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August 23, 2018

Membership Portals SSL Upgrade

Every OCS account comes with a Membership Portal for the Membership Database, where your members can update family and individual info, family and individual photos, plus view church birthdays and anniversaries. Our system has included secure handling of that information, from our Managed Server with Proactive Monitoring to Mark's personal monitoring of the software side.

Now we have integrated additional security through SSL certificates for the Membership Portal URLs. This upgrade will give an extra layer of protection to sensitive information by using encryption, bringing more peace of mind to your church members. 

This upgrade to the Membership Portal is included automatically to all OCS churches with no increase in fees.

August 20, 2018

Feature Spotlight: Responsive Email Newsletter

Part of our ongoing Feature Spotlight Series

If you're looking for a Responsive Email Newsletter for your Church, Ministry or Mission, we've got you covered. Our Email Newsletter Builder will automatically resize and rearrange images for computers, tablets, or smartphones, so it will look its best no matter what device is used for viewing.

With Customizable Drag and Drop you get a virtually unlimited number of looks for your email newsletter, so just drag and drop predefined blocks of the layout to design exactly how you want. Choose from multiple image and text blocks, even background color changes, turning on or off section titles or images, and more. Don't worry, your photos will resize, even automatically crop, for the best possible layout of your newsletter, saving you time and frustration. 

You can create multiple templates for different newsletters. We make it easy for you to search, create and maintain many different email groups, such as all women ages 18-45 or parents of kids under 12. It's already connected to our included Membership Database so contact information can be kept current. If you're an Online Church Solutions client this powerful tool, along with many others, is already available in your All in One Place, All For One Price account.

August 01, 2018

Testimonial: Jim Drake

Today we offer a Testimonial review from one of our customers, Pastor Jim Drake at Parkview Baptist Church in Bluefield, Virginia.

"As a small church single-staff pastor, I don’t have a lot of time or dedicated resources to develop and maintain an inviting, professional-looking website. That’s one of the reasons I love Online Church Solutions. Mark and his team have made things so affordable and easy that even the smallest churches can have a beautiful, functional website. Not only that, the Church Management Software, multiple email accounts, sermon podcasting, child check-in and all the other features provide thousands of dollars’ worth of capability for a price that almost any church or church plant can afford. Seminary didn’t train me to build and maintain a website, but Mark is always there when I need him. Online Church Solutions has the best combination of features, usability, pricing, and customer service I could hope for. I enthusiastically recommend them!"

July 11, 2018

New Free Resources on Your Dashboard

Summer is here, so freshen up your images with the new free resources we've posted on the OCS Dashboard. We've added a few new image sites, but don't forget to check out all the video sites, font sites, and more, all free for you to use in your church or ministry creatives. When you first sign in and see the Dashboard, just look to the top right for the "Resources" tab.

July 02, 2018

Closed for Fourth of July 2018

We'll be closed on Wednesday, July 4, in honor of Independence Day.

June 27, 2018

Sneak Preview: OCS Website Builder 3.0

We've been working away on upgrading our OCS Website Builder to Version 3.0 and are getting close to releasing it in Beta. This major rebuild of our church Website Builder Software will be almost entirely Drag and Drop for every page of your site, fully responsive so it will look great on all devices and platforms, and allow you to build and maintain your site easier and faster than before. We're also adding new features, including a new Photo Editor that will allow you to edit your images right on your site with powerful new controls.

Look for the Beta Release later this Summer, and Official Release should be this Fall.

June 20, 2018

June 2018 Newsletter

Check out an upgrade to Group Texting, a new Facebook Live Video Plugin, and more in our June Newsletter.

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