People and congregation
Maintain people, families, contact details, directory privacy, attendance, and Groups.
Public beta - Version 0.3.0-beta.4
Church administration built for small congregations.
Local-first church administration for Windows. ChurchManager brings people records, worship planning, attendance, reporting, and fund accounting together in one congregation-controlled application.
MariaDB Server is required.
ChurchManager cannot be installed or run without MariaDB Server for Windows, including its command-line client and backup tools. MariaDB is installed separately.
Download MariaDB Server from the MariaDB FoundationChoose a clean installation or a fictional-data beta test kit below.
Windows desktopFamiliar local application
Open sourceSource available for review
Local dataStored under church control
Small-church focusPractical, not oversized
One practical system
The work a congregation actually needs to do
ChurchManager connects day-to-day ministry and administration while keeping sensitive areas appropriately separated.
Worship planning
Prepare services, Orders of Service, readings, hymns, participants, checklists, prayers, and announcements.
Attendance
Record members, Communion, and visitors, then use follow-up and historical attendance reports.
Fund accounting
Enter and post transactions, reconcile banks, manage budgets, close periods, and produce clear reports.
Flexible reports
Use maintained starter reports or make congregation-specific layouts with the visual designer.
Member giving
Maintain envelopes, reviewed contribution batches, statements, imports, corrections, and confidential donor history.
Groups and pastoral care
Track Group membership and attendance, assigned follow-ups, care history, and tightly protected restricted notes.
Church office
Catalog documents, preserve the non-financial journal, manage assets, and organize projects with due work.
Events and calendars
Maintain public-safe events and publish reviewed worship, Group, event, and project dates to external calendars.
Security and recovery
Use named users, roles, audit history, support diagnostics, protected backup and restore, and optional pastoral-note encryption.
Upcoming updates
Next in the ChurchManager roadmap
Current work concentrates on release quality rather than adding another large subsystem.
Beta hardening
Broader real-world testing, consistent menus and screens, clean test fixtures, maintained reports, and support diagnostics.
Release documentation
Installation acceptance, complete user guidance, verified backups and recovery, and a reviewed Windows release package.
See ChurchManager
Clear screens, organized around the work
These screens use the fictional ChurchDBTest congregation and demonstrate the current public beta.
Public beta
Ready for careful, real-world testing
ChurchManager is in beta. It should be tested with backups and fictional or safely isolated data before a congregation depends on it for daily work.
Recommended for testers
Beta test with fictional data
Includes the Windows installer, a guarded fictional-data loader, a test launcher, and short testing instructions. The loader works only with the ChurchDBTest test database.
Download beta test kitNew congregation
Clean installation
Includes the same verified Windows installer without fictional beta data. Use this when you want to create a new, empty ChurchManager database.
Download clean installationRequired first: install MariaDB Server for Windows with its command-line client and backup tools before installing or running ChurchManager. Download MariaDB Server from the MariaDB Foundation.
Beta notice: keep verified backups and use fictional or safely isolated data while evaluating this release. The installer bundles JSForm 0.1.0-beta.6.
Support ChurchManager
Free to use, with no required support fee
ChurchManager is intended especially for small congregations with very limited budgets. Donations are never required.
Congregations that find ChurchManager useful and wish to support its continued development may consider a voluntary one-time donation of $50 - or any amount that fits their budget.
Make an optional donation
This link opens PayPal, an independent third-party service.
Your records remain yours
A website about ChurchManager - not a home for church data
This public site has no login, congregation database, tracking, or advertising. ChurchManager itself is a desktop application, and the congregation remains responsible for its installation, backups, user access, and data.
ChurchManager supports worship planning with citations, metadata, and outlines. It is not a library of copyrighted hymn lyrics, music, liturgical wording, or Scripture text.