Re:Member 5.0 Product Overview

Keep Track of the People who Really Matter!

All of the members of your organisation are important, and Re:Member allows you to keep track of each and every one of them:

• Classify your members using fully-customisable member types, and show their current activity level by assigning a member status.
• Store many useful personal details about members, including date of birth or age group, country of origin, multiple contact numbers and e-mail addresses, and occupation or current course of study.
• Attach customised notes to each member using a number of free-form note categories.
• Put a face to a name by adding photographs of your members in any standard picture format.
• Follow-up visitors to your church by recording information about their first visit and assigning a follow-up co-ordinator.
• Assign members to Family Units to show the relationship between them, and to allow related members to be dealt with as a group.
• Members of a Family Unit can either retain individual last names or share a common surname with the other members of the family.
• Family Units can have multiple addresses, including  both a residential and mailing address.
• Track your members' progress within the organisation using fully customisable Milestones to store information about significant achievements.
• Keep track of your members' interests and activities by assigning them to Categories and Groups.
• Additional customisable fields allow you to record information that is specifically important to your organisation.
• Track the interaction between your staff and individual members using Contact Notes.
• Add members to Ministries based upon one or more attributes such as age or geographical location, to automatically assign their pastoral care to one of your church staff and ensure that each of your members receive the care that they require.
• Transfer members to the Archive when they depart, so you can retain their information for reference purposes as long as necessary.
   

A Flexible System that Adapts to Suit your Organisation

Every church is unique, and Re:Member allows you to set up an organisational structure that matches the way you do things, both now and as your organisation grows.

Re:Member ensures that your organisation is catered for by providing:

• Full support for modelling the structure of your organisation and defining the various groups and other organisational units recognised by your church.
• User-definable classifications, including member types, categories, milestones, age groups and other information that can be used to classify your members.
• Support for multiple databases, to enable you to manage a number of branch churches or other related but distinct organisations.
   

Powerful Querying and Reporting

Re:Member maximises the potential of your information by providing a number of reporting options including:

• A powerful and easy-to-use report writer which allows you to create customised reports in a number of formats to suit many of your organisation's reporting needs.
• A number of predefined reports to satisfy specific requirements, including statistical reporting, summary reports and directory-style layouts.
• A user-friendly query writer that allows you to create and store queries to find the information you need to answer common questions or satisfy one-off requests. Stored queries can be used as the basis for a number of functions such as creating reports, exporting data, or assigning members to groups and ministries.
• The ability to save and distribute the output of reports in a number of highly-portable file formats including HTML, Portable Document Format (PDF) or as a Microsoft Excel Worksheet (XLS). Share information from a single source with all the members of your organisation!
   

Easy to Learn, Easy to Use

Re:Member provides many features that make working with your church’s information a whole lot easier:

• A multiple-document interface lets you view and modify the properties of many items simultaneously.
• Comprehensive menus, toolbars and short-cut keys provide convenient access to many useful features as you need them.
• Step-by-step dialogs guide you through common tasks such as performing mail merges or adding milestones for multiple members.
• Drag-and-drop provides a fast and convenient way to transfer members from one group to another, modify your organisation structure, add commands to a script and much more!
• Report previews allow you to see how your reports will appear before you send them to a printer or save them to a file.
   

Security for your Confidential Information

Some of the information about your members may be sensitive in nature, and Re:Member can restrict access to this information in a number of ways:

• Designed as a multi-user system, Re:Member supports multiple logons and security settings for different users which allow you to restrict access to particular application functions or even specific data records.
• By setting a member's confidentiality level appropriately, that person can be excluded from appearing in any reports generated by the system.
   

Access to your Data

Re:Member ensures that your information is stored in a readily-accessible format that can be used in many other applications by:

• Providing comprehensive export options in standard formats, so you can extract your data and integrate it with many other applications. Member information can also be exported directly to a Microsoft Outlook™ Contacts folder to create an instant on-line directory for your organisation!
• Using the Microsoft Access™ database engine to store data, which provides you with complete control of  your information at the lowest level should this be necessary.
   

Advanced Features

Re:Member has a number of advanced features that make the task of maintaining your data easier:

• Support for scripting, to allow automation of tasks such as generating reports, exporting data to files, and routine maintenance tasks. Scripts can be scheduled to run unattended to maximise your productivity.
• Track changes to your data using audit information such as date created, date last modified, record created by and record modified by, available for all stored items.
• Use the information you already have by importing data from your existing applications into Re:Member, including member and family details, organisational structure and group membership information.
   

System Requirements

To install Re:Member 6.0, your system must meet the following minimum requirements:

• Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP operating system.
• 64Mb RAM (128Mb recommended)
• 40Mb free disk space.