Deacon is a flat-price church management tool paired with a done-for-you church website — everything included, no per-module upsells, and your bill never goes up as you grow. We handle the practical business so your church can get on with ministry.
Small churches ran on a clean, flat, $79-a-month tool for years. In late 2025 it was folded into a bigger bundle, the price jumped, and the interface got harder to use. If your renewal notice made you wince, you're exactly who Deacon is for.
All-access pricing climbed roughly 50% in a forced migration — and it keeps climbing as you grow.
A tool a volunteer used to run in minutes now takes clicks, tabs, and a support ticket.
Processing fees on top of the subscription mean a slice of the offering never reaches the church.
Most churches will happily pay for a fresh website. So we lead with that, then the management tool rides in behind it — powered by the same system, so your site and your office finally speak the same language.
We build you a warm, modern, mobile-friendly site from our church templates — in about one meeting and an hour, not a six-week agency project. Sermons, events, giving, and announcements are all built in and easy to keep fresh.
People & households, giving with year-end statements, groups, events, and bulk email — everything a small church actually does, in one clean tool a volunteer can run. One login, one predictable bill.
Because your website's giving, events, and sermons are powered by Deacon, the site becomes a living front door to the same records your office keeps — no double entry, no exports between five different apps.
Giving runs on your own payment account — the money goes straight from your donor to your church and never touches us. We make our living on one honest subscription, not on your congregation's generosity.
You connect your church's own Stripe account. Donations flow donor → church directly. We're never in the middle and never hold your funds.
You pay the payment processor's rate and nothing more from us. We'll even help you apply for the reduced nonprofit rate (~2.2% + 30¢).
An optional "cover the fees" toggle means most gifts reach your church at close to full value — the way giving should work.
No per-module maze, no "that's on the higher plan." The essentials a church runs on every week are all in the one price.
A clean member and family directory with custom fields, tags, and notes — the heart of everything else.
Online, recurring, and cash/check giving recorded in one place, ready for accurate year-end tax statements.
Small groups, teams, and rosters with leaders — organize your people the way your church actually gathers.
A calendar your website shows automatically, with sign-ups for the gatherings that need them.
Segment by group or tag and send email that actually looks good and lands in the inbox.
Not just history — lapsed givers, first-time gifts, and who's slipped away, so you can follow up this week.
We bring your people and your historical giving over, so your statements stay whole when you switch mid-year.
A genuinely modern, responsive tool a volunteer can run from the pew or the office — no clunky app to install.
Sermons, events, and giving on your public site stay in sync with your office — because it's the same system.
No fund accounting — on purpose. We do giving perfectly and hand your bookkeeper clean data.
Pick just the website, just the tool, or bundle both and save. Whatever you start with, your price is locked — new list prices never touch existing churches.
No free tier — instead a full 60-day trial and free white-glove migration, so you can move your whole church over before you pay a cent. An existing church's price is locked for good: if we ever raise list prices, everyone already with us is grandfathered.
You don't need to be technical, and you won't be handed a manual. Here's the whole thing.
We look at your current setup, your website, and what your church actually needs. Twenty minutes, no pressure.
We stand up your website and move your people and giving history over for you — nothing lost, nothing you have to re-enter.
Your new site is up, your office runs on one clean tool, and your donors give through your own account. We're a message away.
The scary part of switching is your data — years of members and giving. We bring all of it, including historical contributions, so your year-end statements stay complete.
The calmest time to move is before year-end. Start the conversation now and you'll be settled well before statement season.
Plan your switchCorrect. Giving runs on your church's own payment account, so donations go straight from your donor to you and never touch us. You pay the processor's at-cost rate and nothing more — we'll even help you apply for the reduced nonprofit rate. We make our money on the flat subscription, full stop.
Yes — a full 60-day trial with everything unlocked, plus free white-glove migration. You can move your entire church over and try it in real life before you pay anything. We don't do a permanent "free" tier because the honest thing is a fair flat price, not a free plan that quietly skims your donations.
We bring it with you — people, households, and historical giving included. That last part matters: if you switch mid-year, your year-end statements still cover the whole year. Migration is free and we do it for you.
No. The price is flat and does not rise with your member count. And if we ever change list prices for new churches, everyone already with us is grandfathered at their original price — permanently. No forced-migration price hikes, ever.
No. Deacon is built for a part-time administrator, a volunteer, or a pastor's spouse — the person who actually keeps the church running. If it needed a training manual, we'd have built it wrong. And the website is done-for-you, so there's no builder for you to learn.
You export your data and go, easily, any time. No contracts, no lock-in. Confident tools let you leave — and we'd rather earn your stay every month than trap you.
On purpose, no. We record giving flawlessly and hand your bookkeeper clean CSV / QuickBooks exports. Bolting on mediocre accounting is how other tools get bloated and error-prone — we'd rather do the giving side perfectly.
Book a short call and we'll show you your new website and walk through switching — no pressure, no jargon, no salesmanship.