Herald
Write it once. It goes everywhere.
Draft together, approve once, and the same words land on your website, TV slides, bulletin and podcast feed. Email too, on Team.
- Channels
- 4, plus email
- AI credits to publish
- 0
- Accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 AA
What it does
Write together, live
A real-time collaborative editor, cursors and all. The whole team drafts the same announcement at once, so the words are agreed before they go anywhere.
Approve once, publish everywhere
Reviewers approve and publishers publish, never the same person. One approval sends the same words to your website, your TV slides, your printed bulletin and your podcast feed. Identical, everywhere.
Email that behaves
On Team the bulletin goes out as email too. Subscribers sign up on your own site, every message carries a one-click unsubscribe and your postal address, a suppressed address is never mailed again, and nothing leaves without the same approval the website needs.
A visitor-first website, included
Every church gets the template the strongest church sites converge on: one clear plan-your-visit path with a real inbox behind it, Give and Watch always in the header with a live indicator when a service is on, an editorial photo hero, and your current sermon series staged up front.
Your sermons, self-hosted and on a shelf
On Team and Enterprise, upload sermon audio and video: files are virus-scanned, converted to streaming-ready HLS and published to a podcast feed in the apps people already use, then organised into a series shelf with the current series leading the archive.
Events people can actually register for
Native event registration with capacity, a staff-managed waitlist and confirmation emails. Seats are counted atomically, so two people cannot take the same last place. No third-party form bolted on the side.
Found by default
Structured data, per-site sitemaps, WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility and ten curated typography pairings ship as template behaviour rather than settings you have to find. Team adds your own custom domain, with one URL tree per host so your search ranking never splits across two addresses.
A closer look
Try it right here
Change the service time once and watch all four channels update.
Try it: change the time
Church picnic
Church picnic · 12:30 PM
Church picnic, 12:30 PM
Church picnic, 12:30 PM
Church picnic · 12:30 PM
The short answers.
What channels does Herald publish to?
Four from one draft on every plan: your church website, TV slides, the printed bulletin and your podcast feed. Team adds the bulletin as email. Approve once and every channel updates together, so the bulletin never disagrees with the website.
Can our team write together?
Yes. The editor is collaborative in real time: staff and volunteers draft the same announcement at once and see each other’s changes live.
Is the sermon written by AI?
No. The sermon body is always human-written. Herald’s AI polish is deterministic first: publishing works with zero AI credits, and the optional suggestions only tidy summaries and slide text that a person still approves.
Can we host our own sermon audio and video?
On the Team and Enterprise plans, yes. Uploads are virus-scanned, converted to streaming-ready HLS video and audio, and published to a podcast RSS feed that works in the apps people already use.
Do we get a website, and what does the template include?
Every plan includes a public church site on a free Carestead subdomain. The template ships with a plan-your-visit path and an inbox behind it, persistent Give and Watch buttons with a live indicator during services, your current sermon series up front, sermons organised as a shelf, event registration with capacity and waitlists, a staff page and newsletter signup. Structured data and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility are on by default.
Can you migrate our current website?
Yes, and we do the work. We harvest your existing pages, sermons, events, people and photos, rebuild them on the Carestead template, and verify the result against your current site before cutover. It is a one-time service at introductory pricing, not a self-service import.
Can we keep our own domain?
Yes. Custom domains are included on the Team and Enterprise plans, and every plan starts on a free Carestead subdomain. On a verified custom domain the site serves at your root with correct canonicals, so indexing never splits across two addresses.