Small nonprofits and charities
A nonprofit takes monthly support and runs its programmes.
Churches, mosques, temples and faith groups
Services, groups and suppers are on one calendar, and talks go out as a podcast. The weekly news reaches everyone, and regular giving keeps the doors open.
Your staff and volunteers work together in one Magpie team. Everyone else reads your calendar, news and podcast at their public addresses.
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This combination of six Magpie areas fits a faith community.
- Calendar
- Calendar holds services, groups and events, with RSVPs for the ones that need them.
- Podcast
- Podcast publishes your talks, with a feed for podcast apps.
- Newsletter
- Newsletter sends the weekly news to everyone who signs up.
- Forms
- Forms signs up helpers, and takes questions and requests.
- Message Boards
- Message Boards gives the community a place to talk between gatherings.
- Supporters
- Supporters takes regular monthly giving, with a free tier for the letter.
Services, groups and events are on one calendar, with RSVPs where you need them.
Calendar holds every gathering: services, choir, youth group and suppers. Each event can be on your public calendar, open by link or private.
An event can take RSVPs up to a capacity. Each service is its own event, added for each date.
Each week's talk goes out as a podcast, for anyone who missed it.
Podcast publishes your talks with their own feed. You submit it to Apple Podcasts and Spotify once.
You upload the recording as an MP3, or record a conversation with a guest in Magpie. The podcast belongs to the account of the person who starts it.
The weekly news reaches everyone who signed up.
Newsletter keeps your mailing list, with double opt-in on its sign-up page. You write each issue, send yourself a test and schedule it for Friday.
With web copies on, each week's news has its own page to share.
Helpers sign up on a form, and requests come in the same way.
Forms builds sign-up forms for suppers, rotas and trips, from starters such as Registration and Request. Every response comes into one list.
A form can take a fixed payment, such as a place on a retreat.
The community talks between gatherings on a board.
Message Boards gives the community a board of posts and replies. It can be private to your team, or public.
People post, reply and vote. A post's author, the board's creator and your admins can remove a post.
Regular giving arrives every month, and the letter goes to everyone.
Supporters gives you a page with a free tier and monthly tiers at amounts you set. People pay by card, into your own Stripe account.
A post can go to everyone on the page, such as the minister's monthly letter.
Five more areas cover your website, the hall, the rota, your contacts and the books.
- Websites
- Websites builds your site, with service times and a link to the calendar.
- Resource Booking
- Resource Booking lets your groups book the hall and rooms.
- Staff Scheduling
- Staff Scheduling plans the volunteer rota, such as the welcome team.
- Contacts
- Contacts keeps the people and partners you work with, with follow-ups.
- Accounting
- Accounting keeps the books, with giving and form payments posted automatically.
A supper goes from an idea to a full hall.
The date
The supper goes on the calendar, with RSVPs.
The helpers
Cooks and servers sign up on a form.
The word
The weekly news invites everyone, with friends.
The hall
The hall is booked for the evening.
Afterwards
Sunday's talk goes out on the podcast.
Setting up takes four steps.
Make a team
You invite your staff and volunteer leaders. Help: Create and manage a team.
Add your services
You add each service as an event on the calendar. Help: Create public and private calendar events.
Start the weekly news
You name it and share its sign-up page. Help: Start and configure a newsletter.
Start the podcast
You add artwork and your first talk. Help: Create and publish podcasts.
Plans
A faith community fits the Team plan, with staff and volunteer leaders as members. People who read the news, give or sign up are not added to the team.
Magpie's fee on monthly giving is 3%. Stripe's processing fee is taken from each card payment. Prices are on the Pricing page.
Other groups and organizations have pages of their own.
Clubs, meetups and community groups
A community group lists events, signs up volunteers and talks on a board.
Theatre companies, choirs and community bands
An arts group puts on its shows, rehearsals and classes.
Questions faith communities ask
Can we put our services on a public calendar?
Yes. Each service is an event you can list on your public calendar, with its own page. Events do not repeat, so you add one for each date.
Can people RSVP to a supper or a retreat?
Yes. An event takes RSVPs up to the capacity you set. Its page then says it is full. You see every response.
Can we publish our talks as a podcast?
Yes. You upload each talk as an MP3 of up to 500 MB. It goes out on the podcast's feed. Listeners follow it in Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Can each talk become a video?
Yes. An episode can become a video of its audio over the podcast's artwork. You download it as an MP4. Share episode starts a social post with its address.
Can we send weekly news by email?
Yes. Newsletter sends each issue to everyone who signed up, now or at a time you choose. Each issue can have its own web page too.
Can people give every month?
Yes. Supporters takes monthly payments at the amounts you set, by card. Magpie's fee is 3%, and the money goes to your own Stripe account.
Can volunteers sign up to help?
Yes. A form asks what each person can do, and every answer comes into one list. Staff Scheduling can then put them on a rota.
Can our groups book the hall?
Yes. Resource Booking holds the hall and rooms with their hours and rules. A booking can need an admin's approval.
Gather your community with Magpie.
Create a Magpie account and make a team.