TextConnect
A church communication platform your whole team can run.
Welcome guests, gather your people into groups, and stay close by text and email, all from one calm place. As capable as the tools churches already pay for, and simple enough that any volunteer feels at home on the first day.
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The Command Center
Sophisticated underneath, simple on the surface.
One dashboard that teaches as you use it. A guided setup gets you going in minutes, and every screen explains itself, so a volunteer feels capable on day one and never has to guess.
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Getting started
3 of 5 done
People reached
Reply rate
New guests
Opt-out rate
From message to visit
this month64 visits this month, each traced back to the member who invited them.
Guided from day one
A five-step checklist walks you through setup, and each screen carries its own plain-language help.
The numbers that matter
People reached, replies, new guests, and a health check on opt-outs, each with an eight-week trend.
Outcomes, not vanity
The message-to-visit view shows real guests, traced back to the members who invited them.
The two-way inbox
Conversations, not campaigns.
Every reply lands in one shared inbox your whole team can see, next to who the person is, how they came in, and whether they have opted in. So a message is always answered by someone who knows them.
- Shared by your team, with gentle handoffs
- Each person shown with their stage, tags, and who invited them
- Consent always in view, so no one is texted without a yes
- Saved templates and auto-shortened, tracked links in the composer
Inbox
3 newMaria Alvarez
Thank you, we will be there!
The Nguyen family
Can we bring a friend?
James Carter
First time this Sunday
Maria Alvarez
A preview of the inbox. Two-way texting arrives with the sending engine; guest capture and people are live today.
How people come in
Every new face, gathered with care.
The front door of your church has many ways in. Each one captures a guest gently, with their consent, and drops them into the same warm system, ready for a first hello.
Digital connect cards
A guest fills one out on their phone, and they are in your people list at once.
Welcome QR at the door
Print one code. A first-time guest scans, says hello, and is captured with who invited them.
Plan a visit
Someone new can tell you they are coming, so a familiar face is ready to greet them.
Text-to-join keywordsSoon
Put a word on the screen. People text it to join a group in seconds.
Forms, polls, and QR codes
Build a form or a live poll, and make a QR for any link, keyword, or page.
Groups and households
Sort people into groups and stages, with families kept together.
Translation
Send it in the language they read best.
Translate any message before it goes out, so each household hears from you in the language they know best. And when visitors arrive, live in-service translation lets them follow the whole service on their own phone. Language is one more way you widen the welcome.
Translate before you send. Write once, and reach each person in the language they read best.
A picker for many languages. Set the language for a single contact or a whole group in a tap.
Live translation for visitors. A guest scans a code and follows the service live, in their own language, as it is spoken.
New message
To the Alvarez familySent to each person in the language they read best.
Scan to follow live
LiveIn-service translation
A visitor follows the whole service on their phone, in their own language, in real time as it is spoken.
The wedge is simplicity
As capable as the tools you already pay for, far easier to use.
Serious church platforms tend to be powerful but dense, or friendly but thin. TextConnect is built to be both: the depth of a real platform, with the calm and the hand-holding of an app your volunteers already know how to use.
It teaches as you go
Guided setup, plain-language help on every screen, and friendly empty states that show you what to do first.
One place for your whole team
Staff and volunteers share the same inbox, people, and groups, with no training day required.
Runs each campus on its own
Multi-site churches keep every campus separate under one login.
Everything in TextConnect
The whole toolkit, matched feature for feature.
Everything you expect from church texting, and more. Guest capture, people, groups, and reporting are live today. Sending, calling, and integrations arrive with the sending engine, and anything marked Soon or Planned is not here yet. We will not pretend otherwise.
Messaging
- Email to your people
- Two-way textingSoon
- Mass texts and MMSSoon
- Scheduled sendsSoon
- Done-for-you templatesSoon
Guest capture
- Connect cards
- Welcome QR at the door
- Plan-a-visit flow
- Embeddable forms and pages
- Text-to-join keywordsSoon
People and groups
- Unlimited contacts and users
- Groups, tags, and stages
- Custom fields and households
- Consent tracked on every contact
Automation
- Staff alerts on new cards
- Follow-up workflowsSoon
- Reminders and wait stepsSoon
- Birthday and date triggersSoon
Phone and mobile
- Installable web app
- A textable church numberSoon
- Calling from that numberSoon
- 10DLC compliance handledSoon
Measure and connect
- Reporting and analytics
- Live polls with results
- Branded link shortenerSoon
- Planning Center syncPlanned
- Zapier and open APIPlanned
Built to honor a yes, and a no.
People choose to hear from you, and can stop whenever they wish. Consent is recorded on every contact, opt-in is clear, and STOP is always honored. When texting arrives, it follows the carrier rules for churches, so your welcome stays a welcome.
Where it pulls ahead
Three ways it goes beyond texting alone.
It starts from the sermon
Bundle Sermon Clips, and Sunday's message becomes a daily devotional you send, not just another announcement.
Your members carry the invitation
Reaching people is not only a staff broadcast. The whole church can invite the friends they already know.
You see the visit, not just the send
The message-to-visit funnel traces a text all the way to a guest at the door, and who invited them.
Better bundled
Add Sermon Clips, and Sunday carries the whole week.
You have seen what TextConnect does on its own. Bundle it with Sermon Clips, and Sunday’s message flows straight into your texts and emails: one sermon becomes a week of content that reaches everyone and brings their response back to you. Here is why churches bundle, and exactly how it works.
One price, real savings
Bundle both for noticeably less than buying each product on its own.
One system, one login
Your content and your messaging live in one place, with nothing to stitch together yourself.
Built to work together
A clip made in Sermon Clips is one tap from going out in TextConnect. No exporting, no re-uploading.
Nothing falls through
Every clip gets sent, and every reply, RSVP, and vote comes back, so no message is wasted.
How it works
From one sermon to your whole church, in three steps.
Sermon Clips makes it
You upload Sunday's sermon one time. On its own, that single recording becomes:
- Short, captioned video clips for phones and social
- A daily devotional and a small-group study
- Invitations your members can share
No editing and no software to learn. You review anything before it goes out.
TextConnect sends it
That content goes to your church the way people actually read, on their phones:
- By text message and email, to everyone or one group
- Members reply right in their texts, with no app to download
- Ask them to RSVP to an event, vote in a poll, or fill a connect card
You write it once in a guided screen any volunteer can run.
Everyone stays connected
Every response lands back in one place, so you are never left guessing:
- See who watched, who replied, and who is coming
- New guests are captured and welcomed for you
- You know exactly who to reach out to next
Your Sunday message keeps working all week, and no one slips through.
Stay close to your whole community.
Start your church’s free trial, or bundle TextConnect with Sermon Clips so the whole week reaches them.