Here’s a question worth answering plainly before you spend any time comparing options: there is no separate “QuickBooks for Churches” product. What people usually mean by “QuickBooks for nonprofits” is standard QuickBooks Online with nonprofit-specific
If you’ve already read our general guide to setting up QuickBooks Online for churches, you know the Class feature is how most churches track designated and restricted funds. This post picks up exactly where that
Most church Accounting Help guidance, including a lot of what’s on our own site, assumes a single, independent congregation making its own financial decisions. That model doesn’t describe how Catholic or Orthodox parishes actually work.
Search “clergy tax rules” or “housing allowance” and almost everything that comes back is written as if “religious organization” only ever means “Christian church.” It doesn’t. The tax provisions that govern clergy payroll, dual tax
If your church runs payroll for both a pastor and, say, an office administrator, and both are set up the same way in your payroll system, one of those two setups is almost certainly wrong.
Prospera is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, which means we’ve spent a lot of time in the weeds of Maryland-specific payroll rules – not just the federal clergy tax basics that apply everywhere, but the state-level
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