A church website with sermons, event bookings and PayFast giving, made for South African churches. Your members' data stays in South Africa, in Amazon's Cape Town data centre.
We built ChurchMatters to replace expensive US-based software with a localized, lightweight tool tailored for South Africa.
Upload a sermon and it's live on your site instantly—with an automatic podcast feed ready to submit to Apple Podcasts and Spotify. No separate podcast host needed.
Keep your congregation informed with a shared calendar, announcements, and content pages you control—hosted on edge CDNs so your site loads instantly.
On the Growth plan, bring your own PayFast or iKhokha account (Yoco support is experimental) to accept giving directly into your church's bank account. No platform cut, ever.
On a paid plan we import up to 200 sermons (with their audio and images) and 30 pages for a once-off quoted fee, so you launch with your history intact, not a blank site.
Automatically transcribe your audio sermons into reader-friendly notes with scripture references.
Publish your home, connect, or life groups with meeting times and leader details. Visitors sign up straight from your site—no spreadsheet chasing.
Add your YouTube channel once, then flick one switch during service: your stream plays on your homepage under a "we're live" banner, with a link to your Facebook Live too. Nothing to upload or process.
Run a building fund or missions trip with a public goal-vs-raised progress bar, powered by your own PayFast or iKhokha account—no separate crowdfunding platform.
Running more than one site? List every campus with its own service times, address, and giving link, all from one dashboard.
Upload your church logo and ChurchMatters suggests a palette from its exact colours. Accept it, or pick your own main colour and up to two more.
We work out every shade on your site from those colours, and fix any text that would be hard to read, so the result always passes accessibility contrast checks. Choose a white header or one in your brand colour.
Custom colours come with Starter and Growth. Every plan, including Community, can choose from 20 ready-made colour schemes.
I've been managing church websites for 25 years. I know exactly what church leaders need to succeed online, and I know how to run these systems reliably and efficiently.
As an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, I've designed ChurchMatters from the ground up to scale as your church grows, on Amazon Web Services' Cape Town region. Your public site is delivered through Amazon's global network, so it loads quickly on any phone.
Member, donor and payment records are stored in Amazon's Cape Town data centre. That keeps POPIA simple: your congregation's personal information isn't shipped overseas.
A Facebook Page is free, but it isn't yours. Here's what changes when your church has its own site.
yourchurch.co.za, not facebook.com/yourchurch. A page Meta owns can change its rules, its reach, or disappear — your own domain never does.
Facebook has no way for South African congregations to give through PayFast or iKhokha. ChurchMatters puts tithes and offerings directly into your church's own bank account.
Submit your podcast feed to Apple Podcasts and Spotify once, and every new sermon appears there automatically — reach that doesn't depend on Facebook's algorithm deciding who sees your posts.
No per-member seat pricing. NPO discounts available.
R5 once-off card verification — not a subscription, never charged again.
Community requires a R5 once-off card verification — not a subscription, you're never charged again. Need more AI sermon notes than your plan includes? Buy extras at R25 each, paid upfront when you need them. Nothing is added to your subscription. Annual billing saves ~2 months. Registered NPOs/PBOs qualify for a discount. Questions about limits, support or billing? Read the FAQ.
Questions about ChurchMatters? Send us a message and we'll get back to you.