Planting a church is hard enough. The software shouldn't be.
You're carrying a calling, a core team, and a launch date. GLAD carries the rest — website, people, giving, groups and the Sunday schedule — in one platform a brand-new church can actually afford: free.
You're the pastor. And the worship leader, the bookkeeper, the webmaster, and the setup crew.
"IT department" shouldn't be one of your jobs.
Most church software is priced and built for the church you hope to be in ten years — a module here, an add-on there, an onboarding call before you can send an email. A plant needs one tool that works the week you unload the trailer. That's the church GLAD is built for first, not last.
Everything a plant needs the week it launches.
Not a starter kit that graduates into upsells — the same platform at every tier, from your first Sunday in a school gym onward.
A real website, before launch Sunday
Drag-and-drop page builder with themes: your story, service times, sermons, events — even a prayer wall. No web designer, no second subscription.
People & families, remembered
Households, kids, notes and follow-ups — so the couple who visited once gets a second hello, and nobody slips through the cracks of a growing plant.
Giving, from the first offering
Online gifts from a phone, recurring giving, pledge campaigns, and annual statements — with real double-entry books behind it, not a shoebox of receipts.
Events people can say yes to
Preview nights, launch events, serve days — with sign-ups, capacity and RSVP from the phone, so you know who's coming before you set out chairs.
Groups that keep momentum
Life groups people browse and join themselves, with rosters and group chat that carry community between Sundays — the lifeblood of a young church.
A Sunday schedule that holds
Eight people covering twelve roles? Schedule services, assign the team, and everyone sees their Sunday — so the drummer finds out before Saturday night.
Free that means free.
The Starter tier is $0 forever — and it's the whole platform, not a demo with the good parts locked.
No credit card. No trial clock quietly counting down to an invoice.
Website, giving, groups, scheduling, portal — nothing gated behind a per-module fee.
Room for a core team and your first two years of growth.
The whole fine print, out loud: a 50-person cap, your site on a GLAD subdomain, and a 1% platform fee on online gifts that drops to 0% on paid plans. When your plant outgrows 50 people — that's the goal — you move to a flat plan priced by congregation size, never per module.
See the whole pricing pageYou're planting this together. The software knows it.
Most planting stories are a two-person calling long before they're a congregation. GLAD treats a couple like one household with one story — not two disconnected accounts.
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Joint pledges — one promise, two people
Pledge to the building fund together: either of you gives, every gift counts toward the same commitment, and you both watch the same number fill.
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One household, whole family
Family profiles keep you, your kids, and every family you welcome together as households — the way a church actually thinks about its people.
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Both of you on the same schedule
When one of you leads worship and the other runs kids' ministry, the service schedule shows the whole picture — who's where, every Sunday.
Your people get an app before you have a tech team.
The member portal installs to the home screen like an app — your plant's name, your icon, straight from the browser. No app store, no per-platform fees, no "our app is coming soon" slide in the launch deck.
- Giving with recurring gifts, history and receipts — in the offering moment, from a pocket
- Event RSVP with capacity, group browsing and live group chat
- Kids check-in parents start from their own phone
- Profiles people keep current themselves — one less spreadsheet for you
Give every plant a real platform on launch day.
If you oversee planters, you've watched every plant improvise its own stack — a website here, a spreadsheet there, giving through whatever was fastest that week. GLAD ends the improvisation: every plant you send signs up for its own GLAD and launches on the free Starter tier — its own website, its own people, its own giving and books, from day one.
And each platform is fully the plant's own, by design: its data belongs to it, there's no network-wide console to administer, and no invoice lands on the network. What you get is simpler — plants that launch equipped, and stop asking for software money.
Do the homework — we'll help
Planting on a budget means reading the fine print everywhere. We wrote the honest versions.
Questions planters ask us
Somewhere there's a launch date with your name on it.
Walk into it with the website live, giving on, and your team scheduled. Starter is free — start tonight.
