The framework
Levels, channels and lead times, set once in your church's own words. Every schedule is generated from it, so a rule changed there changes every event after it.
No pitch. No feature grid. No logo wall.
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So what is it?
Promotion planning for churches. Say how big an event is and the schedule appears. $29 a month per church.
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Promotion planning for churches
Say how big an event is. The whole promotion schedule appears.
Give an event a size and Promo Engine lays out every newsletter mention, post, announcement and poster it needs, weeks ahead, with a name and a due date on each. Your church decides the rules once. Promo Engine does the counting.
$29 a month per church. Free for 15 days, no card. Built by a church communications director, in a working church.
NewsletterPromoInstagramPromoFacebookPromoSunday announcementPromoSlidesPromoWebsitePromoTextPromoPosterPromoStory emailPromoReminderPromoRecapPromo
How it works
Three steps, and the third one is the product
Most churches promote everything for the same length of time, so the big things get lost among the small ones. Promo Engine starts from the size.
01
Someone asks
A request comes in: from a pastor, a ministry lead, or the church calendar Promo Engine reads. It lands on Home with a date on it, waiting for a decision.
02
You pick a level
How big is this? A handful, a group you can name, or everyone. Your framework already says what each level means: which channels, how many weeks out, how many pieces.
03
The schedule appears
Every piece, in order, with a name and a deadline on each. The newsletter mentions, the posts, the Sunday announcements, the poster. Your team sees their own list where they already work, and nothing publishes on its own.
What you get
What is in the box
One product, and all of it is included. Nothing here is an add-on and nothing is counted per person.
Up next
Worst first: requests waiting, what is late, what has no one on it, then yours, then your team's. One screen, and it is the one you open on Monday.
Plan
Every campaign as a run: how many pieces, how many done, what is late, and the schedule under it. Move the date and the unfinished work moves with it.
Sermons
A place for a pastor to write, with the passages at hand and the studies beside it. A series is a campaign, so the promotion for it is already planned.
The assistant
Drafts each piece in your church's words, five versions in a minute, and never sends any of them. It counts what is late against the rules you set.
Your team, where they already talk
A message in Slack, Google Chat or Microsoft Teams when work lands, an email either way, and everyone's work in the calendar they already open.
Works with
The tools your team already has open
Promo Engine posts into the chat your staff already read, and it reads the calendar your church already keeps. Nothing has to move.
Microsoft Teams
BreezeChurchSuiteChurch Community BuilderTithe.lySubsplashAIO ChurchQuickBooksAplosXeroGoogle ChatGroupMeWhatsAppBANDTrelloNotionBasecampNiftyPMMailchimpClearstreamText In ChurchMicrosoft 365CanvaGoogle CalendarOutlookApple Calendar
Pricing
One plan. One price.
Free for 15 days, no card. Cancel anytime. No per-seat pricing. Everything in Promo Engine included.
Every church
$29
a month, per church
Free for 15 days. No card.
Everything in Promo Engine, everyone on your staff, and the assistant. Free for 15 days with no card, then one subscription for the whole church.
- PromoThe framework, Up next, Plan, and the schedule for every event
- SermonsA place to write, the studies, and the series
- Everyone on your staffOwners, staff and volunteers, with a list each, at no charge per person
Questions
Questions a church asks about promotion
Plain answers, and most of them are useful whether or not you sign up. Anything not here, contact@engine.church answers.
01
How far in advance should a church promote an event?
It depends on how much of the church the event affects. Something that concerns nearly everyone, a Christmas service or a weekend away, wants about six weeks, building rather than shouting all at once. Something for a group you can name in a sentence needs about four. A small group or a volunteer team needs two, and should not interrupt anyone it does not concern. The mistake most churches make is promoting everything for the same length of time, so the big things get lost among the small ones.
02
How many times should a church post about the same event?
Fewer times than instinct suggests, and spread further apart. A six-week run across a newsletter, social and Sunday announcements comes to roughly sixteen separate pieces of work, but they build toward the date rather than repeating evenly. The useful limit is on how many different things you ask people to care about at once: two live asks across all channels in a week is about the ceiling before people stop hearing any of them.
03
What is the difference between when something is due and when it goes out?
The date people see something is not the date the work has to exist. A story email going out on Monday needs a person asked, a reply and an edit, which is a week and a half of lead time. A reminder text is written the day before. Planning against publish dates is the most common reason a church finds out on Sunday morning that something was needed on Wednesday. Promo Engine puts both dates on every piece.
04
What happens when an event date changes?
Move the date and everything unfinished moves with it, keeping the same weekday and the same lead time, so a Sunday announcement stays on a Sunday. Owners, briefs and notes are kept, and anything already finished stays where it is.
05
Does Promo Engine replace Planning Center?
No. Planning Center handles services, people and giving. Promo Engine handles the promotion around them: what gets announced, on which channel, how far ahead, and by whom. It reads the calendar Planning Center publishes and asks about anything on it that nothing is promoting yet.
06
Can volunteers use it without training?
Volunteers see only their own work: a list of what they have been given, with a deadline on each and a link to whatever they need. They are told where they already talk when something lands on their list, and it appears in their own calendar. There is nothing to configure.
07
What does the assistant write, and what does it not?
Given the event and the scale, it drafts each piece in your church's own words, and it will write five versions in a minute. It never picks your message, your voice or your creative direction, it never sends anything and it never publishes anything. A person presses every button.
08
What does it cost?
$29 a month per church. Free for 15 days, no card. Cancel anytime. No per-seat pricing. Everything in Promo Engine included.
09
What about the rest of Engine?
Promo Engine is the first of Engine's three products, and it is open now. People and Operations, for guests and care and for forms, meetings and money, are coming on the same account. When they open, your Promo Engine account becomes an Engine account and everything comes with you.
Coming soon
The rest of Engine
Promo Engine is the first of Engine's three products. The other two are being built in a working church now, on the same account, and everything you set up here comes with you.
People
One record for every person, and the follow-up that keeps people from falling through.
Guests · Care
Operations
Church administration. Forms, meetings and money.
Forms · Meetings · Finance
When they open, your Promo Engine account becomes an Engine account. Your framework, your campaigns and your team come with you, and nothing is set up twice. What is coming, at engine.church
Set your church up this week
Two minutes. No sales call. No card for 15 days, and the schedule for your next event on the first of them.