The church management software that keeps your people gathered, strengthened, and sent.
Pronounced ek-KLOO-oh. From the Greek: to grow slack, the one thing the church must not do.
One platform for your whole congregation: people, attendance, children's safety, volunteer scheduling, outreach, and communication. The platform is $99/month. Add giving & accounting, texting, and video as your church grows into them.
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The Theology of Ekkluo
Three simultaneous realities of the church that refuses to grow slack.
Gathered
Matthew 18:20
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them. The church begins with knowing your people: every name, every family, every child, every absence that needs a pastor’s attention.
People · Families · Attendance · Child Check-InStrengthened
Galatians 6:9 · ek + lyō
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. That last phrase turns on one word: ἐκλύω (eklyō), the bowstring going slack. Your software should carry the weariness, not add to it. Good scheduling, clear communication, and real data keep the bow strung tight.
Volunteers · Scheduling · Communication · ReportingSent
Matthew 28:19-20 · poreuthentes
Go therefore. The gathering was never the destination. The strengthened community exists to be deployed into the neighborhood, the association, the mission field. Ekkluo tracks the going too.
Outreach · Community · Mission Tracking · AssessmentsThe Name
A name with two thousand years of weight.
Ekkluo (ἐκλύω) is an ancient Greek verb, a compound of ek and lyō, and it was already old when the New Testament was written. ΕΚ: out of, from within, proceeding from a source. The same ek that begins ekklesia, the New Testament word for church: the called-out assembly of God's people.
ΛΥΩ: to loose, to unbind, to release. In the compound it becomes what a bowstring does when it lets go. The lexicons gloss ἐκλύω as to unloose, as a bow-string.
The word Paul reaches for in Galatians 6:9: And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. That last clause turns on one word: ἐκλυόμενοι. Do not ekkluo.
We spell it with the double k of ἐκκλησία, because the two words belong together: the church that was called out is the church that must not go slack.
Put them together and you have the tension at the heart of every local church: called out of the world, but always at risk of growing slack in the mission. Ekkluo is the software that keeps the bow strung, so your gathered, strengthened community never stops flowing outward.
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Video & Streaming Add-On
Your sermons, your app. Not a YouTube channel.
A private, member-only video library and live streaming built natively into Ekkluo. No ads, no “up next” distractions, no big-tech branding.
- A member-only sermon library, organized by series, with study guides attached
- Live stream from OBS, a streaming encoder, or a phone; public or members-only, per stream
- Every broadcast auto-saved (recordings never count against your upload hours); simulcast to YouTube & Facebook while members watch natively
Giving & Accounting Add-On
Giving, statements, and the books in one place.
Online and in-person giving with fund accounting and reporting built for church books. The report is pulled, not assembled.
- One-time, recurring, and designated gifts; donors manage their own profiles and download statements
- Giving runs through your church’s own Stripe account: free to connect, and card fees go to Stripe, not Ekkluo
- Fund accounting, budgets, expense tracking, and year-end letters with one click
SMS Messaging Add-On
Reminders, notices, and prayer chains by text.
Outbound SMS sent directly through Ekkluo, with every message logged to the member's profile.
- Service reminders, volunteer notifications, and prayer chain alerts from inside Ekkluo
- Target by group, role, or attendance pattern; schedule sends ahead of time
- 10DLC carrier registration handled for you, with no setup fee
The Platform
One unified view across all teams.
Simple Pricing
The platform is $99/month.
Add giving & accounting, texting, and video as your church grows into them. Flat at any size: $99 whether you run 40 people or 400. No per-member fees, no seat counts, no modules to unlock later.
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