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All-in-One Church Management System for Smaller Churches

2•rcullins•2h ago
I have an idea for a lean software-as-a-service offering for smaller Christian churches, packaged as a whole and priced based on church size. The app would be exclusively web-based, and pretty opinionated, geared toward quick setup and intelligent defaults, to help churches with few staff/volunteers manage things simply, without the complexity of a larger system like Planning Center.

At least initially, the system would include:

- Church website publishing - Sermon library - Event management - Service/Liturgy organization - Hymn/Song management

The idea would be to keep things simple and small wherever possible (team and scope), so that the price point could be low enough for small ministries.

Do you think there's a need for something like this, or is the market already too crowded?

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leakycap•2h ago
> pretty opinionated, geared toward quick setup and intelligent defaults

This doesn't sound like it would fit the reality of the needs of small churches

> Do you think there's a need for something like this, or is the market already too crowded?

It sounds uninspiring, do you have a passion to market your services to churches after you've built it?

This kind of sounds like a nightmare to build out for what I'd expect would be very small license fees. It can't fail so it has to be reliable and fast even though many of your services will only be used 2-3 times a week all at the same time, you'll be working weekends & late Wednesday nights forever, and you'll learn that many churches are using a Microsoft Works template from 1998 to print things on a LaserJet from 2002 - tough customers to claim as your own.

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