ShelbyNext Financials

RATING:

4.0

(164)

About ShelbyNext Financials

Shelby offers church financial software that is used by and made for churches, denominational headquarters, faith-based nonprofits, and ministries. A GAAP compliant financial software. Shelby Financials is a cloud-based or on-premise (locally installed) software. Available features include general ledger, payroll, accounts receivable, accounts payable, bank account management, fixed assets, purchasing management, loans, retirement and insurance billing, and more. Fulfills your financial requirements for the church as well as governing boards, financial committees, internal staff, and outside agencies.
General ledger

ShelbyNext Financials Reviews

Overall Rating

4.0

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for ShelbyNext Financials

1 - 5 of 164 Reviews

Rex

Religious Institutions, 2 - 10 employees

Used unspecified

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

Reviewed July 2021

ShelbyNext Financials User Review

Kip

Religious Institutions, 201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2019

Love the updates

I think that ShelbyNext does a great job implementing the financials with the rest of the membership program.

PROS

Creating custom forms for events and activities at the church has been very helpful. Especially after switching recently to the new forms. They do a great job of making the forms easy to use.

CONS

I think that there could be a little more customization with the layout, design and graphics involved with forms; but, honestly, I'm not sure if I would have the time to use any more features than I already use.

Reason for choosing ShelbyNext Financials

Easy connection between ShelbyNext Membership and Financials.

James

Religious Institutions, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2019

Solid, Church-focused Financials

Being web-based was a huge need for us. With employees being mobile these days, we needed a solution that could go any where and be used on any platform.

PROS

The software is regularly updated to improve functionality and adjust for changes in financial regulations. Support is responsive and typically willing to help, including remote screen sharing.

CONS

It can be a little cumbersome for those who don't use it everyday, but you can subscribe to reports you need and get to them fairly quickly if you take the time to do that from the start.

Reason for choosing ShelbyNext Financials

ShelbyNext Financials integrates seamlessly with our church management system

Reasons for switching to ShelbyNext Financials

Needed to move to a web-based solution.

Anonymous

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

2

Reviewed May 2018

SN financials nothing like V5, disappointment and cancelled after 9 months of struggling

none

PROS

* As a church with many funds I liked the ease of creating new funds and departments. * ease of adding GL accounts for multiple funds * When sold we were told complete system; membership, giving, and financials. * When we purchased we like that Ministry Brands will pick and choose from their purchases the complete solution. * price compared to other cloud solutions for the complete solution was reasonable and very competitive. *SaaS/monthly billing. No software purchase.

CONS

As I mentioned in the best "that Ministry Brands will pick and choose from their purchases the complete solution" After trying to get this ShelbyNext Financials implemented for 9 months, SN is not the answer. * Customer service on all of their pieces was terrible. Constantly we were in the queue for hours. Consistently we could not get into the queue. Major disappointment as V5 had good support. * Income statement and balance sheet when exported you could not download groupings requiring long name convention and work arounds. * There was not a complete solution as you were required to sign into different websites and you had to push data from membership to financials. If you have online giving that requires duplication and pushing into membership and then to financials. *Downloading into XLS was just a flat file/csv; no formula's, no headers *If multiple funds you could not consolidate the IS & BS for downloading to excel. PDFs you could. * downloading the chart of accounts was terrible. if you have 3 funds with 100 accounts, your reports had 300 line items. Not 100 with fund info. * Implementation for membership was good but financials was none existent. * GL accounts for multiple funds you were required to delete accounts in each fund if changes were made. The negatives far outweighed the few positives we saw. And the positives we saw were really promises of functionality that was not delivered.

Monica

Accounting, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed August 2019

Shelby Next Financials

We are able to process our normal transactions in a timely manner.

PROS

It allows us to process transactions (payroll/ap/general ledger) for our multi-campus church in a fairly simple manner.

CONS

1) I am not aware of any "ticket/notification" process to notify Shelby of a need we have/special report request. There are a couple of routine processes that we do not get good reports from Shelby. 2) The change from Shelby V5 to Shelby Next resulted in a general ledger report filter process that is more difficult.

Reasons for switching to ShelbyNext Financials

The former product was not capable of processing multi-campus transactions.