With the new church computer database application, Daylight Explorer™ from Daylight Research, you can organize all your church's data. In it, you will find a module for your church organization, your ministries, your equipment and your library as well as special modules for pledging, contributions and scheduling.

You also get a complete toolbox of essential administrative utilities that give you the ability to back up and restore your database, create custom fields, archive your data and run pre-packaged queries on your database and more. With the Desktop and Network editions, you also get the ability to author your own queries as well as create professional-looking data entry forms for your church members.

All of your data is presented to you in the same explorer format that you are already accustomed to working with in Windows.

For example, when you start Daylight Explorer™ and click the Organize button, you are presented with a graphical representation of your church with every component placed in it's natural order. If you want to add a member to a sunday school class or church committee, you just drag his or her record into the proper node. You can do it in five seconds and there is no typing.

All editions of Daylight Explorer™, including the free Daylight Express™ edition, ship with a professional grade library module complete with full reservation capabilities.

Daylight Explorer™ lets you separately catalog your audio tapes, books, CDs, DVDs, periodicals, sheet music and special documents. When you check an item out, you just drag your patron's record from the right-hand pane of your computer screen into the Borrowers node under your library item and everything is taken care of. Reserving an item works the same way. You can check an item in, check it out or reserve it with no typing.

You can't buy it just yet but you can get the full version free by applying to our beta testing program.

Daylight Explorer™ is in the final stage of development called the beta testing phase. The beta testing phase helps to insure that when Daylight Explorer™ is released to the commercial market (expected release date is fall 2008), it will be as reliable as it can be. If you are a church, you are eligible to participate in our beta testing program. In return for your participation, your church will receive a license for the full version of Daylight Explorer™ free of charge. To learn more about our beta testing program, go to the Beta FAQ page. To apply to the program, go to the Beta Sign Up page.