Integrations to power up your church management solution

Additional Solutions to Complement Realm

Below are solutions that complement or integrate with Realm to provide you with a complete ministry environment. These tools empower your staff, leaders, and congregants to continue evolving and growing your mission and ministries.

Realm’s integration with Constant Contact gives you a strong foundation for effective communication. Simply sync your email lists between Realm and Constant Contact tostreamline your administrative tasks and send customized, templated emails to your congregation.

This integration allows you to:

Simplify sending emails to targeted lists by sending contact lists from Realm to Constant Constant
Never worry about contact information being out of date in Realm or Constant Contact as changes made in each software sync to keep them both up to date
Update or replace lists in Constant Contact as groups, pathways, or other lists are changed in Realm
Customize email templates in Constant Contact to send to targeted lists from Realm
Send SMS text messages

Go Method is an all-in-one, automated, due-date based mission trip and event management tool that provides tools for leaders and participants.

Integration between Go Method and Realm allows you to:

Use your Realm login to sign into GoMethod
View and update Realm profile information in Go Method
Create Realm profiles for people added in Go Method
Use your Realm eGiving account to process payments in Go Method via Realm giving forms
Designate Realm funds for payments via giving forms
View Go Method payments and statuses in both programs
View Go Method payments on Realm giving statements

Nelco is our trusted filing solution that integrates with Realm Payroll to provide you with a simple and completely electronic option for filing W-2s, 1099, 1095, and 941 forms. This integration gives you an easy and efficient way to to complete your year-end reports and forms in a matter of minutes.

This integration allows you to:

Set up an e-file account with Nelco for free. Only pay when you select how you want to e-file and if you’d like Nelco to print and mail tax forms for you..
Electronically file federal forms – Data is sent directly from Realm to the Federal Government, eliminating the need to file through the IRS or SSA systems.
Electronically file state forms – Data is sent directly to any and every stage that requires reporting in the format required by that state, eliminating the need to keep up-to-date with various state filing requirements.
Automatically send filings to recipients once they are completed. No need to print, mail, or hand deliver forms to your recipients yourself.

Verified First makes screening easy, integrating directly into Realm to give you a streamlined screening process all in one place. Our screening specialists will walk you through how to order the screens, and then we’ll take it from there. With a few clicks, you’ll be on your way to making your church community safe for everyone.

Realm’s integration with Verified First allows you to:

Track the date background checks were processed
Send background check requests to volunteers and applicants to complete so you never ask for or store sensitive information, like Social Security numbers
Easily identify flagged reports to make the reviewing and hiring process faster
Produce results that are compliant with federal and local background screening laws

Vanco is our trusted partner and payment processor within Realm, providing a comprehensive giving solution including online, text, and mobile app giving.

Realm eGiving through Vanco is a true integrated solution allowing you to:

Post gifts directly into Realm Contributions giving your staff more time to focus on ministry
Customize your giving and pledge forms for specific funds and pledge campaigns so your forms clearly communicate their mission and purpose
Provide your congregation with multiple ways to give with options to set up recurring gifts, cover the processing fee, give to multiple funds, and more

Growth Method is a ministry engagement hub that facilitates engagement by providing pastors and staff with automated communications, task tracking, and processes.

Integration between Growth Method and Realm includes:

Single sign-on with Realm
Realm profile and family information available in Growth Method
Create/update Realm profiles for records created in Growth Method

The integration of Realm with Planning Center People provides your ministry with the tools needed for seamless worship planning. It provides your ministry with:

Ability to select individuals from Volunteer Teams or Group Participant Lists in Realm to sync with Planning Center People
A one-way sync of profile information such as name, phone number, email address, gender, and date of birth from Realm to Planning Center People
Simplified workflow for scheduling volunteers for worship services

Church Websites

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A virtual front door to your church.

PREDEFINED TEMPLATES

Build a professional, user-friendly site.

Choose from sixteen pre-formatted templates and customize them with your church’s branding so you take your virtual presence to the next level.

UNLIMITED PAGES

Expand your website to all your ministries.

Create pages for each area of your church. You can create a page to welcome visitors, let congregants know about events in your church, share a staff directory – anything you want.

GRAPHICS LIBRARY & EDITOR

Choose images that best represent your church.

Select images from the gallery or upload and edit your own.

ANALYTICS

Understand who is engaging and how.

View which pages people are visiting most, how people came to your page, where visitors are located, and so much more.

Integration

Widgets

Add widgets for a single event, list of events, list of groups, or giving to your website.

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Feature Highlights

Have peace of mind knowing your church data is secure

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Secure ministry software
to keep your church safe.

Custom Fields

Share what’s important.

Your church is filled with unique individuals who want to share their lives in different ways. Realm is a secure church platform and allows your congregation to choose what level of detail they’d like to share their information with the congregation, allowing for a secure and personalized experience.

Roles and Responsibilities

Keep confidential information secure.

Realm secure church software understands that different people should have access to information based on their responsibilities in your church. Assign roles to staff and lay leaders to give the access they need without compromising confidential information. Enable two-step verification to add another layer of security to your data.

Security Empowerment

Set security measures that work for your church.

Choose what an individual in Realm can view based on their member status by setting privacy and security measures for each member status that works best for your ministry.

Security Levels

Give confidently.

A secure church giving experience is a top priority for your ministry. That’s why it’s a top priority in Realm. Every online transaction is processed with a PCI Level 1-compliance and backed by the latest industry standards.

Data Imports

Your church environment. Secured.

Realm church management software is securely built for the needs of your specific church. This means your church – and every one of your members – accesses Realm through HTTPS SSL-encrypted connections for top-of-the-line church data security. We’ve also added an extra layer of security with multi-factor authentication.

The future of doing ministry.

Realm is 100% web-based, so there’s no need to have on-premise servers or workstations that you constantly need to manage or update. Your church data is securely placed on our state-of-the-art server network and updates to Realm are made automatically.

Feature Highlights

Communication tools to keep your church connected

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Keeping engagement front and center.

Newsfeed

Posts to keep your church informed.

Keep your members engaged by posting to their newsfeed. Group leaders can post prayer requests, encouragement, or announcements to their groups and members can comment. Leaders can post to multiple groups they lead at the same time to create multiple conversations, and choose whether to allow comments.

Photo Posts

Share memories to create connections.

Being able to post photos from group events reminds your group members of the wonderful bonds they are creating through your church and Christ. Using photo posts in Realm, you can also share images of encouragement like scripture readings or devotionals.

Events

Empower groups to organize, plan, and engage.

Realm church management software gives your group leaders the opportunity to share events with their group members. With our incredible church group management software, group leaders can attach files to the events for members to see ahead of time such as a meeting agenda or menu. Plus, leaders can add items for group members to sign up to bring when they RSVP.

Foster a more engaged and connected community with the integration of Realm and Constant Contact for email and SMS marketing. Seamlessly sync congregant contact information, allowing you to leverage a unified solution for both email and text messaging. Craft impactful messages using Constant Contact’s user-friendly editor, AI-driven content generator, schedule emails and texts, and view valuable analytics for optimal engagement.

20% OFF
when you prepay a 6-month subscription

30% OFF
when you prepay a 1-year subscription

30% OFF
For 3 months*, plus a one-hour kickoff call to help your ministry get set up for success. SMS can be added to any plan.

Chat

Communicate with anyone in the moment.

Checking in on a member and family or planning a surprise event with just a few members within a group means communicating with the whole group isn’t necessary. And thanks to Chat in Realm, you can contact just one or a few members at a time without having to message an entire group.

Inbox

One place for all communications.

We all know the routine of searching through texts, emails, and direct messages trying to find a conversation. With Realm’s inbox, all of your communications are saved in one place. Your members can see their messages in their Inbox, even if they choose to receive messages as emails or texts.

Constant Contact SMS

Instantly reach your audience.

Maximize your ministry’s outreach with Constant Contact SMS. Effortlessly sync mobile numbers to Constant Contact to leverage the power of texting to better reach your congregation. Your church will have a dedicated phone number to schedule or send texts to your entire congregation or specific individuals. You’ll also have insightful data to help you understand engagement with your texts.

Email

Reach the right audience.

Easily connect with individuals in a group or pathway, from a custom query, parents of children in your ministry, or people in a dashboard filter through email. Use Realm’s native email tool or take your email content to the next level using Realm’s integration with Constant Contact.

EMAIL INTEGRATION

Send customized emails to targeted lists.

Realm’s integration with Constant Contact means you can sync your email contacts between both to ensure contacts are up-to-date. Send your contact lists from Realm to update, replace, or create new lists to email through Constant Contact.

History

Track your communications.

See who is receiving your messages via Email, Text, or Inbox. With Realm’s Communication History, check the status of your messages and see those that are sent, queued, undelivered, or those who have unsubscribed.

Notification Preferences

Reach them where they prefer.

Realm gives you the opportunity to connect with your members in the way they choose is best. If they prefer email, your Inbox messages and posts will reach their email inbox. Enable texting for groups who are always on the go to reach them quickly. Push notifications keep those using the Realm Connect church mobile app informed of new messages, posts.

Feature Highlights

Directory
Notification Preferences
Communication History
Privacy Settings
Share Files
Chat
Parent Oversight

Reports to dive deep into your church’s data

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Detailed church reporting solutions into your ministry.

Predefined Reports

Generate detailed reports.

When more details are needed, staff can utilize Realm’s predefined reports for churches and ministries. From eGiving and accounting to groups and events, one of the nearly 30 reports in Realm will serve up answers to questions you have about your ministry.

Custom Queries

Access all your data.

Attention administrators: Realm’s custom queries were built for you. Unlike a prebuilt report, custom reports for churches and ministries let you search, sort, and output your data in any way needed.

Saved Reports

Make better use of your time.

Building reports over and over shouldn’t be how you spend your time. Save your custom and predefined church reports in Realm ministry management software and access them from “My Saved Reports” anytime you want to re-run, edit, or output your data again.

Shared Reports

Teamwork just got easier.

Working together in Realm is easy with shared reports. Create your report and share it with others directly in Realm so they can see the results and take action as needed.

Recent Report History

Don’t lose your work.

Run a report but forget to save it? Realm gives you recent report history so you can see your history and download a recent report you may have lost.

CHURCH FINANCIAL REPORTING TOOL

Save time reviewing details.

Realm ministry management tools aren’t just for your people. You’ll also get complete church expense reporting software for Realm church accounting and payroll. Customize standard accounting reports by selecting all the criteria you want to include in your report, such as specific time periods, funds, core accounts, and departments. Then save your reports to use again at a later time.

Feature Highlights

Gain insights into your church through Dashboards

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Access ministry insights when
you need them most.

Sacraments

Have a pulse on your ministry.

From demographics about your congregation to statistics for church health, the Overview Dashboard is out-of-the-box ready and provides church leaders needed insight into their ministry.

Custom Fields

Remove the guesswork of giving.

Realm’s giving and pledge dashboards provide church leaders with important information like campaign progress, breakdowns by fund or payment type and year-over-year giving totals.

Security Levels

See attendance trends.

Realm understands that different people in your church should have access to different information about people. Assign roles to staff and lay leaders to give the access they need without compromising confidential information.

Data Imports

Take action on your ministry insights.

Dashboards serve you valuable information about your ministry, but it doesn’t stop there. Take action on the information you’re given by communicating with lists, adding them to groups or discipleship tracks, or even inviting them to take part in your ministry on Realm.

Feature Highlights

Multi-year Attendance Metrics
Attendance By Ministry
Ministry Demographics
Multi-year Giving Metrics
Pledge Progress
Actionable Data
Comparative Metrics

In-Person vs Virtual Attendance Metrics
Attendance Demographics
Detailed Fund Metrics
Multi-year Pledge Metrics
Ministry Involvement Metrics
Multi-Fund Summary
Printable Data

Customized Filtering
Church Health
Payment Type Summary
Giving Demographics
Pledge Demographics
Customizable Giving Details
Plus more…

Manage payroll and time off for your church staff

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Simplify the process of paying your staff.

Payroll Runs

Process and pay U.S. employees automatically.

Once your employee data and timesheets are all set up, Realm® will calculate necessary tax withholdings, process adjustments, communicate status, and post payments in its payroll software for churches.

Employee Details

Ensure everyone receives a correct paycheck.

Payroll is part of Realm church management software designed specifically for churches, allowing you to maintain important details about your employees and accommodate special tax requirements and allowances for your ministerial staff.

Time Entry

Process timesheets for individuals or groups of employees.

Split employees into manageable groups for processing pay periods or for structuring compensation for specific jobs. Timesheet groups run separately and give you complete control over how employees are paid.

Jobs

Define and assign jobs to your employees.

Realm’s tools allow staff to manage the church and run your ministries, and Payroll gives you a way to manage all those staff positions quicker and easier. Add all of the jobs available at your church—including full-time, part-time, and one-time positions—and assign these jobs for how your staff is paid.

Adjustments

Track any additions and subtractions to employee wages.

Keep track of employee benefits, additional compensation, employer-paid items, and special situations such as housing and auto allowances, phone reimbursements, retirement plans, insurance, and one-off deductions.

Print Checks

Print physical checks and post to General Ledger.

Using Realm church accounting software with payroll, you can run payroll, print checks, and post payroll checks to the general ledger according to the payroll transactions list.

Tax Withholding Settings

Automatically calculate payroll withholding taxes.

Realm’s payroll software for ministries, along with Symmetry Software, calculates payroll withholding taxes for federal, FICA, state, and local taxes. Only taxable jobs and adjustments will be used to calculate taxes.

Feature Highlights

Accounting software designed with churches in mind

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Demonstrate solid financial discipline to your congregation and vendors.

Giving Integration

Automatically post deposits from contributions.

Realm’s accounting software for churches fully integrates with Realm Giving by allowing you the option to post batches into General Ledger as deposits. Simply link your Giving Funds to your General Ledger accounts. Of course, you can control which batches to post automatically and which ones to handle yourself anytime.

Accounting Basis

Choose Your Accounting Method.

Realm Accounting offers the flexibility to manage your church’s finances with cash and accrual-based accounting methods, ensuring accurate record-keeping and compliance with accounting standards.

Fund Accounting

Organize finances by fund.

Your Chart of Accounts is organized by listing core accounts below their account headings: Assets, Liabilities, Net Assets, Revenues, and Expenses. You may add subheadings to specify how each core account is used, and then drag and drop your subheadings into whatever order you prefer.

Account Segments

Intelligently record greater details.

After you set up core accounts to use across multiple funds, departments, etc., you can create segments to track additional information such as subdepartments and campuses. Account segments are used when entering transactions, entering budget information, performing inquiries, and processing reports.

Transactions

Track income and expenses efficiently.

Transactions record the church’s financial activity, such as paying a vendor and receiving donations. You can enter expenses, including attaching supporting documents for vendors and transactions, income, and other transactions, and switch between transaction types within any of these categories, making it quick and easy to enter another type. Reference numbers are automatically assigned to each transaction you enter.

Disbursements

Pay bills and write checks.

Open checks from the Transactions screen can be placed into a queue and printed as single checks or as a batch. Realm also provides a Printed Checks Log where you can view previous check runs and print a check register report. When printing is complete, any unposted checks that you printed are automatically posted.

Accounts

Reconcile with bank and credit cards.

Bank reconciliation is an auditing process that helps uncover discrepancies in your accounts and prevents future mistakes when recording transactions. To ensure that your account is in balance, you will compare your bank statement to the transactions recorded in your general ledger.

Vendors

Track individuals and businesses.

Vendors are businesses and individuals that provide services or supplies for you, and Realm church management software allows you to track and manage those vendors. Vendors are associated with expenses because you pay for those services or supplies, such as the power company, a landscaper, a government tax agency, or an office supply company.

Budgeting

Money in determines your money out.

Budgets help you plan and measure your fiscal performance. By estimating what your income and expenses will be, you can make plans for how you spend and save. Budgets can live completely in Realm, or they can be exported for revisions or imported from an existing CSV file.

Reporting

Save time reviewing details.

Reports can be customized with account segments to show only what you need to see. Customize standard accounting reports by selecting all the criteria you want to include in your report, such as specific time periods, funds, core accounts, and departments. Then save your reports to use again at a later time.

Feature Highlights

General Ledger

Fund Accounting
Cash and Accrual Basis
Chart of Accounts
Income/Expense Tracking
Credit Card Transactions
Bank and Credit Card Reconciliation
Bank Reconciliation Autosaves
Departmental Expense Tracking
Transaction Logs
User Security
Incremental Budgeting
Import Transactions
Employee and Transaction Attachments

Giving Integration

Contribution Posting
Link General Ledger to Giving Funds
Giving Receipts
Deposit Reference Numbers
Automatically Post Batches as Deposits
Batch Deposit Details

Disbursements

Reports & Analytics

Internal Financial Reports (by department or by account segment)
External Financial Statements
Budget Comparisons
Vendor Totals and Aging Report
Extract General Ledger Statement Report to CSV
Plus more…

Build meaningful connections with your church community

Church Community Mobile App

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Church doesn't always happen at church.

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Messages

Connect like never before.

Messages makes it easy for you to get in touch with people in your church. You can quickly communicate with members of a group or start conversations with one person or multiple people – just by searching for them by name. When you send a message, people will be notified by the app and can respond right away.

Posts

Share life together.

Life happens between Sundays. The newsfeed contains a personalized feed of posts, photos, and events from the groups you’re in. People in your church will see messages from their group leaders and other group members. They can respond with comments or show their support by tapping on the heart. People can share something with their group by posting a message, uploading a photo, or inviting people to an event.

Church News

Keep people in the loop.

Communicate what’s happening across your church—anytime. People can browse through the app to read churchwide posts, check out upcoming church events, and more. They can double-check their group meeting schedule or find another opportunity to participate in a new church event. Whatever’s going on, it’s all right there in the palm of their hand.

Look people up.

Good news! Everyone can recycle their outdated directory now. The next time you need to look someone up, you can pull out your phone and search for them in the Realm® Connect app. You can also browse through the list of your entire church and look up someone’s family members. And similar rules apply from your printed directory—people can opt out of being listed if that’s their preference or choose what information is available for others to see. It’s a great way to put names to faces and learn more about the people in your church.

Giving

Encourage consistent personal giving.

Give people the tools they need to make their giving more consistent. Anyone who has given can open the app to review their total giving year-to-date or check if a recent gift has been processed. People can also set up recurring gifts, create new pledges, and track progress toward their pledge goals. It’s a new way for your church family to manage their giving from the convenience of their mobile phone.

Events

Capture RSVPs to events.

Know who will be there (and what they’ll bring). Open up the app to get details about an upcoming event and see who has RSVP-ed. As part of their response, they can note any number of guests or items they have signed up to bring. People can also register for events that require payment, such as a youth camp or adult retreat. Your church family can see who else is coming and post comments about the event.

Profiles

Allow self-maintained profiles.

Can we get an “Amen?” Yay, no more bottlenecks! Give people the ability to keep their own family information and photos current. It’s super simple and a great way to start people off using the app. (It also means you don’t have to struggle to read someone’s handwriting on those contact cards.) People can set their own preferences about who else—besides staff—can see their information. They can make contact information visible to anyone in the church or restrict it to people in their groups, their group leaders, or just the church staff.

Communication

Contact people.

Connect with those who need it most. Realm’s mobile app makes it possible to go one step beyond looking information up. When you find the person you want to contact, you can simply tap on his or her contact information to initiate contact immediately, whether that’s a phone call, a text, or an email. It’s super convenient, and you don’t have to try to memorize phone numbers and email addresses.

Feature Highlights

Push Notifications
Mobile Giving
Event RSVPs
Recurring Gifts
Event Registration
Event Payments
Shared Photos
Post Comments

Profile Photos
Group Feeds
Tap to Call
Tap to Email
Personalized News
Church Calendar
Church Directory
Open Addresses in Maps

Group Rosters
Group Events
Meeting Schedules
File Sharing
Attendance
Pledge Programs
Contact Preferences
Giving History

Stay connected to each other and to the ministry of your church.

Deepen relationships, celebrate milestones, boost giving, and participate in the work of the Lord. Download the “Connect – Our Church Community” app for iOS or Android devices. With Realm, it’s freely available to anyone in your church.

Background Checks

Shepherd – Pastoral Care

Pastoral care tools for on-the-go ministry

Church Pastoral Care App

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Pocket-sized tool for God-sized ministry.

Recents

Quickly access last-touched info.

Shepherd keeps your most relevant information at your fingertips. You can easily jump to any of the last 10 profiles you looked up, and you can see your most recent conversations all on one screen.

Find anyone in your church.

Just start typing in the search bar and matches will automatically start showing up. The search is even smart enough to recognize nicknames.

Ministry is in your hands.

Take your pastoral care ministry to the next level by giving your pastors and pastoral staff on-the-go mobile access to your church directory, groups, pastoral notes, and messages in messages in the Realm® Shepherd app.

Family Members

View family members.

This is a great way to see everyone in a household. It also gives you a way to look someone up when you can only remember a family member’s name. (It happens to the best of us.)

Activity

See how people are involved.

Now you have a quick and simple way to see how someone is involved in your church. You can see the groups a person has participated in, the sacraments or religious milestones you want to track, and whether or not this person has completed or been part of any pathway.

Notes

Add pastoral notes to profiles.

Pastoral notes help you keep record of your interactions, observations, visitations, and more. You can either add notes for your entire pastoral team to see or you can mark them as private to be the only one who can see them.

Categorize your notes with tags.

Create your own custom tags to organize your notes. They can be anything you want, and the tags are shared across your entire pastoral team.

Messaging

Communicate directly with people in your church.

Pastors love having a separate inbox dedicated to ministry and discipleship conversations. This keeps life-changing discussions safe from getting lost among day-to-day emails.

Install Shepherd today.

“Realm Shepherd – for Pastors” puts ministry within reach for all pastoral staff. Look up people, view activity, add notes, and send messages. Shepherd works on iOS and Android devices.

Products

Integrations to power up your church management solution

Additional Solutions to Complement Realm

Church Websites

Share this information with others in your church.

A virtual front door to your church.

PREDEFINED TEMPLATES

Build a professional, user-friendly site.

UNLIMITED PAGES

Expand your website to all your ministries.

GRAPHICS LIBRARY & EDITOR

Choose images that best represent your church.

ANALYTICS

Understand who is engaging and how.

Integration

Widgets

WANT TO LEARN MORE? Fill out your information and we will be in touch.

Feature Highlights

Have peace of mind knowing your church data is secure

Share this information with others in your church.

Secure ministry softwareto keep your church safe.

Custom Fields

Share what’s important.

Roles and Responsibilities

Keep confidential information secure.

Security Empowerment

Set security measures that work for your church.

Security Levels

Give confidently.

Data Imports

Your church environment. Secured.

The future of doing ministry.

Feature Highlights

Communication tools to keep your church connected

Share this information with others in your church.

Keeping engagement front and center.

Newsfeed

Posts to keep your church informed.

Photo Posts

Share memories to create connections.

Events

Empower groups to organize, plan, and engage.

20% OFF when you prepay a 6-month subscription

30% OFF when you prepay a 1-year subscription

30% OFF For 3 months*, plus a one-hour kickoff call to help your ministry get set up for success. SMS can be added to any plan.

Chat

Communicate with anyone in the moment.

Inbox

One place for all communications.

Constant Contact SMS

Instantly reach your audience.

Email

Reach the right audience.

EMAIL INTEGRATION

Send customized emails to targeted lists.

History

Track your communications.

Notification Preferences

Reach them where they prefer.

Feature Highlights

Reports to dive deep into your church’s data

Share this information with others in your church.

Detailed church reporting solutions into your ministry.

Predefined Reports

Generate detailed reports.

Custom Queries

Access all your data.

Saved Reports

Make better use of your time.

Shared Reports

Teamwork just got easier.

Recent Report History

Don’t lose your work.

CHURCH FINANCIAL REPORTING TOOL

Save time reviewing details.

Feature Highlights

Gain insights into your church through Dashboards

Share this information with others in your church.

Access ministry insights whenyou need them most.

Sacraments

Secure ministry software
to keep your church safe.

20% OFF
when you prepay a 6-month subscription

30% OFF
when you prepay a 1-year subscription

30% OFF
For 3 months*, plus a one-hour kickoff call to help your ministry get set up for success. SMS can be added to any plan.

Access ministry insights when
you need them most.