Completely Free, Open-Source
Church Management Platform.

Reliable church management software is a critical component for any growing church. It frees up staff and volunteer time while ensuring processes are adhered to and you are effectively engaging with your congregation and guests.

Church Management Software

About CHUMS

CHUMS is a completely free service provided to Christian churches and ministries.

Every year the Church spends over $800 million on church management software. We believe that money can be put to better use, which is why we developed CHUMS; a completely free, open-source church management platform. We are a 501(c)(3) non profit providing a free alternative to other paid church management platforms. Visit our GitHub page to host CHUMS yourself, or let us host it for you by registering for a free account below.

CHUMS is built and provided free of charge by Live Church Solutions, a 501(c)(3) that was founded in 2012 with the goal of helping small churches with their technical needs.

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Features

Say Goodbye to
Excel Documents.

People
Easily track pertinent information on all your members and guests
Attendance
Save time tracking attendance with our self check-in app
Groups
Easily manage classes, small groups and missions
Giving
Quickly enter donations and see reports showing giving over time.
Forms
Build custom forms to collect any information you would like.
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Robust Information Tracking

Members and Groups

  • Easily track all of the pertinent information about your members and guests including contact information, birth dates, relationships and anniversary dates.
  • Create unlimited custom fields to track information unique to your church such as when membership 101 class was attended.
  • You may create an unlimited amount of groups for classes, at-home small groups, or various ministries.
  • You can also track attendance on each of these groups, if you choose and see reports showing how your groups are growing over time.
Members
giving
Easy, Quick and Efficient

Track Giving

  • CHUMS makes it easy to track your giving. Our batch input makes data entry quick and efficient.
  • You can export giving data to CSV files to easily prepare giving statements.
  • Create an unlimited number of funds to track gifts to special causes and view breakdowns of giving over time, either by fund or see the big picture.
Self-Serve Interface

Checkin and Attendance

  • Ensuring the safety of the kids entrusted to your youth and childhood ministries is paramount for any church.
  • Having a check in system helps ensure that kids get returned to the adults who originally checked them in by matching a unique generated code on the child's name tag with a matching code on the adult's checkin receipt.
  • Our app is designed to be a self-serve check-in interface, freeing up time for your volunteers to engage with the children, instead of managing attendance.
  • Members simply search for their family by phone number and select which services will be attended. The app then prints labels and check-in receipts automatically.
  • Church budgets are tight. That's why our app runs on Android tablets which are readily available for under $80 and can print wirelessly to label printers so that multiple checkin stations can share a single printer.
  • All check-in information is automatically entered into the attendance system, freeing up time that your office staff would otherwise spend having to manually track attendance.
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import and export
Import and Export

You Own Your Data

  • Use our import tool to bring in any existing data you may have and use our export tool at any time to take your data with you.
  • If you choose, you may also completely delete all data from CHUMS any time you wish.
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Churches Love CHUMS

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