at $19.00 per month Alternative Product [Text In Church](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/text-in-church-profile/) 4.6 [(259)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/text-in-church-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.53Ease of use - 4.42Value for money - 4.71Customer support - 4.40Functionality Pricing Starting at $37.00 per month Alternative Product [One Church Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/one-church-profile/) 4.9 [(74)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/one-church-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.77Ease of use - 4.91Value for money - 4.97Customer support - 4.74Functionality Pricing Starting at $58.00 per month ## Parish Data System Pricing and Plans Starting price: $72.00 Free Trial Free Version Basic $72.00 No plan information available ## Parish Data System Features - Popular features found in Church Management Attendance Tracking Event Management Member Communication Member Directory Online Calendar Online Giving Pledge Management Small Group Management Volunteer Management Worship Planning - More features of Parish Data System Built-in Accounting Child Check-in Donation Management Member Portal Membership Management Mobile Access Multi-Location Website Management ## Parish Data System User Reviews Overall Rating 2.7 Ratings Breakdown 5 13% 4 13% 3 27% 2 20% 1 27% Secondary Ratings Ease of Use 2.3 Value for money 2.2 Customer support 3.2 Functionality 2.6 MM Maxine M. Verified reviewer Religious Institutions 11-50 employees Used daily for more than 2 years Reviewed January 2024 Bookkeepers Dream 5 Absolutely love it - very easy to use and learn. Ratings Breakdown 5 Ease of use 5 Customer support 5 Functionality Pros: Love the reports and bank reconciliations and the On Demand program. Cons: Sometimes it freezes up - not sure if it is the internet or the program since I use On Demand Read More VM Vicki M. Verified reviewer Non-Profit Organization Management 11-50 employees Used daily for more than 2 years Review source Reviewed September 2020 PDS Church Office 5 Great experience with recording information but the reports were not easy to use. Ratings Breakdown 4 Ease of use 3 Value for money 3 Customer support 2 Functionality Pros: PDS Software was very reliable. We did not have much down time at all. Cons: It wasn't geared toward a Catholic Church. Its excellent software for protestant churches, but it falls short for what we need to record our Sacraments etc. Reasons for choosing Parish Data System We now use ParishSoft. It is a Catholic Based software. Reporting is easier for our church. Read More MD Matthew D. Verified reviewer Religious Institutions 11-50 employees Used weekly for more than 2 years Review source Reviewed October 2020 Parish Data Systems needs major overhaul 1 We are not happy with this software and are currently looking to change. It seems to have been a solution in at one time, but is built on an older platform that doesn't upgrade well. It needs a major overhaul. There are many other church management systems out that does so much more these days. Ratings Breakdown 1 Ease of use 1 Value for money 5 Customer support 3 Functionality Pros: PDS holds parishioner data and donation contributions. It is uniquely Catholic in design, and holds Sacramental information. It is organized by family, rather than individual (like Catholic churches organize records). If you have questions, someone is available by phone to help solve issues. Cons: PDS isn't reliable. We lost cell phones data once and had to use a backup to restore. Another time the user levels permissions just changed, so all employees could see financial giving, and not just the accountant. It is not user friendly and buttons are in odd places. Data is not organized well and not all data can be pulled in reports like we would like them. When we run reports of the whole parish, the report often crashes and takes forever to run. Read More MG Mari G. Verified reviewer Religious Institutions 11-50 employees Used daily for less than 2 years Review source Reviewed September 2020 Disatisfactory 4 Ratings Breakdown 2 Ease of use 3 Value for money 2 Customer support 3 Functionality Pros: I felt like the easiest thing to do, to be really honest was logging into the system. Cons: I don't even know where to begin with what types of issues I had with PDS Church Office. It seemed like I had an issue with something everyday. Read More DP Dan P. Verified reviewer Marketing and Advertising 2-10 employees Used daily for less than 6 months Review source Reviewed July 2021 I like PDS and would recommend it. 4 In the last several months we have been able to gather more data and make it more useful for the parish since we utilize more features. Ratings Breakdown 4 Ease of use 5 Value for money 5 Customer support 4 Functionality Pros: The easy process of weekly donations and parishioner data is very important to our church. Overall this is a good software for a small to medium size parish. Cons: Notes tracking is lacking. There is no way to insert a note that will stay without it having the potential of it being deleted. Read More DR Dominic R. Verified reviewer Information Technology and Services 2-10 employees Used daily for more than 2 years Review source Reviewed March 2018 Good for Catholic parishes, but needs some work to stay relevant 3 Helps manage a Catholic parish Ratings Breakdown 3 Ease of use 3 Value for money 4 Customer support 3 Functionality Pros: PDS is designed for Catholic parishes and has everything you would possibly need to track from sacraments to attendence to religious education programs, etc. Cons: The software is starting to get outdated. Syncing data between multiple "users" (databases) is cumbersome and the interface looks straight out of 1998 (still). Unfortunately, after you've invested years of effort, it would be detrimental to attempt to move all of the data to any other "church" system without significant costs Read More VR Verified Reviewer Religious Institutions 11-50 employees Used daily for more than 2 years Review source Reviewed May 2019 Update Parish Data Systems 3 Ratings Breakdown 3 Ease of use 2 Value for money 4 Customer support 3 Functionality Pros: So many features for census software for a catholic church, you can build keyword reports, financial record keeping is simple and customer service is so easy to use when you have on demand. Cons: Update reporting so that you can build a pivot table, app does not offer an online directory and the overall look to the program is close to that of an out dated AS400 program. Would love Realm but product is not ready for a diocese. Read More AH Angela H. Verified reviewer Religious Institutions 51-200 employees Used daily for more than 2 years Review source Reviewed November 2019 Good to record name & phone and make reports. 3 Hard to use. Ratings Breakdown 2 Ease of use 2 Functionality Pros: Easy to enter information, had many fields to enter info into. Cons: Other than a data base this software does not do much more. Pulling a report is hard and sending emails is not easy. Read More EN Elizabeth N. Verified reviewer Religious Institutions 11-50 employees Used weekly for more than 2 years Review source Reviewed February 2019 Clunky, Poor Reporting 2 There are much better Church/Registration Software Systems out there. We are certainly looking to move to a different system. Ratings Breakdown 2 Ease of use 3 Functionality Pros: PDS Church Office efficiently collects and organizes data. Other than that, I can't recommend it. Cons: The reports are terrible. There are literally hundred of fields to choose from, many of which are the same field worded differently (i.e. Father name, Father full name, Head name, Member 1 name...). All adults input into the system are either "Mother" or "Father" regardless of marital status or actually having children. Read More AS Alexander S. Verified reviewer Religious Institutions 11-50 employees Used daily for less than 2 years Review source Reviewed December 2018 PDS Church Office: There's probably something better 3 It works, but it's slow. Ratings Breakdown 2 Ease of use 3 Functionality Pros: It does compile all of our members' data and make it searchable. It syncs up via the cloud. Cons: It takes forever to start up. It is clunky to navigate and feels like old, dated software. Read More Showing 1 - 10 of 15 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/acs-parish-data-system-profile/reviews/) ## See what companies are saying about Software Advice