Church software written where the churches are.
Most church management tools are built far away and priced for someone else. PillarAid is built for churches across Africa: in the currency you count in, the language your people speak, and on the channel they actually read.
Nobody decides to leave a church.
It happens a week at a time.
1week
A Sunday missed for work.
Nobody thinks anything of it. Nobody should.2weeks
Another missed for a funeral.
Still normal. The usher who would notice was on the other door.4weeks
The habit has gone quiet.
The only record of attendance is a headcount in an exercise book, and it does not have names in it.6weeks
Coming back feels like it needs an explanation.
By then, nobody has called. Not because nobody cared, but because nobody knew the call was needed.
That gap is almost never a failure of care. It is a failure of information. The people who would happily make the call don’t know the call is needed.
PillarAid exists to close the distance between noticing and acting, in the week when it still matters.
Give every church one calm place to care for its people.
So pastors spend Sunday with people, not paperwork, and no one slips away unnoticed.
- Serve the church
- Build for the pastor, the treasurer and the usher, not for a demo.
- Be honest
- Say what the product does today. No invented numbers, ever.
- Respect the network
- Pages that load on a mid-range phone on a busy mobile network.
Six things we believe about church software.
They shaped every screen in PillarAid.
- Privacy is pastoral.
- People tell a church things they tell nobody else. Each role sees only what it needs, giving is private by default, and nobody appears in the directory without saying yes.
- Simple enough for Sunday morning.
- An usher with a tablet, a treasurer after the service, a volunteer on their phone. If it needs a training course, we haven't finished designing it.
- Local payments come first.
- Giving happens on the phone. Mobile money sits next to cash, bank and card from day one, through Paystack in Ghana and Flutterwave in other countries.
- The language people speak.
- English, French, Spanish and Twi in PillarAid. A Francophone branch and an Anglophone one can run on the same church account.
- The channel people read.
- Across much of the continent that is WhatsApp. It sits alongside SMS, email and push, with opt-outs honoured for every person.
- A member is a person, not a login.
- Most people in a church will never create an account. Their record, family and church offices exist whether or not they ever sign in.
Made for African churches.
We build PillarAid close to the churches it serves: where giving happens on the phone, Sunday runs long, and one church might span five branches in three countries.
- Built for African churches
- Designed around how churches across the continent run
- Mobile money ready
- MoMo, card, bank and cash in one ledger
- 4 languages
- English, French, Spanish and Twi in PillarAid
- 5 church traditions
- Office templates from Pentecost to Presbyterian
- 14-day free trial
- On every paid plan
- Set up in a day
- Import your list and go
We’d rather be useful to a few churches than impressive to none.
PillarAid is young. We won’t put a customer counter on this page, because a number we can’t stand behind is worth less than saying so. What we can tell you is exactly what the product does today, and you can check every claim in a demo.
Your data stays yours. Records are scoped per church and per branch, changes are written to an audit log, and export is available whenever you want it, including on the way out. A church should never be locked into its own directory.
