Fold for small churches
Church software for small churches in Ghana
Most churches in Ghana are small. A society of eighty, a branch of forty, an outstation of twenty five. The book works until the secretary travels, the treasurer changes, or the circuit asks for something the book cannot add up quickly.
The job as it is
Small churches have been sold either nothing or enterprise software with a demo call. Fold's smallest plan is built for a church of a hundred and costs less than the airtime a church spends on announcements.
Everything depends on one person
The register, the tithe book and the count sheet are with whoever volunteered. When they travel, nothing can be checked. When they leave, it starts again.
Mobile money arrives with no name
A GHS 20 tithe lands in the pastor's wallet with a number, and somebody has to remember whose it was.
The return still has to be filed
A church of sixty files the same return as a church of six hundred, from a smaller book with the same evening of counting.
What changes with Fold
Set up in an afternoon, from a phone
Create the church, add members from a list or one at a time, record Sunday's service. No laptop, no installation, no training day.
See howMobile money giving with the member's name on it
Members pay from any wallet, the gift is recorded against them, and the money settles to the church's own number. A GHS 20 tithe arrives as GHS 19.61.
See howThe return as a print
Membership, attendance, vital records and income by type, for the quarter, as a PDF. The evening of counting becomes a click.
See howGHS 149 a month, up to 100 members
Every feature on the plan, unlimited team members, thirty days free with no card, and cancel by stopping.
See how
Questions small churches ask
- Is church software worth it for a church of fifty?
- If the register lives with one person, the return takes an evening, or mobile money arrives without names, yes. At GHS 149 a month for up to 100 members it costs about what a church spends on announcement airtime, and a paper register can be moved across in an afternoon.
- Do we need a computer?
- No. Fold works in a phone's browser and installs to the home screen. Most small churches run it entirely from the pastor's and secretary's phones.
- What if we grow past 100 members?
- The next plan starts at 101 members. You move up when you get there, and nothing about your records changes.
Words on this page, defined: congregation, church register, mobile money giving, statistical return.
Fold for other people in the church
Built for small churches, not adapted for them
Thirty days free with your own register, no card, and your records leave as easily as they arrive.