When you click the Contribute icon, you are ready to record
the contributions your members have made to your church. Dividing
each contribution amongst funds requires no cumbersome
wizards. Also, your members' confidentiality is protected
because access to this, as well as the Pledge module, is restricted to
users who have the Financial Editor user permission. You
can manage user permissions with the User Manager tool.
You can customize Daylight Explorer™ so that it runs exactly the way you
want it to run. The Program Options dialog has 11 pages
of program settings.
If you purchase a license for the
Desktop or Network edition of
Daylight Explorer™, you get a professional-grade
database querying utility that enables you to
retrieve data based on as many criteria as you
wish.
The Database Tools dialog is a set of utilities that lets you
keep your data safe and your database healthy. It includes a
backup utility as well
as a database restore utility, a database defragmenter and
a set of easy-to-use diagnostic and maintenance utilities.
Daylight Explorer™ organizes and displays your church
data in an explorer
window. The explorer interface is widely regarded
as the most intuitive and
efficient way to organize and manipulate hierarchical data.
It works just like the Windows Explorer application
that you use every
day when you organize your files in Windows.
Daylight Explorer™ ships with a comprehensive help system.
With it you get more than 100 How To help topics that walk
you through the topic in a clear, step-by-step manner. There is a carefully
written series of tutorials for each of the more advanced features
of Daylight Explorer™ and there is a 'Dynamic Help' menu ready to give you
help topics that are relevant to the task you are currently working
on.
Daylight Explorer™ gives you all the tools you need to organize and operate
your church library and church equipment in an efficient
and professional manner. The Library module catalogs books,
periodicals, sheet music and documents as well as CDs, DVDs audio
and video tapes. The Equipment module catalogs any church equipment
that you might want to keep track of. Checking library or equipment
items in and out as well as reserving them for
your members requires no typing.
Daylight Explorer™ includes a personal organizer
called My Stuff for each
user who is authorized to log into the program.
The My Stuff module
gives each user access to the My Preferences dialog which allows
each user to customize the way Daylight Explorer™ looks and feels when he or she
is logged in. My Stuff also provides a private file management facility
for letters as well as a private appointment and visitation keeper. For
users who are designated as clergy, it also has a private sermon
file management facility.
When you click the Pledge icon, you are ready to record
the financial committments your members make to your church
with the included pledge calculator.
You can produce a convenient and professional-looking
pledge worksheet for each member.
You can also convert your pledge worksheet into a PDF file that can
be sent out by e-mail, saving your church both time and money.
Daylight Explorer™ includes a fully customizable,
menu-based report-making
utility. It produces over 1,000 different reports each of which
can be filtered according to your criteria. Each report can be
printed or exported in several file formats including the popular
PDF format.
Daylight Explorer™ contains a special module to help you
keep track of your church services, sunday school sessions, meetings
and activities. Just click the Schedule icon and you are
ready to go.