Crimson CMS FAQs

What is Crimson CMS?

Crimson Church Management System (CMS) is a hosted web-based customer relationship model designed to manage church membership, financial contributions, physical and monetary donations, ministries or fellowships or departments, and visitors' data. The application serves as an information panel to query members and their dependent children. Crimson is a central source of information that can be used for church planning and growth management.

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  • Anyone who wants to improve a Church’s mission by benefiting pastors/leaders, administrators, and members directly needs Crimson CMS.

    1. Pastors and/or Leaders get support for ministry, community building, and efficient administration thus allowing them to focus on connection, growth, and care through member management, communication tools, event management, group and ministry oversight, reporting and analytics, and spiritual development tools.

    2. Church Administrators or Business Managers (including membership committee and finance committee members) can focus on efficiency, accuracy, compliance, and cost-effectiveness by simplifying financials, people, processes, and reporting through financial management, member management, reporting and analytics, facility and resource scheduling, security and permissions, communication tools, and ease of use and support.

    3. Church members feel seen, supported, and connected through easier engagement and involvement, improved communication, simplified tracking of gifts, spiritual growth tools, better connection with the Church community, more personalized care, and easy access to church content anytime, anywhere.

  • Crimson CMS is for anyone who is coordinating, administering, monitoring membership or financial activities or providing pastoral care to a congregation. Crimson CMS is also for any church/religious house that wants to remain connected with members 24x7.

  • Crimson CMS saves you time and money, facilitates your focus on pastoral care, and helps your members feel seen, supported, and connected. Perform the following actions quickly and easily.

  • Crimson CMS saves time and money by putting your data at your fingertips for easy and quick research on members’ details, and reduces the amount of effort to accomplish the following (and more):

    • Bulk generation of End-of-Year Tax Letters

    • Identify birthdays and anniversaries for service bulletin

    • Track payments & donations (generate statements)

    • Determine how much money has been received for specific purposes (Eg. How much have we raised for the Building Fund this year?)

    • Maintain multiple currencies

    • Generate, print, or share donation receipts

    • Promote minor dependents to adult membership with 1 click

    • Facility scheduling & rental

  • Crimson CMS facilitates pastoral care by providing information to pastors easily by allowing them to

    • Find member details

    • Track leadership/membership of various departments or committees

    • Leverage the Mobile Outreach Tool to communicate with members (24x7)

    Imagine (as a Pastor/Priest/Religious Leader) that you are trying to decide whether to start a special youth teaching session or to start a message series focusing on elderly care. Crimson CMS facilitates your decision-making by giving you the ability to see how many members you have within each relevant age group.

    Imagine (as a Pastor/Priest/Religious Leader) that you are wondering how many (if any) potential baptismal candidates are in your congregation. Crimson CMS can provide this information to you very easily.

    Crimson CMS facilitates pastoral care by providing critical data to aid in church’s decision-making.

  • Crimson CMS includes a Mobile Outreach Tool (MOT) component that allows members to submit prayer requests confidentially (only users authorized to log into Crimson CMS directly and are also pastors or others designated as “people who pray for others” can see prayer requests). Prayer requests can be submitted anonymously, if desired.

    The Mobile Outreach Tool keeps members informed of events and allows them to read the pastor’s weekly or monthly outreach messages anytime and anywhere.

  • Crimson CMS by Dibrosoft focuses on data needed to promote and improve pastoral care and facilitate the smooth operations of church administrators instead of focusing primarily on finances.

  • No. There is no restriction on the number of members you can add to Crimson CMS.

  • You can get Crimson CMS by registering for a free trial. Use this link to register your church or religious organization for a free trial. The link will open in a new tab.

    https://www.dibroapps.com/crimson/registration/

  • Yes. You can be on a Windows, Apple, Android, Linux, or any other computer system and access Crimson CMS with only your web browser.

  • Yes. Crimson CMS is a Software as a Service (SaaS) tool and is therefore a web-based application. You need Internet access and a web browser.

  • No. Only those authorized to administer, monitor membership or financial activities, or provide pastoral care to your congregation will have direct access to log into Crimson CMS.

  • Crimson CMS provides 4 functionalities through the following roles and can allow multiple persons to be in each role.

    1. Administrators (responsible for managing the system and have all permissions. Eg. Church Administrator, Business Manager, Secretary)

    2. Member Admin (permissions are restricted to adding and updating member info. Eg. Membership Committee)

    3. Finance Admin (permissions are restricted to adding and updating member pledges, payments, and donations. Eg. Finance Committee)

    4. Auditor (permissions allow these people to see everything but they are unable to add or change anything. Eg. Pastors)

  • Yes. Crimson CMS provides functionality for sending SMS Messages.

    With Crimson CMS you can manage message groups, recipients, send SMS messages, and monitor your SMS messaging activity. This is NOT group messaging - each person will receive a separate and individual message even though the Administrator or Member Admin will be using a “group” in Crimson CMS.

    Crimson CMS monthly subscription includes 300 SMS messages. Only messages sent in excess of 300 within a given month are billable.

    Example message:

    Bible Study in the edifice is cancelled today due to inclement weather. Use this Zoom link instead to join Bible Study remotely: zoom link.

    Messages can also be personalized.

    Personalized message example #1:

    George, Bible Study in the edifice is cancelled today due to inclement weather. Use this Zoom link instead to join Bible Study remotely: zoom link.

    Personalized message example #2:

    Mary, Thanks for volunteering on Sunday. It was really great to see you and your family. We will continue to pray for your healing and strength. My God’s blessings and Grace remain with you!

  • Crimson CMS promotes accountability by including an Audit Trail Report. Only Administrators & Auditors can review the Audit Trail Report. This feature allows the Administrator or Auditor to review any individual user’s activities within a selectable date range. Viewing the Audit Trail report is also tracked and logged.

  • Yes, members can access Crimson CMS through the Mobile Outreach Tool (MOT). The MOT does not require a login and is separate from the user interface (UI) used by those authorized to log into and manage Crimson CMS.

  • The Crimson MOT is a component of the Crimson Church Management System that is designed to provide pertinent information to all members and keep them informed of the church or religious organization’s planned activities. It also retains some analytics of which pages within the MOT were visited but does not identify the visitors.

  • The Crimson MOT provides each member access to the following:

    1. Pastoral Message - Message from the spiritual leader. Eg. Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, etc…

    2. Church News - News articles including a single image

    3. Upcoming Events - Schedule of special programs. Eg. Easter Egg Hunt

    4. Regular Worship Schedule - Schedule of regular services & activities

    5. Scripture Readings - Scripture readings. Eg. Weekly, Monthly, etc…

    6. Biblical Theme - Weekly, Monthly, or Annual and monthly themes

    7. Leaders’ Contact Information - Preferred contact methods and times for reaching leaders. Eg. Music Minister’s contact info, Pastor’s contact info

    8. Accepts Prayer Requests - Allows members to submit prayer requests confidentially - with the option to remain anonymous - and is reviewable only by the pastors or designees

    9. Accepts Volunteers - Allows members to submit their names as volunteers

    10. Provides Social Media Links - Allows members to access links to church social media accounts or YouTube or Zoom meetings. Members can access all the necessary church-related links in one place.

  • The current investment amount can be found on the Crimson CMS CLOUD pricing.

    You can choose to pay the full price manually on a month-to-month basis (One time purchase) or Subscribe at a discount. With a subscription, your card is charged monthly for the discounted amount.

  • No. The Crimson Mobile Outreach Tool is included in the investment for Crimson CMS.

  • You can pay for Crimson CMS by using the Buy button here:

    Crimson CMS Cloud pricing  

  • No. You can get started anytime with a free trial. Use this link to register your church or religious organization for a free trial. The link will open in a new tab.

    https://www.dibroapps.com/crimson/registration/

  • Yes. Please use the form linked below to request a demo. The demo can be done remotely or in person (if you are within 50 miles of Milwaukee, WI).

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  • Yes. You can schedule a demo for us to show you the interface and answer any questions you may have.

  • Yes. To see the Crimson Mobile Outreach Tool, follow these steps:

    1. Copy this Key: CCD-2051-145

    2. Go to this site and enter the copied key when prompted: https://www.dibroapps.com/crimson/outreach/

  • Dibroapps.com is our application hosting site.

  • No. Crimson CMS tracks financial information based on what is entered. The system does not accept or process payments; therefore no credit card information is stored, processed, or associated with any activities.

  • Yes. Within Crimson CMS is an Incident Management sub-system that can be used to alert the Customer Support or Technical Support teams that you need help. This Incident Management screen can be used to get help, request new features, or make suggestions for improvement.

  • No. Your investment in Crimson CMS includes Customer Support as long as you are an active customer.

  • Yes. Whenever a warning or error occurs, the Technical Support team is informed immediately. This allows us to identify and fix issues before they become problems.