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Designed for midsize to large Churches, it is a cloud-based management tool that helps with child check-ins, interactions tracking, room reservations, and more. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.0/5** | 38 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 70% | (7/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Ministry Brands - **Founded**: 2005 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: $449.00 - **Pricing model**: Per Feature - **Target Audience**: 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Accounting Integration - Attendance Tracking Software - Donation Management Software - Event Management Software - Member Communication - Member Directory - Membership Management Software - Online Calendar - Online Giving - Pledge Management - Small Group Management - Volunteer Management Software ## Support Options - Chat ## Category - [Church Management Software](https://www.capterra.in/directory/20046/church-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Using the phone number is good. > > **Cons**: It is quite difficult on the administrative side to set up the classes and to customize it to our specific needs. ----- ### "Excellent database" — 5.0/5 > **Vicki** | *16 August 2019* | Nonprofit Organization Management | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Customizable Comprehensive Moderately easy to learn to use and teach. > > **Cons**: must have a developer to make many design changes. > > Overall I have had a great experience with Arena and would highly recommend it. The more we use it, the more we learn, the more we can do with it. ----- ### "A long history of stability and scalability" — 4.0/5 > **Christopher** | *11 November 2020* | Religious Institutions | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **Pros**: Arena allowed us to track congregants and have them sign up for events and more easily track and record donations. It gave us a single place to store congregant data, and to provide our congregation with a single username and password for everything our church did online. > > **Cons**: It was not as easily customizable as we would like, and many of the issues we had couldn't be resolved by support. It felt like the features it came with out of the box determined what we could do. We ultimately switched away from it after a few years of use. > > Overall we were able to get many things accomplished with our ministry to kick start a new era of tracking and managing congregant data, and were able to directly import check donations including scanned copies. We were also able to provide online event registration for the first time. Despite our issues with it, I still am glad we chose it over many of the other systems we were also evaluating at the time. ----- ### "Way behind the times" — 2.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *1 November 2018* | Religious Institutions | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10 > > **Pros**: If you're using arena, it's probably because you used Shelby - they'll port your info from your old Shelby account making it easier to move from one system to the other. It is web based and it generally functions as a decent database. > > **Cons**: If Shelby classic was stuck in the 1990s Arena is stuck in the early 2000's - Shelby is at least ten years behind with everything they do. The small groups search function isn't really useful and doesn't look good when integrated into a well-designed website. All the interfaces are archaic and difficult to use. It isn't intuitive or forward thinking in its interface. It seems stuck in the 80s and 90s when it comes to its way of thinking. It has no worship planning component, no event planning component, no options for creating calendars that are accessible or visible to the public. (though if it did have those features I have no doubt they would be difficult to use and unattractive.) Anyone who is knowledgeable about modern church management software will hate everything Shelby produces. > > The people at Shelby are nice people, they just aren't up with the times. If they could get ahead and make things easier to use and more attractive or just add simple things like making their group search feature customization so it could be integrated into your existing website's design - and making everything platform agnostic so it would easier to use on tablets and phones, then they'd be halfway there. They're just so far behind and still not catching up that I would really recommend against putting your church management needs in their hands, because if you do you'll be stuck there. ----- ### "Shelby Next Membership Review" — 4.0/5 > **Sandi** | *7 February 2020* | Religious Institutions | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Ease of use for both admin and membership. > > **Cons**: Transition from previous software was a little rocky. Took too long. > > Great customer service\! Prompt and knowledgeable. It has streamlined our processes for tracking membership and visitors. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.in/software/175655/arena?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.in/software/175655/arena) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data