Release Notes

ChMeetings 2026.6 – March 31, 2026

IMPROVEMENTS

People

Remove People or Families From Church Or Ministry

Now you can remove people or families from a church (if you have a Diocese account) or from a Ministry (if you are a church). This can be done from someone’s profile. If you choose to remove a family, you must visit the profile of one of its members to do so. If the person is not associated with a family, then there won’t be an option to remove their family from the church / ministry.

Volunteer Scheduling

Enhanced Volunteer Sheet

The Volunteer Sheet you can download now gives you a better view of days and roles.

Giving

Make Covering Fees Mandatory For Donors
Now you can make covering fees mandatory for donors. This option is disabled by default.

New Online Giving Batch Assignment Option

We added a new option in the Online Giving Settings to Automatically assign online giving transactions to the most recently opened, active batch.

Accounting

View the full transactions list, plus transaction details from the Detailed Category Transactions, Detailed Fund Transactions and Detailed Payee Transactions reports. There is also a new Payee filter for these reports.

Search in Notes and Memo from under the Transactions page.

Forms

Create Documents Based on Form Submissions (Beta)

When exporting form submission, you can now choose the Layout option, which allows you to upload a document background image, and add fields to it. Then you can download a pdf with all submissions created based on the particular document template you created. The document preview contains the values, which you can print onto your dedicated document paper – such as certificates or any other documents you may need to issue.

Communication

Upload Voice Messages

Now you can upload a file when sending a voice message, along with the already existing option to record your message.

Media Library (Branded App)

Background Upload Support & Improved Media Upload UX

You can click ‘Save & Upload‘ and close this window after having added a media item. The file will continue uploading in the background while you add more media.

API & Integrations

Events, Occurrences & Attendance Read API

The Events Read API is now available, giving you programmatic read access to event data.

What’s included:

Events: retrieve events at the church and ministry level
Occurrences: get individual occurrence records for recurring and multi-day events
Attendance: pull attendance data per occurrence to power external reports and dashboards

This is a read-only API, ideal for building custom attendance reports, syncing data to external tools, or visualizing event trends in your own dashboards.

API Reference: api.chmeetings.com/scalar/#tag/events

MCP Resources

We’ve introduced MCP Resources to make it easier for you to build integrations and custom solutions with ChMeetings.

Simply add MCP to your preferred tools (such as Codex or Claude Code) to create apps, automate workflows, and build custom dashboards and reports. Installing ChMeetings Resources MCP does not require complex setup.

Please refer to the MCP Resources for setup and usage instructions, as well as to our guide to Installing ChMeetings Resources MCP

ChMeetings 2026.5 – March 18, 2026

IMPROVEMENTS

Giving

When exporting contributions from Contributions > All Contributions, you can also include custom profile fields in the export.
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Bi-Annual Recurring Pledges are now available.
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Remaining Amount Column for Pledge Campaigns: Now you can see at a glance what the remaining amount pledged is for every campaign you’re running.
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Accounting

Print checks will open the print preview directly instead of downloading it in the browser, then requiring you to open and print it.
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Events

We added a “Holidays” Calendar, which is currently available in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, and France.
There’s also a new Events Read API to get events on the church and ministry level, as well as to get occurrence and attendance data. This will help you create event and attendance reports in API-enabled external apps you may be using.
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Custom Profile Fields Filter in the Recurring Event report which is accessible from We also made some updates to the UI to have two tabs in the report: one for List and other for Charts. The new filter added to the List only.
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Volunteer Scheduling

Text Reminder, available beside the current option for Email and Push Notification. This feature is disabled by default and enabling it will send using your credit or your integration.
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Volunteer teams now display in the volunteers calendar view and also in the Member View.
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Diocese

The churches under the diocese can opt in for having their own dedicated phone number from under Settings > Payments & Credit.
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People

We added a Gender filter in the birthdays report.
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Text Family: When you click on the Text icon in someone’s profile, and this person is part of a family, you will see two options: Text Person and Text Family.
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Builder

We added the option to change the background color of text boxes in the builder.
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API Updates

Get a person’s organizations using: people/{personId}/organizations
Include organizations directly in the People API response using: People/?includeOrganizations=true
Blog API
Events/Attendance API (Coming very soon)

ChMeetings 2026.4 – March 4, 2026

MINOR FEATURE

Volunteer Teams Scheduling

Now when you Configure roles in Volunteer scheduling, you will find the “Team Organization” option, where you can create a team and assign it a role. There will be further improvement coming soon regarding volunteer team scheduling – all included in the new Worship Planning feature.

IMPROVEMENTS

MMS with Audio and Video Attachments

We added support for Audio and Video when sending MMS messages. You can use the Attachment feature to add .mp3, .m4a, .wav, .mp4, .mov or .m4v files to your messages.

Updated Budget vs. Actual Report

There are three new columns in the Budget vs Actual Report:

Latest month: Shows the amount for the last month within the selected date range.
Latest month %: Shows the amount for the last month within the selected date range, as a percentage of the target.
Actual YTD %: Shows Actual YTD as a percentage of the target.

ChMeetings 2026.3 – February 28, 2026

IMPROVEMENTS

People Profiles:

Show hyperlinks in People profiles: If you enter a link into a custom text field, then this link will be displayed as a clickable link rather than as plain text. The link must contain “http://” or “https://” to become clickable.
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Contributions:

Filter Contributors by Fund: If you want to know who contributed to which fund, now you have filtering options that let you narrow down results based on the Funds that people contribute to. This filter is available under Contributions > All Contributions > Contributors, under the Advanced Search area.
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Accounting:

We added the Check Number in the Transactions page filter.
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There is an easier way to transfer money between funds or between accounts. The Transfer transaction type has been reconfigured to cover these two specific situations.
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API:

There are now APIs for Churches, Ministries. and Groups, as well as for Funds.
You can create webhooks for Funds, based on whether funds were created, updated, or deleted.

ChMeetings 2026.2 – February 17, 2026

IMPROVEMENTS

Contributions

Fund Mapping Section: We added a “Fund Mapping” button in the Deposits page so you can View and Edit how your contribution funds map to your accounting funds. This is helpful to quickly review and fix any issues without the need to do this at the deposit stage. This section shows all funds – both mapped and unmapped.
Edit Deposit: We added an option to Edit a deposit by updating its Date, Account and Description. All updates will affect all its related transactions.

Deposit Date Column in Batches Page: There is a new Deposited On column under Contributions > Batches, which shows you the date on which a specific batch has been deposited.

Improved Contribution Contacts Section: We made several improvements to the Contributions > Contacts section, where you can now merge duplicate contacts, merge a contact into a member profile, or identify possible duplicates easily.

Easy conversion from full profile to contact: We add an option to Convert to Contacts which you can find under People > More Actions. This is helpful if someone stops being a member, but continues to contribute.

Accounting

Payee Email: We added an Email Field to Payee records, within the Accounting section.

Worship Planning

Import Songs: Now you can import songs using an Excel file which contains song information, as well as a link where it may be retrieved and added to your Song Library.
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Follow Ups

We added the option to Map People from within the Bulk Actions menu in the Follow Ups section.

People (Profile Details)

Member Forms Across Ministries: The Forms section within people profiles now shows all submitted forms from all ministries, as long as the user viewing the profile has access to the respective ministry.

Integrations

Telstra Whispir (Beta): We added an integration to Telstra Whispir (Beta), mainly used in Australia, for text communications.

Bible

Search the Bible by Reference: We added the ability to search for a specific scripture reference (Search by Reference). This lets you look for a specific Book, Chapter, and Verse.
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ChMeetings 2026.1 – January 29, 2026

IMPROVEMENTS

Date Reminder Automated Task that lets you choose a date field and who you want to notify members or servants a certain number of days before or after this date. This is useful when you want to notify people in relation to Background Checks-related fields or for notification on any membership-related dates.
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List of unattended events: You can now find a list of events that someone was absent from by going to the person’s profile, selecting Events, then clicking the Absentee tile.
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Group Pledges By Household when searching for families who have or have not pledged. This is available in the Advanced Search in the People area. If one member of a family has pledged, then the entire family is marked as having pledged; and vice-versa. The search returns the Primary member from each family. You can use such a search to communicate to people and encourage pledging.
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New Export option from the Deposit page that allows you to use deposit details externally.
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Now the People API lets you filter by full name, mobile number, and email.
New Batches API that lets you:
- Get all contribution batches
- Create a new batch
- Get a batch by Id
- Update a contribution batch
- Delete a batch
- Close a contribution batch
- Reopen a contribution batch

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