Faith-Based

Client profile:
Churches and broad, faith-based organizations use ABC Signup to streamline the registration process for everything from leadership conferences to meetings, forums and training courses to community outreach programs.

Testimonials:
"We chose ABC Signup because of its flexibility, great features and excellent support. We're rolling out this new service and the ABC Signup team has gone above and beyond expectations to meet our needs. Their customer service makes a great product even better."
Brenda, Kentucky Baptist Convention

"We probably make money with the system. The costs of registrations through ABC is more than offset by the time saved in terms of human capital, as well as the paper saved, postage saved and the value of the image we put forth to our clients."
Kep, The (Episcopal) Diocese of New Jersey

Case Study: 
Metropolitan Chicago Synod

Simplifying online registration with ABC Signup
The Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America serves and supports more than 200 congregations in the greater Chicago area. The synod annually hosts an assembly of several hundred attendees, a professional leadership conference, as well as smaller conferences and workshops.

Easy to use 
The Metro Chicago Synod previously used another online registration system, but found it difficult to manage. "Only one person in the office was trained enough to figure it out," said Jeff Drake, associate to the synod's bishop. "The good thing about ABC Signup is that everyone in the office is able to understand it, use it, and access the information. It makes it that much easier." 

Affordable, too 
The synod also found that ABC Signup was more affordable than its previous system. "We looked at many different online registration companies and the learning curve and the costs were just prohibitive," Drake said.

The synod expected ABC Signup to improve on their old software, but they didn't realize how much. "We're even happier than we thought we'd be," added Drake. "We're always finding new ways to use ABC Signup, because we're able to pull information from registrations so easily. For example, we had a speaker at our 2009 Assembly that attendees really liked. To announce that he was speaking at another event, we could very easily export a list of assembly attendees and e-mail them about it."

More applications
When the synod discovered how easy ABC Signup was to use, its staff began finding other applications such as collecting data from congregations. Said Drake, "ABC Signup saved us more time than our previous software. It's so easy to access the information and provide it to people who want it. I love that it's so automated that we don't have to worry about many steps. It does our thinking for us."

Partial Customer List:
Beargrass Christian Church

Blessed Kateri Catholic Church

College Church

Episcopal Diocese of Maryland

Kentucky Baptist Convention

Metro Chicago Synod

Metro New York Synod

New England Synod

Pacific Synod

Presbyterian Church USA

The (Episcopal) Diocese of New Jersey