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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Bishop's single source of truthLive parish-to-diocese rollupsSince 2022
ChurchBell web app dashboard

The diocesan dashboard — every parish, one live view.

Why we built it

Designed with the diocese, for the diocese.

We're 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.

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
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Parishes, one view
0
Members rolled up
0%
Consolidated, live
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 — 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 fed live by the parishes below it, each drillable 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, calculated — 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, 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 — never lapse again.

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 — via 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.

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 the moment income lands.

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
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're ready to enrich the picture.

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

Pricing

Transparent pricing that pays for itself.

Every church already pays a small per-member fee. The diocese simply keeps a share of it to fund its own operations — on top of a flat, all-inclusive platform fee.

How a church's fee splits
₹6per subscription-paying member / month
ChurchBell platform
per member
₹4
Diocese operations fund
per member — kept by the diocese
₹2

A 500-member church pays ₹3,000 / month — ₹1,000 of it funds the diocese.

The diocese platform
₹10,000per month, flat

Hosted, maintained and fully managed — every module included.

  • Free onboarding — migration, setup & training
  • No per-seat charges, no hidden fees
  • Every module included, no tiers
  • No lock-in — your data is always yours

At around 5,000 members across the diocese, the ₹2/member share already covers the platform fee. Beyond that, the platform pays for itself.

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're 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's nothing new for a church treasurer to learn.
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Let us build this for your diocese.

On the same platform your churches already trust. One connected, transparent, accountable diocese.

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