Still using Shelby for church accounting?
Shelby has been part of church finance for a long time.
A lot of churches have used it to manage accounting, payroll, reports, and the financial side of ministry.
But many church teams today are looking for something that feels easier to use, easier to share, and easier for the whole team to understand.
Jade Funds was built for churches that want modern accounting software without losing the structure church finances require.
Church finance should not feel stuck in the past.
If your finance team knows how to use Shelby, it may get the job done.
But that does not mean the whole church team has good visibility.
Jade Funds helps bring that work into one place so your church can manage finances with more clarity and less back-and-forth.
Still happening outside the system
- Pastors wait for reports
- Ministry leaders manage budgets in spreadsheets
- Receipts come through email or text
- Transaction questions happen somewhere else
Bring into Jade Funds
- Budget health and ministry spending
- Transactions, comments, and receipts
- Fund balances and restrictions
- Reports leaders can understand
Built for more than the finance office.
Most church accounting systems are built around the bookkeeper or finance administrator. That matters. But church finances touch more people than that.
See high-level financial health, cash position, budget progress, and reports.
Monitor finances across ministries, funds, accounts, and budgets.
Review transactions, categorize activity, attach receipts, and keep records clean.
See their ministry budget, track spending, and understand where things stand.
Review reports, monitor activity, and help guide financial decisions.
Access the reports and information needed for oversight.
Use read-only access when it is time to review the books.
Give every role the right view.
Not everyone should have full access to the books. But the right people should not be left in the dark either.
With Jade Funds, your church can create roles for the way your team actually works.
No more
- Shared logins
- Emailing sensitive spreadsheets
- Giving everyone more access than they need
Instead
- Pastor visibility
- Ministry budget views
- Finance committee oversight
- Auditor read-only access
Keep the conversation with the numbers.
A lot of church finance work gets messy 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 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 money belongs.
Churches do not just need to know how much money is in the bank. They need to know what the money is for.
Jade Funds helps your team track general operations, building funds, missions, benevolence, ministry budgets, memorial gifts, capital campaigns, and designated funds clearly.
Leaders can understand what is available, what is restricted, and what needs attention.
Make budgeting easier to follow.
A budget should not be a spreadsheet that only gets opened before a meeting.
Jade Funds helps your church build budgets, compare actual spending against the plan, and see how ministries are doing throughout the year.
That means fewer surprises, less guessing, better conversations, and a clearer picture of whether spending is aligned with the plan your church approved.
Reports people can actually use
- Budget vs. actual performance
- Fund balances and account balances
- Spending trends and transactions needing review
- Ministry-level financial activity
- Reports for leadership meetings
When churches start looking beyond Shelby.
Jade Funds may be a good fit if your accounting office can make Shelby work, but the rest of your team still needs a clearer way to stay informed.
Your church uses Shelby but wants software the whole team can actually use.
Pastors, committees, and boards need clearer access to the right financial picture.
Budget tracking should not depend on disconnected spreadsheets.
Questions, receipts, notes, and comments should stay tied to the record.
Leaders need to know what money is restricted, designated, or available.
Non-accountants should be able to understand what the reports mean.
Shelby helped churches manage the books. Jade Funds helps churches manage the work around the books.
Accounting is not just data entry. It is decisions, questions, approvals, receipts, reports, budgets, funds, leadership conversations, and stewardship.
Jade Funds brings those pieces together in one modern financial workspace for churches.
Can this be split between Children’s Ministry and VBS?
Yes. Receipt attached and VBS should cover $120.