Features

Everything your church needs, finally under one roof

Twenty modules, one warm home. Roost matches the full surface of Church Community Builder, then makes every part of it faster, friendlier, and genuinely mobile.

The core record

People & households

The record everything else hangs off of, kept clean and human.

  • Rich profiles with photos, multiple emails, phones and addresses, pronouns, preferred name, and birthday
  • Membership stages you define (guest, attender, member, leader, inactive) with full stage history
  • Unlimited custom fields, tags, and notes with private, role-restricted, or shared visibility
  • One activity timeline per person: gifts, attendance, groups, serving, forms, and messages in order
  • Household grouping with giving roll-ups, statements, and family check-in and registration
  • Relationship mapping and a smart merge tool that previews conflicts before it combines records
  • Member self-service editing, consent and privacy controls, and GDPR/CCPA export and delete

Community

Groups & community

Leader-first, because that is where the old way frustrates people most.

  • Small groups, classes, ministry teams, and cohorts, each with its own settings
  • A public group finder with a map and filters for day, time, location, age, topic, and campus
  • A leader toolkit that works on a phone: roster, one-tap attendance, messaging, files, and prayer
  • Co-leaders and apprentices with their own permissions, so a leadership pipeline is built in
  • Group health metrics and a coaching hierarchy that rolls up to directors and staff
  • Open, closed, full, and archived states with waitlists, plus parent-and-child group tracking

Sunday morning

Check-in & attendance

Fast, safe, and still working when the venue wifi is not.

  • Check in at a staffed station, a self-service kiosk, by mobile or QR, or as a roster headcount
  • Offline-tolerant by design, so a dropped connection never stops the line
  • Name-tag and matching child security tags with configurable label layouts
  • Guardian matching, secure pickup codes, and pickup verification for kids
  • Medical, allergy, and special-needs flags shown clearly to volunteers at the point of check-in
  • First-time guest capture that feeds the follow-up workflow automatically
  • True active and inactive status based on real attendance patterns, not a manual flag

Serving & volunteer scheduling

Fill the roster without the weekly guilt-trip text thread.

  • Teams and positions with required qualifications, training, and background clearances
  • Rotations and per-person frequency rules like every other week or first Sunday
  • Availability and blockout dates the scheduler respects automatically
  • An auto-scheduler that fills slots by availability, qualifications, and rotation, with manual override
  • Self-signup, shift swaps, and confirmations by email, text, and push
  • Clearance and certification tracking with expiry alerts, so a lapsed check blocks scheduling
  • A burnout view that surfaces who is over-serving and who has never served

Worship & service planning

Bring planning in-house instead of bolting on another tool.

  • A service order and run sheet builder with timing for every element
  • A song library with CCLI details, keys, arrangements, charts, lyrics, and audio
  • Team scheduling for band, tech, and hosts, reusing the same serving engine
  • Rehearsal resources and practice tracks for the scheduled team
  • Multi-service and multi-venue plans with shared and unique elements
  • Volunteer confirmations and replacements tied directly to the plan

Generosity

Giving & generosity

Generous by design for givers, and honest and clear for your finance team.

  • Online giving, text-to-give, and QR-to-give, one-time or recurring, with saved methods
  • Multiple funds and designated giving with goals, plus campaigns and pledges with progress
  • Manual batch entry for cash, check, and in-kind gifts with deposit reconciliation
  • Year-end and on-demand contribution statements, IRS-compliant, emailed or printable
  • A recurring-gift engine givers control themselves: pause, update, and recover failed payments
  • Generosity analytics with first-gift tracking and lapsed-donor detection, behind a privacy wall
  • Pluggable payment processing and a fee-coverage option for givers, so you are never locked in

All week long

Events, registrations & facilities

From a Tuesday class to a week-long camp, and the rooms to hold them.

  • A unified church calendar with public and internal views and campus and ministry filters
  • Free and paid registration with capacity, waitlists, and per-option limits
  • Multi-option and group registration, discount codes, early-bird pricing, and scholarships
  • Payment plans and deposits for camps, retreats, and mission trips
  • Automated confirmations, reminders, what-to-bring notes, and post-event surveys
  • Embeddable registration widgets for your church website, with QR check-in at the door
  • Room, equipment, and vehicle booking with conflict detection and approval routing

Communication & forms

Reach the right people on the right channel, and never the opted-out ones.

  • Bulk, templated, personalized email with merge fields and a visual editor
  • Two-way text messaging with keyword auto-replies, plus push and in-app messaging
  • A preference center per person with channel opt-ins, topics, and enforced opt-out compliance
  • Send to any saved search or group, schedule sends, and A/B test subject lines
  • Delivery, open, click, and reply tracking, logged to each person's timeline
  • Quiet hours and rate limits so no one gets over-messaged
  • A drag-and-drop form builder with conditional logic, payments, signatures, and file upload
  • Connection cards that create or update a person and start follow-up the moment they submit

Workflows & automation

Church Community Builder's process queues, reborn as something people use.

  • Visual, drag-and-drop pipelines for any process: guest follow-up, membership, baptism, care
  • Triggers that fire on a stage change, a form submit, a first gift, a missed few weeks, or a milestone
  • Actions that assign a task, send a message, add a tag, notify a staffer, or move a card
  • Tasks with owners, due dates, reminders, and escalation when something goes overdue
  • Reusable blueprints, so a best-practice guest-follow-up flow loads in one click
  • SLA and bottleneck reporting that shows leaders exactly where people stall
  • A per-staff 'my follow-ups' view, so nothing ever sits unowned

Community

Discipleship & engagement

See each person's next step, and notice quietly when someone drifts.

  • Milestones for salvation, baptism, membership, first serve, first group, and mission trips
  • Discipleship pathways that visualize where each person is and what comes next
  • An engagement score that blends attendance, giving, serving, and groups into one explainable signal
  • At-risk detection for declining attendance, lapsed giving, or a dropped group, feeding care workflows
  • Spiritual-gifts and assessment results stored on the profile and usable for placement

Insight

Reporting, dashboards & analytics

The other big complaint, fixed: anyone can get an answer.

  • Role-based dashboards with drag-and-drop KPI widgets for the metrics each leader cares about
  • A visual report builder: pick a population, columns, filters, and grouping with no query language
  • Natural-language querying, like 'first-time guests from last month who have not joined a group'
  • A library of pre-built reports for the questions ministries ask every week
  • Saved searches that double as report sources, message audiences, and automation triggers
  • Trend and comparison views, scheduled reports by email, and board-ready summaries on demand
  • Export to CSV, Excel, and PDF, plus a live connector for external BI tools

Reach

Member app & self-service

A first-class app for your people, not a stripped-down directory.

  • A custom-branded native iOS and Android app, plus a responsive web portal
  • A privacy-controlled directory where each person sets their own sharing preferences
  • Personal giving: give, manage recurring gifts, view history, and download statements
  • Groups to find and join, events to register and pay for, and check-in from the phone
  • Serving schedule with accept, decline, and sub requests, plus availability
  • Messaging, push notifications, profile and household self-management, and an optional content hub

Multi-site & multi-campus

One organization, many campuses, without the spreadsheet gymnastics.

  • Campus as a first-class dimension on people, groups, events, giving, and serving
  • Campus-scoped permissions plus org-wide roll-ups for central staff
  • Shared forms, templates, and pipelines with campus-level overrides
  • Cross-campus reporting and comparison, with per-campus branding, calendars, and funds

Foundation

Administration, roles & security

Trust is the foundation, especially around kids, giving, and care notes.

  • Granular role-based access down to the action, field, record, and campus level
  • Custom roles and permission templates, configured without developer help
  • Sensitive data, like giving amounts, private notes, and child medical flags, gated and logged on view
  • A full audit log of who changed, viewed, or exported what, and when
  • Single sign-on and enforced MFA for staff, with scoped, revocable API tokens
  • A sandbox to safely test configuration, and church-controlled export and backups

Integrations & developer platform

Open by default, so your church is never boxed in.

  • A documented REST API and real-time webhooks for everything above
  • Pluggable payment processors, including Stripe and church-focused options
  • Accounting sync for contributions and deposits, like QuickBooks
  • Email, marketing, and calendar sync, plus background-check provider integrations
  • Worship and presentation tool links for churches keeping an external setup
  • A Zapier and Make connector for the long tail of everything else

Intelligence layer

Quiet help that does the noticing, so your team can do the caring.

  • Natural-language reporting and search across every module
  • Smart follow-up suggestions, like a drafted message to the twelve guests who went cold
  • At-risk and re-engagement detection with a recommended next action
  • Duplicate detection and merge suggestions before mess piles up
  • Auto-summarized care notes for a pastor before a visit or call
  • Draft help for emails, event descriptions, and announcements, written in your church's voice
  • Anomaly alerts for a giving dip, an attendance drop, or a serving gap, sent to the right leader

Onboarding, migration & support

Getting started is a product we built, not a ticket you file.

  • Guided self-serve onboarding with a setup checklist and progress tracking
  • One-click CCB import with field mapping, preview, and rollback
  • Data-quality cleanup after import: dedupe, normalize, and fill the gaps
  • In-app contextual help, interactive tours, and a searchable knowledge base
  • A sandbox to train your team before go-live
  • Tiered support with clear response targets and in-app chat, plus a migration concierge for larger churches

See it on your church

The best way to feel it is to try it

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