Why church money software is finally possible.
For decades, proper financial infrastructure (real accounts, issued cards, automated ledgers) was something only large enterprises could buy. The building blocks that change that have only just arrived, and Vestry exists to bring them to Australian churches first.
Built in Australia · For churches first
Four technologies changed what's possible.
None of these existed in usable form a decade ago. Together, they make enterprise-grade financial software something a church of any size can simply sign up for.
Embedded finance
Platforms like Stripe now let any organisation hold its own account and issue cards in minutes. No bank negotiation, no minimum size. The infrastructure banks reserved for corporates is available to a church plant. The account is always the church's own; Vestry never holds funds.
Digital signing
Legally binding agreements, executed in minutes from any device. The ATO-required documents behind minister benefits no longer need a printer or a filing cabinet. They're signed, dated and stored where the next treasurer can find them.
Open ledgers
Xero and Planning Center expose clean APIs, so coding, journals and reconciliation can simply happen in the background. And read-only connections mean insight without risk: analysis never needs the power to touch a record.
AI that reads and writes plain English
Drafting minutes, searching a decade of records, explaining a budget variance in sentences. None of it existed a few years ago; now it's dependable enough for a board pack.
New rails, old-fashioned promises.
We never hold your money
Funds sit in your church's own account, and Vestry acts only on your instructions.
Instant and self-serve
Sign up, verify your church, and be running the same day. No sales calls, no onboarding queue, no paper forms. Even the documents that matter are signed digitally inside the platform.
Your data is protected
We treat faith community information as sensitive under Australian privacy law, we encrypt it, and we never sell it.
No hidden clips
Our pricing is published, and where we earn a referral fee we tell you the amount before you proceed.
Why ‘Vestry’?
The vestry is the room beside the sanctuary where a parish's practical affairs — its records, its registers, its money — have been looked after for centuries. Quiet, orderly work that serves the worship happening next door.
That's the job description: church money, kept in order, next to the ministry rather than in its way.
Five products, one quiet system.
Be part of the first wave.
Join the waitlist and we'll tell you the moment Vestry opens its doors, with your church at the front of the onboarding queue.