Importing Your Data From

Power Church into Breeze

We'd love to help your transition from Power Church into Breeze go as smoothly as possible. If you get stuck along the way, have any questions, or would prefer to have us import your data (at no additional cost), don't hesitate to reach out to our support team.

Exporting Data from Power Church

Exporting People

  1. Within Power Church, navigate to "Membership" > "Personal Profiles" > "Other Output" > "Export Data"
  2. Selection Criteria
    1. Write down all the Date Field Names (these will be the names for date1 - date 12, or take a screenshot and send it.). The list is located in the lower left corner.
    2. Click "OK"
  3. Introduction
    1. Click "OK"
  4. What fields would you like to export
    1. This is where you select the fields to import
    2. Click ">>" Button to select all fields
    3. Contributions are done by envelope number, so make sure you include it if importing contributions
    4. Click "Next" Button
  5. What type of export file format would you like to create
    1. Select Excel 5
    2. Click "Next" Button
  6. What would you like to name the export file
    1. Click "Location"
    2. Browse and Name your file (Drive M: is your local C: drive)
    3. Click "Next" Button
  7. Finish
    1. Click "Finish" Button

Exporting Giving

  1. Within Power Church, navigate to "Contributions" > "Reports - Contributions"
  2. Select the "Posted Contributions" Report
  3. Click "Send to Disk File"
  4. Click "Run"
    1. Select Dates
    2. Check "Include Contribution Designations"
    3. Check "Include Contribution Memo"
    4. Click "OK" Button
  5. if you get a default printer error, select a different printer. After you select it you will be giving the file location dialog box.
  6. Save As: Excel Spreedsheet (include the file extention: .xls)
  7. If you have "UnPosted Contributions" repeat steps 2 thru 6

Importing Data into Breeze

  1. Sign in to your Breeze Account
  2. Click the More tab in the top right
  3. Click Tasks from the dropdown
  4. Click the category on the left that you'd like to import (e.g. People, Giving, Tags, etc)
  5. Download and open the template file
  6. Remove the sample data and populate the template file by copy/pasting applicable columns from your Power Church exported file(s). Be sure to keep the first row of the template file intact.
  7. Save file as a .csv file type.
  8. When finished, use the same screen to upload your file to complete the import
For more details on importing data into Breeze, see our documentation on importing.