This project is for my local church charity. The porject is a member record management system with focus on two main areas.
1 Administration: This involves, member record management, church growth analysis( showing growth rate church in graphical form), sunday school registration and mangement showing reports.
2. Accounting / Finance, this would be a financial accounting management solution for a church with balance sheets, ledgers, printable recipts and reports.
Furthermore, the Project is simply a software application for handling the administrative functions of churches. It should track the church's membership, contributions, finances, pledges, committees, sunday school classes, music library, member interests in various music programs. It also tracks the church staff, both full-time and volunteers. It maintains records about the sermons, music, scripture and attendance for each Sunday. It also maintains information about policies such as weddings, use of the building, honorariums, etc. Music library records are maintained. Conduct gift and talent survey of members. Merge letters to members. The comprehensiveness of the program is expanded by user-defined fields that allow special needs of the church to be tracked. Both system generated timed and user had hoc Reports should be available covering membership lists, committee and organization lists, pledge analysis, contribution summaries, end-of-year statement to members with their contribution totals and many more. Address labels, should be printed in just about every way the church would like to group their members as well as mail merges to MS Word. Also, this must also be able ro read data form MS Excel into its database directly as well as Export data from the database to MS Excel. This is jusr another church management software. I need to know how long the project will take you to do.
## Deliverables
1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.
2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):
a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment.
b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request.
3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement).
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hello Everyone, i have received several questions about this project, ranging from what type of reports are expected to what is the prepared technology(windows or web based). With regards to the reports, they are mainly going to be Financial:(daily,monthly and annual totals grouped by income type ie tithes, offerings etc. which should be both in tabular form and graphs ie pie charts and histograms), Administrative:(Print member details, member attendance, financial contributions, login user profile logs etc) and Statistical(Church growth analysis,no of families, no of males, females and children .etc) Ad hoc reporting obviously is the way forward and would allow the system users to create their own reports from the fields available on the database.
Secondly, i don't mind if its a web application or windows however, i require that it can be installed via a simple setup click from a cdrom. Hence, my choice of a windows program. I hope this answers all questions for any other questions please drop me a note. Many thanks and happy bidding.
## Platform
All versions of windows.
Prefarably, the project should be designed using the following however not strictly vb6.0, C# or .Net. with an MS Access DB backend.
Please Note that this applicationn should be designed to run on a network.
PS: the winning bidder may expect to ne in charge of support, hoever this will be dicussed after the project. Also let me know how long it will take to deliver.