Church membership software allows church leaders and administrators to keep track of church membership, organise effective follow up of visitors and organise pastoral care well.

With today’s concerns about data privacy, people’s personal data needs to be held securely and options given for privacy settings. The Church Admin plugin does all these things well. It’s designed to help small, medium and large churches oranise and administrate their membership efficiently.

Church Membership tracking

The Church Admin Plugin for church websites powered by WordPress has effective tools for church membership.

Sunday Visitors can be added to the system via the admin area by logged in church administrators, or a page or post can be created which allows for people to register themselves and edit their entries. The plugin can be set to require admin approval of new accounts.

You can set up member levels – my church uses the following membership types

• Mailing List – people who just want to be kept inthe loop about what is going on in church life.
• Visitor – for first time visitors. The welcome team can then send an SMS or email welcome and they are on the first level of our follow up funnel.
• Irregular Attender – this level is for people who come irregularly. We send emails/SMS to people on this level to invite them to special services and events.
• Regular Attender – this membership level is for people who are regular but haven’t come to a joining day yet.
• Member – this level is people who have completed our membership process and are members of the church.

The membership levels are used in our follow up funnels to help people be assimilated fully into church life. They can be used for targetting email and SMS to different groupings in the church.

Follow Up

You can create followup funnels, which are taskes to guide people allow the process from being a first time visitor to a member of the church. Church Admin Plugin also has automations – automated emails that can be sent when people register and so on.

Privacy

People can set their privacy level – whether thay receive mail, email, SMS or phone calls. They can set photo permissions and want details if any appear on address lists.

Address List

You can create a page or post with the church address list – setting which member levels are shown. By default this is a login only feature to safeguard people’s privacy. Family and individual privacy settings are respected too.

Communications

The Church Admin Plugin has powerful communication tools.

Out of the box, emails can be sent using the native WordPress functions, although we recommend using Mailersend to handle sending the emails (website sent email are often flagged as spam routinely). Mailersend are free for 3,000 emails per month and their basic plan is $1 per extra 1,000 emails in a month.

You can also integrated an SMS sending service to send targeted SMS messages using Twilio, BulkSMS, Textmagic, or CloudeService Zambia. Twilio are our preferred partner as they allow reply messages to be handle through the plugin.

For Premium version users – there is an app for smartphones and tablets that allows you to send Push Notifications to everyone or targeted users.

Pastoral Visitation

The pastoral visitation module allows you to schedule pastoral visitation with reminders to take care of visiting the flock.

This post has highlighted just some of the featurs of the Church Admin Plugin, making it the best church membership management software for small and large churches.

The free version includes the address list module. There are basic and standard versions taht offer more functionality. The premium version is a competitively priced $99 per year and opens up the giving module for PayPal and Stripe online giving, the app and other features.

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