The engagement CRM for churches that outgrew spreadsheets.
First-time visitor follow-up, member engagement, small-group discipleship, volunteer coordination, missions sponsorship, and capital campaign pipelines on one record. Pairs with Planning Center or Breeze instead of replacing them.
Church CRM evaluation sits in a strange place. A ChMS like Planning Center, Breeze, or Church Community Builder handles check-in, attendance, giving platform, and service planning well. But the moment a church needs to run a real first-time-visitor follow-up motion, track small-group discipleship across campuses, coordinate a two-year capital campaign for a new building, manage missions sponsorships with field reports, or send segmented Christmas and Easter outreach, the ChMS runs out of room. The pastoral team ends up stacking a Mailchimp subscription, a Google Sheet for the campaign pledges, a volunteer scheduling tool, a separate missions tracker, and a shared drive full of small-group rosters. Every one of those sidecar tools is a seam where ministry falls through. Strkr fills the gap between the ChMS and the spreadsheets without pretending to replace the ChMS. The pastoral staff, outreach team, and capital campaign committee work from the same member record while the ChMS keeps running check-in on Sunday morning.
First-time visitor follow-up
The visitor card goes in a drawer.
A first-time visitor fills out the connect card on Sunday. By Wednesday it has been photocopied, handed to a pastor, left on a desk, and forgotten. Industry benchmarks say ten to twenty percent of first-time visitors return without a follow-up touch. With a structured follow-up motion the return rate climbs toward forty to sixty percent. Strkr captures the visitor record from the connect card or the online form, assigns a follow-up pastor, fires a welcome sequence, and tracks second-visit, small-group placement, and membership class attendance as pipeline stages the connections team reviews every Monday.
Member engagement decay
Members disappear without anyone noticing.
A member who used to attend weekly stops showing up for sixty days. The ChMS logs the attendance drop but nobody is watching the dashboard. By the time someone notices, the member has quietly left and the pastoral team never had a conversation. Strkr pulls attendance signals from the ChMS, flags the sixty-day gap as a pastoral task, assigns it to the relevant small-group leader or elder, and tracks the outreach conversation to resolution. The quiet exits turn into recovered relationships because the system flags the gap before the quarter closes.
Small-group discipleship
Small groups live on paper rosters.
A church with forty small groups has forty paper rosters, forty inconsistent attendance records, and no cross-group visibility for the discipleship pastor. Who finished the membership class and is ready for a small group? Who has been in a group for three years and is ready to lead? Who dropped out in week four? Strkr models Small Group as a custom object with members, leaders, meeting cadence, curriculum, attendance log, and discipleship milestones. The discipleship pastor sees the full picture in one view instead of forty paper rosters.
Volunteer coordination
Volunteers get asked the same thing twice.
The connections team asks a member to serve on the welcome team. Two weeks later the kids ministry pastor asks the same member to serve in the nursery. The missions team asks them to pack care kits. The member says yes to all three, burns out in two months, and leaves the church. Strkr tracks volunteer roles, hours, team assignments, and bandwidth per member across every ministry. The ask coordination happens inside the system so the same member does not get recruited three times for three teams in the same month.
Capital campaign pipeline
The building campaign lives in a shared spreadsheet.
A church running a three-year capital campaign for a new building, a youth wing, or a sanctuary renovation tracks fifty to two hundred pledges with payment schedules, naming opportunities, and committee follow-up. The pledges, the asks, the follow-up conversations, and the payment reminders all end up in a Google Sheet that one volunteer maintains. Strkr runs the campaign as a native Projects pipeline with cultivation stages, pledge amounts, payment schedules, and automated reminders. The campaign chair sees the pipeline the way a sales team sees a deal board.
Missions and benevolence
Missions sponsorships and benevolence requests fall through.
The missions team sponsors eight missionary families and runs quarterly reporting on each. The deacon board handles benevolence requests from members in financial crisis. Both motions need confidentiality, a case file, a decision pipeline, and a follow-up schedule. Both usually live in email threads and private documents on a staff member laptop. Strkr models Missions Sponsorship and Benevolence Request as custom objects with permission-controlled records, decision stages, and automated reporting cycles. The compassion ministry gets the dignity of a real workflow.
How Strkr fits a church motion
The primitives church teams actually need.
Strkr was designed for the shape of church that outgrew spreadsheets and a cheap outreach tool but does not need the complexity of a Rock RMS enterprise deployment. The feature set below ships on every paid tier, reads the way a connections pastor thinks, and pairs with your existing ChMS instead of replacing it.
Member records
A real contact record built for ministry.
Every member has household affiliation, membership status, membership date, baptism date, small-group assignment, serving teams, giving level pulled from the ChMS, last-attendance signal, assigned pastor, and a full engagement timeline on one record. The connections pastor sees the full picture before a phone call without opening five tabs across five systems.
Visitor pipeline
First-time visitors as a real pipeline.
Every connect card creates a visitor record in a pipeline with stages for first visit, second visit, newcomer lunch, membership class, baptism, small-group placement, and serving-team assignment. The connections pastor reviews the pipeline every Monday the way a sales team reviews a deal board. Visitors who stall at a stage get flagged for a personal touch before they drift away.
Custom objects
Model your ministry without a software developer.
Small Group, Serving Team, Missions Sponsorship, Benevolence Request, Baptism, Marriage, Pastoral Care Note, Membership Class, Discipleship Milestone, Prayer Request. All of these need their own fields, lifecycle rules, and reporting rollups. Strkr ships custom objects with formula fields, validation rules, lookups, and related lists on every paid tier. A pastoral staff generalist builds the first custom object in an afternoon.
Capital campaign projects
Every campaign is a project with pledges.
A capital campaign in Strkr is a native project with a goal, a timeline, cultivation stages, naming opportunities, and a pledge pipeline. Each pledge is a first-class record with amount, payment schedule, assigned ask officer, campaign attribution, and automated payment reminders. The campaign chair sees the pipeline the same way a sales leader sees a quarter forecast.
Flows for engagement
Lifecycle automation on live member data.
The first-time visitor flow fires when a connect card lands. The second-visit flow fires on the second attendance signal from the ChMS. The sixty-day attendance gap flow fires a pastoral care task to the small-group leader. The membership anniversary flow sends a milestone note. The newcomer-to-small-group handoff flow fires at the end of the membership class. All of these run as Strkr Flows reading live member data.
Outreach marketing
Christmas and Easter campaigns on every paid tier.
The Marketing module ships on every paid tier with segmentation reading live from the member record, drag-and-drop email editor, mobile-first templates, A/B subject lines, and reporting that attributes visits and signups back to the campaign. Replace the stacked Mailchimp subscription with a built-in motion that knows who is a member, who is a visitor, who is on the inactive list, and who should get the invite postcard this Christmas.
Ministry team messaging
SMS for coordination without a side app.
The Messaging module runs SMS and MMS for ministry team coordination: snow-day cancellation blasts to the whole volunteer list, small-group leader reminders, missions prayer updates, youth parent messages. Numbers are compliant, opt-outs are automatic, and the message history lives on the member record alongside the pastoral care notes. No side app, no second subscription, no reconciling who got the text.
Ministry dashboards
Elder meeting metrics as a live dashboard.
First-time visitor rate, visitor-to-member conversion, small-group participation, serving-team coverage, campaign progress, missions sponsorship status, benevolence outlay, baptism counts year-over-year, membership growth. All live as cross-object dashboards the lead pastor and elder board can open themselves. The monthly elder packet becomes a review of a dashboard rather than three days of staff compilation.
Strkr AI
Visit prep and outreach drafts in minutes.
Strkr AI drafts a first version of a Christmas invite email from the campaign goal and target segment. It summarizes a member record for the pastor making a hospital visit. It flags members showing engagement decay signals before the pastoral team notices. The daily hour of prep work the ministry staff used to lose becomes a review-and-edit workflow instead of a from-scratch workflow.
Transparent pricing
Per-seat, full product, every paid tier.
Strkr pricing is per seat with CRM, Marketing, Projects, Messaging, and Docs included on every paid tier. No separate outreach SKU, no contact-tier escalator that punishes you for growing the member list, no church-edition premium. The invoice is one line that scales with your pastoral and operations staff, which is the only variable that should drive the cost.
The church lifecycle
What a CRM should do across the ministry year.
A church calendar is seasonal and cyclical. Christmas Eve and Easter are the two biggest visitor Sundays of the year. Fall is small-group launch season. Spring is membership class season. Summer is missions trip season. Every season has visitors who need to be followed up with, members who need to be engaged, and volunteers who need to be coordinated. Strkr was built for that scope because the data model keeps every interaction on the member record.
First-time visitor onboarding
The connect card fires a real welcome motion.
A connect card lands and immediately triggers a welcome flow: thank-you email within an hour, personal invitation to coffee from the connections pastor at day three, invitation to the newcomer lunch at day seven, invitation to the membership class at week four, invitation to a small group at week eight. First-visit retention climbs from the typical ten to twenty percent toward the forty to sixty percent range when the follow-up motion runs consistently.
Membership class pipeline
From visitor to member as a tracked journey.
Membership class attendance is a stage in the visitor pipeline. The invite goes out automatically. Attendance is logged on the member record. Post-class follow-up fires a baptism conversation flow for the unbaptized, a small-group placement flow for the unaffiliated, and a serving-team invitation flow at the ninety-day mark. The visitor becomes a plugged-in member on a tracked path rather than a hopeful handoff.
Small-group discipleship
Groups as first-class records with milestones.
Every small group is a custom object with a leader, members, meeting cadence, curriculum, attendance log, and discipleship milestone tracking. The discipleship pastor sees group health across the whole church: which groups are growing, which are shrinking, which have an open leader slot, which have members ready to lead a new group. The group-multiplication strategy becomes a managed program rather than a hope.
Engagement-decay recovery
Sixty-day gaps become pastoral conversations.
A member missing for sixty days triggers a pastoral care task to their small-group leader or assigned pastor. The task carries context: last attendance, giving status, serving team, recent interactions. The leader has a real conversation instead of a cold cold-call. Industry research says the sixty-day gap is the point of no return for most members. Catching it at sixty days instead of six months is where retention lives.
Christmas and Easter outreach
The two biggest visitor Sundays run as sequences.
Christmas Eve and Easter are the two biggest first-time visitor Sundays of the year. Strkr runs the pre-season outreach as a flow: segmented email invite to members (invite a neighbor), segmented email to lapsed attendees (come home for Christmas), SMS reminder the week of, and automated connect-card capture during the service. The post-season follow-up flow runs for every visitor who gave their contact info. The Christmas and Easter visitor crop becomes a managed pipeline rather than a lost opportunity.
Serving-team placement
Volunteers get the right ask at the right time.
A new member finishes the membership class and signals interest in serving. Strkr routes them to the ministry area that matches their gifts, their availability, and their background check status. The serving-team leader sees the new volunteer in their pipeline, runs the onboarding, and logs the first serving date. Volunteers get the right ask at the right time, not three competing asks from three ministries in the same month.
Capital campaign cultivation
Multi-year campaigns with a schedule and a balance.
A capital campaign pledge of twenty-five thousand dollars over three years is one gift commitment, thirty-six expected payments, a running balance, and a reporting rollup for the campaign. Strkr models pledges as a first-class object with payment schedules, automated reminders, balance tracking, and campaign attribution. The campaign chair sees the pledge pipeline, the pledge-to-payment conversion, and the campaign-wide progress against the goal in one dashboard.
Missions sponsorship and reporting
Field missionaries managed with real workflow.
Every sponsored missionary family is a custom object with sponsorship amount, field location, quarterly report schedule, prayer-letter cadence, and home-leave calendar. Strkr runs the quarterly report reminder, routes the submitted report to the missions committee, and surfaces the report excerpt in the next week prayer-letter to the congregation. The missions program becomes a real ministry with real workflow instead of a drawer of newsletters.
What church buyers compare on
The evaluation criteria that actually matter.
Most "best CRM for churches" articles compare ChMS feature matrices: check-in, attendance, giving, service planning. Strkr does not play in those categories. The honest comparison is a different conversation: Strkr versus the stack of Planning Center plus Mailchimp plus a Google Sheet of pledges plus a volunteer scheduling tool plus a shared drive of small-group rosters.
The engagement gap
What the ChMS does not do.
Planning Center and Breeze do check-in, attendance, giving platform, and service planning well. They do not run a real first-time-visitor pipeline. They do not do lifecycle automation on live member data. They do not run capital-campaign pledge pipelines. They do not track small-group discipleship as a custom object. They do not segment outreach email from member data. Strkr covers the gap without touching what the ChMS already does well.
Admin burden
How much staff time does the CRM demand?
Strkr: a ministry operations generalist spending ten to twenty percent of their week keeps the system healthy through a hundred-plus staff and ten thousand members. Rock RMS: a dedicated database developer at any multi-site church. The admin cost is often larger than the license cost for a church under three thousand attendance.
Time to first useful day
Days from signup to a visitor follow-up firing.
Strkr: typically five to fourteen days with no implementation partner required. Rock RMS: three to twelve months with a Rock certified partner or an internal developer. The lost time compounds for churches heading into a Christmas Eve outreach season or a capital campaign launch window.
Three-year total cost
What this actually costs by year three.
Strkr: license plus staff seats, flat and predictable. The stack alternative: Planning Center plus Mailchimp plus a volunteer scheduling tool plus a separate missions tracker plus a shared drive, plus staff time reconciling across them, usually three to five times the sticker-price impression once the hidden coordination cost is counted. Rock RMS: hosting plus required Rock Shop add-ons plus certified partner retainer, often a line item larger than a part-time staff salary.
Mobile UX
What the pastor sees between visits.
A pastor between hospital visits has ninety seconds to log the visit, update the pastoral care note, and schedule the follow-up call. Strkr mobile is a first-class surface with offline queue, member search, note capture, and quick task logging. Many church database mobile apps are a thin wrapper over the web app and are unusable in a hospital parking lot.
Reporting flexibility
When the elder board asks a question nobody anticipated.
Strkr: cross-object reports on every tier, custom report builder, drill-down from any dashboard, export to CSV or PDF. The ability to answer an unanticipated elder board question in ten minutes rather than three days is the single biggest reporting criterion for a lead pastor.
Beyond member engagement
What a modern church CRM should also cover.
A real church CRM covers more than member records and visitor follow-up. Missions, benevolence, pastoral care notes, baptism tracking, counseling case notes, church planting networks, multi-site campus coordination, and the organization knowledge base. These adjacent surfaces are where most church stacks leak into email threads and private documents. Strkr covers them natively with permission controls.
Multi-site coordination
Campuses as a shared tenant with scoped visibility.
A multi-site church runs one tenant with every campus as a scoped unit. Campus pastors see their campus member list, the lead pastor sees the full network view, campus connections teams see their own visitor pipelines. Shared members (a family that transfers between campuses) carry history across the move. Church-wide dashboards roll up to the executive pastor without staff compiling by hand.
Pastoral care notes
Confidential notes with permission controls.
Pastoral care notes are confidential by default. Strkr models Pastoral Care Note as a permission-controlled object visible only to the assigned pastor and the lead pastor. The connections team sees that a care conversation happened but not the content. The elder board sees aggregate numbers but no individual notes. The pastoral team gets the dignity of real confidentiality without maintaining a parallel private document system.
Benevolence case files
Member financial-crisis requests with workflow.
A benevolence request is a case file: member in financial crisis, request amount, documentation, deacon review, decision, disbursement, follow-up. Strkr models Benevolence Request as a custom object with permission controls, a decision pipeline, and automated reporting for the elder board. The compassion ministry gets a real workflow instead of a shared email account.
Baptism and milestone tracking
Lifecycle sacraments on the member record.
Baptism, confirmation, dedication, marriage, membership anniversary, baptism anniversary. Strkr models each as a dated milestone on the member record. Annual baptism Sundays are planned from the dedicated Baptism pipeline. Marriage anniversaries fire a note from the senior pastor. The ministry team sees the full lifecycle story of every household on one record.
Church plant networks
Supporting daughter churches with shared records.
A church that plants or supports daughter churches tracks the plant as a Project with a timeline, a planter pastor, financial support schedule, prayer-partner congregation, and quarterly reporting. Shared members (sent families) carry history to the plant. The sending church runs the planting portfolio the way a foundation runs a grantmaking portfolio.
Counseling and recovery ministry
Sensitive ministries with proper permission scoping.
Pastoral counseling, recovery ministry, grief support, and addiction care are sensitive ministries that still need case tracking, session logs, and follow-up schedules. Strkr custom objects with permission scoping model Counseling Session, Recovery Group Enrollment, and Care Case with visibility limited to the ministry team. The ministry gets the care record it needs without exposing private details across the whole staff.
Events and ministry registrations
Vacation Bible School, retreats, conferences.
Every church event has registrants, volunteer leaders, scholarship recipients, dietary restrictions, child-safety background check status, and post-event follow-up. Strkr custom objects model each event as a project with its own objects, and the Marketing module runs the invitation flow, registration confirmation, and post-event thank-you. The retreat planning committee has a real system instead of a Google Sheet.
Document and policy wiki
Policies, playbooks, and board materials in one wiki.
A modern church runs on documented processes: child-safety policies, baptism liturgies, wedding officiant guidelines, membership covenants, elder-board minutes, missions-committee charters, bylaws, personnel handbooks. Strkr Docs is a wiki with page hierarchy, permissions, versioning, and inline comments. The church knowledge base lives inside the CRM instead of scattered across Google Drive folders and staff laptops.
Head-to-head
Strkr vs the common church stack.
The honest side-by-side compares Strkr against the typical stack of Planning Center or Breeze (ChMS, which stays) plus Mailchimp plus a Google Sheet of pledges plus a volunteer scheduling tool plus a shared drive of small-group rosters. Strkr pairs with the ChMS. The rest of the stack collapses into Strkr.
Feature
Strkr
Planning Center limits + Mailchimp + spreadsheets
Role vs the ChMS
Pairs with Planning Center or Breeze for engagement, outreach, campaigns
ChMS does check-in and giving platform, nothing fills the engagement gap
First-time visitor pipeline
Multi-stage pipeline with cultivation, probability, assigned pastor
Flat visitor list or paper connect cards in a drawer
Engagement-decay flagging
Sixty-day attendance gap fires a pastoral task automatically
Attendance drop visible in reports, nobody is watching
Small-group tracking
Small Group as a custom object with milestones and discipleship stages
Paper rosters or basic group list in the ChMS with no cross-group view
Capital campaign pipeline
Native Projects module with pledges, payment schedules, cultivation stages
ChMS has limited automation, Mailchimp automation disconnected from attendance
Missions and benevolence
Custom objects with permission-controlled records and decision pipelines
Email threads and private documents on staff laptops
Pastoral care confidentiality
Permission-controlled notes visible only to assigned pastor
Private documents outside any ministry system
SMS for ministry teams
Messaging module included, history on the member record
Separate SMS tool with no record integration
Multi-site campus scoping
Campuses as scoped units with per-campus visibility and roll-up dashboards
Separate database per campus or manual roll-up spreadsheet
Elder-board dashboards
Cross-object dashboards on every paid tier, no BI add-on
Staff compiles the elder packet from three tools over three days
Knowledge wiki
Strkr Docs ships as a wiki for policies, playbooks, board minutes
Shared Google Drive folders or a separate Confluence subscription
How teams use Strkr
Playbooks churches run on Strkr today.
The common thread across church customers: fill the engagement gap the ChMS leaves open. First-time visitor follow-up, membership class conversion, small-group placement, engagement-decay recovery, capital campaign cultivation, missions sponsorship reporting. Every one of these moments is where ministry falls through on a ChMS-plus-spreadsheets stack.
Independent church
First-time visitor follow-up automation.
An independent church of eight hundred attendance runs a first-time visitor welcome sequence: thank-you within an hour, personal invite from the connections pastor at day three, newcomer lunch invite at day seven, membership class invite at week four, small-group invite at week eight. First-visit retention climbs from the sector-average fifteen percent toward the forty to fifty percent range inside two Christmas-Easter cycles, which compounds the active member base year over year.
Multi-site church
Campus-scoped visitor pipelines with network roll-up.
A multi-site church with four campuses and three thousand combined attendance runs campus-scoped visitor pipelines. Each campus pastor sees their campus visitors. The lead pastor sees the full network view. Family transfers between campuses carry history. The executive pastor opens one dashboard every Monday morning for the full network engagement picture instead of asking four campus pastors to send separate reports.
Church planting network
Supporting daughter churches with shared records.
A sending church with eight daughter church plants runs the planting portfolio as a Projects pipeline. Each plant is a project with a planter pastor, support schedule, prayer-partner families, quarterly reporting, and sent-family carry-over. The missions pastor runs the planting portfolio the way a foundation runs a grantmaking portfolio. Monthly reports from the field surface in the prayer letter without the planting pastor forwarding emails.
Capital campaign
Three-year building campaign with pledge tracking.
A church of fifteen hundred attendance runs a three-year capital campaign for a new sanctuary. One hundred twenty pledges with payment schedules, naming opportunities, and committee follow-up live as a Strkr Projects pipeline. The campaign chair sees the pledge pipeline, the pledge-to-payment conversion, and the campaign-wide progress against the goal in one dashboard. The campaign closes on target instead of missing the goal by the twenty percent that typically leaks through spreadsheet management.
Missions program
Eight sponsored missionaries with quarterly reporting.
A church sponsoring eight missionary families runs the sponsorship as a custom-object workflow. Each sponsorship carries field location, support amount, quarterly report schedule, prayer-letter cadence, and home-leave calendar. Quarterly report reminders fire automatically, submitted reports route to the missions committee, and report excerpts surface in the next week prayer letter to the congregation. The missions program becomes a real ministry with real workflow.
The engagement CRM your ChMS was never going to be.
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No. We are honest about this. Planning Center, Breeze, and Church Community Builder do check-in, attendance, giving platform, and service planning well. Those motions should stay in the ChMS. Strkr fills the engagement gap the ChMS leaves open: first-time visitor pipelines, lifecycle automation on live member data, small-group discipleship as a custom object, capital campaign pledge pipelines, outreach email with real segmentation, missions sponsorship with reporting workflow, and benevolence case files with permission controls. Most church customers run Strkr alongside Planning Center with attendance and giving signals flowing from Planning Center into Strkr so the engagement flows fire on real data. Giving-platform processing stays in Planning Center Giving (or whichever processor the church uses). Check-in stays in Planning Center Check-Ins. Service planning stays in Planning Center Services.
Is Strkr a good fit for an independent church under five hundred attendance?
Yes, if you want to start on an engagement CRM you can grow into without replatforming at two thousand attendance. Strkr Starter at the entry tier gives you CRM, Marketing basics, Projects, and Flows on one record. For churches specifically, we recommend starting on Strkr Pro so the full automation layer and Marketing module are available on day one. The alternative at this size is a stack of three or four tools (ChMS plus Mailchimp plus a volunteer scheduling tool plus a shared drive) that costs more combined once staff time is counted. If a church is under two hundred attendance and does not have paid staff running the connections ministry, the ChMS alone may be enough until the engagement motion needs real workflow.
How does Strkr compare to Rock RMS for a multi-site church?
Rock RMS is the open-source enterprise option, deeply customizable and historically favored by multi-site megachurches with internal developers. It is also a serious implementation project: three to twelve months with a Rock certified partner or an internal developer, plus ongoing database developer time to maintain. Strkr pairs differently. For a multi-site church under three thousand attendance, Strkr ships the engagement features (visitor pipelines, lifecycle flows, custom objects, Marketing, Projects, cross-object dashboards) on every paid tier with no certified partner required, pairs with Planning Center for the ChMS motion the lead pastor already trusts, and lands at five to fourteen days to first useful day instead of three to twelve months. For churches over five thousand attendance with dedicated software developer staff and heavy customization needs, Rock RMS is a reasonable choice. For most independent and mid-size multi-site churches below that scale, Strkr plus Planning Center is the better fit.
What is the migration path from spreadsheets and Mailchimp into Strkr?
Strkr has a native church migration tool that pulls members, households, visitor records, small-group rosters, serving-team assignments, pledge spreadsheets, missions sponsorship lists, and campaign history from CSV exports and Mailchimp over an afternoon. Attendance and giving signals continue to flow from the ChMS. Automations rebuild in the Strkr Flow canvas (usually ten to twenty flows in the first week: welcome sequence, membership class invite, engagement-decay task, baptism anniversary, Christmas and Easter outreach). Most independent churches complete the move in two to four weeks. Multi-site churches with campus-scoped visibility rules usually take four to eight weeks because the permissions model takes a design pass before the import.
How does Strkr handle multi-campus churches?
A multi-site church runs one Strkr tenant with every campus as a scoped unit. Campus pastors see their campus member list and their campus visitor pipeline. The lead pastor and executive pastor see the full network view. Shared members (a family that transfers between campuses) carry their history across the move. Church-wide dashboards roll up to the executive pastor without staff compiling campus reports by hand. Campus-specific outreach campaigns run in the Marketing module scoped to the campus segment. The pattern works cleanly up to about ten campuses on a single tenant. Beyond ten campuses, we recommend a conversation about whether a tenant-per-region structure fits better.
What about child-safety background checks and other compliance records?
Strkr models child-safety background check status as a custom field on the volunteer record with expiration date, status, and renewal cycle. Volunteers whose background check expires inside sixty days surface in a staff dashboard. The children ministry pastor sees their serving team with background check status visible before scheduling. Strkr does not run the background check itself (that stays with the specialized provider), but the check status, expiration, and renewal cycle live on the member record so the staff never schedules an expired volunteer by accident. The same pattern applies to counseling training certification, deacon ordination records, and youth-ministry safe-conduct training.
Can Strkr send SMS to ministry teams and parents without a separate app?
Yes. The Messaging module ships on every paid tier and runs SMS and MMS for ministry team coordination: snow-day cancellation blasts to the whole volunteer list, small-group leader reminders, missions prayer updates, youth parent messages. Phone numbers are compliant, opt-outs are automatic, and the message history lives on the member record alongside the pastoral care notes. Churches that already have a Twilio account can bring their own number. The alternative stack of a separate ministry SMS tool with its own login, its own opt-out management, and no record integration becomes one included module instead.
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