Real accounting for churches — chart of accounts, budgets, bank and M-Pesa reconciliation, supplier bills and financial statements your annual general meeting can trust. Built so a church treasurer can run it and an auditor can respect it.
Request a Free DemoIncome, expenditure, assets, liabilities and fund accounts structured for a church, not borrowed from a trading business.
Match statement lines against your records on screen, month by month, instead of ticking an exercise book by hand.
Set budgets per department, group or building project and compare actual spending against them at any time.
Record supplier invoices, track what is owed and keep approvals and payments documented against each expense.
Income and expenditure, fund balances and trial balance for any period — produced on demand, not assembled over a weekend.
Every entry, correction and reversal is logged with who made it and when, so the books stand up to any question.
Many church systems record who gave what and call it finance. That is contribution tracking, not accounting. A church also pays salaries and utilities, buys and maintains property, runs projects funded by special appeals, and holds money on behalf of its guilds, youth and women's groups. None of that fits in a list of donations.
The gap shows up at the annual general meeting. A congregation asks what happened to the building fund, what the parish actually spent on the youth camp, or why the bank balance does not match the treasurer's figure — and the answer has to be assembled from receipts and memory rather than printed from the books.
GlideMission includes double-entry church accounting underneath the giving records, so the two can never drift apart. A contribution recorded on Sunday is already in the accounts on Monday.
The single most valuable financial habit a church can build is monthly reconciliation — placing the bank statement, the mobile money statement and the church's own records side by side until every line finds its match.
Done by hand this is slow enough that many churches quietly skip it, and unreconciled accounts are exactly where both honest mistakes and genuine temptation hide. Done in software it takes an evening, and it gives the finance committee statements that are defensible rather than approximate.
GlideMission reconciles bank and mobile money accounts on screen, can read uploaded bank statements in Excel, CSV or PDF, and pre-matches the lines it recognises so your treasurer confirms rather than retypes.
Church treasurers are volunteers carrying a serious responsibility, often with little thanks and considerable exposure. Clean, reconciled, auditable books are the strongest protection an honest treasurer has: when every shilling is traceable and every change is logged, no one can be accused unjustly, and no committee has to take anyone's word for anything.
That is the real argument for church accounting software — not efficiency, but accountability that works in both directions. Read our practical guide to tracking tithes and offerings, or book a demo and bring your treasurer.
No. GlideMission is designed for church treasurers and administrators, many of whom are volunteers. Everyday tasks — recording giving, paying a supplier, reconciling the bank — use plain language, while the double-entry accounting happens correctly underneath. Training is included when your church comes on board.
Yes. Income and expenditure statements, fund balances, budget comparisons and a trial balance can be produced for any period, on church letterhead, and exported for your auditor.
Yes. Guilds, youth groups, departments and building projects can each hold their own funds inside the church accounts, so group money is visible in the main books rather than kept in separate cash books.
Yes. Opening balances and historical records are brought in during setup, so you start with a complete picture rather than a blank ledger.
Posted entries are corrected by reversal rather than quiet editing, so the audit trail stays intact and a reviewer can always see what was changed, by whom and when.
We will walk through reconciliation and a full set of statements using a church structured like yours.