Getting started with Psalmly
What Psalmly is, how your personal dashboard works, and how to move between your churches.
Read the guideCreating a bulletin
How admins build a weekly bulletin in Psalmly — picking a date, the gather-the-week prefill, the order of service, the prayer, giving, events and announcement sections, reordering and turning sections on or off, choosing a theme, and letting AI draft the warm parts.
Read articleCreating and managing groups
How admins create and run small groups and ministries — naming a group and picking its icon, the two choices that matter most (open vs closed, listed vs hidden), approving who joins, managing the roster, moderating the discussion feed, announcing to a single group, and deleting a group.
Read articleCreating your church
How to create a church in Psalmly, what each setup field means, and how to invite your first members.
Read articleJoining a church
The two ways to join a church in Psalmly — a shared join code or an emailed invitation.
Read articleManaging your church directory
How admins manage the church's people — the roster of members and their roles, church titles, featuring staff on your public page, who can see giving, inviting people or importing a list, and removing someone.
Read articleModerating the prayer board
How admins and leaders review the whole prayer board, change who can see a request, protect anonymity, and remove posts — with care.
Read articleRSVPing and registering for events
How to find your church's events, RSVP "going / maybe / can't make it", complete registration forms to reserve your spot, and add an event to your calendar.
Read articleSending announcements
How admins write and send an announcement to the whole church or a group — drafts, the live email preview, who receives it, sending by email and optional push notification, what happens when you send, and why a sent announcement can't be unsent.
Read articleSetting up online giving
How to turn on online giving for your church — connecting a secure Stripe account, what Stripe asks for, the setup states you'll move through, and how money reaches your church's bank without Psalmly ever holding it.
Read articleTracking expenses
How the Finances page works — recording an expense with a snapped receipt, the curated categories, tagging a fund, the AI receipt scan on paid plans, filtering the expense ledger, and fixing or deleting an entry.
Read articleUsing the prayer board
How to share a prayer request, choose who sees it, and pray for others on your church's prayer board.
Read articleYour church's AI assistant
What the Psalmly AI assistant (Ask Psalmly) does for admins — answering questions from your church's own information and helping draft announcements, events, and invitations, always with your confirmation. Which plans include it, and how it's kept safe.
Read articleYour document vault
How to keep your church's important files safe and central — bylaws, the 501(c)(3) letter, insurance certificates, the lease, board minutes, and policies. Uploading and organizing, renewal-date reminders, replacing or deleting files, and who can see them.
Read articleYour public page
How your church's public website works in Psalmly — a front door that builds itself from the information you already manage, not a drag-and-drop builder. Where to manage it, your web address, choosing a layout, publishing, and the Your public page checklist.
Read articleAnnouncements you receive
Where your churches' announcements show up — by email, across the app, and as push notifications on the mobile app — how to control phone notifications, and how to unsubscribe from announcement emails while still seeing them in Psalmly.
Read articleFund balances and opening balances
How Psalmly computes each fund's real balance — opening balance plus everything given minus what you've spent — why setting opening balances on day one matters, the as-of date, the Unassigned bucket, and why a negative balance isn't an error.
Read articleJoining and taking part in groups
How members find and join their church's small groups — open groups you join in one tap, closed groups you request, the discussion feed where you post, reply, and share photos, your groups across all your churches, and leaving a group. The same on web and the mobile app.
Read articleManaging giving funds
How to create and manage the funds members give toward — the always-on Tithes & offerings fund, adding designated funds with icons, colors, and goals, hiding a fund without deleting it, and archiving the ones you no longer need.
Read articlePeople without an account
How to keep people who give or attend but don't use the app — the church roster. Adding them, attributing cash and check gifts, producing a year-end statement, linking them to an account when they join, and archiving.
Read articlePublishing and sharing a bulletin
How admins put a finished bulletin in front of the congregation — publishing it to the app (and what lands in members' Updates, with no phone alerts), printing the folded sheet, emailing the weekly edition, the optional public-page toggle, and editing after publishing.
Read articleScheduling events
How admins create and edit events — calendar and list views, dates and times, multi-day and all-day events, colors, recurrence, drafts vs published, and cancelling, restoring, or deleting an event.
Read articleTeaching your assistant (Knowledge base)
How to teach the Psalmly AI assistant the durable things it can't read from your calendar or profile — your story, beliefs, FAQs, ministries, and policies — by writing knowledge base entries, plus what not to put in and the per-plan limits.
Read articleUpdating your church information
How to edit your church's profile after setup — basics, branding, contact, location, and service times — plus publishing and changing your handle.
Read articleWhat appears on your public page
A section-by-section map of where each part of your public page comes from — which content appears automatically once you fill it in, and which you opt in per item (public events, public announcements, featured team, giving). It explains why something is or isn't showing.
Read articleAdding your own pages
Add your own pages to your church's public website — a daycare, a ministry, a rental page. Covers the designed blocks (rich text, heading, table, cards, call to action), creating and publishing a page, its web address, where pages appear in your menu, and the per-plan page limit.
Read articleAsking Psalmly
How to use Ask Psalmly, your church's AI helper, when your church has it — asking about service times and events, getting help to RSVP or give, and what to know about accuracy and privacy.
Read articleEvent sign-ups, forms, and capacity
Choose how members take part in an event — open, a simple RSVP, or registration forms — attach required and optional forms, and set a capacity limit that's enforced automatically.
Read articlePayouts, fees, and where your money goes
How gifts reach your church's bank, when payouts arrive, the processing fees that apply on card and bank gifts, the difference between free and paid plans for online giving, and how "cover the fees" helps your church keep more.
Read articleReading your church's bulletin
Where to find your church's weekly bulletin in Psalmly — the note in your Updates, the card on your church's home, and the Bulletins list — how to read it on the web or the mobile app, how to give from it, and how to get the printable sheet.
Read articleThe board report and exports
Pulling a board-ready PDF for the monthly business meeting — choosing the reporting period, what the report contains, how it differs from a giver's tax statement, and exporting your expenses as a CSV for your treasurer.
Read articleYour church directory
How to browse your church's directory to get to know people and reach leadership, and how to control how you appear — whether you're listed and whether you share your phone or email. Web and mobile.
Read articleYour Updates inbox
Where Psalmly gathers everything happening across your churches — the Updates inbox and the bell. What lands there, how to open and clear it, and how it differs from the push notifications on your phone.
Read articleBlocking and reporting
How to keep your church spaces comfortable — blocking another member so you don't see each other, and reporting a prayer, post, or profile to your church's admins for review. What each one does and how to undo a block.
Read articleDrafting a page with AI
How AI-enabled churches draft a whole custom page from a plain-English description — where to start, what AI produces (a title, intro, and a mix of blocks), that it only uses the facts you give it, reviewing and saving the draft, and choosing to add to or replace an existing page.
Read articleTracking gifts, refunds, and reports
How to review the gifts your church receives — the Recent gifts table on your dashboard and Giving page, opening a single gift for its full detail, what anonymous gifts look like, exporting to CSV, resending a receipt, and how refunds work.
Read articleViewing and exporting form responses
Read what members submitted to an event's registration form — a per-question summary or a full table of individual responses — and export it all to CSV or PDF.
Read articleConnecting your own domain
How to put your church's public page on your own web address (like firstbaptist.org) instead of the yourchurch.psalmly.app one — what you need, the exact DNS record to add at your domain provider, what to expect while it goes live, and how to fix, change, or remove it.
Read articleRecording cash and check gifts
How to log the cash and checks from the Sunday plate per giver — the Record offering batch, matching gifts to members, loose plate cash, attaching the count sheet, the AI scan on paid plans, and how recorded gifts complete statements and totals.
Read articleReviewing reported content
How the admin Moderation queue works — where members' reports of prayers, posts, and profiles land, what you see (with reporters kept anonymous), and the actions you can take — remove the content, remove the member, escalate to Psalmly, or dismiss.
Read articleThe contact form and your inbox
How visitors reach you from your public page and what you do with their messages — the Get in touch form, your admin Inbox, replying from your own email, the Inbox/Archived/Spam buckets, internal team notes, and deleting. Psalmly never emails on your behalf.
Read articleGiving to your church
How to give online through Psalmly — choosing an amount and a fund, giving once or on a schedule, paying by card or bank, the option to cover processing fees, giving anonymously, and what happens right after you give.
Read articleReceiving gifts on your public page
How visitors can give to your church straight from your public page without an account — what makes the Give button appear, what a guest enters, where those gifts land for you (the same ledger as member gifts), the fees, receipts, and the fact that money goes directly to your bank.
Read articleRecurring gifts
How to set up a gift that repeats — choosing weekly, every-two-weeks, or monthly, when the first and next gifts are charged, and how to pause, resume, change the amount or fund, or cancel a recurring gift at any time.
Read articleYour saved payment methods
How your saved cards and bank accounts work in Psalmly — one wallet that works across all your churches, adding a card or linking a bank for lower-cost giving, choosing a default, removing a method, and how your details are kept secure.
Read articleReceipts and tax statements
The records you get for your giving — an emailed receipt for every gift, your year-end contribution statement as a downloadable PDF for taxes, where to find them on web and mobile, and how anonymous giving still keeps your own complete records.
Read articleManaging your plan and billing
How to see your church's plan and change it — the free, Community, and Growth tiers, upgrading or downgrading, monthly vs annual billing, updating your card and viewing invoices through Stripe, and cancelling. What's free forever and what a paid plan adds.
Read articleLeaving, transferring, or closing a church
The end-of-life actions for a church — leaving it yourself, handing the lead role to someone else, and closing or deleting the church. Who can do each, how giving history is preserved, and the 30-day restore window on deletion.
Read articleYour account and profile
Managing your personal Psalmly account — your name, photo, and contact details, your email and password, appearance, notifications, blocked members, signing in with Face ID on mobile, signing out, deleting your account, and sending feedback to the Psalmly team.
Read articleGetting support from Psalmly
How to open a support ticket, what each category means, and what to expect on timing.
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