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Features Overview

Core Features​

  • Congregation Management
    • Families — Household records with shared contact info, pledge history, and unified family/member profiles.
    • Persons — Individual member profiles with contact details, roles, church history, notes, and timeline filters.
    • Self Registration — Members can register themselves through an online form.
    • Online Verification — Members can review and confirm their own contact information.
    • Notes — Private or shared memos on person and family records, with timeline filtering.
    • Properties — Custom labels (e.g. "Homebound", "Choir Member") for people, families, and groups.
  • Finances
    • Donations — Record contributions and link to family pledge accounts.
    • Envelope — Track giving by numbered donation envelopes.
    • Deposits — Batch donations into deposit slips with printable bank forms.
    • Pledges — Track multi-year giving commitments with a dedicated Pledge Dashboard.
  • Events — Create one-time or recurring events, track attendance, manage child check-in/out, and use the unified event editor.
  • Groups — Ministry teams, committees, Bible studies, small groups, or any other grouping. Includes kiosk check-in support.
  • Sunday School — Specialized group dashboard with roster and attendance tracking.
  • Kiosk Check-in — Self-service check-in tablets for any event with a linked group. Parent alerts via email or SMS.
  • Calendar — Shared church calendar with offcanvas event editor and timezone-aware event times.
  • Fundraiser — Manage auctions and fundraising events where members buy and sell items.
  • Reports & Queries — Directories, mailing labels, birthday lists, financial statements, and custom queries.
  • Volunteers — Track member availability for specific roles and find volunteers for upcoming needs.
  • Data Import — Import member records from CSV, including Classification and Family Role columns.
  • Export & Data — Export Hub with CSV, ChMeetings format, and database backup — all in one place.
  • Backup / Restore — Full database backups with one-click restore.
  • Localization — 46 languages, regional grouping, and browser auto-detection.
  • User Management — User accounts, role-based access, granular permissions, and 2FA.
  • Plugins — Extend ChurchCRM with community and built-in plugins. Install from approved registries.

External Integrations (via Plugins)​

PluginPurpose
MailChimpSync congregation list for newsletters and mass email
Vonage SMSSend SMS parent alerts from kiosk check-out
OpenLPPush member names and attendance counts to worship software
GravatarDisplay member photos from Gravatar-linked email addresses
Google AnalyticsGA4 tracking on authentication pages
External BackupAutomated offsite database backup
Custom Menu LinksAdd custom navigation links to the admin sidebar
Holiday CalendarOptional community plugin adding a holiday event calendar

All integrations are optional. Enable only the plugins your church needs under Admin → Plugins.