Everything You Need to Manage Your Church

Purpose-built for UK churches — a complete, ready-to-use platform with no setup complexity.

👥 Member Management

Keep track of your congregation with powerful, easy-to-use tools.

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Complete Member Profiles

Store everything you need to know about each member in one place.

  • Full personal details with address formatting
  • Phone, email, and emergency contacts
  • Membership status and joining date
  • Profile photo upload
  • Unique QR code and barcode per member
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Search, Filter & Export

Find exactly who you're looking for and take action on results.

  • Quick search by name, email, or phone
  • Filter by status, date, and more
  • Bulk export to CSV / Excel
  • Import members from spreadsheet
  • Duplicate name detection on entry

Ministries

Organise your congregation into the groups that matter to your church.

  • Create and manage ministry teams
  • View all members per ministry
  • Ministry detail pages
  • Link members to multiple ministries

📅 Attendance Tracking

Record who's present, spot trends, and stay connected with your congregation.

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Flexible Check-in

Multiple ways to record attendance to suit your Sunday setup.

  • Barcode scanning at the door
  • QR code scanning (member's phone)
  • Manual check-in by name search
  • Bulk attendance entry
  • Auto-generate missing barcodes
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Attendance Reports

Understand attendance patterns and identify who needs a pastoral visit.

  • Weekly and monthly attendance reports
  • Individual attendance history per member
  • Identify consistently absent members
  • Printable barcode sheets
  • Dashboard attendance rate overview
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Follow-ups & Pastoral Care

Turn absence into action with built-in pastoral care tools.

  • Member follow-up tasks with due dates
  • Assign follow-ups to team members
  • Pastoral care records per member
  • Follow-up dashboard with completion tracking
  • Pending follow-ups on main dashboard

👋 Visitor Management

Welcome first-time visitors and guide them smoothly into membership.

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Visitor Capture

Record visitors your way — at the door or via self-service QR code.

  • Staff-entered visitor records
  • Public QR code self-signup (no login needed)
  • Contact details and visit date
  • How they heard about you
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Visitor Follow-ups

Make sure no visitor falls through the cracks.

  • Follow-up tasks assigned to team members
  • Visitor follow-up dashboard
  • Check visitor SMS eligibility before messaging
  • Complete and track follow-up status
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Visitor to Member Conversion

Convert regular visitors to full members in one click.

  • One-click visitor to member conversion
  • Bulk convert multiple visitors at once
  • Assign pastoral team member to visitor
  • Conversion dashboard and report
  • Bulk assign team members to visitors

🗓️ Events & Check-in

Manage church events from creation to check-in to reporting.

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Event Management

Create and manage all your church events in one place.

  • Create events with date, time, and description
  • Calendar view and list view
  • Event management dashboard
  • Edit and delete events
  • Export attendee list

Event Check-in

Fast, accurate check-in for services and special events.

  • Live check-in dashboard per event
  • QR code check-in (scan from phone)
  • Attendee search by name
  • Real-time attendee count
  • View full attendee list
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Public Registration

Let members and visitors register for events online.

  • Public event registration page
  • No login required to register
  • Registration confirmation page
  • Cancel registration link
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HMRC Gift Aid Management — Built In

Full Gift Aid workflow included on all paid plans: declarations, donation tracking, quarterly claim preparation, and donor statements — all HMRC-compliant, all in one place.

💷 Gift Aid & Donations

HMRC-compliant Gift Aid management built for UK churches.

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Gift Aid Declarations

Manage member declarations accurately and compliantly.

  • Create and manage declarations per donor
  • Track declaration status and dates
  • Edit declarations with audit trail
  • Full declaration list with filtering
  • HMRC-compliant record keeping
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Donation Recording

Log every donation and link it to the right donor and declaration.

  • Add donations individually or via import
  • Link donations to Gift Aid declarations
  • Bulk import from spreadsheet
  • Full donation history list
  • Automatic Gift Aid calculations
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Claims & Reports

Prepare your quarterly HMRC claims without the spreadsheet headaches.

  • Create and manage quarterly claims
  • Claim detail and submission tracking
  • Quarterly summary report
  • Individual donor statements
  • Historical claim records

💬 SMS Messaging

Send text messages to members and visitors directly from Church Records.

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Send SMS Messages

Reach your congregation quickly with text messages.

  • Send to individuals or groups
  • Preview message before sending
  • Resend failed messages
  • Full message history log
  • Delivery status tracking
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SMS Templates

Save time with reusable message templates for common communications.

  • Create and save templates
  • Edit and delete templates
  • Preview template content
  • Select template when composing
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Flexible SMS Packs

Pay only for what you use — no wasteful monthly commitments.

  • Pay As You Go — billed per message sent
  • Starter Pack — 300 SMS/month at £15/mo
  • Pro Pack — 1,000 SMS/month at £39/mo
  • SMS add-on on any paid plan
  • Cancel or switch pack any time

🏗️ Asset Management

Keep track of your church's equipment, furniture, and property.

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Asset Register

Maintain a complete register of everything your church owns.

  • Add and manage asset records
  • Asset detail pages
  • Edit and update asset information
  • Asset list with filtering
  • Asset report export
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Maintenance Records

Log maintenance and service history against each asset.

  • Add maintenance entries per asset
  • Track maintenance history
  • Date and description per entry

🔒 Security & Compliance

Your data is protected and stored in line with UK data protection law.

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Data Security

Your congregation's data is kept safe at all times.

  • HTTPS encryption on all pages
  • Each church's data fully isolated (separate schema)
  • Hosted on Railway with automatic backups
  • No data shared between tenants
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GDPR Compliance

Built with UK data protection obligations in mind.

  • GDPR policy and cookie notice
  • UK-specific compliance guidance
  • SMS opt-out management
  • Member data export on request
  • Member deletion supported
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User Access

Control who can access your church's account.

  • Multiple staff user accounts
  • User accounts managed via admin panel
  • Password change and reset flows
  • First-login forced password change
  • Session-based authentication

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