Case Study: Central Presbyterian Church achieves automated AP efficiency and reinvests savings with AvidXchange

How One Church Focuses on Paying It Forward Instead of Worrying About Accounts Payables

Central Presbyterian Church, a historic congregation on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, was rapidly growing and struggling with an outdated, paper-based accounts payable process that couldn’t scale. The church needed an AP solution that would integrate with its Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT system, speed approvals, and eliminate manual bottlenecks so staff could focus on ministry rather than paperwork.

By adding AvidXchange’s AvidInvoice and AvidPay integrated with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT, the church automated invoice-to-pay workflows with automatic syncing of GL codes, vendors, invoices and payments. The result was faster, remote-friendly approvals, fewer errors, on-time payments, and improved expense visibility — savings that have been reinvested into church programs and ministries.

Central Presbyterian Church

Daniel Miracola

Central Presbyterian Church