Faith & Church Communities
The Platform Your
Church Owns. Forever.
Socio Connect builds custom community platforms for churches, ministries, and faith-based organisations — fully owned infrastructure with no monthly fees, no vendor lock-in, and no data surrendered to a third party. We are the custom platform alternative to Subsplash, Planning Center's Church Center, and Gatherly for churches ready to own their digital home.
The Church Tech Problem Nobody Talks About
The average church with 3,000 members is paying for four to seven different technology platforms. Planning Center for operations. Subsplash for their app. Pushpay for giving. Breeze for their database. Mailchimp for email. YouTube for sermons. Facebook for community.
Each of these tools is rented. None of them are integrated into a coherent experience. And none of them give your congregation a single, branded digital home that feels like your church.
The result: your members bounce between apps that don't know each other, your data is scattered across six vendor databases you don't control, and every year you renew the same contracts for tools that were always designed for average — not for you.
Your congregation deserves better than a patchwork of rentals.
What a Church-Owned Platform Looks Like
A Socio Connect church platform consolidates your community infrastructure into one owned system. It's built for your church's specific language, structure, and culture — not adapted from a generic template.
For Your Members
- Congregation directory with searchable profiles
- Discipleship Circles (small groups with private feeds and messaging)
- Prayer Wall with request visibility controls
- Events calendar with RSVP and capacity management
- Sermon and media library
- Push notifications — announcements, pastor messages, service reminders
For Your Leaders
- Pastoral Oversight Console — full member engagement visibility
- Group health indicators — which circles are thriving, which need attention
- Attendance and participation trends
- Leader-specific dashboards with their group's data
For Your Administrators
- Single member database — not six
- Role-based permissions across your entire staff structure
- Multisite management (campus-level and church-wide views)
- Giving platform integration (Pushpay, Tithe.ly, Stripe)
The Ministry Operating System
Think of it this way. Planning Center is your church's operations software. It handles what happens on Sunday — the service, the volunteers, the check-ins.
A Socio Connect platform is your church's community infrastructure. It handles what happens the other six days — the small groups staying connected, the new members finding community, the discipleship programs running, the prayer requests being shared, the relationships forming.
Together, they're a complete ministry operating system. But only one of them you actually own.
Designed Around Your Structure
Churches aren't flat. They have campuses, regions, age-specific ministries, language congregations, and hundreds of small groups, each with its own culture and leadership. Most community platforms are built for simple, flat organisations. They break when they encounter church complexity.
Socio Connect platforms are built with multi-hub architecture from the ground up — the ability to manage an HQ view and individual campus or ministry views simultaneously, with permissions that reflect how your church actually operates.
Headquarters
Church-wide member database, unified analytics, cross-campus messaging
Campus A
Campus-specific groups, events, leadership tools, and member view
Campus B
Identical structure, separate data, isolated leadership permissions
Ministry Groups
Youth, young adults, language congregations — each with their own space
Frequently Asked Questions
Let's build your church's digital home.
Strategy calls are free, limited, and without obligation. We'll talk through your congregation's needs and tell you honestly whether a custom build is the right move right now.