One organisation, several congregations, no parallel system.
Eclesi is multi-church by design, not by workaround: members, groups, gatherings and transactions carry the church they belong to, and the church filters everything. Every congregation has its own record, its own leaders and its own dashboard of numbers, all calculated the same way. The main church sees the whole picture, each campus sees its own, and nobody has to keep a side ledger for the unit that opened last year.
Three congregations, three sets of books
The new congregation started on a separate spreadsheet "just for now". Two years later there are three bases nobody can add up and a monthly meeting that exists only to reconcile numbers.
Leadership cannot say which campus grew and which shrank last quarter, because each one counts differently and one’s attendance is not comparable with the other’s.
Whoever runs the main church ends up asking each congregation for numbers and gets back answers with different columns, different dates and different counting rules. Consolidating becomes a manual monthly chore.
What the churches module does
Multi-church by design
Members, groups, gatherings and transactions carry the church they belong to, not an improvised label. That is what makes filtering by church work on every Eclesi screen: the member list, the calendar, the cash book and the reports all answer the same question with the same criteria. You open the whole organisation or drill into one congregation without changing systems.
The congregation’s record
Every church has a photo, a founding date, a status, an address and its own list of leaders, kept apart from the member list. It is the record that answers the simple questions that keep coming back: who answers for that campus, since when it has existed and where it is. Leaders show up identified as such on the church screens.
A dashboard of numbers per church
The church screen shows total members, total groups, the attendance rate for the period, new members who joined in that period and the finance balance. Those are the five numbers leadership asks for in the meeting, calculated the same way in every congregation. Changing the period recalculates all of them right away.
Groups and members per congregation
Groups belong to a church and so do members, so every campus has its own small groups and its own people without anything blending into someone else’s count. An organisation with a main church and congregations sees the whole tree in one place, and a campus leader works only with what belongs to their campus by filtering on the church.
Every entry has a destination
Every transaction points to where it happened: a church, a group or a gathering. That is why the balance per congregation does not depend on anyone remembering to tick a column: it comes out of the entry itself. The cash book is still one book, and filtering by church shows each campus the part that concerns it.
Permissions granted per church
Eclesi write permissions — recording attendance, creating gatherings and posting finance entries — can be granted for one specific church. Whoever runs the neighbourhood congregation gets permission for that congregation, not for the whole organisation. It is all by invitation, and access can be revoked at any time.
Frequently asked questions about churches
Bring every congregation into the same place.
Thirty days free, no credit card. Register the main church, open the congregations, and read every campus with the same criteria. If your organisation has a single congregation today, the second one goes in the day it is born.