Still using ACS or Realm for church finances?
ACS and Realm have served a lot of churches well.
For many churches, they help with the day-to-day work of managing people, giving, groups, events, and church records.
But when it comes to the financial side of ministry, many teams still end up doing too much outside the system.
Jade Funds was built to make church finances easier to see, easier to review, and easier to manage together.
Church finance should not have to live in five different places.
Budgets live in spreadsheets. Receipts come through email. Transaction questions happen in text threads. Ministry leaders do not know where they stand.
Pastors wait for someone to pull a report, while finance teams spend too much time chasing down answers.
Still outside the system
- Budget spreadsheets
- Email receipts
- Text-thread questions
- Manual report requests
Bring together
- Budgets and funds
- Transactions and receipts
- Review and comments
- Reports and accountability
Realm helps manage the church. Jade Funds helps manage the money.
Your church may already have a system for member records, giving, groups, and communication. That is important. But church finance has its own set of problems.
See connected bank and card activity in the same finance workspace.
Track approved plans and current spending without rebuilding spreadsheets.
Review what came in, what went out, and what still needs attention.
Know what money belongs to which ministry, purpose, or restriction.
Keep supporting documents tied to the record they explain.
Prepare clearer reports for pastors, committees, and boards.
Church finances are not the same as business finances.
A church is not just asking, “Did we make a profit?” You are asking whether a ministry decision is affordable, whether spending is within the approved budget, whether designated gifts are being handled correctly, and what leadership needs before the next meeting.
Jade Funds helps your team answer those questions without digging through five different places.
Questions Jade Funds helps answer
- Can we afford this ministry decision?
- Are we staying within the approved budget?
- How much is available in the building fund?
- Did that expense come from the right ministry?
- What can we show the board before the next meeting?
Not just for the bookkeeper.
Most accounting software is built around one person sitting in the finance office. But in a church, finances touch a lot of people.
Understand the health of the church without waiting for a custom report.
See where things stand before staffing, ministry, and facility decisions.
Keep clean records, categorize transactions, and attach receipts.
Review reports, monitor activity, and maintain oversight.
Know the budget picture for the areas they lead.
Review trustworthy reports with the right level of detail.
Give each person the right view.
With role-based access, your church can decide who sees what and who can do what.
A pastor can see high-level financial health. A ministry leader can review spending for their ministry. A bookkeeper can categorize transactions and attach receipts. A board member can see the information needed for oversight.
No more
- Sharing one login
- Emailing sensitive spreadsheets
- Guessing who should have access
Instead
- Pastor visibility
- Ministry budget views
- Finance committee review
- Auditor read-only access
Keep the conversation with the transaction.
A lot of church finance work gets lost because the conversation happens somewhere else. Someone asks about a charge in an email. Someone sends a receipt by text. Someone explains an expense in a meeting. Someone else updates a spreadsheet.
Jade Funds keeps the conversation connected to the financial record: comments, receipts, questions, notes, review activity, and the context your team will need later.
Know where things stand before the meeting.
Church leaders should not have to wait until the end of the month to understand the church’s finances.
Jade Funds helps your team see current balances, track budget progress, review transactions that need attention, understand fund balances, and prepare reports for leadership as the work is being done.
That means fewer surprises and better conversations.
More financial clarity.
Spreadsheets are useful. But they should not be the glue holding your church finances together.
If your team is exporting reports, rebuilding budgets, emailing files back and forth, and manually tracking ministry spending, the system is making the work harder than it needs to be.
Jade Funds helps bring that work into one place so your team can spend less time chasing numbers and more time making good decisions.
Jade Funds may be a good fit if your church
- Uses ACS or Realm but still manages budgets in spreadsheets
- Wants clearer financial reporting and better fund tracking
- Needs ministry leaders to see their budgets
- Wants receipts, notes, and comments tied to the record
- Needs better visibility for pastors, finance teams, and boards
Is Jade Funds a fit for churches using ACS or Realm?
Some churches may keep ACS or Realm for church management and use Jade Funds for finance.
The goal is not to replace tools your team still needs. The goal is to give your church a better way to manage the money.
Church accounting should help your team steward well.
Financial stewardship is not just about keeping the books clean. It is about helping leadership make wise decisions, giving the right people the right information at the right time, and knowing what has been given, where it is going, and whether your church is staying faithful to the plan.
Can you confirm whether this belongs to facilities or the building fund?
Facilities. Receipt attached and approved from the maintenance line.