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We do not wish to restrict opportunity for
ministry for any church. For this reason, any tool Powerful Church
Websites has developed, plus all future tools to be developed, will
come standard with ALL our packages. All websites have our
lifetime upgrade guarantee.
News Flash 03/07: We are near
completion of some exciting new community integration tools.
Included are Spiritual Gift Assessment tools, Visitation Tools, and
Volunteer management assistance. Best of all, all current clients
and future clients will receive these tools added to their website
free!
News Flash 04/13: Our response to our extensive features list has been great. Thank you to all the churches willing to participate in our field testing program. We've recently added a new Video Series highlighting some of our major features. Click on the video on the right to view it!
Our Current Church Website Tools (Available with ALL
Packages)
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Powerful Website Updater
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- Easily Update
Content - Add an UNTLIMITED number of
pages
- No Special Programming or software
needed
- Log in from any web browser and update your
website!
- Multiple Users
- Delegate responsibility so multiple users can
edit website contents. Great for different leadership
roles to take ownership of different areas. Eg. Youth Minister
responsible for updating Youth Group area information..
- Allow users to only edit certain areas of your website.
- Familiar Interface (WYSIWYG - What You
See Is What You Get)
- Basic Editor Features
- Easily edit your website with a familar
Microsoft Word-like Interface. Anyone with basic Word Processor
knowledge can professionally update the your church website.
- Change font styles, font colors, paragraphs, bulleted lists,
insert/upload pictures
- Resize pictures by dragging edges.
- Choose pictures from our library of pictures
or upload your own.
- Advanced Editor Features
- Import directly from MS-Word documents.
- Link to any document or page on your website
or external website.
- Turn pictures into hyper-links.
- Publishing
- Choose to write a document, but set it to show on a
later date.
- Require approval before submitted documents are published.
- Visitors of your website can "refer a page" by
email to a friend. Eg. A visitor could navigate
to your Audio Sermons page, and easily send that link via email to
a friend.
- Visitors can save any website page as a PDF
with a click of a button
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Powerful
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- Publishing
- Set event start times to "Call for
Times" rather than having to choose a specific time
or "All Day" (actual text is configurable, can be changed to
"E-mail us for times" etc..)
- Create repeating rules based
on "Easter each year"(Great for
churches!)
- Other examples include
- Every other Monday and Thursday
- The first Tuesday of the month on or after the
2nd
- 15 days before Easter every year
- The first weekday of the month
- Any Friday that falls on the 13th of a
month
- The first Saturday OR Sunday of
a month, which ever comes first
- Overriding of repeating events
- Change only a certain instance
of a repeating event
- Delete only a certain instance of a repeating
event
- The ability to reset a changed
instance back to it's original state
- Multiple Calendars
- Create Views which enable you
to view multiple calendars at once (Layering)
- Multiple calendars each with their own
configurable options including:
- Member list (administrators,
normal users, view-only users) Eg. All Church
Nursery Workers can access their scheduled volunteer day
on their own calendar.
- Event requests
- Remember recently added locations
- Categories
- Color asignment
- Remote publishing
- File Attachments
- Categories
- Easily categorize events using
categories you can define for each calendar
- Assign color(s) to each category
- Assign an icon to each category
- Filter events by any category
- Assign multiple categories to events. For
instance, a musical theater production can be in both Theater and
Music categories
- Users and Groups
- Each calendar has it's own
members and administrators list
- Guest Account with configurable access
per calendar (this can be turned off globally)
- Advanced access control based on
groups and users.
- "Everyone" pseudo group
- Timezones and Daylight Saving Time
- All timezone and daylight saving time operations
are done independent from your web server's timezone. It doesn't
matter where / what timezone your site is hosted in.
- Timezone and daylight saving time settings
configurable per user
- Timezone and daylight saving time settings
configurable per event
(an event that occurs at 2pm EST will correctly display as 11am to
a user in PST)
- Option to disable timezone information per event
so that it will appear to occur at the same time, regardless of
user's timezone settings
- Globally turn off timezone and dst
compensation
- Attachments
- URL attachments
- Event file attachments (stored
direrctly on the file system or in a database)
- Enable or disable attachments per calendar
- Ability to download all attachments for an
event as a zip file *
- Import/export and publishing
- Import/Export to Apple iCal,
Mozilla Sunbird and other programs that support the iCalendar
standard
- Post events to a calendar
remotely using Apple iCal, Windates, Mozilla Calendar and other
programs that support this feature (just like when using a WebDAV
server!)
- Subscribe to a calendar
remotely using any program that supports this feature
- Post calendars to a remote web
server or service su ch as iCal Exchange or iCal Share
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- Syndication
- RSS feeds for calendars (day,
week, and month views)
- Event requests
- Configurable per calendar
- Non-authorized users may
request that an event be added
- Remote, non-authorized users may post an event
just as they would any other and it will be added to the
event request queue
- Calendar admins may add the request to
the calendar or deny the request
- Calendar owner may choose to recieve
e-mail notification of pending event
requests.
- Users recieve notification that their event has
been added or denied ***
- E-Mail ***
- E-mail notification of pending event
requests
- E-mail an event to to anyone
(turned off for Guest account)
- E-mail subscriptions to
calendars Works just like a newspaper subscription.
Subscribe to daily or weekly views.
- E-mail notification of added
events based on event type or title text
- E-mail reminders of upcoming
events
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Powerful Sermon
Audio |
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- Features - Now Podcast Enabled!
- General
- Allow access for multiple users to upload sermons. Eg. A/V
Volunteer can upload files from home.
- Visitors can email a sermon to a friend with
the click of a button.
- Create a hyperlink for a sermon to your shopping
cart. (so users can buy a CD Series.)
- Audio
- Supports a wide range of audio files.
- Supports Windows WMA, MP3, and OGG
- Stream Audio right from your church web page.
- Option to download audio on computer, I-Pod,
MP3 device, etc.
- Extras
- Attach Sermon Notes to a particular Audio
File.
- Attach Graphics
- Classify Sermons by Date, Pastor, or Sermon Series.
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Powerful Video
On-Demand |
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- Features - Be seen by the
world!
- General
- Allow access for multiple users to upload videos.
- Visitors can email a video to a friend with
the click of a button.
- Create a hyperlink for a video series to your shopping
cart. (so users can buy a DVD Set)
- Video Formats
- Supports a wide range of common video compressions.
- Supports Windows AVI, MPEG, MPG, MOV, WMV
- Stream Audio right from your church web page.
- Option to download video on computer,
I-Pod
- Extras
- Attach Sermon Notes to a particular Video. Eg.
Great for workshops.
- Attach Graphics
- Classify Videos by Date, Pastor, or Series Set.
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Powerful Online
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- Features
- General
- Allow users to give online by category (Tithe,
Event Registration, etc)
- Users receive an email confirming their donation.
- Recurring donations using PayPal's account
management.
- Received instant notification of payments made.
- Download logs of all payments.
- Security
- Payments accepted through PayPal's online secure IPN
Gateway.
- Works with 128-bit SSL Security.
- Payment Options
- Easily integrated with PayPal.
- Option add ability to take your own credit cards (monthly fees
from 3rd parties apply)
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Scrolling
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- Features
- Scroll important News or Announcements.
- Easily update and change what News titles
scroll.
- Users can click on a News title to read more information
(scrolling pauses).
- Set scrolling items to begin scrolling on certain
date.
- Set scrolling items to expire on certain
date.
- Examples of usage:
- Scroll a volunteer sign up date for Nursery
Workers
- Scroll deadlines for mission trip deposit.
- Scroll a prayer need.
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Search Engine Friendly
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- Search Engine Friendly Website
- General
- We will submit your site to search engines so
they can generally be found by searching in directories like Yahoo,
Google, etc. **We also offer speciailized monthly service as a
separate package to boost rankings..
- Add keywords to your website
- Page links are Search Engine Friendly
- Optimization
- Add your own keywords to each content page.
- Ability to easily set anchor text within hyperlinks
on your web page.
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Powerful Online
Store |
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- Products and
Categories
- Sell multiple items
- Add as many categories, sub-categories, and products as you'd
like.
- Ability to sell downloadable products such as
Sermon Audio MP3s, Videos, etc.
- Add thumbnail pictures and large
product pictures for each product easily through
your web browser.
- Set auto-calculated discounts.
- Import large inventories through Excel files
(CSV).
- Maintain item inventories.
- Set product specials
- Users and Shopping
- Logins
- All users can maintain a shopping cart.
- Give permission for multiple accounts to maintain online
store.
- Assign different pricing structures for
different user groups. Eg. All church staff may buy products are a
discounted rate.
Security
- Users can securely and instantly pay
online.
- SSL encryption capable(128 -bit). Keep hackers
from stealing transactions.
- Configuration
- Shipping
- Ship to a user's shipping address
- Auto-Calculated shipping costs to be displayed
to user.
- Fetch live shipping rates from courriers.
- Tax-Rates
- Charge taxes if needed based on shipping address.
- Add special or no-tax options.
- Payment Gateways
- Authorize.net
- Paypal IPN
- 2Checkout
- Paymate
- NoChex
- WorldPay IPN
- PayMeNow
- ECheck.net
- EProcessingNetwork
- eWay
- And more
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Powerful Gallery |
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- General Configurations
- Images
- Auto resizes images
- Auto rotates images by detecting digital image.
- Automatically generates image thumbnails.
- View multiple images in a tree style navigation
- Add captions, keywords, and other information for
pictures.
- Usability
- Multiple language support
- Easily upload new files from website without any FTP ability or
fancy knowledge.
- Upload multiple images at the same time.
- Easily move photos from one folder to another or one from album
to album.
- Advanced Features
- Access Levels
- Allow users to have their own galleries and
manage them.
- Disapprove or monitor image uploads.
- Global Administrator can easily add new users.
- Multiple Albums
- Set up multiple Albums
- Eg. Youth Department, Worship Team, Children's Church,
etc.
- Interaction
- Visitors can add comments on pictures.
- Eg. "We had so much fun there! John you look funny!".
- Allow users to vote on top images.
- Uploading
- Upload ZIP files full of images to
automatically populate gallery.
- Copy all images through FTP into a directory to be displayed in
your Gallery.
- Use free remote control software to upload photos directly from
your Windows Desktop into the gallery.
- Overlay watermarks to protect photos.
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Web-based Email |
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- General
- Have unlimited email addresses
- Access securely your email from any
web-browser anywhere in the world.
- Easy interface to send email through the web.
- Access web-based email by going to:
www.yourchurchname/webmail
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Bible Searching |
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- General
- Features
- Allow your website visitors to search Scriptures.
- Search by specific verse and chapter
- Search by keywords through the whole
Bible.
- Convenient and useful for Bible and Small Group Leaders.
- Multi-version support coming soon.
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Prayer Request
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- General
- Features
- Receive prayer requests from your members or visitors
- Option to distribute prayer requests to prayer
team members' emails.
- Option to allow prayer requests to be displayed on website, or
only submitted.
- A great way to be in touch with congregation's
needs and a chance for God to move through the prayers of His
people.
- General
- Features
- Each user can have his or her own user name for your church
website
- Assign user levels access to certain areas of website.
- Allow multiple users access to update your website
- Maintain a database of users with their
information.
- Send system wide emails to all your users.
- Turn on or off user registration.
- Allow only registered users access to areas such as
Member Directory.
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Powerful Blogger |
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- Definition of a Blog -
A Blog is a user-generated website where
entries are made in a journal style and displayed in a reverse
chronological order.
- General
- Features in Powerful Blogger
- Update your site blog simply by sending email, or from any
mobile phone with mail or MMS.
- Ability to publish text, pictures and
video
- Allow multiple users to update blog.
- Configure permissions so users' items must be reviewed before
they are published on your blog.
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Powerful Newsletter
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- General
- Usability
- Unlimited Subscribers
- Unlimited Newsletters
- Send both HTML or Plain Text
- Easily create a Newsletter using a simple Newsletter
Wizard.
- Personalized greeting using First Names of
subscribers.
- Send a mailing report to Administrator.
- Configuration
- Import your entire newslist from nearly any
source.
- Import subscriber list from most other newsletter
managers.
- Supports Newsletter scheduling
- Mailings
- Sending
- Send attachments via email.
- Sends text message to administrator before list sent out.
- Users can easily unsubscribe to your
Newsletter (prevents spamming violations)
- Newsletter Sign-up
- Users can easily subscribe to multiple lists
- Eg. Youth Newsletter, or Building Fund Upate
Newsletter
- Advanced Features
- Administration
- Ban users emails
- Multi-language support for administration
- Other
- Archive past Newsletters so the public can
find them.
- Conforms to ISP Guidelines for sending Newsletters.
- Supports Auto-Responders
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Keep church members active and
integrated. Listen to sermons on your
church website.
View the latest galleries.
Comunicate between members.
See event calendars.
Donate securely online or pay for events
registrations.
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Impress visitors with a
beautiful church website. Designed by our professional
graphics team, we will work with your church to capture your look
and feel. Best of all your site is easily
updatable with no programming knowledge
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are too! The most affordable church website designs and
tools that will serve your church's ministry needs for years to
come. As we add even more features and products, your website
receives lifetime upgrades.
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