ChurchBell
The diocese management platform

One platform,
from parish to diocese.

ChurchBell Diocese gives the Bishop a single, living view over every affiliated parish. Assessment, finance, members, workforce, talent, property and legal, one connected, transparent, accountable diocese, built on the same platform your churches already trust.

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ChurchBell web app dashboard

The diocesan dashboard, every parish in one live view.

Why we built it

Designed with the diocese, for the diocese.

We are software engineers who grew up watching our own relatives fill church ledgers every Sunday. In 2022, ChurchBell began in a single parish. No ads, no campaigns. Every church that joined came through word of mouth.

As parishes came aboard, one question kept returning from the diocesan office: what does all of this look like together? Assessment owed and paid, finances across every church, staff nearing retirement, land and buildings, court cases with a hearing next week.

ChurchBell Diocese is the answer. It sits above the parishes your churches already run on, and rolls their books up, live, into one place the Bishop can trust. Not a stitched-together set of one-offs. One product, one platform.

The world runs on software now, and it is only moving faster. The church and the diocese can move with it. Going digital is no longer optional, it is how a diocese stays transparent, accountable and ready for the next generation. We are here to walk that road with you, at every step of the transformation.

2022
Building since
7
Diocesan modules
1
Source of truth
The architecture

Every parish,
connected to the centre.

Each church keeps running ChurchBell exactly as it does today. Their books roll up, live, into the diocese. The Bishop sees the whole, and drills all the way down to a single receipt.

The DioceseOne live view
Step 1

Parishes run ChurchBell

Members, receipts and reports, handled by each church exactly as they are today.

Step 2

Books roll up, live

Assessable income, finances and membership consolidate automatically, with no year-end scramble.

Step 3

The Bishop sees the whole

One dashboard across every parish, drillable from diocese total to a single transaction.

The platform

Seven modules.
One diocese.

Everything the diocesan office runs on, in one place. Each module is fed live by the parishes below it, and each drills down to the smallest detail.

Module · 01

Assessment

Every rupee accounted for

Auto Computation

Assessable income pulled from each church's books. The diocesan share is calculated, with no manual math.

Payment Tracking

Every payment received, tracked against each church, month by month and fund by fund.

Pending & Arrears

Outstanding and cumulative arrears across every church, visible at a glance.

Confirmations Queue

Detect payments from church ledgers, then confirm or reconcile before they count.

Audit-Ready Statements

Church-wise and year-wise statements, formatted and ready for the auditor.

Automatic Reminders

Churches falling behind are nudged automatically, at 3 days, on the day, and after.

Module · 02

Finance

The whole diocese, consolidated

Receipts & Payments

Consolidated across every church, grouped by the diocese's standard ledger codes.

Trial Balance

Every account reconciled diocese-wide, exported to PDF in seconds.

Day Book

A chronological, searchable journal of every transaction across the diocese.

Account Statistics

Income versus expense dashboards. Decisions at a glance, not at year-end.

Standard Ledgers

One curated chart of accounts, so every church reconciles the exact same way.

Drill-Down

From the diocese total to a single church to one individual receipt.

Module · 03

Members

One directory, every parish

Unified Directory

One directory across every affiliated parish, not forty separate lists.

Member Dashboard

Totals, families, payers and demographics across the whole diocese, at a glance.

Search & Filter

By parish, area, age band, family or group. The roll you need in one click.

Member Profiles

Drill from diocese, to parish, to a single member's full profile and history.

Live From Each Church

Always current, rolling up from each parish's own books in real time.

Export

Directory and demographic reports to Excel, subscription cards to PDF.

Module · 04

Workforce

Plan before the gap appears

Staff Records

Complete records across schools, colleges and institutions, one file per person.

Organisation

Every department and org unit across the diocese, in one clear structure.

Compensation History

Salary, allowances and every change, dated and audited: who, when and why.

Qualifications & Service

Education, certifications and full posting history, kept for every staff member.

Retirement Forecast

Vacancies projected years ahead, automatically, so you never plan in a panic.

Document Vault

Certificates, IDs and contracts, stored safely against each person's record.

Module · 05

Talent Acquisition

From vacancy to hire

Candidate Pool

A standing pool of candidates with qualifications, documents and availability.

Job Postings

Openings tied directly to the vacancies your Workforce module projects.

Application Pipeline

Applied, shortlisted, interview, offer, hired. Every stage, on one board.

Smart-Match Radar

Candidates ranked against each posting by qualification, experience and skills.

One-Click Hire

Hire in a click, and the candidate becomes a staff record in Workforce.

Import at Scale

Load thousands of candidates from Excel, with duplicate detection built in.

Module · 06

Property & Land

A permanent record of the land

Asset Register

Every plot, building and shop the diocese owns: survey number, area and value, in one place.

GPS Map

Every holding pinned and viewable on a map across the whole diocese.

Rentals & Tenants

Rental units, tenants and terms, with rent invoices raised and tracked each month.

Insurance Watch

Policy expiry tracked and flagged at 30, 15 and 7 days, so a policy never lapses.

Statutory Records

Property tax, electricity and water IDs, acquisition and market value, all documented.

Title Deeds

Deeds and records stored safely. The diocese's most vulnerable asset, preserved.

Module · 07

Legal

Never miss a hearing or a notice

Court-Case Register

Court, case number, parties and current status. Every case on record.

Hearings Diary

A hearings calendar so the next date is always right in front of you.

Legal Notices

Sent and received notices, each with its own deadline, tracked to resolution.

Multi-Step Reminders

Reminders at 7, 3 and 1 days, and again on the day, over push and WhatsApp.

Case Linking

Link a case to the parish or the property it concerns, so context is never lost.

Case Documents

Every petition, judgment and affidavit attached to the file, nothing left loose.

Built for the office

One platform, every desk in the diocese.

ChurchBell Diocese is built for the whole diocesan office. Role-based access means each officer signs in to exactly what their work needs, and nothing they should not see, from the Bishop's overview to the legal officer's next hearing.

The Bishop

The whole diocese in one live view, with the freedom to drill from any total down to a single receipt.

Financial Officers & Treasurer

Assessment, consolidated finance and property income, tracked, reconciled and always audit-ready.

Office Bearers & Secretary

Members, records and the day-to-day administration of the diocese, all in one shared directory.

Legal Officers

Every court case, hearing and notice on record, with reminders so a date is never missed.

HR & Talent Officers

Staff across every institution, retirements forecast years ahead, and vacancies matched to candidates.

Property Officers

Land, buildings, rentals, tenants and insurance, documented and mapped across the whole diocese.

Add as many officers as you need, at no extra cost. Each is given a role, and each role sees only what it should.

Signature moments

The moments that change how a diocese runs.

Two things that used to take weeks. Now they happen on their own.

Assessment

The math that took weeks, done in a moment.

Assessable income flows up from each church's books. The diocesan share is computed per church, tracked payment by payment, and every pending rupee is visible, without a single spreadsheet or reminder letter.

By hand
Weeks
Automatic
Live
Workforce planning

The retirement you'd have found out about too late.

Workforce projects every vacancy years ahead and hands each gap to Talent Acquisition. A posting goes up, candidates are ranked, and the best fit is hired, before the chair is ever empty.

Before
A shock
With ChurchBell
A plan
Now on mobile

The diocese, in your pocket.

The diocesan modules are on the ChurchBell mobile app too. Review, approve and see the whole diocese from anywhere, on the very same live data you see on the web.

On the go

Review & approve on the go

Confirm assessment payments, clear the confirmations queue and approve requests from your phone, wherever the day takes you.

ChurchBell mobile app home screen
Anywhere

The whole diocese, live

Dashboards, parishes, finance and members in your pocket, the same live rollups the Bishop sees on the web, always current.

Onboarding

Live in one setup. We do the heavy lifting.

1
Step 1

Import the church list

Every affiliated parish, onboarded in a single pass. No parish left out.

2
Step 2

Load the standard ledger chart

The diocese's curated income and expense codes, so every church reconciles the same way.

3
Step 3

Import assessment history

The last three financial years, enough to power year-on-year comparison from day one.

4
Optional

Institutions & legal on record

Schools, staff and open court cases, added whenever you are ready to enrich the picture.

A one-time setup, and we do it with you. In-person or online training included, and we are always a WhatsApp message away.

Pricing

Fund a digital department that runs itself.

Going digital is not a one-off project, it is a department the diocese runs for good. The platform cost is small and fixed. Here are two simple, proven ways to fund it, so IT becomes a permanent line in the budget, not a scramble each year.

The platform
₹10,000
per month, flat

Hosted, maintained and fully managed. Every module included, every parish connected.

  • Free onboarding: migration, setup and training
  • No per-seat charges, no hidden fees
  • Every module included, no tiers
  • No lock-in, your data is always yours
Two ways to fund it
Model A

Per-member share

Add a small diocesan share on top of the ChurchBell fee each church already pays. It grows with the diocese, and it funds the diocese.

ChurchBell platform
per member / month
₹3
Diocese IT & operations
per member / month, kept by the diocese
₹2
Each church pays
per subscription-paying member / month
₹5

A 500-member church pays ₹2,500 a month, and ₹1,000 of that flows straight to the diocese to run its IT services.

Model B

Annual or monthly IT Fund

Collect a fixed IT Fund from every parish, once a year or every month, ring-fenced for digital services. Predictable for the parish, dependable for the diocese.

  • A simple, planned line item in every parish budget
  • Scale it by parish size, or keep one flat figure for all
  • One fund that covers the platform, training and support together

A modest yearly IT Fund across a few dozen parishes comfortably covers the platform, with room to grow the department.

Whichever model you choose, the aim is the same: a diocesan IT department that pays for itself and keeps paying forward, funding the platform, the training and the people who keep your churches moving with the times.

In their words

Voices from the diocesan office.

A few of the bishops, treasurers and secretaries the platform is built for. Real quotes coming soon.

“For the first time I can see assessment across every parish in one place, what is due, what is paid, what is pending, without waiting for a single report to be typed.”
The Diocesan Treasurer
Treasurer
CSI Diocese · Illustrative
“Our land and buildings were scattered across registers in a dozen parishes. Now every plot is documented, mapped and insured, and I sleep better for it.”
The Diocesan Secretary
Secretary
CSI Diocese · Illustrative
“It runs on the same platform our churches already trust. One connected, transparent, accountable diocese, that is exactly what we needed.”
The Bishop
Bishop
CSI Diocese · Illustrative
Frequently asked

The questions a diocesan office asks first.

Everything we are asked most, answered plainly. Anything else, send us a WhatsApp.

No. Each parish keeps running ChurchBell exactly as it does now. The diocese platform sits above them and rolls their books up automatically. There is nothing new for a church treasurer to learn.
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Let us build this for your diocese.

The world is going digital fast, and your diocese can lead the way. On the same platform your churches already trust, we will help you transform, at every step. One connected, transparent, accountable diocese.

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