11.3A Release

If you're part of the Preferred Client Program, you can download the latest desktop version in the Client Portal.

PDS Church Office 11.3A, released for desktop and OnDemand 12-9-25, offers the following enhancements.

New and Improved Features

Parish Life Improvements

We improved the process of synchronizing data between Church Office and Parish Life. You'll notice new wording that clarifies what you want to do. The process also checks for changes from Parish Life, and prompts you to upload data to Church Office when needed.
Previously, if a family had multiple members, the family email address was being used (appended with a record number for differentiating each member) to assign login credentials for members. Now, if a member email address is available, that will be used instead.

Online Registration

You no longer have to require families to enter an email address in order to submit an online registration form. If you'd like for families to be able to register without entering an email address, make sure to clear the Required Field checkbox for Family's Email when you create the web form.

ParishSoft eGiving

We added an eGiving Transfer Type for ParishSoft. When you process eGiving using this type, it accepts the same file format as Faith Direct. You can use either one of these during the transition from Faith Direct to ParishSoft.

Long-Term Data Backup

We removed the restriction on backing up data to the Long-Term backup folder. Now, you don't have to be a security administrator to archive data in that location. However, we do still recommend that this folder be used sparingly, only for your most important backups. To learn more, see The Basics of Backing Up Data.

We fixed issues that were reported internally to our team, as well as the following issues that affected some of our customers:

When importing family information, the default area code was being added to all phone numbers. Now, the default area code is only assigned to phone numbers that don't have an area code listed in your import file.
Tip: Select the Advanced Options / Update Existing Information checkbox at the top if you want to add phone numbers to existing family records. Otherwise, phone numbers will only be added to the new families created during this import.
If you created an online registration form and selected Desktop View, some fields were being required for submission even though they weren't marked as such.
Sometimes, when uploading new or changed Masses to Parish Life, an existing Mass was being removed from the app.