Our Story: History of Helping

From our humble beginnings, ServiceU has grown to be a world-class software development company. For more than ten years, we've been the leader in providing software that helps churches, schools and nonprofits simplify and automate administrative processes by moving them online.

Today, we have more than 2,000 clients, including churches of all sizes and businesses ranging from small nonprofit organizations to Fortune 500 companies in all 50 states and 5 countries.

We estimate that our software has coordinated the scheduling for more than 15 million events.

In addition, we've been featured in case studies by Microsoft, AMD, and Dell for our commitment to supporting our clients with the most cutting-edge technology and best practices available today.

Most recently, ServiceU was selected as a finalist for the 2009 Memphis Business Journal's annual Small Business Award. Here's a look at how it all got started.

First-hand experience plants the seed of an idea

The seeds of ServiceU were planted when our founder and CEO, Tim Whitehorn, realized the challenges facing the staff and volunteers of his church as they managed and prepared for their events.

As a volunteer himself, he saw the time wasted in holding weekly staff meetings to plan the calendar… the money wasted on carbon paper used to duplicate handwritten forms…the frustrations when a minor detail changed…the double bookings …the time, effort, energy and resources taken away from what the church staff and volunteers were truly there to do…

He knew there had to be a better way!

A better way evolves

With a background in computer programming and software development, Tim and his team began putting together a software program to streamline the facility and resource management for the church's events.

With a lot of hard work and commitment from Tim's team, EventU was born. The software did what Tim set out to accomplish, and the church's success with the software was so staggering that Tim knew other churches, organizations and businesses could benefit from such a solution. In the summer of 1999, ServiceU began to offer EventU as a completely web-based scheduling system.

Client feedback leads to new products

As EventU gained popularity, we worked with our clients to develop other beneficial software tools. We soon discovered that churches and other organizations needed an easy-to-use way to accept online donations and event registrations, resulting in TransactU.

We launched TicketU in response to the challenges of managing ticket sales for Christmas and Easter programs, concerts and other ticketed events. With TicketU, our clients sell reserved and general admission tickets online.

Our newest product, EventU Green, was recently launched. EventU Green is an add-on package to our popular EventU online event management tool that allows you to coordinate heating and air conditioning online based on your event schedule.

On the horizon

But, we're not resting on our laurels. We are actively developing new solutions to help our clients succeed. In fact, our clients' feedback and suggestions inspire the development of our innovative tools.

Watch for the launch of our newest product: TransactU Kiosk.