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Yes, personally. We'll walk you through your church's details, your first bulletin and your website, connect your Facebook Page, Instagram and Planning Center, and point your web address to your new site. It's included with every plan.
Yes, and mostly it does itself. Type your current website's address on the Website tab and ChapelWave brings over your staff, ministries, service times, welcome, pages and photos in a couple of minutes. It also connects your YouTube sermons, adds your online giving links (Tithe.ly, PayPal, Pushpay and others), puts your upcoming events on the calendar and links your Facebook and Instagram. You choose the look: keep your old site's colors and fonts, or pick one of our templates. Your logo, photos and downloadable files come over either way. You tick what you want, and pages arrive as drafts to check. If your site can't be read that way, we'll bring it over by hand.
No. Upload last Sunday's bulletin as a PDF, a Word file or a phone photo, and in about a minute ChapelWave fills in your order of worship and announcements for you to check. It can also match your bulletin's look, so it folds, prints and reads the way your congregation is used to. Each week after that starts from the week before.
A few minutes to add your church's name, address, worship times and logo. Your first bulletin starts from a ready-made order of worship, and each week after that starts from the week before.
No. ChapelWave works alongside Planning Center, Breeze or whatever you use for membership and giving records. It handles the weekly communication: the bulletin, posts, website, events and volunteers. Events can be brought in from Planning Center Calendar.
Everyone you invite, at no extra cost. Your administrators decide who has access, and you choose who approves bulletins and posts.
No. ChapelWave runs in a web browser on the computer you already have. You can also add it to a phone's Home Screen like an app, so your pastor can approve from a phone.
Yes. There are seven print styles: folded booklets on Letter, Legal or 11 × 17 paper, a tri-fold, a half sheet that prints two to a page, and single pages on Letter or Legal. Most use ordinary Letter paper; the Legal and 11 × 17 styles need a printer that takes that paper. Each one comes with simple printing and folding instructions.
Yes. Every bulletin has a phone version with one permanent link and QR code, so the same link always shows this week's bulletin.
ChapelWave checks for the usual problems before you print: missing dates or times, events that already happened, text that runs too long, and pages that are too full.
A Facebook Page for your church (not a personal profile) and, if you'd like, an Instagram Business or Creator account. You sign in with Facebook or Instagram directly; ChapelWave never sees your password.
No. Every post waits for approval. You can approve it yourself or ask your pastor with one click, and they get an email and a phone notification.
No. Pick one of 38 designs and ChapelWave makes a graphic in your church's colors with your logo, or choose Surprise me. You can also use your own photos.
Yes. If your church already has an address like yourchurch.org, keep it. We'll help point it to your new ChapelWave website, your church email keeps working, and your church keeps owning the address. No address yet? Your site starts with a free one on chapelwave.com, and whenever you're ready, we'll help you get your own, like yourchurch.org.
Five templates to choose from, with this week's events and news, staff and ministry pages, sermon videos from YouTube, a Plan your visit page, ways to give, a contact form, and your own pages. It updates itself from your events and news.
No. ChapelWave never handles money. You list the ways your church already receives gifts (your giving site, PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, mailed checks and more), and Give buttons and the bulletin's Give QR code point people there.
Connections are encrypted, passwords are stored only in scrambled form, two-step sign-in is available, and your data is backed up every day. Prayer requests print only when you say so, and the volunteer sign-up page never shows who signed up. More about safety and trust.
Your church does. Any account holder can download all of your church's data at any time, and an administrator can delete the church and its data. We don't sell personal information, show ads or use tracking cookies. See our Privacy Policy.
You pay only for the parts you use: Bulletin $19, Social $29, Events $19, Volunteers $19 and Website $29 a month. Bulletin + Social together is $39, and everything is $79 a month. Pay yearly and get 2 months free.
Nothing is charged automatically. If you'd like to keep going, choose a plan on the Billing page. If not, your church becomes read-only and you can still view and download everything you made.
Yes. Plans are month to month (or yearly, if you choose), and you can cancel from the Billing page.
Write to us at [email protected]. A real person reads every message and helps you quickly, whether it's setting up, moving your website, connecting your tools or something not working. Personal support is included with every plan.