Aplos

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Accounting and giving software for nonprofits & churches

About Aplos

The perfect QuickBooks replacement, Aplos is a best-in-class, award-winning cloud-based accounting and budgeting software suite designed to serve the needs of nonprofit and faith-based organizations. The Aplos platform includes fund accounting, online donation management, custom reporting, fundraising, event management, communication tools, and more.

Easily manage your organization's finances and generate financial reports, such as an Income Statement by Fund or Balance Sheet by Fund.

Aplos is quick to set up and scales as your organization grows. We want you to succeed, so our Support Team is here to help with any questions you have.


Key benefits of Aplos

Fund Accounting - Easily track funds so you’re ready for the financial reporting requirements that come with restricted gifts. Create a customized chart of accounts and use tags to manage campaigns or projects.

Financial Reporting - Easily generate nonprofit reports, such as a Balance Sheet by Fund or Income Statement by Fund, without workarounds. Take advantage of donation reporting, grant reporting, budgeting reports, and more.

Donor Management - Improve donor retention by easily welcoming new donors, building relationships with current donors, and re-engaging lapsed donors. Create dynamic contact lists, save notes about your conversations with donors, and set reminders to follow up with people in the powerful nonprofit CRM.

Donation Tracking - Automatically track online donations in your accounting, create and track pledges, and send contribution statements to households or individuals.

Grow Giving - Create unlimited online donation forms and grow recurring giving with features like Text to Give.


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Aplos Software - Get a quick overview of your organization's real-time finances on the Aplos dashboard.
Aplos Software - Quickly run an Income Statement by Fund or Balance Sheet by Fund whenever you need it.
Aplos Software - Create donation forms, manage donors, track donations, and send contribution statements. Donations will automatically flow into your accounting.
Aplos Software - Create a budget, budget by fund or tag, and run Budget to Actual reports to keep your finances on track.
Aplos Software - Manage supporters and volunteers, engage your people with communication tools, share files with your board, and more.
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Aplos Software - Get a quick overview of your organization's real-time finances on the Aplos dashboard.
Aplos Software - Quickly run an Income Statement by Fund or Balance Sheet by Fund whenever you need it.
Aplos Software - Create donation forms, manage donors, track donations, and send contribution statements. Donations will automatically flow into your accounting.
Aplos Software - Create a budget, budget by fund or tag, and run Budget to Actual reports to keep your finances on track.
Aplos Software - Manage supporters and volunteers, engage your people with communication tools, share files with your board, and more.

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4.5 /5
(181)
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4.4/5
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Ease of Use
4.4/5
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Susan
Susan
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  • Industry: Financial Services Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great for our small Condo Association

Reviewed on 02/11/2018

They are incredibly responsive, and when we initially set up the Accounts, they spent the time with...

They are incredibly responsive, and when we initially set up the Accounts, they spent the time with me to help set us up based on our needs.

Pros

Bank Integration is a huge benefit. As the Treasurer of a small condominium association (volunteer job), I only need to spend a couple of hours a month on our financials. Running reports for our condo meetings and taxes is a breeze.

Cons

Its not completely made for condo association accounting, but we've been able to retrofit our needs. Funds doesn't exactly translate to the accounts we track, as we really do have 3 separate bank accounts. This requires an extra step in our monthly recons, but its not awful.

Roger
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

My review . .

Reviewed on 19/03/2021

Overall experience . ... nothing but favorable, and to the Nth degree

Overall experience . ... nothing but favorable, and to the Nth degree

Pros

Comprehensive and easy to follow . . . but I have an advanced accounting background, so it may not be easy for some.

Cons

I have no cons at the moment.

I have no "like least" comments.

Alternatives Considered

Realm

Reasons for Switching to Aplos

I needed a 100% payroll function and, coupled with Gusto, Aplos meets this need.
Jennifer
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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A great idea with POOR Customer Support

Reviewed on 24/10/2023

Frustrating

Frustrating

Pros

This system is filled with potential to bring community stakeholders together in a fundraising capacity. The integration between the donor database and the accounting GL is pretty good. For a low priced option, I would love to recommend this, but the customer support is horrible.

Cons

Lack of competent customer support. When you as the user know more than the person in "support", you end up spending alot of time training them before they will believe you that there is a problem. That is a huge waste of my time. They also have reports on line that are yielding incorrect data for our users, and they won't hide those reports pending resolution. In one word, arrogant - not helpful.

Bart
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  • Industry: Religious Institutions
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Floats to the top

Reviewed on 18/01/2017

Aplos is doing the job for me. Some things are frustrating, but mostly, it's better than doing...

Aplos is doing the job for me. Some things are frustrating, but mostly, it's better than doing things by hand or by spreadsheet. Occasionally odd things happen. For instance, it's now January 17, and the home page is telling me that my YTD income is different from my monthly income. This can't be true in January. Similar things happen in some reports. The balance sheet will say that a fund has X dollars, but the report for that fund will say Y dollars. So there are some quirks to get around, but it's no worse than making a spreadsheet (or other software that knows nothing about fund accounting) behave. I like the reports Aplos generates. Especially at the end of the year, when everyone in our congregation wants a statement for their taxes. It's really just one button. If I were the boss of Aplos, the first thing I'd change is that I'd clean up the wasted screen real-estate. There's a button on the bottom right that has a bad habit of covering half the number I want to see, and pop-up "alerts" occasionally disrupt my work. And the box the pop-ups come from is also wasted screen area. Actually, this box keeps telling me I'm 85% set up. It's wrong. I'm as set up as I want to be. I can't see how to make the box go away, except to buy more product which I don't need. This amounts to a pop-up ad, and not the good kind. So this isn't a glowing review. But software nowadays is written so poorly, that bare competence floats to the top. Aplos is better than anything else I've used, but that's not saying a lot. If they raise the price again, I'm going back to spreadsheets.

Pros

Fairly clean interface. Most reports are close to what I want.

Cons

It's still buggy. Amounts that should match, don't always. The cost has tripled in the last 3 years.

Response from Aplos

Hi Bart,

If the numbers are off by a few dollars, this may be due to rounding. If you¿d like, our Support Team would be happy to look into this to give you a more specific answer. Please feel free to reach out to our Support Team at [email protected].

For the Setup alert:
You can click on the Go To Setup button and choose some of the options like, I don¿t want to set Starting Balances. Or, there are feature options that you can say ¿no¿ to, like Contributions. This should help clear that alert.

Also, sorry that the bottom right icon is a bit pesky. We want you to be able to contact our Support Team if you ever have questions, so that¿s why it¿s there, but we realize that it can sometimes get in the way. That¿s a suggestion that we¿re happy to pass along to our development team.

The Aplos Team

Wendy
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  • Industry: Religious Institutions
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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APLOS Software for my Small (but growing) Church

Reviewed on 28/12/2018

The people at APLOS are great to work with. Easy to reach out to, quick to respond, They are...

The people at APLOS are great to work with. Easy to reach out to, quick to respond, They are really good at listening to my particular need and showing me how APLOS helps with it vs. just a generic response. Also, you can't beat the price. (I got a Black Friday 50% off special for a year). I looked at other options - some were too much for my need (both cost and complexity) and some could be made to work (Quickbooks for example) but were not really designed for a church. This is PERFECT for us.

Pros

I purchased this software to help me take on a new role as treasurer of a small church. Am about 6 weeks into a "practice period" and will wipe out my practice data and start clean in January. It has (almost) everything I could want and some things I did not expect. The people database for church members, vendors, & prospects supports communication and there are robust accounting features (budgeting, bill pay, offerings, etc.). It has predesigned reports of all kinds that can be easily customized. You can import and export data. And it is really easy to use. Clearly designed for non-professionals like me - a volunteer doing a treasurer's job. Loved it from the first time I started playing with it during the free trial period. Also the resources (webinars, academy, one on one support) are great! Have watched several webinars, and chatted with people in customer support several times to get specific guidance/suggestions on my questions.

Cons

Have found only 2 things missing so far: 1) My pastor wants the ability to use the letter/email functions to communicate with members (uses the contact database) without seeing their donation records - and right now that "separation" isn't available. Also in recording donations, I would like to differentiate between cash and check because you need that info to make your bank deposit. APLOS doesn't provide for that. There's a workaround but not a great one. Customer Service made note of both of these needs for future releases.

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  • Starting from: $59.25/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
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Aplos has the following typical customers:

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Aplos supports the following languages:

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Aplos integrates with the following applications:

ChMS, Gusto, Keela, PEX, PayPal, Raisely, WePay

Aplos offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, Chat

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