A powerful scheduling engine enables you to quickly create schedules that keep all volunteers engaged taking into account:

• Unavailable and preferred times
• Family considerations (together or apart)
• Fixed rotational patterns (e.g. every nth week)
• Different skill levels or types of positions
• Preferred or maximum serving frequencies
• Teams

Advanced editing tools:

• Drag & drop volunteers, copy & paste assignments
• Quickly see conflicts with color coding
• View Distribution Reports that confirm fairness
• Ensure all needs are met with Conflict Reports

Report generation:

• Export schedules in a wide variety of arrangements
• Generate MS Word, Web Page, Excel, or text files
• Print mailing labels that contain individual's assignments
• Auto-name Sundays using the liturgical calendar

A powerful Rosterizer to quickly generate lists of volunteers.

• List any volunteer information in any order
• Include just volunteers matching given criteria
• Group volunteers by ministry or service preferences
• Indicate which volunteers match given criteria
• Generate MS Word, Web Page, or Excel rosters

A mailing label generator for postal mailings.

• Generate one label per volunteer or one per family
• Exclude volunteers that have email access
• Sort labels by zip code for bulk mailings

• Print sign-in sheets for each ministry
• Track no-shows, substitutions, and extra assignments
• Generate historical attendance reports
• Customize emails or rosters based on attendance

An integrated Emailer that operates through our high-powered mail servers.

• Instantly send emails to all volunteers or just those matching certain criteria
• Choose your own fonts, styles, and colors
• Send full schedules or other large attachments to hundreds of volunteers in seconds
• Send weekly service reminders
• Send emails based on attendance records

Use "tokens" to easily personalize emails with information about each recipient:

• The recipient volunteer's name, address, phone, ministry qualifications, service preferences, unavailable times, or attendance statistics
• The dates on which the volunteer is scheduled
• Unfilled or "sub requested" positions in which the volunteer could serve
• Links that allow the volunteer to quickly fill positions or request subs via the Web Terminal

The Web Terminal grows participation and reduces micromanagement by connecting volunteers online. It is easy to setup and administer and is hosted on our internet servers, so there are no special requirements.

• Allow your volunteers to view and update their schedules online
• Post "live" schedules and rosters that update automatically when changed
• Have volunteers sign up for unfilled positions online
• Enable volunteers to find substitutes online, and optionally trade assignments
• Allow volunteers to update their future availability online
• Customize the Web Terminal with your own instructions and bulletins
• Choose between manual or automatic, instantaneous processing of changes
• Customize automatic emails sent for substitute requests and trade confirmations

Grant your ministry leaders special privileges to send and receive emails and request subs on behalf of their managed volunteers. Ministry leaders can manage just particular ministries or service times, all through an easy to use web based interface, with no need in install the full administrator's client. Also, ministry leaders are automatically kept up to date on any changes made by volunteers in their ministries through the Web Terminal.

Reduce no shows with automatic email reminders sent a specified number of days before each volunteer's scheduled dates. (Volunteers can change the number of days to suit their preferences.) These email reminders are sent even if MSP is closed on your computer!

Reduce no shows with automatic text message (SMS) reminders sent hours before your services.

The revolutionary PhoneHuddle technology enables scheduled volunteers to use their cell phones as text based walkie-talkies! When PhoneHuddle is enabled and volunteers reply to their SMS reminders, the reply is sent to all other volunteers scheduled at that time. Using PhoneHuddle, volunteers can quickly alert each other if they are running late or require assistance and share reflections about the service.

Please note that SMS reminders and PhoneHuddle are billed at $0.02 per SMS message sent or received.

Grow participation by making it easy for new volunteers to enroll online directly from your church web site using a customizable form. The information submitted by new volunteers appears inside MSP in a virtual stack of forms.

Keep your database organized by grouping your ministries by location, department or however you see fit. Once your ministries are grouped into folders, you can view schedules and create emails and rosters just for particular folders. Ministry folders make it easy to manage hundreds of ministries with MSP and focus your attention on just one part of the overall picture.

Because MSP is cloud based software, you can access your data from anywhere and share it between any number of administrators. Your church secretary can be working from the office while a volunteer scheduler is working from home!

One-click synchronization of basic volunteer information (name, address, phone, email) with church management software. Supported management software includes:

• ACS People and Access ACS
• Servant Keeper (automatic two-way synchronization!)
• ParishSOFT
• PDS
• Logos
• PowerChurch

The maximum number of volunteers that can be scheduled with each edition. For all editions, pricing depends on the number of volunteers being scheduled.

The number of computers on which MSP may be installed for each edition. Additional computers can be purchased for the Coordinator and Online editions.