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Ministry AI

Ask Your Data
Anything

Chat with your church data in plain English. No queries, no exports, no training needed — just ask a question and get an instant answer.

70 Data Views Plain English Role-Based Access Instant Answers

Sound Familiar?

Your Data Is There.
The Answers Aren’t.

You have more data than ever. But turning it into decisions still takes hours—and most of the time, nobody reads the report anyway.

You run 5 reports to answer one question

Open the giving report, then the donor list, then the fund breakdown, then a spreadsheet. By the time you find the number, you’ve lost 30 minutes.

Nobody on staff speaks SQL

The data is all there—locked in a database nobody can access without writing a query. So you export another CSV and open another pivot table.

By the time you find the data, the meeting is over

Your elder board asks “What’s our retention rate?” You don’t have the answer. You promise to follow up. The moment passes.

What if you could just… ask?

See It In Action

Plain English.
Real Answers.

Type a question like you’d text a colleague who knows everything about your church. The AI writes the query, runs it, and explains the results.

Queries 70 data views across giving, people, forms, and more
Understands dates, funds, campuses, and donor history
Remembers your conversation for follow-up questions
Every query logged for full audit trail

Data Chat

Ask anything about your church data

Live

Ask a question about your church data…

Conversational Memory

Ask a Follow-Up.
Drill Deeper.

Data Chat remembers your conversation. Ask a follow-up and it picks up exactly where you left off—up to 10 turns over a 12-hour window.

References prior questions automatically
Up to 10 follow-up turns in a single thread
Context preserved for 12 hours across sessions

Data Chat

Follow-up conversation

Multi-turn

Speed Matters

From 45 Minutes to 3 Seconds

The old way: export, pivot, cross-reference, calculate, write. The new way: ask a question. Get an answer.

With Data Chat 0:00
Answer ready — 3 seconds
Without Data Chat (Manual Process) 0:00
Open spreadsheet & locate correct tab
Build pivot table or filter by date range
Cross-reference with another report
Calculate totals & write up summary
Email results to the person who asked

70 Data Views

Ask About Anything

Data Chat has access to every corner of your organization’s data. Here are just a few of the questions you can ask.

Giving & Transactions

  • How much did we receive this month?
  • Who are our top 10 donors this year?
  • What’s our average gift size?

Donors & Households

  • How many active donors do we have?
  • Who stopped giving in the last 90 days?
  • Show me donors without email addresses

Subscriptions & Pledges

  • How many recurring donors do we have?
  • Which pledges are behind schedule?
  • What’s our monthly recurring total?

Forms & Submissions

  • How many prayer requests this week?
  • Which form gets the most submissions?
  • Show event registrations by month

Text Marketing

  • How many subscribers joined this month?
  • Which list has the most members?
  • How many messages were sent last week?

Ecommerce & Products

  • What was our top-selling product?
  • Show checkout totals by month
  • Which product variants sold the most?

Sermons & Content

  • How many sermons are in each series?
  • Which speakers have the most sermons?
  • Show sermon notes by topic

Analytics & Engagement

  • Which pages get the most views?
  • How many chatbot conversations this week?
  • Show push notification delivery rates

Simple as 1-2-3

How Data Chat Works

1

Ask in Plain English

Type your question naturally. No SQL, no query language, no technical knowledge required.

2

AI Writes & Runs the Query

The AI writes optimized SQL, executes it against your data views, and validates the results.

3

Get Your Answer Instantly

Formatted results with context, trends, and insights — ready to share or act on.

MCP AI Access

Take Data Chat
With You.

The same analytical engine. The same plain-English questions. Use it in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Claude Desktop via the open MCP standard. No browser tab required.

Claude & ChatGPT cloud connectors
One-click Cursor install
Conversational follow-ups

Cursor — MCP

MCP Connected

Secure by Design

Every Role Sees
Only Their Data

Data Chat respects your admin roles automatically. A payments admin only sees financial data. A forms admin only sees submissions. No configuration needed.

Read-only queries — nobody can modify data through chat
Sensitive columns automatically redacted from results
Every query logged with user, timestamp, and thread ID
Donor Admin All 70 views

Full access to every data view in the system

Payments Admin 8 views

Transactions, funds, batches, payment methods

Text Marketing Admin 9 views

Lists, subscribers, messages, schedules, sources

Forms Admin 4 views

Custom forms, submissions, users, event triggers

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Investigation Skills

0

Queries to Write

0+

Database Views

Free

On Every Plan

Built for Every Detail

More Than Search — Intelligence

Natural Language

Ask in plain English — no SQL or technical knowledge needed.

Schema-Aware Intelligence

Searches entity documentation to understand every column and field.

Conversation Memory

Ask follow-up questions — the AI remembers the full thread.

Skill-Based Procedures

Pre-loaded investigation steps for complex diagnostic queries.

Domain Context

Auto-loads your funds, campuses, timezone, and org settings.

Complete Audit Trail

Every query logged with user, timestamp, and thread linkage.

Cross-Entity Joins

Combine data across donors, transactions, forms, and more in one query.

Smart Date Handling

Timezone-aware date ranges matching your control panel exactly.

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Seamless Connections

Data Chat Connects to Your Entire Stack

Query data across your ChMS, giving platform, forms, and text marketing—all from one conversation window.

Ministry Platform

Comprehensive browser-based church management system for people, events, groups, donations and ministry engagement.

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Rock RMS

Open source church management system focused on ministry and people with full features and mobile-friendly design.

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Fellowship One

Comprehensive church management software for member data, automated tasks, and cloud-accessible ministry features.

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Church Community Builder

Cloud-based church management software for member tracking, giving management, and meaningful connections.

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Planning Center

Church management platform that helps manage member data, automate tasks, and coordinate ministry operations.

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Breeze ChMS

Intuitive church management software designed for small and mid-sized churches with simple, affordable tools.

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Aplos ChMS

Church management and fund accounting software for nonprofits with financial management and giving tracking.

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TaxJar

Streamlines e-commerce order management with automated tax calculations, reporting, and compliance tools.

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Shippo

Centralized shipping platform for label creation, carrier tracking notifications, and automated fulfillment.

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SalesForce

CRM solutions for nonprofits with donor management, fundraising automation, and data-driven engagement.

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One Church Software

Cloud-based church management for communication, giving, scheduling, attendance, and member management.

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QuickBooks

Financial management tools for nonprofits with accounting, payroll, expense tracking, and reporting.

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StudioC

Church management platform for data analytics, targeted communications, and member engagement strategies.

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DPC&S Incorporated

Response processing and marketing company specializing in fundraising, data processing, and mailing services.

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Icon CMO

Cloud-based church management with member management, financial tools, attendance tracking, and communications.

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Aegis CRM

Nonprofit management solution with donor management, fundraising tools, and campaign analytics.

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ManagedMissions

Mission trip giving automation that works alongside your primary ChMS integration with smart donor matching and nightly sync.

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Founded by Christians

Dedicated Customer Support

Online Giving's platform was founded, designed, and is operated by Evangelical Christians. Humbly serving The Church through software and service. Get support from a team that truly cares about ministry.

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Complete Platform

The OnlineGiving.org Platform

Discover OnlineGiving.org's powerful tools for churches. Our platform provides seamless giving solutions, engagement features, and analytics to help your ministry grow. We give you everything needed to thrive in the digital age.

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Giving

Increase your growth independent of weekly attendance. Give on any device with 10+ methods available to the church including Web, Mobile, Text, Kiosk, Chatbot, Facebook, Embedded, Express and more.

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02

E-Commerce Store

With our E-Commerce Store for churches, you can easily launch an attractive online store while keeping track of your inventory, integrating shipping, calculating sales tax, and accepting user payments.

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03

Metrics

Get the whole picture with donation insights with intuitive metrics based on ChMS data retroactive five-plus years that include all forms of giving, digital and non-digital.

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04

Mobile App

A beautiful and engaging custom mobile app for your church with advanced ChMS integration. Uniquely crafted for each church and engineered to connect and engage your members daily.

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05

Text Marketing

Enhance church communication by sending inspirational messages, reading plans, group reminders, and donation requests. Engage your congregation with text message event registration and more.

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06

Chatbot

The new vital platform for reaching and retaining guests. Connect the congregation and grow your church. Text based Christ acceptance, baptism sign-ups, connection cards and more.

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07

Form Builder

The Custom Form Builder engineered for churches makes it easy to visually build web and mobile-friendly custom-forms deeply integrated into your Church Management System.

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08

Church AI Agent

A 24/7 AI-powered assistant on your giving pages that answers donor questions, handles recurring gifts, pulls giving statements, and keeps giving-related inquiries off your staff — free with every plan.

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Your Data. Your Questions.
Instant Answers.

Stop exporting spreadsheets and building reports. Just ask — and get the answer in seconds.

Included with Every Plan No Setup Required 9,000+ Churches
PCI Compliant 256-bit Encryption Sensitive Data Redacted Role-Based Access