The church cash book, month by month, with a name and a receipt.
Eclesi finance is a cash book you browse month by month: income on one side, expenses on the other, and the period balance on top. Every entry can carry a fund, categories, the member who gave, a destination and the receipt attached to it. No more closing the month by reconstructing what you remember.
A treasury that depends on one person
The cash lives in a spreadsheet only the treasurer knows how to touch, with formulas nobody dares to edit. When they travel, the church does not know what it has; when they leave, the church loses the history.
The proof of payment is a photo on somebody’s phone, the receipt is in a drawer and the entry is in the spreadsheet. When it is time to account for the month, all three have to be brought together again, one by one.
The church knows the month’s total but not how much came in for missions, how much went out on maintenance and how much is left in the building fund. It all looks like the same money.
What Eclesi finance does
A cash book you browse month by month
The main screen is the month: you step backwards and forwards and see that period’s entries with total income, total expenses and the balance, each coloured by its sign. Nothing has to be built and no range has to be picked before you start working. Last month is always one click away from this month.
Funds and tree-shaped categories
Every entry belongs to a fund, which is how a church separates money that already has an owner: missions, building, social action, general fund. On top of that, categories form a colour-coded tree by type, built by you — tithe, offering, donation, electricity, rent, maintenance. The fund answers "whose money is this" and the category answers "what is it about".
Giving with a name on it
An income entry can be assigned to the member who gave. That feeds the giving total on that person’s record and the finance report, which shows top givers, recurring givers and the average gift for the period. When the gift is anonymous, simply leave it unassigned: the entry is still correct and still counts towards the balance.
A receipt attached to the entry
Every transaction accepts an attached receipt, which is stored with it and opens from the entry screen itself. The paper stops living in a drawer and the photo stops living on a phone: whoever checks the month finds the proof next to the amount, with date, fund, category and destination already filled in.
Every entry has a destination
An entry points to where it happened: a church, a group or a gathering. That is what makes the balance per congregation, the small group’s cash and the retreat’s result exist without any extra classification work. The destination is written into the entry itself, so the numbers stay right even when the church structure changes later.
Filters that answer real questions
Finance search combines fund, type, category, contributing member, gathering, group and church. "How much came in for missions this quarter", "how much the downtown small group spent" and "how much the retreat raised" stop being weekend projects and become three filters and a total on the screen.
Frequently asked questions about finance
Close the month with the receipt next to the amount.
Thirty days free, no credit card. Start with the current month, post the income and the expenses, and watch the balance per fund appear on its own. By month end, the account of what came in and went out is already assembled, entry by entry.