July 19, 2026 Release · v2.4.0

Now in YourPocket.

ChurchBell goes mobile: a native app for admins and members, with push notifications and member edit requests built in. Plus new web modules, a menu you can personalise, and self-service security.

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✦ New Features

What's New

Powerful new modules and tools to help you manage your church more effectively.

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The ChurchBell Mobile App for Admins & Members

ChurchBell now lives on your phone, with a home for everyone. Administrators can run the church on the go: record receipts and payments, look up members and families, collect house-visit offertories, and review reports and dashboards, all from the app. Members get their own space: view their subscription and payment status, see their giving history and family, download receipts, and keep their profile up to date. Sign in with a one-time code or a passkey, and everything stays in step with the web app in real time.

02

Push Notifications

Stay informed the moment things happen. Members get a gentle nudge when a receipt is issued, a subscription is due, or a special date is coming up; administrators get alerts for the things that matter: new member requests, critical activity, and account-security warnings. Every notification opens straight to the right screen with a single tap, and a full in-app inbox keeps a tidy history so nothing gets lost. You stay in control of which alerts you receive.

03

Member Edit Requests

Keep your member directory accurate without becoming the bottleneck. From the mobile app, members can request changes to their own details: a new phone number, a corrected date of birth, an updated address. The request lands with your team for review, and a one-tap approval applies it to the record (or you can decline with a note). Members keep their information current; you keep the final say.

04

House Visit Log

A simple log for pastoral home visits. Record who was visited and when, jot a note, and (if an offertory was received) capture it right there. The offertory posts as a real receipt against the family head and your chosen income ledger, so it flows straight into your day book with no double entry. On mobile, location is captured quietly in the background for a quick check-in; on the web you can back-date past visits. Every member's visit history shows on their profile, and the whole log exports to Excel or PDF.

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Fixed Deposit Register

Keep track of every fixed and term deposit your church holds with the bank. Record the principal, interest rate, tenure and maturity date; book interest as it's earned (posted as a real receipt to your chosen ledger); and handle renewals and closures cleanly, with the full chain preserved. Maturity reminders reach your finance team well ahead of time so nothing lapses unnoticed, and a Register and an Interest-Income report export to Excel and PDF for your audit.

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Security & Devices, with New-Device Alerts

A new self-service security screen shows every device signed in to your account, and lets you sign out any one of them, or all your other devices, in a tap. If someone signs in from a new device or a new location, you're alerted instantly by push (and WhatsApp), so an unexpected sign-in never goes unnoticed. Repeated failed sign-in attempts raise a heads-up too, and for administrators the audit timeline gains a one-click "security events" view.

07

Quick Access: Your Menu, Your Way

Pin the screens you use every day to a ⭐ Quick Access section that sits right at the top of your menu, on both web and mobile. Reorder them to taste, and collapse the sections you rarely touch so your sidebar stays focused on what you actually do. Set it once, and ChurchBell opens the way you work.

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Assessment Tracking

Keep the assessment your church pays to the diocese fully accounted for, right inside ChurchBell. Set up the yearly assessment with its twelve monthly instalments and annual funds, record each payment as it's made, watch the running balance settle, and download a clean, server-generated statement PDF, so your dues are always clear and easy to reconcile.

09

Report Center

Bigger reports now run in the background and let you know the moment they're ready. No more staring at a spinner. A new Report Center is home to a Family Directory (a complete household-by-household roll, in Excel or PDF) and a Member Contribution Summary with the date range and month-by-month breakdown you need for statements and collection drives.

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Portal Access & Permissions

A single, clear place to decide who can sign in to your church's portal and exactly what they can do. From the profile menu, grant portal access to a member, choose their role, and fine-tune permissions module by module, with guard-rails so no one can hand out more access than they hold themselves. Role and permission editing has moved out of the member form into this dedicated screen, on both web and mobile.

▲ Enhancements

Made Better

Improvements across modules you already use every day.

Filter Receipts & Payments by Bill Book
Both the receipt and payment lists gain a bill-book filter, so you can quickly narrow down to a single book during reconciliation.
Faster, and More Private by Design
Sensitive financial data is no longer kept on your device between sessions, closing a quiet privacy gap on shared computers, while lists still come back fast thanks to smart caching.
Smoother Date Entry
Date pickers now include a year dropdown, so you can jump straight to the right year instead of paging through months.
Search Members by ID
Member pickers throughout the app now match on the church member ID as well as the name, so finding the right person is quicker.
Period Statement
A new date-range statement, on web and mobile: pick any period up to 30 days (or use the Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days and This Month presets) and get a clean summary alongside a receipt-by-receipt detail view.
Monthly Receipt Numbering
Bill books can now restart the receipt sequence at the start of each month, when the number carries both the month and the financial year, so every month's receipts count cleanly from 1. Switching the month on now switches the financial year on automatically, keeping numbers unambiguous.
Voter List: Regularity at a Glance
The voter list now shows a month-by-month giving-regularity grid, and you can tap any cell to see the receipt behind it, so eligibility is easy to review and back up.
● Bug Fixes

Squashed

Reliability improvements you'll feel even if you don't see them.

Family Card Edits: Receipt Numbers Stay Put
Editing a family card, especially when the head paid nothing or members paid on different dates, no longer duplicates or "burns" the main receipt number. Your numbering stays clean and in order.
WhatsApp Receipts: Reliable Delivery
Receipt PDFs sent over WhatsApp now open correctly every time. An occasional un-openable link, caused by the message going out a moment before the PDF finished uploading, has been fixed, and delivery and read status are reported honestly.
Receipts & Payments: Correct Ledger Grouping
The Receipts & Payments report now groups each ledger by its income or expense side, so every amount lands on the correct side of the statement.