For the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines
An offering of time, talent, and treasure to the Church.
CIS, the Diocese and Parish Church Information System, is offered as a stewardship service to the Roman Catholic parish churches and dioceses of the Philippines, to help parish staff, volunteers, and council officers and members carry the work of the Church with more clarity, less burden, and greater accountability.
Bring it to your parishChart of accounts, books, and financial reports follow The Temporal Administration System National Accounting Manual (2nd edition).
For the people who carry the parish
Parish work is shared work. The system is built to lighten the load for everyone who carries part of it.
Parish Council (Finance and Pastoral)
Council officers and members give their time as a service to the parish. The system honors that time: the latest reports are available any day of the week, without having to wait for a meeting; collections, disbursements, and balances are visible at a glance; and every figure is backed by a clear trail, so questions can be asked and answered in plain language. Whether you serve on the Finance Council, the Pastoral Council, or both, the work of oversight becomes lighter and more transparent.
Parish staff
Secretaries and bookkeepers can keep one set of records that everyone trusts, instead of juggling notebooks, spreadsheets, and loose papers that never quite reconcile. Reports the council asks for take minutes, not days.
Volunteers
Those who help with mass collections, special events, and parish ministries can record their work and hand off a clean trail to the bookkeeper, without needing to learn accounting.
Parish Priest
A single place to see how the parish is doing: finances, sacramental life, schedules. No more asking three different people on three different days.
Each priest also gets his own private view: the masses he is scheduled to celebrate, the baptisms and other sacraments he has administered, and the mass intentions assigned to him, available on his phone any time. A shareable link lets him check the week ahead without signing in.
What it helps with
Mass collections
Record every collection, print a receipt, and produce the monthly report the Finance Council expects, without rebuilding a spreadsheet from scratch each month.
Disbursements and bank deposits
Keep track of payee, purpose, and account. Bank deposits group several collections into one slip and tie back to the bank statement.
Sacramental registers
Baptismal register with a printable certificate; Wedding, Confirmation, and Death registers to follow. Records are kept permanently and can be exported.
Mass schedules
Weekly and daily mass schedules per parish, per celebrant. A shareable link lets each priest see only his own schedule.
Audit and accountability
Every receipt, payment, baptism, and entry records who created it and when. Reports trace back to the source documents. With a deliberately small set of named user accounts per parish, the trail stays short, readable, and easy to answer for.
Faster service to your parishioners
A parishioner walks in needing a baptismal certificate (for a wedding, a school enrollment, a confirmation, a government ID), and the usual process is a hand-search through a leather-bound register and a day or two of waiting. With records kept digitally, the same request takes minutes: the secretary searches by name, prints a properly-formatted certificate, signs and seals it, and the parishioner walks out with the document in hand.
The same holds for the rest of the parish's service to its people: receipts for donations, mass intentions, scheduling information, confirmation of records. Digitizing the back office means the parish can give faster, clearer answers to the parishioners it serves.
Why it exists
The system began as a Finance Council member's offering to his own parish — St Ferdinand Parish — in 2023, to bring order to the books and a printable record to the registry. After three years of daily parish use, and built throughout to follow The Temporal Administration System National Accounting Manual (2nd edition, the standard manual for Catholic parishes and dioceses in the Philippines), it has been rebuilt for the web so other parishes and dioceses can rely on the same tools.
To carry the system beyond a single parish, the work is now offered through Amta Systems, Inc., a Philippine-registered company. The development continues under the same hands; the company exists so the service can be hosted, supported, and sustained for the long term — long after any one volunteer.
It is offered in the spirit of the threefold call of stewardship, time, talent, and treasure. The work of developing and caring for the system is the offering of time and talent. The modest annual contribution covers only the treasure: the hosting, the domain, and the ongoing care needed to keep the service running for every parish that relies on it.
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
This work is offered to the praise and glory of God the Father Almighty, in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit.
May it serve, in some small way, the holy Catholic Church and the Faith handed down to us, and may it lighten the work of those who labor for her parishes and her people.
Talk to us about your parish
Tell us a little about your parish. We will reach out to arrange a demo and walk you through bringing the system in.
Bring it to your parish