For Christian churches, the liturgical year is the framework around which every Sunday, every season, every appeal is organised. Advent through Christ the King; Easter as the year's peak; the autumn stewardship season as its quiet financial spine — pre-loaded and observed.
The Christian year
Western Christian calendar (Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Reformed all share most of it). Ahead of each season's opening, a seasonal initiative draft appears in your dashboard — your staff reviews and approves before anything goes out. Easter and Christ the King in gold.
Denomination-specific defaults
Choose your denomination at signup and the platform pre-configures vocabulary, giving categories, and calendar emphasis for your tradition's practices — no manual setup required.
Sunday Collection, Parish Capital, and the Bishop's Annual Appeal set up as first-class funds, with the Roman calendar and feast days pre-loaded for parishioners. Gift Aid receipt flagging for UK parishes — we flag eligible gifts and keep them export-ready; your parish files with HMRC. Multi-parish or diocesan network? Talk to us →
Apportionment giving pre-configured as a top-level designation — the connectional share sent to the conference each quarter. Tracking shows received vs. apportioned so the treasurer always knows where the church stands.
Reformation Sunday (last Sunday of October) marked as a giving emphasis. Synod benevolence tracked alongside local budget. Stewardship season defaults to September kick-off with an October commitment-card Sunday.
Full local-church autonomy — no connectional apportionment, no diocese reporting. Lord's Day offering emphasis. Missions giving tracked per sending organization (IMB, North American Mission Board, local partnerships).
Per-capita giving to presbytery pre-configured as a standing designation. Session-directed budget tracked against commitments. Stewardship-season vocabulary aligned to Reformed tradition.
Julian-calendar Pascha, Nativity (January 7), and the four great fasts observed — the Orthodox/Western Paschal split is computed correctly, not approximated. Festal cycle pre-loaded. Parish-level configuration for Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Antiochian, Coptic, and Ethiopian traditions.
How the calendar works in the platform
Liturgical-awareness is not a toggle in the settings panel. It runs through every layer.
Every giver receipt, every initiative end-date, every recurring schedule — labelled with its liturgical Sunday ("Sixth Sunday of Easter") alongside the Gregorian date.
The dashboard hero shows today's liturgical color (purple in Advent and Lent, white in Eastertide and Christmas, red on Pentecost, gold on high feast days). Seasonal templates auto-tint accordingly.
Ahead of Advent, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, the stewardship season, and Christ the King — a draft initiative appears in the dashboard with pastoral copy, a suggested goal, and a print-ready QR for the Sunday bulletin. Your staff reviews, edits, and approves; nothing sends itself.
The autumn commitment initiative drafts ahead of the season — commitment-card templates, sermon-series ties, and year-end giving statements scheduled per giver. Roughly 30% of the year's giving arrives in December; the platform is built for it.
Set the next four weeks of preaching topics. The platform pre-drafts giving asks for each week's bulletin, Sunday email, and post-service follow-up — each tied to that week's theme.
Holy Week services, VBS, classes, Easter morning — native events with capacity-aware RSVP waitlists and auto-promotion, public event pages, and .ics/iCal feeds your congregation can subscribe to. The church year isn't just appeals; it's a calendar of gatherings.