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Aplos is a powerful cloud-based accounting software and giving platform for churches & non-profit organizations; offering fund accounting, invoicing, budgeting & financial reporting.
Users can create unlimited fund accounts to track money designated for specific purposes, including grants, campaigns, and building funds. Organizations can produce budgets for their total income and expenses or on a per-fund basis. Aplos provides fast and easy tracking of budgets vs. spending for the year.
Aplos hosts an unlimited number of donation pages for projects or funds, customized to reflect users’ organizations. Through these, donors can manage their giving, with the option to schedule weekly or monthly recurring donations. Aplos can automatically thank donors for their gift on behalf of the organization, and send email receipts to your supporters. Aplos users can record both the donor and purpose of the contribution to create a full donation record; helping them easily identify recurring donors and their donation amounts.
Aplos includes multiple FASB standard reports, such as balance sheets, income statements, and fund balances; allowing users to create custom reports by tracking project and campaign income and expenses using tags. Contribution statements of all tax-deductible donations are automatically generated for each donor, streamlining the end of year close out process.
Pricing starting from:
US$79.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Key benefits of Aplos
Fund Accounting - Easily track funds so you’re ready for the financial reporting requirements that come with restricted gifts. Create a flexible chart of accounts and use tags to manage campaigns or projects.
Financial Reporting - Customize and save nonprofit reports such as a Balance Sheet by Fund or Income Statement by Fund. Take advantage of donation reporting, budgeting reports, or create custom reports.
Donor Management - Improve donor retention by easily welcoming new donors and re-engaging donors slipping away. Use our smart donor database for better relationships and utilize dynamic contact lists.
Donation Tracking - A smart donor database for better relationships, with features like dynamic contact lists, automatic donation tracking, and pledge tracking.
Grow Giving - Create unlimited online donation forms and grow recurring giving with features like Text to Give. Create and send giving statements, utilize pledge tracking, and manage your events all in one place.
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Business size
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Canada, United States
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
US$79.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Top 5 alternatives to Aplos
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Total features of Aplos: 105
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- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Simple and easy, but with advanced features for those who need it.
Reviewed on 9/10/2018
We began using Aplos as a brand new church. They helped us every step of the way as we grew -...
We began using Aplos as a brand new church. They helped us every step of the way as we grew - absolutely stellar customer service! We still don't have the complexity that some larger churches do, but every time we have needed to add something, the capacity has been there. The one exception was the lack of payroll integration, which I understand that they are now adding but we have not used yet. What I love about the product is that it is easy for us who are new to accounting to use, but also robust enough that our treasure (CPA) is able to use it in more complex ways.
Pros
Cloud-based Accounting with multiple user accounts makes it easy to keep finances updated.
Clean, simple, straight-forward layout makes use easy.
Super-responsive customer service are always there when you need them.
Bank integration makes it easy to import transactions.
Contact management.
Reports are quick and easy to generate with customized data.
Ability to connect to online-giving.
Cons
At the moment we are unable to link families within the contact management system.
There are awesome graphs and charts on the dashboard, but unfortunately they do not have a lot of customization options or the ability to easily export.
- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Aplos Review
Reviewed on 7/9/2021
I can always get the help we need from Tech. Support.
I can always get the help we need from Tech. Support.
Pros
Easy to set up and use. Good tech. support.
Cons
It seems a little pricey . Some of the screens do not have enough contrast to be easily read.
Alternatives Considered
QuickBooks Desktop ProReasons for Choosing Aplos
ChurchPro seemed over complex for our needs.Reasons for Switching to Aplos
Aplos was much easier to set up for our church use.- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Faith Baptist church use of Aplos
Reviewed on 20/5/2022
Cannot say enough about the excellent support (Especially from [SENSITIVE CONTENT]and his team)...
Cannot say enough about the excellent support (Especially from [SENSITIVE CONTENT]and his team) making the transition to Aplos in the middle of our year and the quick response during the process and afterwards.
Pros
Time savings, ease of use, great support available and easily understood. Wonderful training session and tools available at your fingertips.
Cons
Could use some more flexibility in tracking give and particularily break down of givers and amounts for real time reports.
- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Very Difficult and Complicated, With Poor Tech Support
Reviewed on 14/6/2020
Not good. I need help, and the support never provides help that works.
Not good. I need help, and the support never provides help that works.
Pros
Had potential for non-profits vs QuickBooks
Cons
Bank integration does not work. I've used QuickBooks for non-profits, with integration that works fine. In Aplos, what shows up in Aplos doesn't match what the banks say. Tech support answers fairly quickly, however, they come up with all kinds of solutions that don't work. And different people will offer a different solution. None of them work. Then they drop it leaving me hanging. I may go back to QuickBooks which once you get a few words down (business terms vs non-profit) it is actually quite easy, and more dependable.
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QuickBooks Desktop EnterpriseReasons for Choosing Aplos
I believed the Aplos advertising that their app is so much better. It isn't.Switched From
QuickBooks Desktop EnterpriseReasons for Switching to Aplos
I believed the Aplos advertising, and the trial offer of a low price.Response from Aplos
Hi William! Thank you for your feedback, and I'm sorry to hear of the trouble you've had concerning bank integration. You also mentioned using QuickBooks instead, so if you don't mind I'll briefly speak to both. QuickBooks creates and maintains its own bank integration feature, whereas Aplos has a partnership with Plaid and Finicity, which are industry leaders in the space. Plaid and Finicity both connect with the financial institutions and pass the information back to Aplos. We have very little control over the information received. However, we do have a great relationship with both partners, and consistently work with them on improving the experience for our customers. As for using QuickBooks, this may be a better fit if you do not need Fund Accounting and donor management.
Our Customer Success Director, Alex Acree, will be reaching out personally to help troubleshoot the bank integration issues you're seeing. If you have any other questions or feedback please let us know.
- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Aplos is a lifesaver!
Reviewed on 15/4/2022
Pros
I like that there is great customer support and easy to understand tutorials and instruction. The team there is always helpful, quick to respond, and so patient and kind. Although I can find the help I need online most of the time, I like to talk to a real person on chat or on the phone.
Cons
There are so many types of reports for a newbie to understand that sometimes it can be a little bit overwhelming.
Reasons for Choosing Aplos
We had a company that was out of state helping manage our finances. They were not able to produce answers in real time for us and the systems they were using were old and slow, bogged down with unnecessary details and hard to decrypt the meaning of the data. Aplos is easy to read, user friendly and they have great customer service for when I'm not sure what to do!Reasons for Switching to Aplos
Pricing, customer service, appropriate amount of bells and whistles. No prior reports of getting hacked. The last one, especially in this day and age was very important to our church!Aplos FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Aplos.Q. What type of pricing plans does Aplos offer?
Aplos offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$79.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
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Q. Who are the typical users of Aplos?
Aplos has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000
Q. What languages does Aplos support?
Aplos supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Aplos support mobile devices?
Aplos supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Aplos integrate with?
Aplos integrates with the following applications:
Church Community Builder, Gusto, PEX, PayPal, WePay
Q. What level of support does Aplos offer?
Aplos offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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