Product roadmap

Help shape Vestry

Vote for the features you'd most like to see β€” and suggest your own.

Each card shows a rough size β€” Quick win, Medium or Larger β€” so you can see how quickly it could land. Votes help us prioritise; quick wins can jump the queue.

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Ideas20
Communications
WhatsApp messaging

Broadcast on WhatsApp alongside email and SMS.

Medium
Giving & finance
Bank reconciliation import

Import a bank statement and match to gifts.

Medium
Scheduling & worship
Live service screen

A simple screen the AV team follows live.

Medium
Web presence
Sermon podcast & media player

Public archive with audio/video and a feed.

Medium
Embeddable widgets

'Next services' / 'give' widgets for any website.

Medium
A Church Near You / map sync

Push service times to external directories.

Medium
Multi-language public pages

Public pages in more than one language.

Larger
Livestream embed

Embed YouTube/Facebook/Owncast live on What's On.

Medium
Mobile
QR adult check-in

Record attendance with a quick QR scan.

Quick win
Automation & AI
AI-assisted notices & newsletters

Draft the week's notices with a click.

Medium
Sermon transcription & summaries

Upload audio β†’ transcript + notes.

Larger
Natural-language ask

'Who's free for sound on Sunday?'.

Larger
Auto-categorise giving

Smart matching and categorisation of gifts.

Medium
Integrations
Two-way calendar sync

Sync events with Google/Outlook.

Larger
Zapier / webhooks

Let churches connect their own tools.

Medium
ChurchSuite / iKnow import

Migration tooling for churches switching over.

Medium
Mailchimp / sending options

Alternative email-sending providers.

Quick win
Platform
Owncast livestream provisioning

Per-church self-hosted streaming.

Larger
Verified off-site backups

Off-site copies with a tested restore.

Quick win
Suggested
Mag functionality

(no detail given)

Quick win
Planned1
Admin
Key holders list

A register of who holds keys β€” to buildings, the base or the donkey β€” with issue and return dates, so nothing goes missing.

In progress6
Platform
Self-serve subscriptions & billing

Churches subscribe and manage modules themselves.

Medium
Error & uptime monitoring

Automatic alerts plus a public status page.

Quick win
Suggested
Personalisable Checklists on a booking

Booking form sent, Invoiced, Paid,

regular hires one than one space

eg Messy church hires church, hall , filed and cabin

Quick win
Notes section on bookings

To note changes/specifics to that booking

Colour Coded booking Types

E.g Church Bookings and Private bookings different colours in the calender

Shipped70
People & pastoral
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Custom fields & tags on contacts

Your own fields, tags and saved segments.

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Contact timeline

One view: groups, rotas, giving, attendance and notes.

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Pastoral care plans & reminders

Recurring visits and follow-up reminders.

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Duplicate detection & merge

Find and merge duplicate contacts after imports.

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Family & relationships

Link spouses and children beyond a shared address.

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Bulk contact actions

Select people β†’ add to group, tag, message or export.

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Contacts CSV export

Export your directory to CSV (symmetric with import).

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Opt-in member directory

Members see each other, with full consent controls.

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Member self-service portal

Members see rota, details, groups and giving.

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Multiple login emails

Sign in with any of your emails β€” same account.

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Birthdays & anniversaries

Dates on contacts + this-month dashboard card.

Communications
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Scheduled & recurring newsletters

Write a newsletter now to send later, or on a weekly/fortnightly/monthly repeat.

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Email templates & branded layouts

Saved templates with your header/footer.

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Open & click tracking

See who opened the newsletter and what they clicked.

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Two-way SMS replies

Replies land in an inbox you can act on.

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Automated 'we missed you'

Nudge when a regular attender's attendance lapses.

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Automated visitor welcome

Welcome email + team follow-up nudges.

Giving & finance
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Pledges & stewardship campaigns

Record stewardship pledges and track pledged vs received against each fund's target.

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QR / text-to-give

A QR code (per fund too) takes people straight to your giving page.

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Gift Aid claim submission

Batch Gift-Aided gifts into a claim, download the HMRC Charities Online schedule, and track what's been claimed.

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Expense approvals & receipts

Submit an expense with a receipt photo; the treasurer approves or rejects, and only approved spend counts.

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Year-end finance pack

One-click annual report for the PCC/APCM.

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Online giving, Gift Aid & statements

Card giving, funds, HMRC export, donor statements.

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Pay invoices online

Hirers pay invoices/deposits by card via the church's own Stripe; auto-marked paid.

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Invoice work-list

Search and filter quotes & invoices, click a stat card for outstanding/overdue/paid views, and mark paid or email the hirer straight from the list.

Scheduling & worship
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Volunteer self-service rota

Members sign up for open rota slots and drop ones they can't make, from their portal.

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Rota clash checks

Warns if you put someone on two roles in the same service.

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Recurring rota templates

Generate a quarter's rotas from a pattern.

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Staff bookings calendar

Visual room-by-week grid for the office so clashes and free slots are obvious at a glance.

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Public room-booking calendar

Public page shows room availability and takes hire requests online; editable rooms, people & assets.

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Service plan β†’ projection export

Export the order of service for projection software.

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Liturgy & resource library

Reusable liturgies, prayers and talk outlines.

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Rotas with gap-spotting

Build rotas, spot gaps, email duties.

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Bookings, lettings & invoicing

Clash detection, hirer CRM, room rate cards, itemised quotes & invoices with VAT, quote→invoice conversion, hirer statements, print/PDF and email.

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Standing / recurring hire

Regular lettings auto-generate confirmed bookings about six months ahead, rolling forward nightly; hirer changes apply to future dates automatically.

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One joined-up diary

Lettings show on the church calendar and services/events show on the room-by-week grid, so clashes are visible from both sides.

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Key holders, checklists & colours

A key-holder contact list linked to your directory, your own booking checklist ticked off per booking, custom event types and per-booking calendar colours, notes on bookings and events.

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Service planner & CCLI

Order of service; song usage logged for CCLI.

Children & safeguarding
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Printable check-in labels

Child name tag + matching parent pickup tag.

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Tablet kiosk check-in

Full-screen self check-in for a foyer tablet.

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Safeguarding incident log

Structured forms with sign-off and retention.

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DBS & training expiry dashboard

One screen of expired, expiring, in-progress DBS and outstanding training.

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Separate DBS & safeguarding access

DBS/training and confidential casework split into separate areas with their own permissions; DBS number + Update Service flag.

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Parental consent & medical forms

Collect per child, surfaced at check-in.

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Safeguarding, DBS & children check-in

DBS tracking, casework, training, secure check-in.

Web presence
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Editable public website

Build your whole public site in Vestry β€” editable pages and sections, images, nested menus, SEO and design controls, verse of the day.

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Printable week views

Print the week's calendar and rotas for the noticeboard.

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Per-church branding

Your logo, colours, hero image, favicon, welcome text and contact/social links across your public pages.

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Your brand everywhere

Accent colour plus your logo and colours carried through every email, invoice, giving statement and the member portal.

Mobile
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Installable mobile app (PWA)

Add to home screen, with push notifications.

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Richer member app

My rota, give, groups, notices, directory.

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Mobile-friendly dashboard

Collapsible menu and scrollable tables on phones.

Reporting
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Dashboards & trends

12-month attendance, giving and contact-growth charts with a printable/PDF report.

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Statistics for Mission helper

Pre-fill the C of E annual return.

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Per-group & ministry reports

Connectedness overview plus per-group size and contactable rates.

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Saved segments & list builder

'Members in a group who gave last year', etc.

Automation & AI
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Smart weekly digest for the vicar

Weekly email to leaders: new contacts, giving, upcoming events, pending bookings, overdue invoices, rota gaps, DBS due.

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Automatic overdue reminders

Overdue invoices chased by email on a schedule, throttled so hirers aren't spammed.

Integrations
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Accounting export (Xero/QuickBooks)

Send giving and expenses to your accounts.

Platform
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Self-serve church sign-up

Churches sign up themselves at /start β€” email-verified, instant free subdomain, no manual provisioning.

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Guided setup & data-entry walkthrough

In-app step-by-step setup guide showing the best order to enter data, with live progress.

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Superadmin analytics

Usage across all churches, MRR, active modules.

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Audit log

Who changed what β€” useful for finance/safeguarding.

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CSV import (contacts, giving, events)

Bring existing records in from a spreadsheet via an import hub.

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Global search

Find a contact, event, booking or group anywhere.

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What's new pop-up

See what's changed since you last logged in, with a What's-new bell to reopen any time.

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Site-wide visual refresh

One clean, consistent look across every page of the app and public site.

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Public live demo

A real, working demo church anyone can explore.

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Public roadmap & voting

This very board β€” vote and suggest features.

Giving & finance
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Recurring online giving

Donors set up weekly or monthly card gifts; each payment is recorded automatically and they can cancel any time.

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