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Walk through the Launchpad to connect your Google profile, social accounts, and payment gateways so your church is ready to reach its community.
Track giving trends, active discipleship pipelines, and communication metrics in one view.
Learn how to reach our team — by email, SMS, or Google Meet — based on your partnership level.
A simple, day-by-day plan to get your church up and running during your first seven days.
Book a Priority Support session to get fast, one-on-one help from our team when you need it most.
Book personalized training sessions to help your team get the most out of 4 Church.
Use AI Studio to launch a beautiful, mobile-responsive church website in minutes — no design experience needed.
Build landing pages and funnels that move a visitor from curious to connected — like a guest follow-up journey.
Publish devotions, pastor's notes, and church news directly on your website with a built-in blog.
Build digital connect cards, volunteer sign-ups, member surveys, and event registrations that feed straight into your contacts.
Add a live chat to your website so visitors can ask questions and get answers instantly.
Connect your own domain (like mychurch.com) with automatic SSL so your site is secure and branded.
Edit page titles, meta descriptions, and sitemaps so your church shows up when people search your area.
Automatically display Bible verses on hover using the Logos Bible Software integration.
Translate your entire website into your preferred language instantly.
Organize your people with Smart Lists that filter members by tags like 'Guest' or 'Small Group Leader'.
Use visual drag-and-drop boards to track discipleship pathways and guest follow-ups.
Tag your people and track the details that matter to your ministry — baptism dates, membership class, and more.
Bring your existing church roster in from a spreadsheet and export your data anytime.
Keep pastoral notes, assign follow-up tasks, and see a full history of every interaction with each person.
Automatically detect and merge duplicate contacts so your database stays clean.
Chat with groups, go live, assign trainings, and share announcements in a private space.
Centralize SMS, email, social DMs, and webchat so you never miss a prayer request.
Save reusable email templates and send a personalized message to a whole Smart List at once.
Text your whole congregation or a specific group in seconds with saved message templates.
Automatically text back anyone who calls your church line when you can't pick up.
Leave a pre-recorded voicemail for a group of people without ringing their phone each time.
Add events to your Google Calendar and your website updates automatically — styled with your colors and fonts.
Let members and visitors book a meeting with a pastor or counselor directly from a link.
Set up repeating services, small groups, and classes that show up every week automatically.
Take registrations and sell tickets for VBS, conferences, and special events with built-in payments.
Manage recurring tithes, event tickets, and digital signatures for waivers in one place.
Seamlessly manage your Cooperative Program giving to the SBC directly inside 4 Church.
Send a giving link by text or generate a QR code so people can give in one tap.
Send invoices and estimates for facility rentals, bookstores, and ministry services.
Set up recurring charges for memberships, tuition, and payment plans with automatic billing.
Upload your sermon to YouTube and your website automatically updates with a searchable, Netflix-style library.
A central hub for your sermon graphics, church logos, and event photos.
Train a bot on your church's FAQ to instantly answer questions from visitors, day or night.
Schedule social media posts and build beautiful HTML email newsletters in one place.
Generate, schedule, and post content while managing comments and messages across all your networks.
Manage Meta and Google ad spend inside 4 Church, automatically adding contacts to your database.
Send a series of automated emails — like a new believer journey or a new member onboarding path.
Keep your church's name, address, and hours consistent across Google and online directories.
Order high-quality print materials — from invite cards to banners — right inside 4 Church.
Build visual workflows — like 'Guest connects → send welcome text → assign pastor.'
Share a special link that automatically tags a contact and starts a workflow when they click it.
Add if/then logic so each person gets a different path based on their tags, behavior, or answers.
See every review your church has across Google and Facebook in one place.
Automatically ask happy members and guests to leave a review after a great experience.
Reply to every review — positive or negative — with a thoughtful, on-brand response.
Build lessons and courses for volunteer training, membership classes, and discipleship.
Offer paid access to courses, content libraries, or membership programs with recurring billing.
Release lessons over time and award certificates when a course is complete.
Get a local church number with unlimited texting, connected to your 4 Church app, VOIP phone, or computer.
See who called, how long you talked, and record calls for training and follow-up.
Route callers with a simple menu — 'press 1 for the office, 2 for pastoral care.'
Your whole church database in the palm of your hands — for you and your members.
Configure custom fields, staff permissions, and your custom domain.
Give your staff and volunteers the right level of access — and keep sensitive data protected.
Invite staff and volunteers to your account, set their role, and manage who has access.
Manage multiple church locations or an entire association from one dashboard, each with its own branding.
Connect seamlessly with the other software and tools your ministry relies on.
Connect 4 Church to custom apps and external systems with our developer API and webhooks.
See every integration available inside 4 Church and learn how to connect the tools your ministry already uses.
Sync your people, giving, and check-ins from Planning Center into 4 Church so everything stays in one place.
Push giving and invoice data to QuickBooks so your bookkeeper always has what they need.
Connect Stripe to process online giving, event payments, and store purchases securely.
Twilio powers your texting — connect it to send and receive SMS to your congregation.
Set up transactional and marketing email delivery so your messages reach the inbox.
Two-way sync your church calendar with Google Calendar so events stay in step everywhere.
Import and sync your Google Contacts so your people list stays current.
Sync calendar and contacts from Outlook or Microsoft 365 for your staff.
Connect your social accounts to schedule posts, reply to messages, and manage reviews in one place.
Manage your Google listing, reviews, and business info so newcomers can find you.
Connect YouTube to publish sermons and auto-import your video library.
Connect Zoom to create meeting links for events, small groups, and online gatherings.
Connect 4 Church to thousands of apps through Zapier — no coding required.
Get church notifications — new contacts, giving, reviews — delivered to your team's Slack.
Send real-time data to external systems whenever an event happens in 4 Church.
Use the 4 Church API to build custom connections and pull or push data programmatically.
Connect your own domain (like mychurch.com) to your 4 Church website and email.
Connect a VOIP desk phone or softphone to answer your church number from anywhere.
Understand how your partnership is billed, where to find invoices, and how to update your payment method.
Grab a PDF invoice or receipt for your finance team or year-end reporting.
Move up to a higher partnership level or add services as your ministry grows.
How cancellation works, the 30-day notice, and what to expect when you offboard.
How to think about partnership payments for your church's accounting.
Track giving, communication, and engagement trends across your whole church over time.
See exactly which campaign, ad, or form brought each new person through your doors.
The support channels available to you depend on your partnership level. Not sure which one you're on? Check your account under Settings & Billing.
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