Membership Plus 2005 Deluxe

by Membership Plus Deluxe

Product Details

• ASIN: B0007R086M
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 17, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,139 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars More bugs than functional program., March 24, 2006

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Laura (ID, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Membership Plus 2005 Deluxe (CD-ROM)

Our church recently purchased this software to manage our church membership data and contribution data. We have been VERY disappointed with this product.

Several of the features promised do not function at all. The custom filter features do not work at all - you cannot print a report of just your "members" for example, or find all couples with children.

Attempting to export data or print reports is a hit or miss proposition. Sometimes the program will respond to the options you have selected, sometimes it seems to ignore the selected options and do totally its own thing. Sometimes it doesn't give you any of your data at all.

The features that do "work" are so full of errors and bugs that it makes it a challenge to work with, much less a program I trust to safely store all of the data we want to enter into it. We have consistently encountered "bugs" both large and small. Dialog boxes that do not work. Check boxes that do not appear when checked. "Address violation" errors that freeze the program and require a computer restart, loosing any recently entered data.

This program contains a "Contributions at Home" portion that allows a financial secretary to enter the data from their home computer and then update the main database. This section of the program does not reliably save the data entered, and to give you an idea, it creates a fatal error anytime you open the "funds" section of this module (A crucial part of this "convenient" feature).

We have found that while some of the program does work it is not enough to offset the frustration of the things that do not work. In addition to the frustrations of the program itself, the Customer Service and support has been minimally helpful at best. I am a computer literate indiviaul, these errors and problems are NOT simply operator error or lack of understanding.

If the program actually, successfully executed all of the features it tries to offer it would be a great program. However, until this company learns to create software that is functional, I would strongly recommend that you AVOID THIS PROGRAM. It does not come even CLOSE to doing what it says it does.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buggiest Program I Ever Encountered, May 9, 2006

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L. P. Arthur (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Membership Plus 2005 Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I echo the comments of the previous reviewer. I am Treasurer for our church. We previously were using Membership Plus 6.0 and we upgraded. After almost five months of trying to use it, I have reverted to the version 6.0 until I find a totally new product. That's right - even after investing the money in this product, we are abandoning any further efforts to use it. There are many features that just do not work - there are frequent error messages (including during backup), and the company only offers free support for 30 days. My opinion though is that this software is so buggy that the data is unreliable. I would have rated it with 0 stars if that had been an option.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Should never have been released, July 17, 2006

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D. Shontz - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Membership Plus 2005 Deluxe (CD-ROM)

Allow me to add my disappointment to the other reviewers. We have been attempting to upgrade from Membership Plus 6 for two months, with little success in input and none in reporting. The canned reports are full of bugs, as is the rest of the package. Unedited operating system errors are generated from ordinary operations like changing a date range. Stay Away!