Michael Schmidt

Michael Schmidt
I'm in charge of user experience at ChurchDesk to make sure we live up to our mission. We want to help churches meet people with user friendly software.

Recent Posts

Add sign-up forms directly to your events in ChurchDesk

If and when you’re able to host corona-safely events, it’s recommended that you ask people to sign up. Now you’re able to easily add a sign-up form directly to an event from within the ChurchDesk Calendar.

A better solution for people working in multiple parishes

At ChurchDesk we’re observing the everyday life of the church and have noticed how more and more churches have started sharing their human resources such as their organist, choir and even warden. ChurchDesk would like to help accommodate this new way of collaborating between parishes. That’s why we’re now providing you with a great solution to collaborate with your neighbouring parishes.

Coordinate staff and volunteers easily with the new absence calendar

We are always working to improve our already great calendar for you. Today, we are adding a new view for absences so your daily view becomes less cluttered.

New website themes are now accessibility compliant

By 23 September 2020, The Government Digital Service (GDS) requires all websites in the public sector to be compliant with the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards. ChurchDesk has made sure that you can comply with these if you also want your church's online presence to be more accessible.

New improvements to your ChurchDesk Calendar

We’ve received many requests for the following improvements which we’re excited to introduce to you.

Get a better overview with the new and powerful ChurchDesk Calendar

Throughout the years we’ve received a lot of great feedback on the ChurchDesk Calendar. Not surprising since the calendar is the heart of running a church. Based on your feedback and in collaboration with various users of ChurchDesk we’ve now made introduced a new calendar. 

Meet Revd. Whitehead: All tickets sold in less than two days

ChurchDesk now helps churches sell tickets and collect donations with ChurchDesk Forms. We spoke with Cawston Parish Church, where they have already used this new opportunity to help them with their mission.

Our GDPR roadmap at ChurchDesk

Between now and 25th May 2018 - and beyond - we are fully focused on enhancing ChurchDesk to enable easier compliance for churches. With this article we want to highlight the initiatives that ChurchDesk is taking to help you become GDPR compliant.

Contributions through ChurchDesk

Some of you might be wondering what the people behind ChurchDesk are working on these days? Well let me tell you...

Our CEO on how to build a great church management software

At ChurchDesk we are often asked why we work so hard on building a workflow management software for churches. My answer as CEO is always: We work hard...

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I want to talk to all our customers

I will jumb right into it! Last week I got a great idea and wrote out to 1,000 of our active users and asked if they could find 10-15 minutes of their...

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Is your church ready for the new Google requirements to be mobile?

Google has big changes coming up in the way they prioritize their search results. April 21, 2015, Google changes significantly. The company just annou...

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