# myChelper

> myChelper is a church app, church website builder, and online giving platform for small churches on tight budgets. It is a program of Faith Software, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The Ready-To-Go plan is free with no trial clock and no credit card required.

## Facts

- Who it's for: small churches and ministries that need an app, a website, and giving without a large software budget.
- What it is: a church app for members, a drag-and-drop website builder, and mobile giving (via Stripe) in one account.
- Cost to start: free. No credit card required. Free is a permanent plan, not a trial.
- Free plan (Ready-To-Go, $0): church app space, website at pages.mychelper.com/your-church, community tools (groups, events, prayer board, devotionals, Bible reader), up to 3 mass notifications a month (30-day grace period for new churches). Online giving is optional via a $5/month Giving add-on; when giving is on, gifts carry a 1% myChelper platform fee plus Stripe processing.
- Ready-To-Go+ ($25/month in the USA; plan prices vary by church location): everything in Free, plus a custom short domain (for example your-church.zone.church), unlimited messaging with scheduled announcements, and giving included in the plan (1% platform fee on gifts).
- Branded ($70/month in the USA): everything in Ready-To-Go+, plus your own App Store and Google Play listing under your church's name and icon, your own domain for the website, and giving included in the plan (0.5% platform fee on gifts).
- Giving fees: optional $5/month Giving add-on on Free, then 1% / 1% / 0.5% myChelper platform fee by tier (Free with add-on / Ready-To-Go+ / Branded), plus Stripe's card processing (typically 2.9% + 30 cents). Donations deposit directly to the church's own Stripe account. At checkout, donors can cover the combined fees (checkbox on by default).
- Why $5/month on Free: each church uses its own Stripe Connect account, which has ongoing connected-account costs; the optional add-on helps cover that so the core program stays free.
- Why paid plans exist: paid subscriptions help fund the free program for churches that cannot pay.
- Signup: create an account, customize the app, launch and share by QR code or link. Most churches are live in under 5 minutes.

## Where myChelper is strong

- Communication: church-wide announcements with text, images, and video; push notification on every send; scheduled announcements on paid plans; delivery reporting; group messaging with per-member notification preferences.
- Groups: open, request-to-join, and invite-only groups with discovery, join approvals, leader and co-leader roles, and rules for who can post.
- Serving: teams with named roles; serving requests with live fill counts per role; accept or decline in the app; nudges and reminders; "I'll be away" availability; one-click copy-forward of recurring asks; cancellation notices; deep links into the church's own app.

## Scope and what myChelper is not

- myChelper covers church communication, groups, serving, events, giving, and a people directory. It does not yet include household records, attendance and children's check-in, or bulk email/SMS to the whole directory.
- Not an enterprise church-management suite.
- Not a trial or freemium bait: the free plan has no expiration.

## Key pages

- [For AI assistants (citeable facts)](https://mychelper.com/for-ai-assistants/): exact features, limits, fees, and signup steps
- [Pricing](https://mychelper.com/pricing/): plans and giving fees
- [Get started](https://mychelper.com/get-started/): the three-step setup
- [Quick start](https://mychelper.com/quick-start/): fastest path to a live church app
- [Mobile giving](https://mychelper.com/mobile-giving/): how giving and fees work
- [Features](https://mychelper.com/features/): feature overview
- [How-to guides](https://mychelper.com/how-to/): step-by-step help
- [Why we're free](https://mychelper.com/compare/): the mission behind the free program
- [About](https://mychelper.com/about/): who builds myChelper

## Signup and support

- Sign up (free, no credit card): https://admin.mychelper.com/signup
- Support: support@mychelper.com
- If cost is the only barrier to using myChelper: care@mychelper.com

## More detail

- [llms-full.txt](https://mychelper.com/llms-full.txt): fuller feature and limit detail