for the parishes of the
Diocese of Marquette
Welcome to the Camino Family
We are proud to partner with the Diocese of Marquette to bring you Camino, Catholic Data Management Software. This tool is meant to help you promote evangelization and discipleship in your parish. You probably have a lot of questions about this process and we are here to answer your questions and make the onboarding process smooth and effective. By working together we hope to help you build stronger communities and a renewed sense of mission within the Diocese of Marquette. Thank you for all of the work you do for the Church and welcome aboard.
Phase 1
Learn about Camino
Before we contact you to start the onboarding process, it can be helpful to know what Camino looks like and how it functions. Watch our short video tutorial of Camino to see key features of the software including:
- Household and membership tracking
- Sacrament Tracking
- Contributions
- Faith Formation
- Reports
Phase 2
Outreach and Onboarding
Step 1: Sign up by filling out the form at the bottom of this page
Step 2: Our onboarding team will reach out and ask some simple questions about your data.
Step 3: Our onboarding team will get a backup of your database and start the conversion. From this point there should not be any updates, changes, or additions to your current database.
Step 4: Our onboarding team will clean and import your data. The entire process will take less than a week.
Phase 3
Training
Once you are onboarded, the Diocesan team will do a personal online training for your parish. This training will last about an hour and a half. Additional training can be requested at any time with no additional cost. All of our support, onboarding, and training is included. We want to help you succeed with your brand new software. Learn how to:
- Run reports
- Create tax letters
- Enter contributions
- Add households
- And more…
Phase 4
Ongoing Support and Evaluation
Our support team is standing by to help you with any questions. We are dedicated to ongoing training and support so that you can effectively communicate and evangelize using Camino.
Frequently Asked Questions
The pricing for Camino is based on the total number of households (not just active households) that are converted over from your current system. The pricing tiers are:
Mission Parish: Less than 100 households / $40 per month / One-time conversion fee of $400
Small Parish: Less than 500 households/ $50 per month/ One-time conversion fee of $500
Medium Parish: Between 500-1000Â households/ $75 per month/ One-time conversion fee of $750
Large Parish: Over 1000 households/ $125 per month/ One-time conversion fee of $1,250
Camino is built on Microsoft Azure and all of the award winning security of Microsoft is included in Camino. We pay extra each month for top notch security and do a daily backup of your entire database. Unlike local based databases that can be hacked through your local network, Camino is hosted on servers that have frequent security checks in place.
Diocesan can offer a full suite of ministry scheduling, facility scheduling, and Mass intentions scheduling at an additional cost. Let us know if you are interested in these additional products for your parish.
Camino allows you to create basic emails directly in the system and also integrates with Evangelus (at an additional cost) which is our communication platform at Diocesan. This allows you to create nicely designed emails and even send texts to your parishioners.
We strive to get your data out of your old system, cleaned, and imported into Camino in less than a week. During this time you will not be able to enter new contributions, make changes, or add families to your old database.
Our system is built by Catholics for Catholics. We are a Catholic company whose main mission is serving the Church and we pride ourselves in our faith based software. Camino was built by a deacon so you will see many areas where Canon Law is applied.
GET STARTED ON CAMINO!
To get started please use the form below. Our onboarding team will be in touch with next steps. Welcome to the Camino family!