Church Management Software for Greek Orthodox Parishes

A Greek Orthodox community runs on stewardship and volunteers. The parish council plans the stewardship year, Philoptochos organizes the fellowship hour and the Mnimosino after a memorial, the festival needs dozens of hands in the kitchen and at the pastry table, and GOYA, Sunday school, and the choir each keep their own lists. ParishSignUp brings those lists into one parish, keeps stewardship pledge amounts with the treasurer alone, and lets each parishioner use the app in Greek or English as they prefer.

Stewardship and service in a Greek Orthodox parish

In the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, stewardship is how a parish describes giving of time, talent, and treasure. Software for a Greek Orthodox parish has to respect all three: a pledge card whose amount stays private, a Time and Talents survey that tells the council who will help, and signup sheets that turn those offers into actual Sundays, memorials, and festival shifts. ParishSignUp does the volunteer and pledge side of that; it does not process the gifts themselves.

Greek and English, side by side

The interface is available in Greek, English, and 22 other languages. Each person chooses their own, so a yiayia can read the coffee hour sheet in Greek while her grandchildren use it in English. Church photographs from the Greek tradition can appear as the page background, and can be turned off in Profile Settings. The Gospel of the day is offered in English (King James) and Russian only; there is no Greek text of it.

What ParishSignUp handles for a Greek Orthodox community

Stewardship pledges, private to the treasurer

With Parish Plus, each household makes its stewardship pledge in the app. Pledge dollar amounts and totals are visible to the treasurer alone. Analytics, for admins and treasurers, puts pledges, membership forms, and surveys on one page, so the stewardship campaign can be followed without a spreadsheet passing between laptops.

Time and Talents, then real signups

A Parish Plus survey such as Time and Talents shows who offered to help with Sunday school, the choir, the festival, or visiting the sick. The ministry leader then creates a signup sheet and shares it with those people. Offers become names on dated slots, with reminders by email or Telegram.

Fellowship hour and the Mnimosino

A recurring coffee hour sheet rotates hospitality groups or Philoptochos teams across the Sundays of the year. When a family offers a Mnimosino or Trisagion after the Liturgy, a Custom or Trapeza sheet lets others offer to bring food for the fellowship that follows, alongside the family’s own Koliva.

Festival volunteers in shifts

A Greek festival needs people in the kitchen, at the pastry booth, at the gate, and cleaning up after. A Custom sheet with shift slots across each festival day shows open spots at a glance, and volunteers who don’t want an account can sign up with just a name. Event RSVP sheets count adults and children for a parish dinner or a Name Day luncheon.

Metropolises you can choose

When a Greek Orthodox parish is created or edited, the admin can choose the Direct Archdiocesan District or one of the Metropolises — Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Denver, Pittsburgh, Detroit, or New Jersey — or “Other / not listed”.

Through the parish year

The stewardship campaign opens in the fall and the council wants to know where it stands by Thanksgiving.
The treasurer sends the financial support (stewardship) form to every member from the app, and each person is notified by email or Telegram. The treasurer sees the amounts, and admins follow the responses on the Analytics page without seeing what anyone pledged.
The parish festival is in six weeks and the kitchen needs three shifts a day for three days.
The festival chair creates a Custom sheet with nine shifts, turns on signup without an account, and puts the link in the bulletin. Volunteers pick a shift, get a reminder, and the chair sees the empty slots that still need calls.
A family is offering a forty-day Mnimosino after Sunday Liturgy.
Philoptochos creates a Trapeza sheet for that Sunday’s fellowship. Parishioners note what they will bring, and the dish list keeps the table from ending up with five trays of the same thing.

Setting up a Greek Orthodox parish

Create the parish and choose Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Pick your Metropolis or the Direct Archdiocesan District
Give the priest the Priest role and name a treasurer
Create hospitality groups and a recurring fellowship hour sheet
Turn on Parish Plus if you want stewardship pledges and the Time and Talents survey
Share the parish QR code in the narthex and the bulletin

Questions from Greek Orthodox parishes

Can our Metropolis see our parish’s stewardship?

No. If your parish lists its Metropolis and a Metropolis administrator has been approved by ParishSignUp, they see the parishes that chose it and a read-only view of published signup sheets. Pledge amounts, member emails, draft sheets, and confession names are never shown to them.

Can parishioners give online through ParishSignUp?

No. ParishSignUp records stewardship pledges but does not process donations or card payments, and it does not keep the parish books. Keep your existing giving and accounting tools.

Which calendar does the Gospel of the day follow?

The new calendar by default, as kept by the Greek Archdiocese. A person can switch to the old calendar in Profile Settings. It arrives daily by Telegram or email at the time they choose.

Can Philoptochos, GOYA, and the choir each run their own sheets?

Yes. Any parish admin can create sheets in any category, and each ministry can share its own link. Everyone signs up within the same parish, so one person sees all their commitments in My Signups and can subscribe to them in their own calendar.

How is Parish Plus priced?

By the parish’s size in households. Admins, treasurers, and priests see the amount for each size in Parish settings → Plan. Fellowship hour, festival, and memorial sheets are free without it.