ABOUT US

Built for churches.
Not off of them.

Church management software that gives every church every feature for one honest price. No modules to unlock. No per-member fees. No annual contracts. No "contact us for pricing."

OUR STORY

Why Kinship exists

If you have ever managed the technology behind a church, you already know the frustration.

You start with spreadsheets and Google Forms. They work for a while. Then your church grows, and suddenly you are stitching together five different tools — one for your member directory, one for email, one for giving, one for check-in, one for volunteer scheduling — and none of them talk to each other. So you look at the established church management platforms.

And then you see the pricing.

$200 a month. $400 a month. $600 a month. Custom quotes that require a sales call. Annual contracts with auto-renewal clauses. Modules that cost extra. Features locked behind higher tiers. Per-member pricing that punishes you for the very growth you have been praying for.

These are tools built for churches — organizations that run on the tithes and offerings of generous people — and they are priced like enterprise software.

Something about that never sat right with us.

OUR VALUES

What we believe

Church software should be a tool for ministry, not a line item that competes with it.

Every dollar your church spends on overpriced software is a dollar that does not feed a family at your food pantry. It does not send a student on a mission trip. It does not pay the worship leader who has been volunteering for three years. It does not keep the lights on in the building where your community gathers every Sunday.

Technology should serve the mission, not consume the budget.

We believe that when a church grows from 100 members to 300 members, the software bill should not triple. Growth is something to celebrate, not something to penalize.

Every church deserves access to the same tools.

Whether you have 50 people or 800 — the same communication engine, the same event management, the same giving platform, the same volunteer scheduling. Not a watered-down version because you cannot afford the "Pro" tier.

You should pay exactly what it costs. Not a penny more.

When we send your emails or text messages through our delivery partners, you pay exactly what it costs us to send them. Zero markup, always.

PRICING MODEL

How our pricing works

We want to be completely transparent about how we make money, because we think you deserve to know.

Your subscription pays for our time.

Building software takes thousands of hours. Maintaining it, improving it, keeping it secure, adding the features you ask for — that is ongoing work. Your monthly subscription compensates us fairly for that work. That is our revenue. That is it.

Your communication credits pay for delivery — at cost.

When you send an email, our email delivery partner charges us a fraction of a penny. When you send a text message, our SMS partner charges us about a penny. We pass those costs through to you at the exact rates we are charged. We publish those rates. You can verify them yourself. We add zero markup.

Your donation processing fees go to the payment processor — at cost.

When a member of your congregation gives online, the payment processor charges a standard transaction fee. That fee goes to them, not to us. You choose how to process: connect through Kinship for streamlined processing where volume-based rate improvements are passed along automatically, or bring your own Stripe account for full control. Either way, we add zero markup.

Five automated tiers based on active members. One set of features. Transparent pass-through costs. That is the whole model.

OUR ADVANTAGE

Why we can do this

Kinship was built by a software engineer, not a venture capital firm.

There are no investors demanding higher margins. No board meetings about quarterly revenue targets. No private equity firm looking to extract returns by raising your prices every year. No sales team incentivized to lock you into a contract you cannot easily leave.

This is software built by someone who saw a problem — churches paying too much for tools that should be simple and affordable — and had the skills to build the solution.

Our costs are low because we built Kinship with a modern, efficient technology stack that runs on minimal infrastructure. We do not have a downtown office or a 200-person staff. We have servers, code, and a commitment to doing right by the churches we serve.

That means we can offer what the larger platforms cannot: everything, for everyone, at a price that respects the nature of who you are and what you do.

OUR COMMITMENT

Our promise

We will never charge you for features you already have access to today.

We will never lock capabilities behind a higher tier to pressure you into upgrading.

We will never require an annual contract. Your subscription is month-to-month, and you can cancel at any time.

We will never add a markup to the costs we pass through to you. When our delivery partners lower their rates, your rates go down too.

We will never sell your data, your congregation's data, or use it for anything other than running the platform you are paying for.

Your church exists to serve your community. Our job is to make that work a little easier and a lot more affordable. That is the whole mission.

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