For church plants
Plant the church. Start with your finances in order.
StewardLedger is free for church plants in their first year, and discounted for the three years after. Good tools from the get-go, so your energy goes where it matters most.
Your first year
€0/month
Then 75%, 50% and 25% off, before regular pricing from year five.
- 100% off in year 1
- 75% off in year 2
- 50% off in year 3
- 25% off in year 4
- 0% off in year 5
We know what planting takes
Planting a church asks everything of the people doing it: evenings, weekends, savings, living rooms, and a lot of borrowed chairs. The early years require energy and focus, and neither should be spent on chasing receipts or reconciling a spreadsheet at midnight.
We would like to help church planters stay focused where it matters most. So we put the same tools that established churches use into your hands from the get-go, at no cost in the first year, and grow the price with you from there. Clean books from the first offering are one less thing to fix later.
A rebate that grows with you
Every church plant pays nothing in year one. After that the discount steps down by a quarter each year, so the price only arrives once the church has had time to stand on its own feet.
Example with the core plan
Pick the plan size that fits your team.
Free
Year 1
€0/mo
75% off
Year 2
€7.25/mo
50% off
Year 3
€14.50/mo
25% off
Year 4
€21.75/mo
Full price
Year 5
€29/mo
Built so the team can stay on mission
A church plant runs on volunteers who buy the coffee, the chairs and the fuel first and ask later. StewardLedger makes paying them back the easiest part of their week.
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Snap the receipt, claim is done
A volunteer photographs the receipt from their phone. Amount, date and merchant are read automatically, and the claim is on its way in under a minute.
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Approve from wherever you are
Approvals happen in the browser, not in a stack of paper. Route hospitality, outreach and rent to different approvers so nothing waits on one person.
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Pay people back quickly
Bank details are validated before payment. Team members who would rather give the money back can waive a claim as a donation with one click.
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Books that are right from day one
Double-entry accounting with a chart of accounts built for churches. No spreadsheet to untangle in year three when the auditor asks.
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A budget the size of your vision
Plan the year, track every line against actuals, and see at a glance where the launch fund stands before the next big decision.
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Know who is walking with you
Keep donor records tidy from the first gift and send year-end statements in minutes. Sync with Planning Center if that is where your people live.
Sending a plant from your church?
Mother churches do not need a second subscription to look after a plant. Create a new fund for the church plant inside your existing StewardLedger account, and every gift, expense and budget line for the plant is tracked against it.
Whenever the plant's leadership, the elders or a funding partner want to see the numbers, generate reports and donor statements for that fund alone. The plant gets its own clear picture without the mother church running two sets of books.
When the plant is ready to stand on its own, it opens its own account and applies for the church plant rebate.
- Separate income and expense reports for the plant
- Donor statements filtered to gifts for the plant
- A budget of its own inside your annual budget
- General fund
- Building fund
- Church plant fund
How to get the church plant rebate
Three steps, no forms to print.
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Create your account
Sign up for StewardLedger like any other church. Your 30-day trial starts right away and needs no credit card.
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Email us your proof
Write to info@stewardledger.com from your account email and attach proof that the church plant was started within the last three years.
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Get to work
We apply the rebate to your subscription and confirm by email. Year one is free, and the following years step down as shown above.
Questions planters ask
Plant with good tools from day one
Create your account, send us your proof, and spend year one on people instead of paperwork.