Parochia brings together everything your pastoral team needs — parishioners, masses, donations, volunteers, communications. Designed for parishes, not for IT specialists.
Excel for parishioners, email for registrations, donation platforms for offerings, Mailchimp for newsletters… Your team wastes precious time on tasks that should be simple.
Modular features you can enable as needed, with vocabulary that fits parish life.
Publish your masses, celebrations, and activities. Manage registrations, capacity, waitlists. Automatic reminders sent to attendees.
Events ModuleComplete directory of your parishioners, groups, families. Roles, statuses, history. Optional photo directory to put faces to names.
Parishioners ModuleCollect church offerings, free donations, and dues online. Automatic tax receipts. Accounting export ready for your diocese.
Finance ModulePublish your parish announcements and weekly bulletin. Send by email to subscribers with one click. Archive searchable forever.
Communication ModuleSchedule lectors, altar servers, choir members, welcome teams. Time slots, confirmations, reminders. See who's available at a glance.
Volunteer ModuleA parish showcase with schedules, events, map, and contact form. No technical skills required. Updates automatically from your data.
Public SiteTrack RCIA, First Communion, Confirmation cohorts. Session attendance, requirements, milestones. Parents can check progress online.
Formation ModuleDiocesan statistics ready in one click. Mass attendance trends, sacrament counts, financial summaries. No more manual compilation.
Reports ModuleFrom the pastor to the newest volunteer, Parochia fits how each person actually works.
"I need the big picture without digging through spreadsheets"
Dashboard shows parish health at a glance — attendance, finances, upcoming events
"I'm drowning in emails, forms, and phone calls"
One inbox for registrations, automated responses, self-service for parishioners
"Tax receipts take our entire January"
Automatic receipts, clean exports, audit-ready records year-round
"I can't track 40 kids' progress in a notebook"
Digital attendance, milestone tracking, parent communication built in
Your parishioners register online, from their phone. You see in real time who's coming, how many spots remain, and who's on the waitlist.
"We used to spend every Friday calling parishioners to confirm Sunday attendance. Now they register themselves and we can focus on preparing the liturgy."
Collect donations by credit card. Parochia automatically generates compliant tax receipts and exports your data for your diocesan accountant.
"January used to mean two weekends of our finance council locked in the office with spreadsheets. This year, we clicked one button and receipts were in donors' inboxes by January 3rd."
A living directory of your parishioners, with their roles, participation, and group memberships. Each person is a person, not a line in a spreadsheet.
"For the first time, I can greet parishioners by name even if I only met them once. The photo directory changed how I do pastoral visits."
From Sunday chaos to weekday administration, here's what changes when everything works together.
Father Bernard announces the Christmas Eve Mass schedule. Within 48 hours, the secretary has 87 emails, 34 voicemails, and a stack of paper signup sheets from the back of the church. Some families signed up twice. Others called to change times. One email went to spam.
She creates the 4 Christmas Masses in 5 minutes, sets capacity limits, and shares one link. Parishioners register themselves, get automatic confirmations, and can modify their own reservations.
Zero email chaos. Clear headcount for each Mass. 10 minutes of setup instead of 12 hours of back-and-forth.
It's January 5th. The finance council needs to issue 312 tax receipts. Last year this meant cross-referencing bank statements with the donation log, typing each receipt manually, and mailing them out. Two receipts had errors that required corrections.
Click 'Generate Annual Receipts.' Parochia matches every donation to the correct donor, generates compliant PDFs, and emails them directly. Donors without email get a printable batch.
312 receipts sent by January 6th. 40 hours of volunteer time saved. Zero errors.
A mother calls asking about her son's First Communion status. The catechist's attendance notes are in a spiral notebook somewhere. The DRE thinks he missed two sessions but isn't sure. Nobody knows if the parent meeting requirement was fulfilled.
Pull up the child's profile. See every session attended, requirements completed, and parent signatures — all tracked automatically as the year progressed.
Answer parent questions instantly. No more lost notebooks. Clear progress toward sacraments.
| Task | Before Parochia | With Parochia |
|---|---|---|
| Mass registration | Field calls, texts, emails. Update spreadsheet. Hope you didn't miss anyone. Send manual reminders. | Share link. Parishioners self-register. Automatic confirmations and reminders. Real-time capacity view. |
| Weekly bulletin | Type in Word. Export PDF. Copy to Mailchimp. Fix formatting. Send. Handle bounces. | Write once. Click send. Automatically formatted for email and web. Bounces handled. |
| Tax receipts | Cross-reference bank statements. Type each receipt. Mail or email manually. Pray for no errors. | Click button. All receipts generated and sent. Compliant, accurate, instant. |
| Volunteer scheduling | Phone tree. Text reminders. Hope everyone remembers. Last-minute scramble when someone forgets. | Visual calendar. Volunteers confirm availability. Automatic reminders. Easy swaps. |
| Find a parishioner | Search inbox. Check old spreadsheet. Ask around. Maybe check the paper directory from 2019. | Type name. Instant results with photo, contact info, group memberships, participation history. |
| Diocesan reports | Compile from 5 sources. Count manually. Double-check everything. Submit late anyway. | Click export. Accurate data pulled automatically. Submit on time with confidence. |
We built Parochia because your community's data has no place on Big Tech servers. Pastoral relationships require pastoral-grade privacy.
Your data never passes through Google, Amazon, Microsoft, or Facebook. Independent infrastructure, controlled by us. No data mining, no ads, no third-party access.
Servers located in the European Union, subject to GDPR — the world's most protective legislation for personal data. Your parishioners' information stays protected.
Data encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and at rest on our servers. Your information is protected at every step, from browser to backup.
Full export at any time, in standard formats. If you leave, we delete everything. No lock-in, no traps, no resale. Your parish owns its data.
Full access to all features, no credit card required. You test, you give us feedback, you help shape the product.
We're building for parishes, not Fortune 500 companies. Prices will remain adapted to your means — we promise.
No artificial limits during beta. We count on common sense usage — fair use for real parish needs.
We're a small team building something meaningful. We respond quickly, we fix bugs fast, but we don't promise 99.99% SLA. We promise to care.
Early adopters get remembered. Join now and lock in founder pricing when we launch — plus direct input on features we build next.
Terms may evolve at launch — we'll always notify you in advance.
Can't find what you're looking for? Write to us at hello@communify.site
Most parishes are operational in less than an hour. You create your organization, import your parishioners from a CSV or Excel file, and you can publish your first event immediately. We guide you through every step if needed. Larger parishes with complex needs might take a few hours, but we offer free assisted setup for beta participants.
Parochia accepts imports from Excel, CSV, and Google Sheets for your parishioner lists. For HelloAsso and Mailchimp data, we offer assisted migration on request. We'll help you map your existing data to Parochia's structure and ensure nothing gets lost in the transition. Most migrations complete in under a day.
Yes. The Formation Module lets you create preparation programs with sessions, requirements, and milestones. You track attendance automatically when participants check in to events, and parents can view their child's progress online. The system supports multiple cohorts running simultaneously.
You create a schedule with open slots (e.g., Lector for Sunday 10:30 Mass). Volunteers see available slots and claim them. They receive automatic reminders before their service. If someone needs to swap, they can request a trade through the system. You see the full schedule at a glance and get alerts for unfilled slots.
Yes. Parishioners can log in to update their contact details, manage their family members, adjust communication preferences, and view their donation history. You control what they can edit. This dramatically reduces the administrative burden on your secretary.
Yes. Receipts generated by Parochia are adapted to your country's regulations (France, Belgium, Canada, US, and more). They include all required information — organization details, donation amounts, dates, and official language — and can be presented in case of a tax audit. We update templates whenever regulations change.
Absolutely. Parochia is designed for all Catholic communities: parishes, chaplaincies, movements (CYO, Scouts, Teams of Our Lady…), religious communities, and campus ministries. The vocabulary and features adapt to your context — you can rename 'parishioners' to 'members' and customize group types to match your structure.
All data is hosted in the European Union, with GDPR-compliant providers. Your parish data is never resold or shared with third parties. You remain the owner of your data and can export it at any time in standard formats (CSV, JSON). When you leave, we delete everything permanently.
Your data is yours. You can export everything at any time in standard formats. If we ever shut down (we don't plan to!), we commit to giving at least 90 days notice and ensuring every parish can retrieve their complete data. No lock-in, ever.
The web application is fully responsive and works beautifully on phones and tablets. A dedicated mobile app for iOS and Android is on our roadmap for later this year, with push notifications for volunteers and quick check-in features.
Join the first parishes on Parochia. Full access during beta, assisted migration, and your feedback shapes the product.
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