Nobody in your church should fall through the cracks.
Porchlight is the shared memory for your care team — every visit, every follow-up, every milestone, in one calm place your whole staff can trust.
$15 per month for your whole church. Cancel anytime.
Care usually lives in someone's head, phone, or napkin.
The details scatter
A text to the pastor, a note in a spreadsheet, a hallway conversation nobody wrote down.
Follow-ups evaporate
Everyone assumed someone else called. Two weeks later, nobody did.
Handoffs hurt
When a staff member leaves, years of relational context walks out the door.
Built for the way churches actually care
Simple enough for a volunteer's first Sunday, structured enough for a staff of twenty.
One shared record per person
Households, contact details and history together, so nobody restarts the conversation from zero.
Care updates the team can see
Hospital visits, hard seasons, good news — logged in seconds and visible to the people who need it.
Follow-ups that don't slip
Assign the call, the meal, the visit. Porchlight remembers even on the busiest week.
Milestones worth marking
Baptisms, births, losses and anniversaries surfaced when they matter.
Private by design
Row-level security keeps each church's data sealed off, with sensitive notes limited to your care team.
Bring your people with you
Import a CSV in minutes with a preview and validation before anything is saved.
Planning Center sync
Connect your church's Planning Center account and keep people and households up to date automatically.
Meet your people where they are
CSV import — available today
Upload people and households from any church database. Preview every row and fix validation issues before a single record is written.
Planning Center — now available
NewConnect your church's Planning Center account for a one-way sync that keeps people and households current. Porchlight never writes back, so your pastoral care history stays untouched.
Planning Center sync questions
Exactly what moves between Planning Center and Porchlight today.
One price. Your whole church.
No per-seat math, no upgrade wall between you and caring for someone.
Includes a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime.
14-day refund on your first payment. Renewals aren't refundable. Refund policy
- Unlimited staff, care team and volunteers
- Unlimited people and households
- All 49 features — nothing held back
- Planning Center people and household sync
- Role-based access and private notes
- Church-level data isolation
Everything included with Porchlight
Porchlight has one plan, so every feature below is included for every church. Founding churches simply pay a lower locked-in price for the same complete product.
People & Households
Know your people as families, not just names on a list.
- One profile for every personContact info, birthday, care history and notes live together, so every conversation picks up where the last one left off.
- Households grouped togetherSee spouses, parents, children and shared addresses in one view, so you care for the whole family, not scattered pieces.
- Clear family relationshipsMark who is related to whom and flag children, so youth care, family visits and emergency calls go to the right people.
- Fast, searchable directoryFind anyone in seconds and filter by household, care status or how they first connected — no more hunting through spreadsheets.
- Care groups for focused listsGroup people by ministry, campus or care need, and give volunteers access only to the people they are actually helping.
- Complete small group managementCreate life groups and Bible studies, assign a primary leader and co-leaders, track attendance, and request pastoral follow-up in one tap.
- Automatic small-group follow-upWhen someone starts missing gatherings, Porchlight quietly flags them so a pastor can reach out before they drift away.
- Shareable group links and QR codesLeaders can text or print a simple link or QR code so a new person can join their group and land in your directory automatically.
- Smart attendance remindersLeaders get a nudge when it is time to record attendance, staff are alerted if it is missed, and Porchlight suggests people who may need a caring check-in.
- Attendance as a discipleship viewEvery group gets a simple dashboard: attendance trends over time, each person's pattern and streaks, guests who visited, and a short list of people worth reaching out to this week.
- Attendance reports and exportsSee how every group is doing across any date range, spot groups that are quietly shrinking, and export the whole picture as a spreadsheet for your team.
- CSV import with previewMove people and households over from any church database with a clear preview and validation, so nothing is imported by accident.
Connect & Follow Up
Turn a first-time guest into someone your team truly knows.
- Mobile-friendly Connect CardsGuests fill out a simple link or QR code from their phone — no app, no login, and no paper to retype on Monday morning.
- Prayer requests and notes attached to the guestComments, questions and prayer needs arrive tied to the right person, so your team responds with context, not confusion.
- Family members on one cardA visitor can add a spouse and children in one submission, and Porchlight creates the household for you.
- Customizable form fieldsChoose which questions appear, which ministries guests can express interest in, and add a welcome message that feels like your church.
- Submission inbox with duplicate matchingReview each guest, then add them as a new person or merge them into an existing record so email matches never create doubles.
- Follow-up pipelineA simple board moves each new person from new, to contacted, to connected, so no guest sits untouched for weeks.
- Care updates anyone can logRecord a hospital visit, a hard season or good news in seconds, and keep sensitive notes visible only to your care team.
- Needs-attention listPorchlight surfaces the people nobody has contacted recently, using a window you set, so no one falls through the cracks.
- Milestones that matterRecord baptisms, births, losses, memberships and anniversaries, and remember them when they come back around each year.
- Discipleship journeysBuild the pathways your church actually uses, see where every person is on them, and give each one a single clear next step — so growth is intentional instead of accidental.
- People needing attentionPorchlight quietly surfaces the people who've been missed — a guest never followed up, someone stuck on the same step, a member with no recent contact — so nobody slips through the cracks.
Tasks & Organization
Make sure the follow-through actually happens.
- Assigned tasks with due datesGive the call, the meal or the visit to a specific person with a clear deadline, so responsibility is never vague.
- Due and overdue remindersEveryone sees what is due today and what has slipped, on the dashboard and on their phone, so nothing is forgotten.
- Recurring care tasksSet a rhythm for ongoing care — a weekly check-in or a monthly visit — and let it come back automatically.
- Care reportsSee care activity, follow-up progress and who has been cared for over any recent stretch of time, for staff reviews and leadership updates.
Communication & Team
Your whole team working from the same story.
- Shared activity feedOne timeline shows care updates, tasks, milestones and follow-ups for each person and across the whole church.
- Comments and reactionsRespond to an update right where it happened, instead of losing the conversation in a group text thread.
- Daily digest emailAn optional morning summary of what needs care today, so your team starts the day already oriented and nothing is missed.
- Unlimited team membersEvery staff member, care-team member and volunteer is included — no per-seat pricing, ever.
- Built-in help and guidesIn-app guides, a public help center and a contact form that reaches the Porchlight team directly when you need support.
Planning Center
Keep your church database and your pastoral care in step.
- One-click Planning Center connectionYour admin connects your own Planning Center account securely — no spreadsheets, no developer and no special setup.
- People syncNames, email, phone and birthday flow in automatically and update existing records instead of duplicating them.
- Household syncPlanning Center families arrive as real households in Porchlight, with their members, primary contact and address intact.
- Flexible sync scheduleChoose daily, weekly or manual syncing, and press Sync now whenever you want changes right away.
- One-way and safePorchlight never writes back to Planning Center, so your care notes cannot overwrite your church database.
- Sync log and exclusionsEvery run is logged with what changed, and anyone you intentionally delete stays excluded instead of reappearing.
Notifications & Mobile
Care that reaches your team wherever they are.
- Install on any phone or computerAdd Porchlight to your home screen on iPhone, Android, Mac or Windows — it opens like a normal app.
- Push notificationsGet notified when a task is assigned to you or something needs your attention, even when Porchlight is closed.
- Per-device controlTurn notifications on or off for each phone, tablet or computer you use, from one simple settings page.
- Built for Sunday morningsEvery screen works cleanly on a phone in a hallway, not just on a desktop in an office.
Administration & Security
Control who sees what, without needing help.
- Role-based permissionsAdmin, staff, care-team and volunteer roles control who can see sensitive notes and who can change settings.
- Church admin areaManage your team, church details, care windows, Connect Card and your own care-update and milestone types in one place.
- Guided setupA step-by-step start walks you through importing people, launching your Connect Card and inviting your team.
- Private notesSensitive pastoral notes stay limited to the people who should see them, not the whole volunteer roster.
- Church-level data isolationYour church's data is sealed off at the database level — no other church can ever read a single record.
- Audit historySensitive actions like deletions and permission changes are recorded, so you always know what happened and who did it.
- Self-serve billingView your plan, trial status and next renewal, update your card or cancel yourself — no email or support ticket required.
Every feature above is available today on your 7-day free trial — no upgrade wall, no per-seat add-ons.
Porchlight Around the World
Churches and ministry leaders are using Porchlight to care for people and stay connected around the world.
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