Features
Everything a church runs on
The record of a church: its people, its money, its work and what it publishes. Each module has its own lists, its own overview and its own place in the insights.
Reach everyone
One church or many
Built to be relied on
Every module opens on an overview
Three insight pages read the whole account. Each module has an overview built the same way: cards, a six-figure strip, and what needs attention.
- Church Insights: members, age and gender, groups, where members stand
- The journey: baptisms, child dedications, marriages and salvations per year
- How complete the records are, and what needs attention
- Organisation Insights: churches, workers, assets, money over six months
- Reporting over thirty days, website visits, users and access
- Worker birthdays and anniversaries across the organisation
- User Insights: what is waiting on you, publish requests to decide
- Your boards and your sign-in activity
Members and families
A record for every member and every family, with the events of church life kept against them.
- Members, families and marriages
- Baptisms and child dedications
- Groups and group roles
- Member status and name titles
- Growth, age and gender, where families live
- Family sizes, largest families, how complete the records are
- A birthday and anniversary calendar: whose day is coming up
Church workers
The people who carry the work of the church, with their designations and how they relate to each other.
- Workers and designations
- Relationships between workers
- Invitations to join
- Worker overview with birthdays and anniversaries
Where the money moved
End-to-end financial transparency: every transaction against an account, from the payment to the report.
- Transaction accounts and transactions
- Online payments through the church’s own payment gateway
- A target on every fund, and progress toward it
- By payment mode, by weekday, by size and by status
- Largest transactions, running net and account targets
Reports
Define a report once against a reporting source and generate it whenever it is needed.
- Reporting sources and report definitions
- Report generation
- Generation activity and run health
- Most active reports, recently generated, when reports run
Communication
Instant, bulk communication — and control over how it goes out, church by church.
- Bulk notifications to the whole congregation by email, push or SMS
- Each church chooses its channels and its SMS provider
- Email, notification and PDF templates, and a record of every send
- News and events
- Subscriptions: newsletter subscribers
Church website
A website the church shapes itself — edited in place, in a theme of its own. The overview shows who is visiting and from where.
- Edit pages and sections in place, add pages, choose the theme
- Pages and sections, news, events, magazines and e-books
- Prayer requests, contact and form submissions
- Give online, YouTube links and SEO
- Visitors right now, where visits came from, top pages, devices
Forms and documents
Online forms for the church to collect what it needs, and document requests answered from its own records.
- Member forms with configurable fields
- Document requests with types and statuses
- Member profile PDFs and baptism, dedication and marriage certificates, generated from the church’s own templates
Operations
The calendar, tasks and assets: the running of the church, with an overview of how the work stands.
- A calendar view that is a complete event manager — by month or as a list, recurring events included
- Tasks with boards, priorities, effort and due dates
- How boards stand, who is carrying it, the runway, most overdue
- Assets with categories and maintenance schedules; overdue maintenance flagged
Mobile app
The same members, workers, giving and content on the phone, on iOS and Android.
- The ChurchDiary app on iOS and Android, on Standard and Advanced
- Your church’s own space in the app; members see only your content
- Members, workers, giving and content
- Push notifications on Standard and Advanced
Multi-church and settings
One organisation, many churches, with insight across every one of them and the settings each church needs.
- Multiple churches, each with its own records, kept apart
- An organisation of churches, with insight across every one
- Multiple logins: one for every worker and member, and one sign-in across churches
- Access by role on every screen
- User management, user groups, roles and menus
- General settings, and date, time, currency and language per church
Start with the free plan
Basic is free for up to 100 users, with every module and the church website.
Social and content
Content goes through a publish request with named approvers before it is seen.