Release Notes
All the latest features, fixes, and improvements to Churchease, updated monthly.
Ask Claude or ChatGPT about your church, Churchease Mobile 1.0.14, worship planning, texting you can reply to, and emails that get delivered.
Ask your AI assistant who joined this month, what events are coming up or how attendance is trending, and it looks up the answer in Churchease. It can only read, giving is shown as totals and never by donor, every question is listed for you to review, and you can disconnect it anytime. Staff connect from AI Assistants in the sidebar. Included with paid plans.
Keep a song library with keys, CCLI numbers and links, then add songs to each service plan with their own key, order, arrangement and rehearsal note. Staff see setlists and chord charts in the app and can change the key.
Bring your songs in from Planning Center and download a report of how often each song was used.
Member replies arrive in Text Messages on the web and in the app. Start a new chat, see unread replies and get a phone alert when someone answers. Needs texting set up.
When you republish an announcement from the app you can notify everyone again, so changed plans reach every phone.
Preview exactly what members will receive. Larger sends include a proper footer and one-click unsubscribe, and profiles show who has opted out.
Member and group emails now include a plain-text version, and automated emails report delivery and opens instead of staying at Sent.
Repeat an event on a set weekday each month, like the first Friday, or every day except weekends. Deleted occurrences stay deleted.
A chart of attendance for each service with Total, In person and Online views, including manually entered counts.
Download QR codes for your church page and forms to put on the welcome table or bulletin.
Archived members have their own page with search and bulk restore, and mobile numbers that cannot receive texts are flagged.
Accurate giving records, invites you can trust, and safer children's pickup.
Each check-in label prints a unique pickup code. Checkout needs the code or family PIN, overrides need a reason, and admins can review checkout history.
Givers choose weekly, every 2 weeks, monthly or yearly, and can pause, resume, cancel or set an end date from the app. Admins see every recurring gift, and both sides get an email when a payment fails.
A lower fee option for members, shown when your church turns bank transfer on.
Monthly renewals after the first charge were not being recorded, so some year-end statements came up short. Text-to-Give now pays into your church's own account in its own currency.
Issue numbered official receipts that meet CRA rules, with a proper way to cancel and reissue.
Household statements work, voided gifts are left out, the end date is included, and statements can show your charity registration number.
See trends, funds, payment methods, and first-time and lapsed givers at a glance.
Set a capacity. Members see spots left and join a waitlist in the app, and the next person moves up automatically when a spot opens.
Bulk invites work for large congregations, and each person shows whether their invite was delivered, opened or skipped.
Assign people to positions, see who has confirmed, and see away dates and background check expiry.
Only published workflows send messages, and the editor warns when a draft has active steps.
Families checking in from the app choose whether they joined in person or online.
Requests from larger churches around permissions, announcements and planning.
Record gifts from companies, foundations or other churches without adding them to your member list.
Members can give by bank transfer, and there is a new report by fund.
Let staff look up the directory on the web and in the app without being able to edit it.
Publish announcements later and choose whether members are notified again when you republish.
Rich text emails with a preview, clear Draft and Live status, pause and play for each step, and search.
Download a service plan as a PDF and get a warning when activities run past the service time.
Check-in from the event page and a quieter month of fixes.
On the day, members check in from the event itself in the app, and families pick who is there.
The check-in screen was reworked and attendance totals improved.
The app's Home screen greets members by name and shows what is happening this week.
PDF exports of form responses now show emoji and special characters correctly.
Support for UK churches, celebrations, form automation and expense approvals.
Collect Gift Aid declarations in the app and manage declarations and claims on the web, adding 25% to eligible gifts.
Members share a birthday or anniversary photo in the app, and staff see and review them on member profiles.
Members download their data or ask for it to be erased from the app, and admins handle the requests.
Search people, giving and pledges in plain English. Available on paid plans.
A bell in the app shows every notification, and members choose what reaches their phone.
Announcements keep their formatting on web and mobile, and amounts show in your church's currency.
Set up approvers, work through an approval queue, view expense reports and import budgets from a spreadsheet.
Run a workflow automatically when someone submits a form.
Choose whether to change one occurrence or the whole series.
Rebuilt Children and Groups, more automation, and better forms.
A new check-in flow with printable labels, on the web and in the app, plus an attendance report.
Organize groups by type with attendance, posts and messaging. In the app, members find and join groups and post in the group feed, and leaders take attendance and message their group.
Start a form from a template and view responses more clearly.
Welcome first-time givers, follow up when a pledge falls behind, and add newcomers to a group automatically.
Write your own message to send with tax statements, and alert finance officers when spending looks unusual.
Admins and events staff search members and check them in from their phone.
Whoever is assigned a follow-up gets a reminder 24 hours before it is due.
Emails now send from a verified address, and text delivery is tracked.
Giving and follow-ups in the app, check-in reporting and expenses.
Members pick a fund, split a gift across funds, add a note and cover the processing fee. Pledges and giving history live in the app too.
Admins and giving staff see today's and this month's giving and totals by fund from their phone.
Staff and volunteers send expenses in from their phone.
Reconcile expenses, see spending by department and year over year, and view account statements.
Track pastoral follow-ups on the web with filters and an activity log, and work your assignments from the app.
A report on check-ins, with an updated events dashboard.
Mobile Stability, Role Governance, Attendance & Dashboard Accuracy
Fixed an issue where event dates were appearing one day apart on mobile. Dates now reflect the correct scheduled day.
Attendance functionality is now available on mobile, allowing users to view attendance directly within the app.
Added Cancel and Back buttons to mobile forms to improve navigation and reduce accidental submissions.
Resolved issues with ZIP code input and editing on mobile. Validation and save behavior now function correctly.
Enabled SMS and Email actions for Admin users on mobile (where supported).
Super Admins and Admins can now switch profiles to view the app as a Standard User for accurate experience validation.
Corrected alignment issues in the event list for improved layout and readability.
Resolved an issue where attendance records were not displaying properly.
Fixed an issue where all members were showing as inactive. Member activity status now reflects accurate data across platforms.
The following modules are now visible only to Super Admins: Church Giving, Church Accounting, Community Wall, and Settings. Applied across both web and mobile to enforce consistent governance.
Churchease now supports multiple Super Admin accounts on both web and mobile to improve administrative continuity and shared leadership control.
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