Breeze Reviews

Breeze was exactly what we were looking for. A simple, affordable data management system to hold a small database. In addition to the database management, Breeze also allowed us to create an online giving presence--this was an added benefit of the software. The people at Breeze are responsive and helpful. They provide blogs with useful information for ministry organizations.

It is mainly geared for churches, however we are using it to manage our small foundation. The flow from screen to screen is not always easy to maneuver. I find myself closing and opening tabs. Overall it is a user friendly, straightforward software.

This is a great software to manage a small donor database. Breeze also provides the opportunity to create an online giving portal.

We took a completely paper based system and uploaded to their software in just a few hours. We now are able to run reports, print year end receipts and more. We also saw the added benefit of online giving. It was very easy to set up and provided us a way to feature multiple funds choices to our donors--very nice!

Breeze is simple and I mean that in the best way possible. They have adequately named their CMS because it is a breeze to use. I've used a handful of Church Management Systems and Breeze is by far the most intuitive. I also love that it is clean and good looking. From the online giving page (that donors and constituents see) to all the back end pieces, the design and look is easy on the eyes. I also can't fail to mention the price. Breeze does an excellent job at a remarkable price. Even their online tutorials and videos are well done, appealing, and short.

I have not found anything I dislike. I have been concerned that as Breeze grew and added more options that the software would lose its ease of use but so far that has not been the case.

Breeze has been a great tool to manage our contributions and I love that they work with other bookkeeping software. We use Breeze to manage groups and communications within groups. It is so simple to email and text groups through Breeze and it also allows you to easily navigate to past communications you sent out. I love that the leaders I train to use Breeze catch on quickly because of how intuitive things are. I also appreciate that their online giving really invokes a sense of security for donors and is easy to adjust settings for. It also allows for us to easily create the appearance we want for our online page. As we grow, I know we are going to make even more use of Breeze.

Breeze is very easy to use, a great price value, and always working to become even better. They respond quickly and knowledgeably when I have a question, and they don't rest until we get the answer we need. They also make it easy to suggest features, and they are always working on new features. They really listen to the churches they serve and view their business as a ministry to the churches. Excellent product with excellent people behind it!

While there are some things Breeze doesn't do (yet), what they do is clean and done well. We've used this system for 3 years now (we transferred over from a much more expensive and cumbersome database management system). The former system did more, but was extremely complicated and difficult to get support from. So while I'm waiting for some new capabilities to be rolled out by Breeze, I'm very satisfied with what it does already.

Check them out. You can do a practice demo online with Breeze, and their training videos are great. And if you have questions, be encouraged that you will be every bit as important to them AFTER you sign up as you were BEFORE you signed up. They won't drop you after they make the sale - they are committed to seeing their customers thrive while using Breeze.

With Breeze, we have been able to keep track of events in multiple venues, handle kids' ministry check-ins, track contributions, and report on giving trends. They also help us keep our IT expenses manageable - Breeze is much less expensive than other providers for processing online gifts. The monthly fee is very reasonable. We have also been able to use Breeze "Forms" to handle conference registrations and payments, capturing necessary information when people sign up. The automated processes are extremely helpful as well, helping us make sure new people are welcomed and informed. We use almost every function they have rolled out, and it's been a great blessing for our church.

My job as Finance Administrator is much more streamlined using Breeze to track non-profit contributions and provide reports on giving trends. It enables us to better communicate with our people, and it also enables our people to communicate with one another. Our serving team leaders use Breeze to schedule volunteers and communicate with their teams.

Breeze is a fully functional donor management database at a cost that does not break your organization. Breeze support is timely and very well done by pastors and other leaders. The Facebook page for Breeze is a great place to also learn from other users with answers coming from a variety of users.

Breeze is NOT a full marketing site with building of webpages and other marketing tools but at this cost, you can find those specific services elsewhere.

Breeze immediately gives a thank you and receipt to your donors that you can customize. The immediate notification features on donations and other forms have allowed us to quickly follow up on all of our donations and activities. We also use it to track gifts in kind.

Breeze is an easy platform to use and navigate. It is flexible and easy to customize but powerful in its ability to organize and manage our church database, calendar, giving & more!

It would be helpful if there were more available and easier-to-use templates to use with emails. Also, I would like to have a master set of roles for volunteers and confirmation emails and not have to copy and paste and recreate every summer when our worship time changes from the school year to the summer schedule.

We manage our calendar in Breeze, which uploads to our website in real-time. We also track our volunteers for Sunday services who get automatic email reminders which have almost eliminated scheduling conflicts. Breeze is very affordable for our small church, and offering online giving through Breeze has quickly paid for itself. Tracking contributions with Breeze is fast, and it is easy to print weekly giving reports and end-of-year tax statements. The secure Breeze online giving portal is a great way to set up recurring giving and is easy to update. We also love using the forms to register for church events.

When it comes to answering what I like best about Breeze is hard because they provide a very user-friendly interface, great customer service, very affordable, and always seeking to offer companion apps for all your devices.

The online giving platform is not fully developed and is missing some features, especially for Canadian customers. I also think their forms can be a bit awkward to work with and very limited.

Excellent practical features at an affordable price.

The problems we solved with Breeze is to provide records of families, including their weekly attendance, giving records, and participation in other programs and classes. One of the key benefits is the ability to tag people. This is excellent!

What I like best about Breeze is how user-friendly and intuitive of a system it is. Our previous church management system literally required classes to understand how to use it. Even after classes, our staff still barely understood how to get the info we needed from our old system. Breeze is not like that. Breeze is easy to use and figure out on your own and they do have plenty of learning aids online to teach yourself anything that may not be clear. And if you cannot figure something out yourself, Breeze's customer service is readily available and they will walk with you through whatever issue you are having. They have some of the friendliest customer service people I have dealt with in a company.

The one thing I dislike about Breeze that I can think of is it has a function where anyone with permissions can send emails to established groups in the system. However, it is an all or nothing approach. If you add someone to a Sunday School list (tag) in Breeze and wanted everyone in the class to have the ability to email the class, too, you cannot do this just for those folks in that particular class. If you cannot just give access to that class to email themselves, but you would have to give those people access to see and be able to email all Sunday School classes or any other group for which you have created a tag. So, we basically turned off the ability of an of our congregation to use tags at all.

My only recommendation is to seriously consider it. It is a great tool for small and medium sized churches.

Breeze has been wonderful in terms of solving all sorts of little problems. As a staff we are quickly able to look up folks, sort data and run reports in very particular ways with just the click of a few buttons (our old system was INCREDIBLY difficult to run even the most basic reports). Also, Breeze has a great phone app that our congregants really like. And Breeze also has a "give online" option, which is something we never had before. My favorite part of Breeze as a staff admin is how quickly and easily you can run targeted reports (e.g. Pull up a list of all congregants between Age 60-70 that have been at the church more than 10 years).

The folks at Breeze are truly exceptional when it comes to customer service. The help pages are great, but sometimes you just run into something that you can't figure out and they are always there to walk you through the steps. They are always interested in learning from the customer about needs and uses as they are patient with teaching and explaining how the system work.

On some computers the contrast between their background and the light blue field they use for some of their pages can be a little had to see. This has been resolved with some of the recent upgrades.

Give it a try. It is a great value and the support is excellent!

We are tracking attendance and we are noticing when folks are missing worship, this has been invaluable. We have also moved to online giving and that has been especially helpful in these Covid-19 times!

How knowledgeable each and every person is! Also the ease of the team transferring data from the old database to Breeze could not have gone better!

I have not found anything to dislike. Breeze is very helpful and I have found no downside.

You will not regret going with Breeze.

The problem with the old database is that there was no technical support unless you paid steeply for it. So the benefit of greatest value to me is the wonderful technical support that Breeze offers.

It's so user friendly. Anyone can use it. Customer service is excellent--they really listen to what you need and want in a program.

I honestly don't know of anything that I dislike about Breeze.

Try it. I think you will love it too.

Breeze recently have launched a program (reopen.church) that is helping to get us back up and running again. I am so thankful that they are on the forefront in doing what is needed to help get things going again during this pandemic.