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Versatile

• Extend allows your church and staff to create engaging, informative content while giving you complete control over what is published. We offer different options for the look and feel of your Web site, including custom graphics, custom templates, and graphic setup.
• We’ve created standard packages for Extend, and if you wish, we can even customize a monthly package for you. Our pre-packaged plans are:
  
  • SiteExtend Basic — a great way to get started and become familiar with our tools. It is for one administrative user and includes 100MB of storage. You gain a reliable, secure solution that helps you establish an attractive, affordable Web presence.
  • SiteExtend Plus — includes 250MB of storage space and 20 Web channels. This plan is primarily for small to medium-sized organizations that want a Web site with a professional look that engages interaction from its visitors. You can create your Web site using any of our standard graphical templates.
  • SiteExtend Pro — is for larger, more progressive organizations that have a culture of using the latest, most advanced technology. Manage content as a team, create list servers, generate revenue, and much  ore. This plan includes 20 administrative users, 100 Web channels, up to 1GB of storage.

Professional

• Extend helps you build and manage an advanced, professional-looking, user-friendly site that delivers an exceptional online experience. Best of all, you don't need special skills to get started. You can design a professional site using the built-in, straightforward layout tools. Organizations with Web expertise can achieve creative flexibility far beyond ordinary Web systems.

Secure

• Whether you want to build your Web site on your own or recruit the assistance of others, anyone in your organization can manage and maintain your Web site. As with your front door, you can decide who gets the keys.
• Extend is a managed service, which means ACS Technologies serves as your Application Service Provider (ASP). The ASP implementation of siteExtend Pro is provided by a respected production facility offering Tier 1 hosting and connectivity.
• Administrative access to sites and content is available via encrypted login (username and password). Aside from content, very little personal or sensitive information is stored on our servers.
• Access to all server rooms is secured.
• ACS Technologies backs up all data daily. In addition, we maintain a fully functional fail-over site in a physically and logically separate hosting facility.

Easy to Use

• Extend is so easy to use, you don’t need any HTML knowledge or Web development skills. An integrated editor gives you WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editing similar to word processors such as Microsoft® Word. Extend makes it easy for you to design and manage your Web site. It doesn’t require special software, complex licensing agreements or expensive hardware.
• Extend removes the bottleneck. You can develop or access ready-to-use content and avoid the expense and delay of building a site from scratch.
• Extend writes the code for you. All you need to do is write the text and add your own pictures, graphics, and multimedia files.
• Extend includes customizable layout tools and templates that make it exceptionally easy to create and post content such as news, information, articles, and more.
• Changes are simple to make and can be done by your staff as they navigate your site from within our special Web content management system.

Accessible 24/7

• Extend is a safe service that resides on the ACS Technologies secure infrastructure and is accessible online only to select users through standard browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer® and Mozilla® Firefox®. This means your staff can rapidly publish content from any computer in the world as long as it has a current browser and connection to the Internet.

• Extend can advance your online ministry by communicating with PDS Connects™, the ultimate online church management system. By using both Extend and PDS Connects, you can create a multifunctional Web page that includes members-only login areas. 
• Quickly reach out to your members. Send automated telephone messages quickly and easily to people in your database with PhoneTree. Use the Phone Tree interface in PDS Church Office™ to easily take any group of records in your search results to your auto-calling system.
  
• Get anytime, anywhere access to all your data. PDS OnDemand™ is a flexible and secure hosted solution that enables you to use all of your PDS desktop software whenever and wherever you need to.

All PDS software solutions come with comprehensive support and  training options, including:

• FREE 90-day enrollment into our Preferred Client Program which provides unlimited telephone and email support, 24/7 access to the  Online Knowledge Base, free software upgrades, plus much more.
• Comprehensive, context-sensitive Help documents accessible with F1 Key.
• Access to a variety of training formats including self-paced online videos, customized training online or at your facility, and an annual conference.