1. Faithlife corporation
Member Showcase Featuring:
Faithlife corporation
Presented by:
Alan J. Artman

2. Member Showcase Who We Are and What We Do What Modules We Use Version
Number of Users
How Long
What ISV's and How We Use Them
Favorite Module and Why
Tips & Tricks / Way to Improve Processes (what surprised you that you didn’t know)
Where Do We Go for Answers
Questions?

3. Who AM I?
Chief Financial Officer – handle all things finance and accounting
Started my career in banking and made my way through distribution, manufacturing and now technologies
Got into the systems-side of things while in manufacturing and did a lot of work on analytics and planning

4. What is Faithlife?
We use technology to equip the church to grow in the light of the Bible
Our primary product is Logos Bible Software and we also have a number of other products including Proclaim (church presentation software) and Faithlife Groups (networking and group management)
3.6 million registered Faithlife accounts with 360,000 active customers in 190 countries
Approximately 325 employees
Headquartered in Bellingham, Washington with a development office in Tempe, Arizona
Started in the early 90’s and are privately-held

5. How do we use gp?
GP is our accounting system – AR, AP, GL and financial reporting – proprietary customer order management and CRM integrated into GP
Some 27,000 consumer payment plans – Professional Advantage Collections Management
A couple thousand cash receipts a day – Nolan Advanced Bank Reconciliation
Over 40 company-issued credit cards – KwikTag and KwikExpense
General use – Rockton Smartfill
Multiple product lines and cost centers – Management Reporter
Planning and forecasting – evaluating Solver BI360

6. Small things and game changers
Credit card collection clearing
Inserted a clearing account structure
Wrapped Nolan ABR around it
Thousands of transactions daily and everything is typically reconciled daily by 9:30 or so
AR collections and credit card updates
Hundreds of accounts trip 10 days weekly (expired card, credit limit, …)
Collections Management Collection Plans put serious structure around the process
Calls and follow-up s, s, and Letters
Staff reduced by 60% with remarkably improved collections
Company-issued credit cards
Married KwikTag with Nolan
Document storage and approval workflow and reconciliations

7. What’s up next? Wrap up the KwikExpense implementation
Tackle reporting and planning at various levels
Single line to multi-division
Pull reporting
Sophisticated collaborative planning
Expense allocations and cost accounting

8. Where do we go for help? I go to Jon
The Resource Group is an outstanding business partner
Google
Convergence and GPUG summit

9. Faithlife corporation
Member Showcase Featuring:
Faithlife corporation
Presented by:
Alan J. Artman