Everyone who walks through your church, in a single directory.
Eclesi membership keeps a complete record for every person: photo, contacts, address, church, joining date and the groups they belong to. Right beside it sit their attendance history and how much they gave in the period, so you never cross two sources just to know how someone is doing. And filtered search finds any slice of your people in seconds.
The member list nobody trusts anymore
The member spreadsheet was built three years ago by someone who has since left the church. Nobody knows which tab is current, two names appear twice, and half the families changed phone numbers.
The address is in a notebook at the office, the phone number is on a group leader’s device, and only the pastor remembers the joining date. Whenever someone needs the information, the hunt begins.
Nobody notices when a person disappears. One missed Sunday goes unseen, a missed month goes unseen too, and by the time someone finally asks, that family has been away for half a year.
What Eclesi membership does
A complete record, with a photo
Every member has a record with photo, gender, marital status, date of birth, joining date and address. Contacts are not squeezed into a single field: you keep as many e-mails and phone numbers as the person has and mark which one is primary, and that is the one lists show. The record also states which church the member belongs to and which groups they attend, each one linked.
Active, inactive or transferred
Member status has exactly three states, and none of them is deletion. Someone walking with the church stays active; someone who drifted away becomes inactive and remains in the directory with the whole history intact; someone who moved to another church is marked transferred. Lists and reports respect that status, so the number of active members is a number you can actually decide on.
Categories you create yourself
Member categories are a tree you build: create them, nest one inside another, pick the colour and reorder by dragging. Baptised, new believers, leaders in training, Sunday school class — the taxonomy belongs to your church, not to the software. Each category shows how many members use it, so you can see at a glance whether that essential-looking label is alive or empty.
Each person’s attendance history
The record itself shows the member gathering by gathering, with the four states churches really use: present, late, absent and excused. Above the list sit the attendance rate for the chosen period and the last time the person was seen. That is what turns an impression — "I have not seen him in a while" — into a fact with a date on it.
Giving tied to the person
When a finance entry is assigned to a contributing member, it adds to that person’s giving total for the chosen period. The record joins the two halves of church life that usually live in different systems: attendance and giving. Whoever handles finance keeps working in the cash book, and whoever shepherds sees the result without having to ask anyone for it.
Filters that turn into a link
The member list filters by church, group, category and status, and combines those filters with one another. The slice lives in the URL itself: "active members of the youth group at the main church" is an address you bookmark or hand to another leader, and it opens on exactly the same list. No redoing the same search every Monday morning.
Frequently asked questions about membership
Start with the directory. The rest falls into place.
Thirty days free, no credit card. Register your church, bring your members in, and watch attendance and giving history grow as you use it.