Church management for UMC polity

Chapel

Pastor-built. Made for small churches.

Free for churches under 50 in average worship attendance. $15/month when you grow. No per-member fees, no hidden tiers.

Priced on who shows up, not names on a roll.

Every other ChMS charges by the size of your membership roll. For a UMC church with 300 members and 50 in worship, that's a punishment for keeping faithful records. Chapel is priced on average worship attendance. Your rolls can be whatever the Book of Discipline requires. We don't count them against you.

Built on the grammar of mainline polity.

Professing members. Baptized members. Affiliates. Constituents. Charge Conferences. Local Church Reports. If you've ever tried to squeeze UMC data into a system built for a Baptist church, you know why this matters.

Built for two-point charges and circuits.

Every other system was designed for one church at one address. Appointed to a two-point charge? They force you into "multi-campus," which treats your churches like branches of one organization. The Discipline treats them as two separate churches with two Charge Conferences and two Local Church Reports. Chapel does the same. One login for you, completely separate data for each church.

Made for the pastor doing everything.

Chapel is designed for no-staff and bi-vocational pastors. Every feature started with a question: what's a pastor doing by hand on Tuesday morning that a computer could just do?

What Chapel does today

Working features, available now.

Directory & households

Members, families, and contact info with UMC membership statuses built in.

Multi-charge & multi-campus

One login for you. Completely separate data for each church in your charge.

Calendar & rooms

Events with recurring schedules, room booking, and conflict detection.

Attendance

Quick head-counts or individual check-in. Trends by service and campus.

Groups

Committees, small groups, Bible studies, choir, youth — organized and easy to reach.

Pastoral care

Care cases with encrypted notes, visit logs, and follow-up tracking.

Care sign-ups

Meal trains and ride schedules via a public link. No accounts needed for helpers.

Local Church Report

Membership and attendance figures ready for Charge Conference.

Directory access for members

Opt-in church directory your congregation can browse on any device.

Pricing

Priced on average worship attendance. No per-member fees.

Free

Under 50 AWA

For churches with fewer than 50 in average worship attendance.

  • Directory & households
  • Calendar, attendance, groups
  • Pastoral care cases & care sign-ups
  • Multi-charge & multi-campus
  • Local Church Report

Chapel

$15/month

Unlimited worship attendance. Everything in Free, plus:

  • Email blasts & automated messages
  • SMS reminders (bring your own Twilio)
  • Prayer chain with auto-followup
  • Public church page
  • Sermon archive

Annual plan saves two months ($150/yr).

What’s coming

Active development. Early-access churches help prioritize.

  • Email blasts with segment builder
  • SMS reminders (bring your own Twilio)
  • Prayer chain with auto-followup
  • Automated birthday & anniversary greetings
  • Weekly “This Sunday” bulletin email
  • New-visitor follow-up workflow
  • Public church page for congregations without a website
  • Sermon archive from YouTube

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Interested in trying Chapel or helping shape what gets built next? Leave your name and we’ll be in touch.