Church Admin Plugin

Pledges

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The Pledges feature lets members commit to a giving amount for the current year, and lets administrators track those commitments against actual donations received. Pledges are useful for stewardship campaigns, building fund drives, or any situation where you want to encourage planned giving.

How pledges work

A pledge is a commitment from a member to give a certain amount to a specific fund during the current year. It is not a payment — it’s a statement of intent. As donations are recorded through the year, Church Admin tracks how much of the pledge has been fulfilled so both the member and the admin team can see progress.

The member-facing pledge form

Members can submit or update their own pledge through a page on your website. Add the shortcode or Church Admin block to any page:

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Or search for Church Admin in the Gutenberg block inserter and select the Pledge option.

Members must be logged in to use the form — anyone not logged in sees a login form instead. The pledge form shows the current year and any existing pledge the member has already made, which they can update. Fields on the form are:

  • Pledge amount — the total amount they are committing to give during the year
  • Fund — which fund the pledge applies to, selected from your active funds list

After submitting, the member sees a thank you message and a summary of their actual donations to date against their pledge, so they can track their own giving progress.

One pledge per person per fund per year is stored — submitting the form again updates the existing pledge rather than creating a duplicate.

The admin pledges screen

Go to Church Admin → Giving → Pledges. The screen shows pledge totals at the top — the aggregate of all pledges made — followed by a table of individual pledges ordered by year (most recent first) then alphabetically by name. Each row shows:

  • Donor name
  • Fund
  • Pledged amount
  • Year
  • Edit and Delete buttons

Only users with the Giving permission level can see the pledges screen. See Permissions and roles.

Adding a pledge manually

Click Add a pledge at the top of the screen to record a pledge on behalf of someone — useful if a member has made a verbal commitment or filled in a paper pledge card rather than using the online form. Select the person from the directory, enter the fund, amount, and year, and save.

Editing and deleting pledges

Click Edit next to any pledge to update the amount, fund, or year. Click Delete to remove a pledge entirely. Deleting a pledge does not affect any donations already recorded — it only removes the commitment record.

Placing the pledge page on your website

Since members need to be logged in to use the pledge form, wrap it in a logged-in content block so non-members see a login prompt rather than an empty page. See Members only content.

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