Everything you need to run your church, in one place.
Shekinex unites every ministry - members, attendance, giving, prayer, service planning, welfare, and live broadcasting - into one AI-powered platform. This guide walks through every feature, step by step.
Introduction & Setup
In a few minutes your church can be fully set up and ready to receive its congregation on Sunday. Here is how to begin.
Create your account
Visit shekinex.com and choose Start free. Enter your name, your church name, and your email. Your workspace is created instantly, and you become its first Church Admin.
Confirm your email
Check your inbox for a verification link. Confirming your email secures your account and unlocks password recovery.
Complete your church profile
Open Church Settings and add your contact details, address, website, timezone, and church logo. This appears across your workspace and on public pages.
Invite your team
Add your pastors, department heads, finance officer, and media team, and assign each the right role. Everyone signs in to the same workspace.
Add your members
Begin building your registry in Members - capture a photo, contact details, group, and department for each person.
Go live on Sunday
Print your attendance QR code, share your prayer wall link, and open your Dashboard. Your church is now running on Shekinex.
Dashboard
Your church at a glance - the first screen you see each time you sign in.
What you see
Key figures
Live counts of members, recent attendance, and giving, drawn from your real data - never sample figures.
Upcoming programs
Your next services and events, pulled straight from the Programs module.
AI insights
Plain-language observations - attendance trends, members to follow up, welfare ready to disburse.
Making it work for you
A fresh workspace starts empty
A brand-new church shows zeros until you add real data. This is expected - the numbers grow as you record members, attendance, and giving.
Personalised greeting
The Dashboard greets you by name and reflects your own church - not a demo.
Quick navigation
Use the sidebar to jump to any module. Your most-used areas are always one click away.
Roles & Permissions
Shekinex uses seven roles so each person sees only what concerns their ministry. Sensitive areas are protected by design.
| Role | What they can do |
|---|---|
| Church Admin | Full access to every module, church settings, and team management. Usually the senior pastor or administrator. |
| Pastor | Access to people, ministry, prayer, counseling, and welfare. Can approve requests and view reports. |
| Department Head | Manages their own department members, groups, rosters, and programs. |
| Finance Officer | Manages the Finances and Welfare modules - accounts, ledger, and benevolence workflow. |
| Media Team | Manages the media roster and duty scheduling, and supports broadcasting. |
| Counselor | Access to the confidential Counseling module and prayer requests. |
| Member | A basic account for check-in and personal engagement, with no administrative access. |
Trial & Subscription
Every new church begins with a full-featured free trial. Nothing is locked, and no card is required to start.
Your free trial
Full access
Explore every module with your real church data during the trial period.
No card to begin
Start immediately - add payment details only when you choose to subscribe.
Your work is kept
Subscribing keeps everything you created during the trial intact. Nothing is lost.
Subscribing
Choose a plan
Pick the plan that fits your church size and number of branches.
Local payment methods
Pay by card or local rails. Your subscription activates as soon as payment is confirmed.
Upgrade any time
Move to a larger plan whenever you need more capacity or branches.
Members
Your member registry is the heart of Shekinex - a living record of everyone in your church.
Adding members
Capture a photo
Add each member with a photo, taken live from your device camera or uploaded. Photos are stored privately and securely.
Full details
Record name, phone, email, gender, birthday, group, department, and membership status.
Titles & full profile
Choose a title (Pastor, Evangelist, Deacon, Deaconess, Apostle, Bishop, Reverend, Elder, Dr, Engineer, Professor, Mr, Miss, Mrs) and capture marital status, occupation, nationality, home address, and next of kin with their phone number.
Works on any device
Register members from a phone or tablet at the welcome desk - no special hardware.
Managing your registry
Search and filter
Find anyone instantly by name, or filter by group, department, or status.
Groups & departments
Assign members to fellowships and ministries so rosters stay current across the app.
Status tracking
Mark members active or inactive to keep an accurate picture of your congregation.
Alphabetical order
The registry lists everyone A to Z by name, with each member's title shown before their name.
Protected deletion
Deleting a member asks "Are you sure this member should be deleted? This action cannot be undone" - and requires typing their full name exactly before the button activates. No accidental one-click deletions.
Birthdays
Never miss a member special day. Birthdays surface automatically from your member records.
Automatic radar
Today, this week, this month
See who is celebrating, drawn from each member birthday field - no manual list to maintain.
Pastoral care
Reach out on the day
Send a call or message so every member feels seen and valued by the church family.
Visitors
Turn first-time guests into members with structured follow-up from the moment they arrive.
Capturing guests
Record the visit
Log a guest name, contact details, visit date, and how they found you - Walk-In, Evangelism, Crusade, Member Invitation, and more.
Credit the soul-winner
Select the church member who invited them, and optionally a group or society (choir, youth, women...) whose outreach brought them. These feed the Soul Winners board.
Notes
Add anything worth remembering - a prayer need, an interest, a connection to a member.
Following up
Structured pipeline
Track each guest through follow-up until they belong, so no one slips through the cracks.
Graduate to member
One click opens a member form pre-filled with their details - see Visitor Graduation below.
Visitor Graduation
When a first-timer decides to stay, one click turns their visitor record into full membership.
How to graduate a visitor
1. Open Visitors
Every guest who has not yet joined shows a Graduate button on their row.
2. Complete the form
The member form opens pre-filled with their name, phone, and email. Add their title, gender, group, department, and birthday.
3. Graduate to Member
They join your registry instantly. Their photo and remaining profile can be completed later under Members.
What happens behind the scenes
The visitor record is kept
It is marked converted and linked to the new member - this powers your conversion analytics.
No double graduation
Converted guests show a green Member badge instead of the button.
Conversion analytics
The Visitors page shows your conversion rate and a six-month chart of visitors versus those who became members - a live measure of how well follow-up is working.
Soul Winners & Rewards
Honour the members and groups who bring people to church - with seven reward levels named after the precious stones of Scripture.
Crediting souls
Individuals
When adding a visitor, choose the member who invited them under Invited By. Each credited soul counts toward that member.
Groups & societies
Credit the choir, youth, women's fellowship, or any group whose outreach brought the guest - teams are rewarded together.
The leaderboard
The Soul Winners board shows each person's and each group's souls for the month, the year, and all time - your appraisal view for honouring soul-winners at services and year-end.
The seven levels
Precious stones of Scripture
Levels follow the stones of Revelation 21:19-21 and Exodus 28:17-20, by all-time souls won:
Jasper 1+ · Sapphire 3+ · Emerald 5+ · Topaz 10+ · Beryl 20+ · Amethyst 35+ · Diamond 50+
Glowing gem badges
Each level renders as a glowing gem in its stone's colour beside the name - visible to everyone who opens the board.
Connect Cards
Digital connection cards replace paper slips - decisions, prayer needs, and interests flow straight in.
Shareable link
Fill in from any phone
Share a connect card link on screen, in the bulletin, or by message. Anyone can complete it.
Everything in one place
One tidy list
Salvation decisions, prayer requests, and enquiries collect in one list for your team to action.
Groups
Fellowships, cells, and ministries with live rosters - youth, men, women, choir, and special-interest groups.
Creating groups
Any kind of group
Set up home cells, age groups, departments, or interest-based fellowships.
Assign a leader
Name a group leader so responsibility is clear and communication has a home.
Live rosters
Add members
Build each roster from your registry. Members can belong to more than one group.
Always current
Rosters update everywhere as you add or move members.
Children's Ministry
A protected module for your children classes and workers, built with safety in mind.
Classes & workers
Organise by class
Manage children classes and the workers assigned to each.
Restricted access
Limited to authorized roles - children records stay protected.
Safety first
Secure check-in on the roadmap
Secure parent check-in and tagging are being added, so children are only released to the right guardian.
Programs
Every service and event in one calendar - and the source of your Dashboard Upcoming Programs.
Planning events
Schedule anything
Services, midweek meetings, conventions, crusades, weddings - with date, time, and venue.
Assign a lead
Name who is responsible for each program so everyone knows their part.
On your Dashboard
Live widget
Your next programs appear automatically on the Dashboard, keeping the team aligned.
Service Planning
Plan each service minute by minute with an ordered run sheet - so Sundays flow with excellence.
Building a run sheet
Ordered segments
Add each part of the service in order - worship, welcome, offering, word, altar call - and rearrange as needed.
Assign leads & timing
Give each segment an owner and a duration.
Total runtime
Automatic totals
Shekinex adds up your segments to show total service length, so you can tighten the plan before Sunday.
Everyone aligned
Share the plan with worship, media, and ministers so the service runs seamlessly.
Attendance & QR Check-In
Count your congregation without clipboards. Take a roll call, or let members check themselves in by scanning a QR code.
Open Attendance
Go to the Attendance (QR) module for the service you want to record.
Display the QR code
Show your church QR code on a screen at the entrance, or print it for the welcome desk.
Members scan to check in
Each person scans with their phone camera and is counted instantly on the public check-in page.
Or take a roll call
Prefer to mark attendance yourself? Tick members present directly from your registry.
Prayer Requests
A prayer wall your whole community can reach - and an organised queue for your intercessors.
Public prayer wall
Shareable link
Share a link where anyone - member or stranger - can submit a prayer request from any device.
Urgent flags
Requests marked urgent rise to the top so nothing critical is missed.
For your prayer team
One organised queue
Every request lands in a single list your intercessors can work through and mark as prayed for.
Counseling
Confidential session scheduling and notes for your pastoral care team.
Sessions
Schedule & record
Book counseling sessions and keep private notes for continuity of care.
Confidential by design
Restricted access
Only pastors and authorized counselors can open this module. Sensitive conversations stay private.
Media Team
Keep cameras, sound, and streaming covered every service with a clear roster and duty schedule.
Your media roster
Team members
Maintain the list of your media department - camera, sound, streaming, slides.
Duty scheduling
Assign duties
Schedule who covers which role each service, so every Sunday is fully staffed.
Finances
Steward your church resources with a transparent, audit-friendly ledger built for accountability.
Accounts & entries
Multiple accounts
Track several bank or cash accounts, in more than one currency if needed.
Record income & expenses
Log offerings, tithes, project giving, and expenses against the right account and category.
Append-only ledger
Nothing silently deleted
Entries are permanent. To correct a mistake you post a reversal, leaving a complete, traceable trail.
Board-ready
Real accountability your leadership and auditors can trust.
Welfare
Care for your congregation with a clear benevolence workflow - request, review, and disburse with dignity.
Raise a request
Record who needs help, the reason, the amount requested, and any notes.
Review & approve
Authorized leaders review pending requests and approve or decline them.
Disburse
Mark approved requests as disbursed, keeping a complete record of the church care.
Equipment
Keep an accurate register of your church assets - from the PA system to the church van.
Asset register
Record each item
Category, condition, serial number, and last service date, all in one place.
Maintenance
Stay ahead
Track condition and service dates so nothing is neglected and budgeting for replacements is easy.
Branches
Manage every campus of a multi-site church, each with its own pastor and details.
Your locations
Add each branch
Record address, city, country, phone, email, and the pastor or leader for every location.
Headquarters
Mark one location as your main campus.
Multi-site ready
One church, many campuses
Keep the whole network organised under a single Shekinex workspace.
HR Management
Keep staff and volunteer records, roles, and departments in one organised place.
People records
Staff & volunteers
Maintain records for paid staff and key volunteers - roles, departments, and contact details.
Organised teams
See who serves where
A clear view across the church makes planning and communication simpler.
International Visits
Host visiting ministers and mission teams well, with every visit tracked end to end.
Visit records
Track the details
Log arrivals, departures, team sizes, and the purpose of each visit.
Plan with confidence
Nothing forgotten
Keep hosting, logistics, and programs organised from arrival to departure.
Daily Devotional
Feed your congregation the Word every morning by publishing devotionals to a public page.
Publishing
Write & publish
Compose each day devotional and publish it to your church public devotional page.
Reaching members
Always available
Members open the page any time for the day word - and you can deliver it straight to them by email, WhatsApp, and Telegram. See Devotional Delivery below.
Devotional Delivery
Three ways to put the day's word in your members' hands - all from the buttons on today's devotional.
Email - Send to Congregation
One click, everyone
Send to Congregation emails today's published devotional to every member with an email address - beautifully formatted with your church name and a link back to the web page.
Respectful by design
Every email carries an unsubscribe link. Members who opt out are automatically excluded from future sends, and each send is logged.
WhatsApp & Telegram
Share to WhatsApp
Opens WhatsApp with the devotional pre-filled - title, scripture, message, and the read-more link. Pick your church group and send. Free, two taps.
Post to Telegram
Posts the devotional to your church's Telegram channel instantly - or automatically each morning at your chosen time. Set-up takes minutes; see Telegram Setup below.
Telegram Setup
Connect your church's Telegram channel once, and devotionals can post there manually or automatically - completely free.
Connect your channel
1. Create or open your channel
In Telegram, use your church's channel (or create one). A public channel with an @username is simplest.
2. Add the Shekinex bot as admin
Channel → Administrators → Add Admin → search the Shekinex bot → grant Post Messages.
3. Enter the channel in Settings
Church Settings → Telegram Channel → type your @channelname (or the private-channel id) → Save.
4. Test it
On today's published devotional, click Post to Telegram - the message should appear in your channel within seconds.
Automatic morning posts
Set and forget
In Church Settings, tick Auto-post and choose the time (your church timezone). Each morning the day's devotional posts itself to the channel.
Scheduled devotionals go live
If the day's devotional was scheduled ahead, auto-post publishes it first so the public link works - and it never posts the same devotional twice.
Plan Ahead & Reminder
Write a week or a month of devotionals in one sitting - then let a daily reminder at your own local time keep you faithful.
Plan Ahead
Batch writing
Click Plan Ahead, choose one week or one month and a start date, and fill in the days you want - blank days are simply skipped.
Scheduled, not live
Each entry saves as scheduled and waits under Upcoming. Nothing is public until you publish it.
On the day
The scheduled devotional surfaces at the top with one-click Publish, then Send, Share, and Post are a tap away.
Your daily reminder
Your timezone, your time
Click Reminder, pick your timezone and the local time you want (say 06:00), and save.
Only when there is something to send
On days a devotional exists, you get one email: "Today's devotional is ready" - with a button into Shekinex. No devotional, no noise. Only you receive it, never your members.
BlizCast Live
Broadcasting built in - stream your services to members and seekers beyond your walls.
Live streaming
Reach the nations
Integrated audio and video broadcasting, without gluing together a separate platform.
On your dashboard
One workspace
Broadcasting lives inside the same platform, so outreach stays connected to the rest of your ministry.
Reports & AI Insights
One place to understand your church - the numbers and the story behind them.
Unified reports
Everything together
Reports aggregate people, attendance, finance, welfare, and ministries into a board-ready view in seconds.
Role-aware
Each person sees the reports their role permits - sensitive figures stay protected.
AI insights
Plain-language observations
Shekinex highlights attendance trends, members to follow up, and welfare ready to disburse.
Early warning
Declining engagement surfaces before members drift away, so you can act in time.
Church Settings
Your church profile and branding, all in one place.
Profile
Contact & details
Set your church name, contact email and phone, address, website, and timezone.
Church logo
Upload your logo
Add your logo from a file or camera. It appears across your Shekinex workspace. Square images look best.
Replace or remove
Update your logo any time, or remove it, from the same screen.
Member Portal
Give every member their own secure login - a personal space where church life continues all week, not just on Sunday.
Inviting members
Two ways in
Invite members directly with a personal link, or share your church's public join page so people can request access themselves.
Scan-to-join poster
Open Member Access and print a QR poster for your noticeboard or screen. People scan, request access, and your team approves - your register stays clean.
You stay in control
Every self-service request waits for a leader to approve before an account is created. No one adds themselves to your church without your say-so.
What members can do
Their profile & devotions
Members keep their own contact details current and read the daily devotional right in the app.
Group, prayer & birthdays
See fellow group members, share and intercede in prayer, and celebrate one another's birthdays.
Their own journey
Each member sees their attendance, their soul-winning testimony, and their reward level - Jasper to Diamond - as they bring others to Christ.
Online Giving
Let members give tithes and offerings from their phone - straight into your church's own account. You keep 100%; Shekinex never touches the funds.
Setting it up
Your own account
In Online Giving settings, enter your church's own Flutterwave keys. Gifts land directly in your bank - a separate rail from your Shekinex subscription.
Giving categories
Define the purposes members can give toward - Tithe, Offering, Building Fund, Missions - so every gift is recorded against a purpose.
Test first
Start in test mode with test keys, confirm a gift flows through, then switch to live when you are ready.
How members give
A tap to give
Members open the Give tab, choose a purpose and amount, and pay securely through Flutterwave's checkout.
Verified, then recorded
A gift is only recorded once the payment is confirmed - no gift is counted until the money has moved.
Their giving history
Every member sees their own record of tithes and offerings in their portal, always to hand.
Cards & Certificates
Beautiful membership cards and certificates - automatically carrying your church's logo, name, and your pastor's signature.
Membership cards
On every member's phone
Each member has a digital membership card - your logo and name, their photo, group and role, and a QR to their portal.
Set your signature once
In Church Settings, add your Pastor in Charge and upload a signature. It flows onto every card and certificate automatically.
Print or save
Members print their card or save it as a PDF to their phone, ready to show at church.
Certificates
Four kinds
Issue baptism, membership, marriage, and birth certificates - each gold-framed, auto-branded, and signed by your church.
Marriage portraits
Marriage certificates carry both the husband's and wife's photos side by side.
Kept forever
Every certificate you issue is saved, and the member keeps it in their portal to view and print any time.
Bible School
Teach and disciple online - courses for members and leaders, with completion certificates when they finish.
Building a course
Create & add lessons
Open Bible School, create a course, and add lessons - each with teaching text, a scripture, and an embedded video or audio link.
Publish it
When it is ready, publish the course so members can find and take it from their portal.
Open to outsiders
Turn on public enrollment and share the link so people outside your church can join a course too.
Taking a course & certificates
Learn at your pace
Members work through lessons and mark each complete; a progress bar tracks how far along they are.
Completion certificate
When someone finishes, you review and issue a gold Certificate of Completion - auto-branded and signed by your church.
Kept in their portal
Every certificate you issue is saved to the member, alongside any baptism or membership certificates.
Rota & Serving
Schedule who serves when, and let members confirm their duties from their own portal.
Building the rota
Define serving teams
Set up the roles your church serves in - Ushers, Worship, Camera, Sound, Children, Greeters and more.
Schedule a service
Create a dated service, then assign members to teams. You can also type a one-off role for a single assignment.
See who is covered
Every assignment shows its status at a glance, so you always know which roles are confirmed.
Members respond
My Serving
Each member sees their upcoming duties in their portal, with the service, date, and their role.
Accept or decline
A tap confirms they can serve, or lets you know they cannot make it - so you can find cover in good time.
Automations
When something happens, let Shekinex act for you - welcome visitors, follow up, send blessings, alert your team.
Building a rule
When this happens
Pick a trigger - a new visitor, a new member, a birthday today, or a member who has gone quiet.
Do these steps
Add steps in order: send an email or Telegram message, wait a set time, or branch on a condition - a full sequence, not just one alert.
Switch it on
Turn the automation on and it runs by itself on a schedule, quietly doing the follow-up you would otherwise forget.
Ready-made templates
Install in a click
Start from proven recipes: first-time visitor welcome, new convert nurture, birthday blessings, and we-miss-you for members who have not attended in a while.
Reach people their way
Automations can email, post to Telegram, or place an automated voice call - and see a log of exactly what was sent.
Accounting & Funds
Keep real books - income, expenses and transfers, organised by fund - without needing to know accounting.
Setting up
Create your funds
Organise money by purpose - General, Building, Missions, Benevolence. Mark a fund restricted and it can only be spent on its purpose.
Add your accounts
List where money sits (Cash, Bank, Mobile Money) and your income and expense types (Tithes, Offerings, Utilities, Salaries).
Recording & reports
Money in plain language
Record money in, money out, or a transfer between funds. Shekinex keeps the books correctly behind the scenes - they can never fall out of balance.
Real reports
See fund balances and a statement of activity at a glance - the reports a treasurer, a board, and an auditor all expect.
Restricted funds honoured
Money given for the building stays for the building, and the reports prove it - so trust is never in question.
Purchase Approvals
Keep spending accountable with a simple two-step approval before any money leaves a fund.
Request and review
Raise a request
Department heads and finance staff request a purchase - what it is for, the amount, the fund, and the vendor.
Two-step sign-off
A reviewer recommends it, then a pastor or admin approves. Either step can reject with a reason.
Fund-aware and posted
Overspend flagged
If a request is bigger than the fund can cover, that is shown clearly before anyone approves.
Posts when paid
Only when you mark it paid does it become an expense in your ledger - your books stay clean until money actually moves.
Budgets & Reconciliation
Plan the year and prove your books match the bank.
Budget vs actual
Plan per fund
Set a yearly income and expense plan for each fund. Copy last year forward in one click.
Live tracking
Real figures fill in from your ledger as gifts and expenses post, with clear over-budget warnings.
Bank reconciliation
Tick what cleared
Check off the transactions on your statement until your cleared balance matches the bank to the penny.
Audit record
Each completed reconciliation is saved with the date, balance, and who did it.
Bills, Money Owed & Year-End
Track obligations properly and close each year with confidence.
Bills & money owed
Payables and receivables
Record what the church owes and what is owed to it. Each is placed on your books the moment it is recorded, and cleared when settled.
Aging
See at a glance what is current and what is overdue by 30, 60, or 90-plus days.
Year-end close
Lock the year
Close a completed year so its books are final and no entry can be back-dated into it.
Carries forward
Fund balances flow into the new year automatically - the close simply makes the prior year final.
Hand Clean Books to Your Accountant
Because Shekinex keeps real double-entry books, you can export them straight into professional accounting software.
One universal export
QuickBooks and Xero
Download a general-journal CSV that imports into either, for a year, a range, or all time.
Balanced by design
Every export is balanced double-entry - your accountant imports it without a fight.
Funds carry across
Restricted funds preserved
Each line carries its fund, which maps to a QuickBooks class or a Xero tracking category during import.
Donor statements
Give members an itemised, branded statement of their giving for any year - admin-generated or self-serve.
Forms & Registrations
Collect any information your church needs, take payments, and turn responses into action.
Build a form
Open Forms in Operations and start from scratch or a template - baptism, events, membership, volunteers, weddings, facility bookings and more. Add any field you need, mark the required ones, then publish. Your form gets a public link anyone can open, with no login. Signed-in members see their own details filled in.
Take payments
Give a form a price and a currency and people pay through your own payment provider before their place is confirmed. Charge a flat fee or multiply by a number the person enters, such as seats or guests. Responses are saved the moment they submit, and marked paid once payment clears, so you can follow up on anyone who has not yet paid.
Applications for courses
Require an application before anyone enrols in a class. Link a form to a course from the course itself, or create one in a click. Applicants who submit - or pay, if the form charges - are enrolled automatically.
Close dates, limits and alerts
Set a closing date and a maximum number of responses. The form closes on time and stops once it is full, showing a friendly message. Add a staff email to be notified the moment each response arrives, and export every response to a spreadsheet whenever you need it.
Languages & Translation
Meet every member in the language of their heart, across the app and their messages.
Nineteen languages
Shekinex speaks nineteen languages, with African tongues first-class alongside global ones - English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Luganda and more. Each member chooses their own language from their profile, and the church sets a default for everyone else.
Messages in every language
Send a devotional once and each member receives it in the language they chose. Translation keeps a warm, pastoral tone and handles scripture faithfully, so the meaning is carried, not just the words. If a translation is ever unavailable, the message still goes out in English - a send is never held back.
Security & Privacy
Your church data is yours, and protected at every layer.
Role-based access
Seven granular roles
Each person sees only what they should. Sensitive modules are locked to authorized roles.
Tenant isolation
Fenced to your church
Every record is isolated at the database layer - your data is never visible to another church.
Audit-proof finances
Append-only ledger
Financial records are permanent and traceable, corrected only by reversal.
Safe media
Private by default
Member photos are held in private storage. Only your church branding is public, under strict controls.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to install anything?
No. Shekinex runs in your web browser on any device - phone, tablet, or computer. Just sign in at your church link.
My new church shows no data. Is something wrong?
No - that is correct. A brand-new workspace starts empty. Figures fill in as you add members, record attendance, and log giving. You never see another church demo data.
Can several leaders use it at once?
Yes. Invite your whole team and assign each a role. Everyone works in the same live workspace at the same time.
Is our giving data private?
Yes. Finances and Welfare are restricted to the Church Admin, Pastor, and Finance Officer roles, and the ledger is append-only.
Does Shekinex do real accounting, or just track giving?
Real accounting. Shekinex keeps proper double-entry, fund-based books - the same foundation professional software uses - behind a plain-language screen. You get a true ledger, budgets, bank reconciliation, and a balance you can trust.
Can our accountant import the books into QuickBooks or Xero?
Yes. Export a balanced general-journal file that imports into QuickBooks or Xero for any period. Each line carries its fund, which maps to a QuickBooks class or a Xero tracking category during import.
How do restricted funds work?
Every gift, expense, budget line, and purchase approval is tagged to a fund. Restricted funds stay separate throughout, and spending that would exceed a fund is flagged before it is approved - so designated money is used the way it was given.
How does QR check-in work?
Display or print your church QR code. Members scan it with their phone camera and are counted instantly - no app required.
Can we manage more than one campus?
Yes. Use the Branches module to manage every location, each with its own pastor and details.
What happens when my trial ends?
You see a reminder with your exact expiry date. Choosing a plan keeps all your work intact.
Can I upload our church logo?
Yes. In Church Settings you can upload, replace, or remove your logo. It appears across your workspace.
Does Telegram posting cost anything?
No. Telegram's bot platform is free - unlimited posts to your channel, no per-message fees. WhatsApp sharing is also free.
How do members stop devotional emails?
Every devotional email has an unsubscribe link. One click opts them out, and they are automatically excluded from future sends.
How are Soul Winner levels earned?
By all-time souls credited: Jasper 1+, Sapphire 3+, Emerald 5+, Topaz 10+, Beryl 20+, Amethyst 35+, Diamond 50+ - the precious stones of Revelation 21 and Exodus 28.
Can we take registrations and payments through a form?
Yes. Build a form for any need - events, baptism, membership, volunteers, weddings - and share a public link that members and visitors can fill without signing in. Add a price and people pay through your own payment provider in your own currency before their place is confirmed.
Can a course require an application first?
Yes. Any course can be gated behind an application form. People apply through the form, and once they submit - or pay, if the form charges - they are enrolled automatically.
Can registration close on a date or limit the number of places?
Yes. Set a closing date and a maximum number of responses. The form closes itself on time and stops accepting entries once it is full, and your team is emailed the moment each new response arrives.
Can members read the app and messages in their own language?
Yes. Shekinex speaks nineteen languages, including French, Portuguese, Swahili, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and Luganda. Each member chooses their language, and the church sets a default for everyone else. When you send a devotional, every member receives it in their chosen language, translated with a warm pastoral tone and scripture handled faithfully.
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