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Our heart has always been to help those in need, especially those living in 3rd world nations.
10% of every dollar raised through elvanto will be donated to Compassion to help aid children in 3rd world nations.
Not only are you signing up to the best church roster system available, you are also helping children and families in need.
The elvanto story....
Hi there! My name is Benjamin Sinclair, but you can call me Ben. I'm the creator of elvanto.
I specialise in developing software for the web, project management, problem solving and pretty much anything technical. I don't consider myself a nerd (even though I am) and the good thing is when people meet me for the first time they would never think I am one. Phew!
I currently work on elvanto full time after selling a web design business. My dad Peter and I started the business back in 2003 when I was only 14 years of age.
What is elvanto?
elvanto is church database software. It includes a variety of church related features including church management, worship planning and volunteer rostering & scheduling. That was a mouthful wasn't it!
It basically allows a church to set up their own database website for your people and volunteers. With an account, you can add your people, groups, print reports, create services and roster volunteers on. Volunteers can also log into their own account and view their roster.
This is a very simple explanation of the power that elvanto can give you. Once you've finished reading this page, you will definately want to check out the elvanto features page.
Where elvanto began...
I created the very first version of elvanto back in 2005 for my local church Generation Church. Back then it wasn’t called elvanto. It was just a basic volunteer script to suit my church.
I always had in the back of my mind the idea of creating software, much like the one I created for Generation, that allowed churches to run their volunteers schedules via a web based system. As far as I knew there was nothing else out there that was decent.
I was approached about doing some updates to the volunteer site I had created for the Generation website in 2009 which sparked the idea to mass produce the software so it could be used by any church. That’s when I decided to create elvanto with the help of a friend Aaron Maurice who was extremely helpful in putting together an extensive feature list, and also tested the software.
In June 2010 I released the first version of elvanto. It was a church rostering system that could allow any church, from the smallest all the way to churches that have branched internationally to run a powerful volunteers management system.
That brings us to now. elvanto has expanded to a full church database system incorporating a variety of different features for churches.
As you might have seen on the website, 10% of all earnings from this website will be donated to Compassion to help children and families in 3rd world nations. This isn't 10% of profit, this is 10% of the gross amount. You can read more about this on our Compassion page.
What does elvanto mean?
Ah-ha! The million dollar question! But first, how is it pronounced? el • varn • toe.
Ok, back onto the subject. To be totally honest, elvanto doesn't mean anything. It's a name myself and a few family and friends thought sounded cool.
