Member Management
One register for your whole church, searchable from a phone, in your denomination's own words.
In the app: Members
The register is the thing everything else hangs on, and in most churches it is a book, a spreadsheet and somebody's memory. Fold keeps one, and it keeps it in the vocabulary your denomination already uses.
What it does
- Hold every member with their contact details, date of birth, class or group, and status.
- Bring in the register you already keep from Excel or Google Sheets, reading your column headings rather than making you rename them.
- Take it away again as a spreadsheet whenever you like.
- Record visitors, and follow them up.
- Transfer a member to another church, with the receiving church accepting them.
- Keep vital records: baptisms, confirmations, marriages and funerals.
- Surface this week's birthdays on the dashboard, and text a blessing in the church's name.
What is different about ours
Your denomination's words, not a fixed list
Society, circuit, class, assembly, catechumen. Member types are the ones your church uses. Six denominational structures are modelled and checked against each church's own published material: Methodist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Anglican, AME Zion and Baptist.
No other church can read yours
Each church's records are separated at the database level. A request that went around the application entirely would still be refused. We test that by attacking our own system rather than by asserting it.
Every change is recorded
Who added a member, who changed a status, who removed a record, and when. The log is written by the database rather than the app, and nobody can edit or delete an entry, including the pastor reading it.
Questions churches ask
- Can we import our existing member list?
- Yes, from Excel or Google Sheets. Fold reads your column headings rather than making you rename them, and tells you about any row it could not use.
- Can we get our data back out?
- Yes, as a spreadsheet, whenever you like, without asking us.
- Does it understand Bible classes and societies?
- Yes. Fold is built around how Ghanaian denominations are actually organised rather than around a single independent congregation.
Further reading
See it with your own register
Thirty days free, no card, and nothing to cancel. Bring the register you already keep and we will help you move it across.