Why we built Churchy for African churches

Most church management software is good software, built for churches somewhere else. It assumes card giving, fast internet and dollars or pounds. For a church in Accra, Lagos or Nairobi, those assumptions quietly get in the way. Churchy started from a simple question: what would church software look like if it were built for our churches first?

Priced and paid the way we actually give

Giving here runs on mobile money and local gateways, not mostly cards. Churchy handles mobile money and popular local payment methods, and it prices and reports in your currency, whether that is the cedi, naira, shilling or rand. Your finance team should never have to mentally convert their own offering.

Built for real connectivity

Not every usher has a fast connection, and many will use a phone rather than a laptop. Churchy is designed to be light and to work on the devices your volunteers already carry, so recording attendance or a contribution does not depend on perfect internet.

Messaging that fits how churches reach people

Across the continent, the most reliable way to reach a congregation is a text message. That is why SMS is built into Churchy rather than bolted on. Send announcements, reminders and follow-ups to a person, a department or the whole church without leaving the system.

Free to start, so any church can begin

A small church should not need a big budget to get organised. Member management in Churchy stays free, and you only pay when you are ready to unlock giving, finance, welfare and the rest.

"Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms." (1 Peter 4:10)

We think good tools are a small act of stewardship. They give a pastor back the hours that admin quietly steals, so those hours can go to people.

Made for how our churches are structured

Many churches run welfare schemes, multiple branches, and ministries that global tools never imagined. Churchy includes welfare contributions and claims, multi-branch oversight, children check-in and more, because these are not edge cases here. They are normal church life.

We did not build Churchy to be the biggest church platform in the world. We built it to be the right one for churches in Ghana and across Africa. If that sounds like your church, you can start free in a few minutes.