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Your church's admin, handled by people who know its rules
A congregation carries obligations no generic provider accounts for: the pastor isn't taxed like the rest of the staff, housing is designated in the minutes and before payday, and giving is logged with a name and a date. No system built for offices solves any of that.
Let's talk about your congregationWhere to start
Two fronts, and you don't have to open both at once
You can take one without the other. What rarely works is leaving both as they are.
The pastor's payroll
This is the urgent front, because the mistake costs money today and the pastor pays it out of pocket. An ordinary system withholds what it shouldn't, and the housing allowance is lost entirely if it's designated late.
See clergy payrollThe church's system
Members, giving, attendance, events and communication in one place, under your congregation's own name and logo. That's Atrio — and each person gets messages in their own language.
See AtrioWhat we find
It's almost always the same, and almost never anyone's fault
None of this comes from neglect. It comes from nobody ever telling the church that its rules aren't those of an ordinary company.
The treasury lives in a spreadsheet
It works as long as the same person keeps it. The trouble starts when that person leaves, or when the board asks to see who touched what and when.
Payroll is run by a system that doesn't know what a minister is
It withholds from the pastor like any employee. The provider makes the mistake, but the church signs the corrected W-2.
The housing allowance isn't in any minutes
Or it was designated once years ago and never renewed. It's the pastor's biggest saving and it's lost over a matter of form, not substance.
The church operates without being formally organized
No articles, no bylaws, or no 501(c)(3) recognition. That comes before everything else: it's what holds the rest up.
What we do for a church
Everything outside the service
Incorporation and 501(c)(3)
Articles, bylaws, EIN and recognition from the IRS. What holds everything else up.
Pastor and staff payroll
Each by its own rule, with the backup in the minutes and the forms filed on time.
Bookkeeping and treasury
Giving, donations and expenses, in order and ready to show the board.
Management system
Atrio: members, attendance, events and communication, under your church's brand.
Brand and presence
Logo, identity and a website so the congregation can find you and recognize you.
One thing worth saying
A church is not a business, and we don't treat it like one. But it does carry obligations that look like a business's: it pays someone, it files forms, and it answers to the IRS like any other entity. Our job is to get that part right and stop it eating everyone's time, so the congregation can get on with what it's for.
Shall we talk about your congregation?
One call to see what's in place today, what still needs documenting and where it makes sense to start. No commitment.