People directory
Add one at a time or import a CSV from Elvanto, Breeze, Planning Center, ChurchTrac, or any spreadsheet. Tags, status, photos, pastoral notes — searchable, filterable, exportable.
Features
Everything your church needs.
Every feature on every paid plan.
We don’t hold features hostage behind upsells. Whether you’re a 30-person church plant or a multi-campus 1,500-attendee parish, you get the same product. What changes is the price, not what you can do.
Your people
Know everyone, by name
A warm, fast directory built around how a church actually thinks about people — families first, then individuals.
Households
Group people into families with shared addresses and household roles. Track everyone in a unit without forcing them into a single record.
Multi-campus
Tag people, events, services, and groups to a campus. Filter dashboards by site. Designed for churches running 2–10 campuses.
Groups, teams, ministries
Small groups, serving teams, ministries — same shape, same tools. Leaders, meeting day/time/location, attendance tracking, group chat.
Giving
Donations land in your bank, not ours
Bring your own Stripe account. Shepherdly never holds your money and never charges a platform fee on giving. The way it should be.
Online giving with zero platform fees
Connect your church's own Stripe account (Standard). Donations flow direct to your church bank — typically next business day. Just Stripe's standard rate, nothing from us.
0% platform feeRecurring donations
Donors choose weekly, fortnightly, or monthly. Each gift gets a self-service link to cancel without contacting your office. Active subscriptions surface in Reports.
Annual giving statements
Auto-fired every January. PDF-ready statements per donor for the prior year, broken down by tax-deductible category.
Import giving history
Drop in a CSV from Tithe.ly, Pushpay, Planning Center Giving, or anywhere else. We auto-detect columns and match donors by email.
Giving categories + pledges
Tithes & Offerings, Missions, Building Fund — set up your own. Tag each as tax-deductible or not. Track pledges against actuals.
Sundays + week-day
Run the rhythms of your church
Plan services, schedule volunteers, check in kids, register people for events — all in one tool, built for the way church actually flows.
Service planning
Run sheets, songs in setlist order, volunteer scheduling per role. Your Sunday flow — visible to the whole team.
Songs library
Lyrics, chord charts, key, tempo, CCLI tracking. One-click transposition for the worship leader who likes G but the band knows it in C.
Sermons archive
Public per-church archive at your-slug. Each sermon has audio, video, notes, scripture references. SEO-friendly.
Kids check-in
Tablet-friendly check-in that works on a phone too. Security codes for parent pickup. Room capacities. Built for the chaos of a Sunday morning.
Events + RSVPs
Dinners, camps, working bees, men's breakfast. Public RSVP pages. Capacity caps. Optional ticketing through your Stripe account.
Bookings + facilities
Internal room and resource bookings. Stop two ministries booking the hall on the same Saturday.
Forms with payment
Public forms for camp signups, volunteer applications, prayer requests. Optional payment field charges through your Stripe Connect account.
Tasks + assignments
Assign work to staff or volunteers. Watch it land in their notification bell. Team accountability without another app.
Communication
Reach people the way they read
Bulk email and SMS that doesn't feel like marketing. Custom domains. AU Spam Act compliant out of the box.
Bulk email + SMS
Audience filters by status, tag, group, or campus. Every message has unsubscribe links (RFC 8058 one-click). SMS via your own ClickSend or Twilio account.
In-app notifications
Bell badge in the sidebar fires on group joins, donations, form submissions, task assignments, Stripe Connect changes, compliance reminders.
Custom email domain
Send from your own church domain (verified via Resend). Replies route to your contact email. Or fall back to app.shepherdly.com.au branded with your church name.
Insight
Reports that answer real questions
Attendance trends, giving patterns, growth, compliance — without spreadsheets or BI dashboards.
Reports built-in
Attendance, giving summary, growth (visitor → member funnel), donor statements, compliance status. CSV export on every one.
Live service status
Public /status page shows real-time platform health. Webhooks operating? Database up? Customers can self-check before opening a ticket.
Compliance tracking
WWCC, police checks, Safe Church training, VIT, First Aid. Cron-based 90/60/30/expired reminders so volunteers never serve out-of-date.
Control + safety
Built-in guardrails for real churches
The unsexy stuff that matters most: tenant isolation, role-based access, audit trails, and a way out if you ever need to leave.
Roles + per-member permissions
Owner / Admin / Pastor / Leader / Member as defaults. Custom per-person overrides scope down to specific modules or specific groups. A treasurer can see Giving and only Giving.
Tenant isolation, enforced
Every database query goes through tenantDb() — your church's data is fenced from every other church at the application layer, with vitest tests proving it.
Cookie + analytics consent
First-visit banner asks before any analytics or error reporting cookies fire. Visitors can decline; essential cookies (auth, CSRF) keep working.
Rate limiting + spam filter
Public endpoints (form submissions, donations, signup) are throttled. Catch-all email gets a heuristic classifier so admin@ / info@ / webmaster@ go straight to Spam.
Your data, always
Own it. Take it. Leave anytime.
Every feature in Shepherdly assumes you might one day move on. We make that easy on purpose.
Full archive download
One JSON file with every row of your church's data. Re-importable, shareable, archivable. Plus CSV exports per module — people, households, giving, events, messages.
Self-serve account deletion
Schedule deletion in 7 days. Cancel anytime in the window. After 7 days the cron worker permanently removes your church and all data. No hostage-taking, no support ticket required.
Weekly database backup
Cloudflare D1 Time Travel (30-day point-in-time recovery) plus a weekly full SQL dump kept as a 90-day artifact. Two layers, both automatic.
Onboarding + help
From zero to Sunday-ready in an afternoon
First-run guidance, sample data, in-app help, and an AI assistant that answers questions about how the product works.
Onboarding checklist
First-run dashboard walks you through the six things that matter on Day 1: people, Stripe, categories, services, team, plan.
Sample data, one click
Empty modules feel barren. Load 6 demo people across 2 households + 2 groups so you can see the product in action. Clear it just as easily when you're ready for real data.
In-app help + AI assistant
Searchable help articles for every module. The AI assistant answers questions about how Shepherdly works — never writes pastoral content on your behalf.
See it in your church.
Free up to 50 people. Every feature on every paid plan above that. Cancel anytime, take your data with you.