A Church Community Platform for Your Congregation and Ministries

No. Vonza has no separate app to install: members open the community in the browser on any phone, tablet or computer. On a phone the sections sit in a row at the top with a Spaces menu under the composer, and members hear about new activity through email and in-app notifications.

Yes. Mark a space or a room as private and only the members you add can see it and post there. You can also set the whole community to By approval, so nobody gets in until you approve their request. Members can report a post or comment to the hosts, and block another member if they need to.

Pick one of two doors under Who can join. Anyone lets people join straight away, which suits an open welcome group. By approval has people ask first, and you can ask them membership questions (a short answer, a multiple-choice pick, an email or a phone number) before a leader approves them. To bring your existing congregation in, send email invites up to 10 at a time or enroll up to 100 people directly.

Yes, in two ways. Go live from the post composer: Vonza starts the stream, posts it to the space you pick and members join from the feed. One stream runs at a time in each community, and the recording appears about a minute after it ends, ready to post to the feed. If you already stream somewhere else, add the service as an event and paste the link, so members see where to watch.

Add each one as an event with a date, time, length and place, and make it repeat every week or month. Members see it under Upcoming in the community’s Events, tap I’m going, and get reminder emails 24 hours, 30 minutes and 5 minutes before it starts. Add to calendar saves it to any calendar app. You can show an event to everyone or only to members of selected spaces.

Build courses in Vonza and link them to the whole community or to one space, either open (members are enrolled automatically) or locked (shown to members, who enroll separately). Members find them in the community’s Classroom, grouped by space. For a full Bible college with admissions, fees and transcripts, Vonza School is the education management side of the platform.

A community with no plans is free to join: the button reads Join for free. If you want paid membership, add plans such as a one-time payment, a subscription or pay what you want with a minimum and maximum, and members pay at checkout through Stripe or Paystack once you connect an account. A free community needs no payment account at all.

Members can report a post, comment or member with a reason such as spam, harassment or false information, and block someone they do not want to hear from. Reports land in the Moderation queue, where you approve, hide, delete, warn, mute for a set number of days or ban. Under Rules you can list banned words, ask for approval of new contributors’ first posts and block links.

Yes, one to one. Members start a direct message with another member of the community, add photos and files, and mute or delete a conversation. Group chats are not offered yet. Each member chooses whether emails about new chats arrive instantly, weekly or never.