Documentation & guides
How Parsonage works
Plain-language guides for pastors, church administrators, volunteers, and members. Choose any area below to learn what it is, how it connects to the rest of your church’s records, who can see or edit it, and how to use it day to day.
Getting started
Congregation
People Directory & Profiles
Find, add, and update everyone in your congregation, record life events and membership statuses, and respect communication preferences.
Family Connections, Family Tree & Households
How Parsonage separates multi-generation family relationships and partners from households that attend together.
Groups & Group Types
Organize committees, small groups, ministry teams, classes, and boards, and use group rosters across bulletins, events, tasks, and church email.
Staff Notes, Visibility & Attachments
Record everyday facts, visits, and preferences on people, households, and groups with staff-shared or author-only visibility, file attachments, and version history.
Tasks & Follow-Ups
Keep track of church to-dos and care follow-ups with due dates, assignees, and links to people, households, groups, and staff notes.
Sunday & calendar
Events & the Church Calendar
Schedule fellowship dinners, volunteer days, and multi-week drives, assign hosting groups, and pull upcoming events straight into the Sunday bulletin.
Sunday Bulletins: Editor, Publishing & Booklet Printing
Prepare the order of worship and announcements once, pull events, birthdays, and serving rosters from your directory, and publish to print, phone, and email.
Phone Bulletin, Visitor Cards & Prayer Requests
What congregants and visitors experience on the QR-code phone bulletin, and how staff review visitor cards and prayer requests in Responses.
Communication & administration
Church Email, Email Lists & Delivery Status
Configure your church sender and footer, compose pastoral letters or bulletin digests, manage email lists and inbox discussions, and track delivery and unsubscribes.
Church Data: Import, Export, Printed Directory & Deletion
Import people from a CSV or Breeze export, download your church’s data as CSV or JSON, print a household directory booklet, or permanently delete a church.
Plans, Directory Limits & Billing
How Parsonage plans are sized by directory people alone, what happens at a plan limit, and how church owners manage subscriptions and invoices.