Membership, attendance, follow-up and communications in one place — with postcodes handled the way British postcodes actually work, and your members’ data held in the UK and EU.
Start your free trialA member’s postcode is read by its outward code — SE15, M20, B13 — so a connect group gathers people who genuinely live within reach of each other rather than people who happen to share a line on a spreadsheet. The forms say Postcode, because that is what everybody filling one in calls it.
It sounds like a small thing until you have tried to run home groups across a city with software that expects five digits and a state.
A church membership roll records who belongs to a religious congregation. Under UK GDPR that is special category data, held to a stricter standard than an ordinary customer list, and the obligation sits with the church as controller whatever software it uses.
ChurchConnect is built on that footing rather than having it retrofitted. Access follows your own structure, so a district officer cannot read another district’s roll. Children are marked as such and carry guardian contact details rather than their own. Safeguarding Officer is a role the church appoints, and what it can see is scoped like every other office. Sensitive actions are logged, and a complete export of everything you hold is yours on request, without a fee and without a notice period.
Your members’ records stay in the UK and EU. A national church or a large denomination can have a deployment of its own — its own database, its own file storage, its own domain — in the region it chooses, which is a conversation worth having with your trustees before it becomes one you have after the fact.
Many of Britain’s fastest-growing churches are diaspora congregations, and their membership often spans more languages than their Sunday service does. The app, and every email and text message it sends, comes in English, German, French and Spanish.
Each member chooses their own, so a Ghanaian assembly in London can have officers working in English while members who prefer French read everything in French. The office sets nothing up and thinks about it no further.
An independent church runs on a single level and skips the hierarchy entirely — no empty structure to click past on the way to the membership list.
A denomination gets national office, areas, districts and local assemblies, at whatever depth it actually uses, with each leader scoped to their own branch and the national office seeing all of it. Leadership is recorded the way the church names it: councils, leaders, and the local presbytery of presiding elders, elders, deacons and deaconesses, taken from each member’s own church title.
A check-in terminal at the door, a live feed while the service runs, and a history to go back through weeks later — present today, visitors today, and the breakdown by men, women and children, without anybody counting from the platform.
Then the part that matters more. Absentee and care turns that into a list of names: the member who has quietly missed five weeks appears as someone to telephone, rather than as a dip in a chart nobody acts on. Visitors go into a pipeline of their own with the officer assigned to them and every conversation logged, so follow-up survives the week that officer is on holiday.
Email, SMS and WhatsApp from one composer, to the whole church, one assembly, a connect group, a ministry, or everyone with a birthday this month. Attach the flyer and it goes with the message. Each recipient is then recorded individually — sent, delivered, bounced, complained — so a church that emails four hundred members finds out that sixty of those addresses are dead, instead of wondering why the conference was half empty.
Seven reports come as standard, previewed on screen, then printed, saved as PDF, or exported as CSV for whoever wants the numbers underneath.
From £59 a month for a church of up to 150 members, through to a denominational rate billed per assembly rather than per member — every member and every leader with a login is included. A denomination is invoiced to the church office rather than asked for a card. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, and the trial asks for no card at all.
Create the church, import the spreadsheet your secretary already keeps, and take attendance the following Sunday. Bulk import recognises people already on file rather than duplicating them, so loading the same list twice does not double your congregation. Most churches are useful to themselves inside the first week, long before everything is filled in.
In the UK and EU. A national church can have its own deployment in the region it chooses, and any church can export everything at any time without a fee.
Yes. It records religious belief, which UK GDPR treats as a special category, held to a stricter standard than an ordinary contact list. The obligation sits with the church as controller, so access follows your own hierarchy, children carry guardian contacts rather than their own details, and sensitive actions are logged.
No app store. The member portal installs to a phone’s home screen straight from the browser, and members who would rather not install anything simply open the link.
Yes — bulk import takes the spreadsheet you already keep, matches people already on file rather than duplicating them, and typically moves a few hundred members in minutes.
Not in the standard product. Gift Aid and online giving can be built as an add-on for a church on its own dedicated deployment. On a standard plan, churches keep whatever they already use for offerings and claims, and ChurchConnect covers membership, attendance, follow-up, children’s ministry, events, reporting and communications.
Yes — postcodes are read by their outward code, so groups gather people who actually live near each other rather than people sorted alphabetically.
No. An independent church turns the hierarchy off and runs on one level, with none of the denominational structure in the way.
Nothing is deleted and nothing is charged automatically — the trial runs 30 days with no card. A single church can pay by card when it is ready; a denomination is invoiced to the church office.