Every week there is a list. Update the congregation register before Sunday. Chase the treasurer about last month's giving envelopes. Find out why the website still shows last year's Advent dates. Email the Worship Ministry about rehearsal. Record the minutes from the Elders' meeting before anyone forgets who said what. None of these jobs is complicated on its own. The problem is that each one lives somewhere different — a spreadsheet here, a login there, a folder on someone's personal computer — and when the person who knows where everything is takes a Sunday off, things fall through the gap.

Daviah is built for exactly this week. It keeps your congregation records, your giving, your services and ministries, your meeting notes and your public website in a single office, using the words your church already uses on every screen, on a straightforward monthly subscription with no contract to sign and no card required to start.

Software your whole team can pick up without a training project

The most common reason church software gets abandoned is not that it lacks features — it is that the person who set it up leaves, or the volunteer who agreed to learn it never quite did, and now no one is confident enough to touch it. Starting over is its own project, and not everyone is willing.

Daviah asks for nothing to start: a name, an email address and a password. Your site is built from a design the moment you sign up, and the office menus use your church's own language throughout — Congregation, Giving, Services, Ministries, Meeting Notes, Our Leadership, Pastor, Church Secretary, Treasurer. Nothing is labelled with a word borrowed from a different kind of organisation. Pages are built from ready-made sections you add, reorder and edit without writing a line of code, and someone can be given a Website Editor role that lets them look after the site without access to the money or member records.

If something goes wrong, every organisation on any plan can report a problem or ask a question from inside the office and follow the reply there. Daviah can also be reached by phone at (530) 377-3049 or by email at admin@daviah.io.

Giving records the treasurer can stand behind

When card gifts are not automatically matched to the giver, when cash envelopes are logged in a separate file, and when corrections are made without a paper trail, the treasurer ends up spending hours before year-end reconciling figures that should never have diverged.

In Daviah the treasurer raises the year's giving for the whole congregation in one step, and members can pay what they owe by card from their own portal — a payment is recorded only once Stripe confirms the money has moved. Cash, check and envelope gifts can be recorded by hand, each assigned a receipt number that runs in sequence per year. Waiving, voiding or correcting any charge is the treasurer's decision, recorded with a reason in the audit trail. Giving reports are counted live from the records, and members, giving totals and payment history can all be exported to CSV.

One place for your congregation, services, ministries and website

The tangle of disconnected tools is familiar: a spreadsheet for the congregation list, a separate platform for the website, email for ministry communication, a shared drive for meeting notes, and a payment link someone set up years ago. The administrator ends up retyping the same names into different systems every week.

Daviah keeps congregation records, meetings and minutes, ministries, giving, events and the public website in a single office. Your congregation comes in from a CSV spreadsheet with columns matched automatically and duplicates flagged before anything is saved. Services and regular meetings are recorded with a minute book that moves from draft to submitted to approved, and approved minutes can be amended with a recorded reason. Ministries are named groups you can write to directly. Events can carry a capacity, an RSVP deadline and a waiting list. The website draws its events, news and leadership page from the same records, so what is in the office appears on the site without a second round of copying.

A weekly service schedule can be set up once, and each week's sessions are created from it automatically.

Costs that are clear before you enter a card number

Church software pricing can be genuinely hard to decode: prices that scale with congregation size, per-feature add-ons, or annual contracts that lock you in before you know whether the platform suits you.

Daviah's prices are flat per organisation, whatever the size of your congregation. The free plan lets you build and save your entire site and preview it through a private link, with nothing expiring. The Website plan is $29.99 a month, or $300 a year. Website and Members — which adds the full office, congregation records, giving, meetings, ministries, messages and the member portal — is $79.99 a month, or $819.99 a year. Both paid plans run month to month with no contract; paying annually is cheaper. Card payments from your congregation go straight to your own Stripe account; Daviah takes no cut of the money.

A church website that does not need a specialist to update

A church website goes stale for a predictable reason: the volunteer who knew how to update it has moved on, and no one left behind feels confident enough to touch it. Hiring someone to fix it is expensive for most congregations, so the site sits quietly showing last year's term dates.

When you sign up to Daviah, your website is created from a design straight away — a front page and pages for your sections, ready to edit. There are eight designs in five styles; the design can be changed from the office. Pages are built from a library of ready-made sections, edited by anyone you invite, without code. The Website Editor role means a trusted volunteer can look after the site without access to the money or member records. On the Website and Members plan, the Daviah team registers your own domain and connects it for you; you add one DNS record and the security certificate is issued automatically.

The office can also draft wording about an event for you to read, edit and approve before anything is published, and generate a printable flyer, social images and an email banner with the event's details already typeset — forty pieces of generated artwork a month are included on the Website and Members plan.

What your congregation sees on your own site

Members sign in to a private portal on your church's own website — not a third-party platform — to update their own contact details, see their giving record, pay what they owe by card, reply to events and open members-only documents and photographs.

New visitors can find a join page on your site listing what your congregation offers, where they can submit an enquiry to join or request to attend a service — keeping the first point of contact on your own domain rather than a form on someone else's platform. Every design includes a newsletter sign-up box in the footer, and on the paid plan the addresses collected can be written to.

What to do if the platform ever lets you down

Depending on a single platform always carries some risk. No claim is made here about uptime or what happens if ownership changes. What can be said is this: if a subscription payment fails, nothing is withheld for ten days, and your church receives three emails before anything stops. If you stop paying, your congregation records stay readable and your CSV exports continue to work; everything comes back the moment you pay again. Each church's records are walled off from every other organisation's, and this is checked by automated tests.

Both paid plans run month to month with no contract to sign.

Questions

Do I need a card to sign up or try Daviah?

No. Signing up is free and asks only for a name, an email address and a password. On the free plan you can build and save your entire website and view it through a private preview link. Nothing expires. A card is required only when you choose a paid plan.

Does the office use the words our church already uses, or do we have to translate everything?

Your people are your Congregation. Their regular payments are Giving. Your groups are Ministries. Your weekly gatherings are Services. No other kind of organisation — lodge, school, club — shares these words with you.

Can our treasurer track both card gifts and cash or check envelopes in the same place?

Yes. Card gifts paid through the portal are recorded the moment Stripe confirms the money moved. Cash, check and envelope gifts are entered by hand, each assigned a receipt number that runs in sequence per year. Every correction or waiver is recorded with a reason in the audit trail.

What happens to our congregation's records if we stop paying?

Your records stay readable and your CSV exports — congregation, giving, payments, officers — continue to work. Your site and office come back as soon as you pay again. If a payment fails, nothing is withheld for ten days and you receive three emails before anything stops.

Can a volunteer update the website without seeing the giving records?

Yes. The Website Editor role lets someone edit the site without access to the money or member records. You decide who holds which role when you invite people to the office.

Does the price change as our congregation grows?

No. Both paid plans are a flat fee per organisation — $29.99 a month for the Website plan, or $79.99 a month for Website and Members — whatever the size of your congregation. Paying annually is cheaper: $300 a year for Website, and $819.99 a year for Website and Members.

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