--- description: Detailed reviews on ShelbyNext Financials based on features, pricing, usability, and ratings. Get a quick overview advantages and disadvantages. Compare ShelbyNext Financials with similar products. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/getapp/og_logo-94fd2a03a6c7a0e54fc0c9e21a1c0ce9.png title: ShelbyNext Financials Reviews, Prices & Ratings | GetApp Canada 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Fund Accounting Software](/directory/168/fund-accounting/software) > [ShelbyNext Financials](/software/2037439/shelbynext-financials) # ShelbyNext Financials Canonical: https://www.getapp.ca/software/2037439/shelbynext-financials Page: 1 / 8\ Next: [Next page](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2037439/shelbynext-financials?page=2) > ShelbyNext Financials is a cloud-based accounting and financial management software designed for churches, non-profits, ministries, and other religious organizations. Key features include general ledger, payroll, accounts receivable, accounts payable and more. > > Verdict: Rated **4.0/5** by 163 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.0/5** | 163 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 70% | (7/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: NCS Services - **Founded**: 1915 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$99.00 - **Pricing Details**: Pricing starts as low as $99/month. There is also a setup fee of $375. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 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 (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin and 186 more ## Features - Accounting Software - Accounts Payable Software - Accounts Receivable Software - Activity Dashboard - Activity Tracking - Asset Tracking Software - Audit Trail - Bank Reconciliation - Billing & Invoicing - Budgeting/Forecasting - Compliance Management - Donation Management Software - Donation Tracking - Donor Management - Event Management Software - Expense Tracking - Financial Management Software - Financial Reporting Software - Fixed Asset Management Software - For Nonprofits ## Integrations (1 total) - ShelbyNext Membership ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base Software - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Fund Accounting Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/168/fund-accounting/software) ## Related Categories - [Fund Accounting Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/168/fund-accounting/software) - [Church Accounting Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/813/church-accounting/software) - [Nonprofit Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/775/nonprofit/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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They just need to keep up with a great work and improving more as new technology evolve each moment. > > I am able to run all the report needed for my organization. Friendly user software for any church or not-for-profit organization. ----- ### "ShelbyNext Financials" — 5.0/5 > **Connie** | *September 9, 2019* | Nonprofit Organization Management | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Shelby software is organized into modular components, Accts Payable, Gen Ledger, Payroll, Bank Mngmt \& Insurance Billing. These are stand alone modules, but work together to achieve overall outcome with good audit trails. We do not use Insurance Billing. I have worked with ShelbyNext Financials for 4 yrs \& Shelby v.5 for 8 yrs; believe it would be challenging to breach either system. Invoices post to Accts Payable module. Once posted/reviewed info sent to Check Processing where checks are issued. Chk Processing does not allow changes to be made \& can only clear entry by processing checks. Mistakes cannot be deleted must process as checks, then voided creating an audit trail for entry. Detail of transactions can be printed prior to processing into Gen Ledger. Gen Ledger does not allow changes to info (date, name, amount) from Accts Pay; must be processed as sent. Errors corrected by reversing journal entry; leaving audit trail. Accts Payable features Recurring Payments for various billing periods. Initial set up of invoices is quick \& new vendors are easy to add. Invoice \#s/amounts are quick/easy to change as needed \& provides significant time savings to check processing. 1099s are printed through Accts Payable. Payroll maintains info for next PR \& finalizes to General Ledger. Easy to run Earning reports, Federal/State taxes, W-2s \& Worker's Comp reports for WC audits. Shelby has ability to produce customized reports and all reports can be exported to Excel. > > **Cons**: Have yet to find something I do not like about Shelby software. There is a learning curve as ShelbyNext is multifaceted and takes a little time and patience to use proficiently, but is easy to learn and tech support is always available to help with problems. There are times when I have waited in que for 20 minutes for help from tech support, however understand other people are needing help as much as me; therefore, should my problem take an unusual amount of time to answer, I know tech will stay with me until my issue is resolved . Shelby techs have ability to remote in to system and see your screen which makes solving problems much easier and quicker. > > Able to process checks for monthly invoices quickly. Enables us to report PR taxes on time and with very little effort. Workers' Compensation report provides all information needed for annual audit; simply run, print and send. Custom Reports allow organization to produce information particular to our need. Creates reports that are easy to read. Cuts down on need for large financial staff. ----- ### "Run away, run far far away" — 1.0/5 > **James** | *October 3, 2024* | Religious Institutions | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10 > > **Pros**: Not a single thing. Was terrible from the start. > > **Cons**: When you call support, they tell you they can't help you. You call to talk to an account manager and they say send an email, but no one responds. They say leave a voice mail and never return your call. > > The worst ever. Do not, under any circumstances, sign up with them. ----- ### "Longtime user" — 4.0/5 > **Rachel** | *August 19, 2019* | Religious Institutions | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: We previously used Shelby v5 financials and so we liked that we were somewhat familiar with the brand already. We knew Shelby is an established company. We like that it is web based which makes it possible to work from home on occasion. The payroll, accounts payable, and general ledger modules seem to work well for our needs. Overall it meets our needs and because we previously used Shelby we felt it was a safe choice. > > **Cons**: Based on our experience switching from v5 to ShelbyNext, we miss certain feature that we were used to. I wish that Shelby had a better solution than Accounts Receivable for registrations (we have a preschool and other events). The "relationships" feature in Accounts Receivable needs some work. There is an online payment piece, but we stopped using it because it seemed that it needed much more development and just didn't work for us. We were also very disappointed to learn that ShelbyNext Financials does not share data with ShelbyNext membership like v5 did. This is a pain to keep addresses and other contact info updated in both systems. There is no "Globafile" equivalent in ShelbyNext Financials either, so it can be hard to look for someone if you want to see if they are in the system and update an address or something. We also have had issues with "bugs" frequently in the software that we have to work around (sometimes these bugs happen after software updates). Support is usually friendly but depending on who you get, some are definitely more knowledgeable than others. The support phone line waits can get kind of long. Last thing I would say is the built in reports frequently don't meet all our needs, I wish we had more options for pulling data. ----- ### "ShelbyNext Financials" — 4.0/5 > **Ana** | *September 8, 2019* | Religious Institutions | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: I have been using ShelbyNext Financials only for a year, so I believe there are a lot still to learn; but so far I like it a lot. It's non accountant user's friendly, which help Financial Dept let the others see their updated budget information; with the setup of the correct security parameters In general all the configuration is really easy, while modifying the COA you'll be able to see the levels on the screen which it will help to setup new accounts. The option to have the reports in different formats is useful. Importing the annual budget, the credit card into ShelyNext saves a lot of time and reduce the errors. There is a lot of features that you'll be discovering as your needs appear. In my position, have access from anywhere to the accounting is awesome. > > **Cons**: The cons that I found is the exporting in excel, most used for finances; the reports include additional lines and columns that you basically have to re-format the entire report. We are coming from v.5 which was giving us the option to refresh in excel at any time the monthly balances, with ShelbyNext we have to export in excel every time an once again re-format the report. No much information for the Ad Hoc Reports, which are extremely hard to understand and use them; reports from Payroll relate to employees information only, and reports from Purchasing Management (no reporting at all) are important to us and ShelbyNext doesn't give options. We would like to be able to have consolidate Financial Reports for the different campus we have directly from the software. ----- Page: 1 / 8\ Next: [Next page](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2037439/shelbynext-financials?page=2) ## Links - [View on GetApp](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2037439/shelbynext-financials) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | ----- ## Structured Data