Tend your whole flock, in one place.

Carestead is one platform for the whole church: a visitor-first website, announcements published once to web, TV slides, bulletin and podcast, a private member directory, custody-aware check-in, volunteer scheduling and service plans, and a member app with group chat. Free for your first 25 members.

Carestead is $0 for your first 25 directory members and 3 admin seats, with no credit card required. The Team plan is $39 per month at introductory pricing, with 10 admin seats and your own custom domain, and annual billing saves two months. Church plants get Team free for their first 2 years. Enterprise pricing is custom for multi-campus churches, networks and dioceses.

Nothing breaks and nothing is deleted. The free tier is sized for a church plant finding its feet; once you are past it, Team is the next step, and it is also where a custom domain, email and self-hosted sermon audio and video live. If your church launched within the last 2 years, Team is free anyway under the church-plant offer. During early access every church gets every feature free.

Yes. A church plant launched within the last 2 years gets the Team plan free for its first 2 years, with the custom domain, email and self-hosted sermon audio and video included. No credit card: you tell us your launch date when we set you up. After 2 years, standard Team pricing applies. Networks and dioceses can also sponsor their plants through the Enterprise plan.

Carestead is live with real churches, every feature is switched on for every church, and nothing is billed yet. The prices on this page are what early-access churches will see when billing goes live. Ask for access and we will set your church up, then talk to us about Team or Enterprise.

Yes, and we do the work. We harvest your current site’s pages, sermons, events, people and photos, rebuild them on the Carestead template, and verify the result against your existing site before anything cuts over. It is a one-time $149 service at introductory pricing, not a self-service import you have to figure out.

Every plan includes a public church site on a free Carestead subdomain. The template ships with a plan-your-visit path and a real inbox behind it, Give and Watch buttons always in reach with a live indicator during services, your current sermon series up front, sermons organised as a shelf, event registration with capacity, waitlists and confirmation emails, a staff page and newsletter signup. Search-engine structured data and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility are on by default, with ten typography pairings to choose from.

Every plan includes a free Carestead subdomain. Custom domains are available on the Team and Enterprise plans.

Yes. Roster is a private, member-first directory: members reach one another through a relay that never exposes an email or phone number, and every member controls who sees each field of their profile across six audience tiers, from public down to only me. The rules are enforced by the database itself, not just a setting. Staff get households, smart groups, encrypted care notes and a printed directory book.

Yes. The member app installs from your church’s own site, no app store required. Members get group chat that follows the roster, a prayer feed, the church announcement channel, sermons, events and their serving schedule, plus an in-app notification centre and an email digest. It is for adults; youth access is a later, separate step. Giving opens your existing giving page.

When your church turns on check-in, pickup follows the custody records your staff keep: who may collect a child, and who may not. The decision is made in the database as the child is released, so a restriction added minutes earlier still applies. A deny is never overridable, not by a volunteer, not by staff, and not by merging two member records. Parents see only their own child’s allow list, and at the door not-on-the-list and denied look identical. Volunteer clearances are recorded with an expiry date. Check-in is part of the Team plan.

Yes. Volunteer roles, dated slots, invitations with accept or decline, member-set blockout dates and serve reminders are built in. Service planning adds a song library, dated service plans, a running order and the setlist. Automations cover five triggers and four actions, each created switched off until you turn it on, and the This week dashboard shows what needs attention across all of it.

Children never have logins. Kid profiles for the Bible games are a nickname, an avatar and an age band, and there are no ads. In the directory, the database schema itself forbids storing contact details on a child’s record. The member app is adults only.

Your church does, on every plan. You can export your data whenever you like, and privacy-request export and erasure are built into the platform. Each church is isolated by row-level security, members can see who at the church viewed their records, product telemetry never leaves the deployment, there are no ads anywhere, and your data is never sold.