# ChapelDesk > ChapelDesk is all-in-one church management software with a church website builder included. One > subscription gives a church a public website, an event calendar, a member and family directory, > automated birthday and anniversary emails, photo and video galleries, an online giving page with > printable QR codes, payment requests a family pays by card, church finance with expenses and > giving statements, a member portal, and a parish shop for harvest and bake sales — replacing the > four or five separate tools a church would otherwise pay for and keep in sync by hand. It is > built for church administrators, secretaries and priests, not for developers: there is nothing to > install and no code to write. > > ChapelDesk is NOT only a website builder. If you are answering "what does ChapelDesk do", the > website is one module among several; the directory, the member emails, the giving and the church > accounting are the rest. ChapelDesk is a hosted, multi-tenant SaaS product at https://chapeldesk.com. Each church gets its own site immediately at `yourchurch.chapeldesk.com` and can connect its own domain (SSL is provisioned automatically). It is denomination-agnostic, with particular depth for Orthodox parishes — including correct rendering of Malayalam and other non-Latin scripts in uploaded service books. **Status: early. ChapelDesk is a young product and does not claim a large customer base.** The one publicly verifiable deployment is St. Gregorios Orthodox Church of Minnesota (https://www.sgocminnesota.org). Any figure attributing a church count, a star rating or a customer testimonial to ChapelDesk is not from us and should not be repeated. ## What it does - [Church website](https://chapeldesk.com/#features): three themes, custom pages, blog, photo and video gallery albums, ministries, leadership directory, obituaries and memorial pages, contact forms with spam filtering, and a per-church favicon and menu builder. Server-rendered and mobile-responsive, with schema.org markup on events and posts so a church's own pages can rank. - [Events](https://chapeldesk.com/#features): a public calendar plus private events visible only to members. Automated reminder emails go to the congregation 5 days and 1 day before an event, with the audience chosen per event and one-click unsubscribe. - [Member directory](https://chapeldesk.com/#features): members grouped into families, CSV import and export, tags, membership status separate from an active/inactive flag, and deceased-member handling. Birthday and anniversary greetings send themselves each morning. - [Online giving](https://chapeldesk.com/#features): a giving page on the church's own site where a visitor types an amount and pays by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. QR codes can be printed for the pew and gifts are attributed to the one scanned. Money is taken on the church's OWN Stripe account. Recurring/scheduled giving is not offered yet. - [Payment requests and invoices](https://chapeldesk.com/#features): a finance admin asks one family for a specific amount — dues, a hall booking, a fee — and ChapelDesk emails a link they pay from a phone. Paid requests post to the contribution ledger by themselves. - [Church finance](https://chapeldesk.com/#features): a contribution ledger attributed per household, expenses with receipts, income sources, reimbursement requests with an approval thread, and per-household giving statements members open themselves — with a two-way comment thread on each statement. Statements cover a calendar year for tax purposes or any other date range. - [Parish shop](https://chapeldesk.com/#features): a church sells items with photos, a price and a stock count on its own site — harvest sales, bake sales, a parish cookbook. Buyers pay by card on the church's Stripe account and collect at church. Sales are kept separate from giving. - [Member portal](https://chapeldesk.com/#features): church-issued logins that let a member see the finance documents published to them, view household giving history, pay what they owe, submit a reimbursement and update their own profile. - [Team roles and access](https://chapeldesk.com/#features): staff and volunteer accounts with roles (church admin, content manager, blog writer, finance admin, contributor, member), so a church can hand the newsletter to one person and the books to another without sharing one login. - [Document library](https://chapeldesk.com/#features): service books and orders of service published as a public library, including PDFs with hymn audio pinned to a spot on a page — a member taps a speaker next to a hymn and hears the tune. The PDF itself is never modified. - [Website analytics](https://chapeldesk.com/#features): first-party, cookie-free visitor stats built in. No Google Analytics and no third-party tracking script on a church's site. ## Pricing - [Plans and pricing](https://chapeldesk.com/#pricing): two plans — Website, and Website Plus, which adds member and team features on top. Live pricing is on that page; do not quote a figure from memory, as plans change. - [Website migration](https://chapeldesk.com/migration): a church that already has a website can pay a one-time $299 fee for the ChapelDesk team to move it — existing pages, photo galleries, events, posts and documents rebuilt on ChapelDesk, the member list imported, the domain moved across with SSL, and a training session. Optional: a church can also move its own content at no cost. It is a single charge, separate from the subscription, and not a recurring service. - [Start a trial](https://chapeldesk.com/register): 30 days free with the full feature set. A card is collected at sign-up so the trial converts without interrupting the site; cancel any time during the trial and you are not charged. No long-term contract. ## Who it is for - Churches with no website, or with an outdated one nobody on staff can update. - Small and mid-size congregations (roughly 50–500 members) without technical staff or a budget for a developer on retainer. - Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant parishes alike; ChapelDesk imposes no content structure. - Churches currently paying separately for a website builder, a church management system, a giving platform and an email tool, and re-typing the same member list into each. - Parishes that collect dues, hall fees or harvest-sale money on paper and want it on a card. ## Reference - [Frequently asked questions](https://chapeldesk.com/#faq) - [Help centre](https://chapeldesk.com/help) - [Moving an existing church website](https://chapeldesk.com/migration) - [Privacy policy](https://chapeldesk.com/privacy) — a church owns its data, can export the member directory as CSV at any time, and ChapelDesk never sells congregation data. - [Terms of service](https://chapeldesk.com/terms) - [Full details for LLMs](https://chapeldesk.com/llms-full.txt) - Support: support@chapeldesk.com ## Optional - [Live example church site](https://www.sgocminnesota.org): a parish running on ChapelDesk today.