Online Church Accounting Software for Churches

ChurchBooks3 is online church accounting software with built-in church management tools — designed specifically for small churches, nonprofits, and 501(c)(3) organizations. Whether you are a church treasurer managing weekly offerings, a bookkeeper reconciling fund accounts, or an administrator overseeing membership and events, ChurchBooks3 brings everything together in one secure, easy-to-use platform.

Church Accounting Software Built for Church Treasurers

At the heart of ChurchBooks3 is a complete church accounting system. Track every transaction with double-entry accounting, organize your chart of accounts by category — assets, liabilities, equity, income, and expenses — and generate professional financial statements at any time. Church treasurers and bookkeepers can run income statements, balance sheets, and budget-versus-actual reports with a single click. No spreadsheets, no manual calculations, no importing data between disconnected tools.

Fund accounting lets you separate designated and undesignated giving across multiple fund categories, so you always know exactly where every dollar was received and spent. Reconcile accounts monthly and produce clean, auditable records for your church board.

Church Donation Tracking and Tithe Management

ChurchBooks3 makes church donation tracking straightforward. Record tithes, regular offerings, special campaigns, and designated gifts. Assign each donation to a donor and a fund category. At year-end, generate individual donor giving statements and family envelope reports for tax purposes — formatted with your church letterhead, ready to email or print.

Mobile giving is built in. Share a QR code with your congregation for contactless donations via Givelify. Import Givelify CSV files and reconcile online donations against your church ledger with automatic donor mapping — keeping your church bookkeeping accurate and up to date with every giving channel.

Church Budget Planning and Financial Reporting

Plan your annual church budget by department and account category. Track actuals against budget throughout the year with visual variance analysis. Monthly breakdowns let your finance committee see exactly where you stand — and professional PDF financial reports keep your board informed at every meeting.

ChurchBooks3 generates PDF and CSV exports with custom letterhead for every module: donor tax reports, ledger summaries, budget-versus-actual statements, attendance trends, and payroll summaries. No third-party reporting tools required.

Church Management Tools Included on Every Plan

Every ChurchBooks3 plan includes a full suite of church management tools alongside the accounting features:

• Membership management — member profiles, groups, offices, envelope numbers, CSV import and export, and birthday and anniversary tracking.
• Attendance tracking — record Sunday headcounts by department, view trend charts, and export attendance history.
• Event management — create and publish church events, track RSVPs, and manage classes, VBS, and special programs.
• Employee and payroll records — manage staff profiles, payroll entries, and year-to-date payroll summaries with printable reports.
• Meeting minutes — record board and committee decisions with searchable topic archives.
• Email merge and mail labels — communicate with members in bulk directly from your member database.
• Daycare and grades — manage daycare class enrollment, student attendance, and grade records.

Secure Multi-Tenant Church Accounting Platform

ChurchBooks3 is a multi-tenant SaaS platform — your church's data is completely isolated from every other organization. Role-based access control lets you assign admin, staff, and read-only roles so each team member sees only what they need. Two-factor authentication and encrypted backups keep your financial records protected.

Church administrators can export a full backup of all church data at any time — members, donations, ledger transactions, budgets, events, and meeting records — in a downloadable ZIP archive. Your data belongs to you.

Plans Starting at $9.99/Month — Free 30-Day Trial

ChurchBooks3 plans start at $9.99/month for small churches and scale to $39.99/month for the Platinum Plan, which adds the member self-service portal. Every plan includes a free 30-day trial — no credit card required. Annual billing saves approximately 20% versus monthly pricing.

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