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Platform

MinistryPlatform’s advanced customization capabilities allow you to create a system that is right for you including fields, tables, and structures.

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Integrations

MinistryPlatform offers a variety of integrations with commonly used products, allowing you to sync or share information between systems while maintaining MinistryPlatform as your hub.

APIs

MinistryPlatform supports REST APIs to link the platform to any data source.

Missions & Outreach

Know and help your neighbor

Outreach

Gain an understanding of the demographic and socioeconomics of your community using MissionInsite to determine how best to help and serve your neighbors.

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Church Planting

In MissionInsite you can view population data and forecasting to identify potential locations for a new plant or campus and choose the right leaders by evaluating demographic and religious preferences data about people in the community.

Missions Management

Go Method integrates with MinistryPlatform and includes everything you need for mission management including personal fundraising, applications and registrations, document tracking, reporting, and more.

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Views & Notifications

A view allows you to slice and dice your data in MinistryPlatform and see real-time results. Set up notifications, which can send an email to a user or a group of users, to share the data with others in your church.

Giving

Easily process donations with deep integrations between your giving solution and MinistryPlatform and get contribution data into your system more quickly with the batch manager.

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Worship Planning

Build an amazing service

Facilities Management

Set up events for your worship services in MinistryPlatform to ensure you book your worship space and equipment and manage any conflicts along the way. You can even leverage integrations with MinistryPlatform to manage HVAC for your facilities.

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Volunteer Management

Build your Worship volunteer teams with MinistryPlatform and post your volunteer opportunities allowing those interested to register. You can easily manage your volunteers by placing them into groups.

PocketPlatform

Share worship service details, streaming links, and sermon notes with your members. Even show a countdown leading up to your next worship service to build anticipation and encourage attendance.

Education & Discipleship

Create a community of learning and spiritual growth

Groups

MinistryPlatform provides everything you need for group management. Members can find and sign-up for groups online and check-in for their groups. Dashboards and reports provide group information and engagement to staff and leadership.

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PocketPlatform

In PocketPlatform, leadership can share targeted content to group leaders and members such as videos or reading plans. Group leaders can schedule meetings, take attendance, manage, and communicate with the members of their group. Groups can engage in multiple chats, allowing group members to communicate with each other and the group leader.

Routines

Easily promote each group of children from grade to grade using routines in MinistryPlatform.

Administration

Keep track of important information

Profiles

Capture and track everything your church needs to know about each member including personal and family information, engagement level, communication information, and spiritual milestones.

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Charts & Dashboards

View up to date information about your church and congregation with out-of-the-box dashboards for engagement, giving, and so much more. In MinistryPlatform, you can also create your own charts to track whatever information is relevant to your ministry.

Reports

MinistryPlatform includes over 200 out-of-the box reports to view detailed information about your church, people, and ministries. All reports are built on MicroSoft SQL Server so they’re all customizable, and all reports can be exported to multiple formats.

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Views & Notifications

A view allows you to slice and dice your data in MinistryPlatform and see real-time results. Set up notifications, which can send an email to a user or a group of users, to share the data with others in your church.

Giving

Easily process donations with deep integrations between your giving solution and MinistryPlatform and get contribution data into your system more quickly with the batch manager.

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Leadership

Manage your church, people, and operations

Journeys & Milestones

Keep track of important events for each congregant or parishioner such as a baptism or wedding with milestones in MinistryPlatform. Create a path for specific milestones, such as sacraments, by creating journeys where you can track each person’s progress through their spiritual path.

Engagement tracking

Prioritize outreach by understanding the engagement level of each visitor or member. Create engagement levels in MinistryPlatform by establishing criteria based on opportunities in your church or parish, such as people who have donated or people who attend have not joined.

Charts & Dashboards

View up-to-date information about your church and congregation with out-of-the-box dashboards for engagement, giving, and so much more. In MinistryPlatform, you can also create your own charts to track whatever information is relevant to your ministry.

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Reports

MinistryPlatform includes over 200 out-of-the box reports to view detailed information about your church, people, and ministries. All reports are built on MicroSoft SQL Server so they’re all customizable, and all reports can be exported to multiple formats.

Views & Notifications

A view allows you to slice and dice your data in MinistryPlatform and see real-time results. Set up notifications, which can send an email to a user or a group of users, to share the data with others in your church.

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Financial Stewardship

Encourage and increase generosity

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Integrated, Flexible Giving Options

MinistryPlatform allows multiple ways for your congregants and parishioners to give online and offline and our deep integrations push all giving and donor information into MinistryPlatform so your systems stay up to date. 

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Batch Manager

Drastically cut down the time it takes to scan checks with MinistryPlatform’s Batch Manager Tool. Scan checks from any location with a check scanner and the images will be saved on the donation record in MinistryPlatform.

Campaigns

Set up online campaigns for capital fundraising, mission trips, pledges, memorials, allowing you to accept donations for these causes and track progress towards your goal.

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Reporting

Get a complete view of stewardship in your church, parish, Diocese, or organization with multiple out-of-the-box dashboards and reports for giving.

Security

Protect donor information with granular security settings. Assign security for people in the system by creating roles, allowing you to select what each person sees down to specific fields.

Children's & Youth Ministry

Foster the growth of your next generation

Background Checks

Screen staff and volunteers working with children and youth using the background check request tool in MinistryPlatform. You can create requests and track the status from submission to approval.

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Check-In

MinistryPlatform includes an entire suite of check-in tools. Customize the childrens check-in process by creating a specific theme including colors and graphics or create labels that designate allergies or a family note. Check-in includes security options such as the ability to designate who is not approved to pick up a child as well as check out.

Parent Communications

MinistryPlatform’s communication tool that enables emails and texts has the option to copy parents on all communications to their children. Additionally,  you can create a segment for parents to send them communications directly or share information specific to children’s and youth ministry in PocketPlatform as well as send parent notifications.

Events

Manage every aspect of children’s and youth events in MinistryPlatform from  communications to registration to volunteer management to check-in.

Pastoral Care

Care for your flock

Journeys & Milestones

Keep track of important events for each congregant or parishioner such as a baptism or wedding with milestones in MinistryPlatform. Create a path for specific milestones, such as sacraments, by creating journeys where you can track each person’s progress through their spiritual path.

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Engagement tracking

Prioritize outreach by understanding the engagement level of each visitor or member. Create engagement levels in MinistryPlatform by establishing criteria based on opportunities in your church or parish, such as people who have donated or people who attend but have not joined.

Routines

Keep engagement information up-to-date for each person in your pews with automatic, daily engagement updates using routines. MinistryPlatform will automatically update their engagement status using the criteria for each level as they participate in your church. 

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LifeApps

Enable your leadership and care teams to take ministry on the go with LifeApps in MinistryPlatform. CareLife allows you to to create, view, and manage care cases including logging meetings, prayer requests, or needs. NeedConnect allows members to request assistance from the church, such as clothing, food, or prayer, to help them through their time of need.

Events

Create connections and attract new visitors

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CALENDAR

Share what’s happening on your event calendar. Members and visitors can view all events or filter by campus or ministry area to find events relevant to them, and you can also feature a specific event to drive registration. Publish the calendar on your website using widgets or in PocketPlaform, the congregant app.

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REGISTRATION

MinistryPlatform offers multiple options for event registration including free or paid registration, custom forms, and promo codes.

VOLUNTEERS

Build your volunteer teams with MinistryPlatform by posting your volunteer opportunities. Volunteers register for positions. Screen your volunteers using one of our background check integrations and once you’ve selected your team, you can easily manage your volunteers by placing them into groups.

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CHECK IN & ATTENDANCE

MinistryPlatform’s check-in suite has all your event needs including branding customization, multiple search options for attendees, labels, event check-in and check out, and attendance reporting.

EMAIL

In addition to posting your event to the calendar, on your website, and in PocketPlatform, you can send out a templated email with event details to your congregation. After the event, thank people for attending your event by sending out an automated follow-up email.

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