Case Study: Central Christian Church achieves better budgeting and real-time financial visibility with Martus Solutions

Central Christian Church saves hours on budgeting with Martus

Central Christian Church, a thriving multi-campus church in Phoenix, faced a challenge in managing its budgeting process. The church relied on cumbersome Excel spreadsheets and multi-attachment emails, which were inefficient and made it difficult for non-finance ministry leaders to engage with their budgets. They sought a solution that would consolidate their process, be accessible to all staff, and integrate with their existing Shelby Next accounting system without requiring an ERP upgrade, leading them to the vendor Martus Solutions.

Martus implemented its budgeting and forecast reporting solution, which integrated directly with Shelby Next. This provided real-time actuals tracking, consolidated budget and reporting into a single accessible location, and empowered ministry leaders to manage their own worksheets. The results included significant time savings for the finance team, improved financial decision-making, greater transparency, and ministry empowerment, all achieved without replacing their legacy accounting system.

Central Christian Church