Breeze Blog

When I started Breeze more than eight years ago my heart had one desire–provide every small and mid-size church with incredibly easy-to-use software to help them magnify their impact for God’s Kingdom. At that time, I could have never imagined all God would do with Breeze. Today, we have nearly 50 incredible team members serving over 9,000 churches around the world. It’s truly humbling! Earlier this year, I began to dream of what it might look like for Breeze to be better equipped to serve the...

We're excited to announce reopen.church – a free tool we built to help churches reopen safely. Reopen.church is a simple-to-use registration form churches can email or text to members to pre-register for the service time and/or room they plan to attend. The purpose is to help make it easy to distribute your people across multiple services and rooms in order to adhere to social distancing guidelines. With reopen.church you can: Create multiple service times and rooms Set capacity limits Generate...

At Breeze, our mission is -- and will always be -- to serve churches well. We know churches around the world are facing tough decisions on how to best serve their attendees amidst the spread of the COVID-19 virus. As your church works to navigate these challenges, we want to support you however we can. Below are a few resources we hope will be helpful to your church as you walk through these tough decisions.   Free Text Limit Increase within Breeze For the months of March and April, all...

As the end of the year approaches, holiday music fills the air, there's lines for santa at the mall, and for those involved with receiving donations at a church or non-profit, the dread of having to send out end of year donation receipts sets in. Rather than seeing this as a necessary evil hovering over January, we think that end of year tax statements can not only be easy to create but also incredibly strategic for your church.  In order to do this, we think there's four key principles to keep...

As the year comes to a close, it's time to begin thinking about year-end reports and contribution statements. We’re here to help make this process as simple and painless as possible! If you are new to contribution statements or would like a quick refresher, our Complete Guide to Creating Giving Statements is the place to begin! In the guide, you will find short step-by-step videos to help generate statements within Breeze and customize them to perfectly fit the needs of your church. If you're...

We're excited to announce that we've upgraded our Planning Center Online integration. Our Planning Center Online integration allows churches to automatically (and in the background) update people in their Planning Center database with information from Breeze. This goes a long way in helping churches not feel like they're maintaining two separate databases. Previously our integration connected to the "Services" module of Planning Center Online. With this upgrade, the integration connects to the...

Happy New Year! Now that 2017 has come to a close, many churches are turning to the task of creating and sending end of year contribution statements to donors who gave over the past year. There's a lot of different aspect churches may want to consider for their statements, such as: Should statements be sent in the mail, emailed, or both? What information should be listed on giving statements? Should we include a letter from the pastor on the statement? How can we customize the statement to...

We’re excited to announce that for churches who track attendance through Breeze, searching through and reporting on that data just got a lot more powerful. Here's a quick video showing how it works:   Some example use cases that this can support include: Quickly showing everyone who has not attended any events this year. Determining the most regular attenders by searching for people who have attended weekly services more than 40 times this year. Quickly bringing up anyone who has attended...

We’re excited to announce that customized directory formats can now be saved, allowing a user to store multiple custom formats to be used at different times. For instance, a user might want to save different formats for the following contexts: Membership: A format that lists basic contact details to share member information with other members. Youth Group: A format that lists contact details, school, grade, and interests to share with volunteer youth group leaders. Marriage Retreat: A format...

We’re excited to announce that for churches who have multiple classrooms checking in at a single check in station, the classroom name can be optionally displayed on the screen. Here's what it looks like: You can easily enable this for any event that has the check in eligibility set by tag. Here's a short video showing how it works:   We hope this allows you to have an even smoother check in process for your events. Enjoy!