For churches on Planning Center
Someone said yes on Sunday. Did anyone follow up?
Next Steps reads your Planning Center data and hands you the list nobody wants to look at: every person who raised their hand and then heard nothing back. Names, not charts. You will know who to call by Tuesday.
Built by a church ops director, not a software company.
15 minutes to connect. We can only read your Planning Center. We never change it.
You already know how this goes.
Nobody on your team is lazy. The yes just goes into a system that never brings it back up.
The connect card
In October, someone writes “I want to be baptized” on a connect card. It gets typed in. A workflow card gets made. The week moves on.
It is February now. She has not been baptized, and nobody noticed. She is on page one of your leak report.
The first-time family
A family visits, checks two kids in, and slips out during the last song. Three Sundays pass. They have not come back.
Monday morning they are on your list, with a note that says how long it has been. You decide what happens next.
The almost-volunteer
A guy signs up to serve, does the interview, and stalls right before the background check. He did not change his mind. He just never got a nudge.
You will see exactly which step he is stuck on, and how long he has been sitting there.
The number that matters
Next Steps Taken
Attendance tells you who showed up. This tells you who moved. Baptisms, Growth Track, group joins, first serves. One number for the whole church, month after month.
Find the leak
Follow-up funnels
Set up your process once. Then watch each month's group of people walk it, step by step. When a step looks bad, click it. You get the stalled people by name, ready for a phone call.
Learn from other churches
Benchmarks
Other churches will show you their whole follow-up play. The text they send the same day. The call two days later. The class the next Sunday. Steal what works.
Sign-up to leak report in 15 minutes.
Nothing to import. No spreadsheet to fill out. You do not have to talk to anyone first, unless you want to.
Connect Planning Center
One click. The permission screen shows you exactly what we read: people, check-ins, forms, workflows, groups, and sign-ups. Never your giving data, and we cannot change a thing.
We pull your history
The sync runs on its own. Real numbers show up in a few minutes, and the full picture fills in while you get coffee.
Read your leak report
Every dropped follow-up, by name. What you do about it is up to you. Nothing gets sent unless you send it.
Why this exists
Go after the one
Jesus told a story about a shepherd with a hundred sheep. One of them wanders off, and he leaves the ninety-nine to go find it. Not because ninety-nine was not enough. Because the one still mattered.
That is the heart of every church I know. It is also the hardest thing to hold onto as you grow. When a hundred people say yes on a Sunday, the ones who follow through are easy to see. The one who does not just quietly slips off the radar. Nobody decides to let them go. They simply stop showing up on anyone's list.
So that is what this is for. It goes and finds the one. It gives you a name, and how long they have been waiting, and then it gets out of your way so you can make the call.
Every person who raises their hand matters. This makes sure not one of them falls through.
One plan. $199 a month, or $1,990 a year. Every campus included.
Free leak report first, then 14 days free. Setup fee waived for the first ten churches. See pricing
Fair questions
How is this different from Realm or other church dashboards?
Most church software is a filing cabinet. It can tell you what happened. It cannot tell you that nobody ever called the family from three weeks ago. That list is the whole reason Next Steps exists. And we do not replace Planning Center. We sit on top of it.
Can you see our giving?
No. Giving is a separate permission in Planning Center, and we never ask for it, so we could not see it if we tried. Everything we do read, we can only read. We never change your Planning Center.
Do you support multi-campus churches?
Yes. Each campus gets its own view, and you can see them all together. One plan covers every campus. There is nothing extra to buy.
Can I control what my team sees?
Yes. Admins can change settings and billing. Editors work the day-to-day pages. Group and team leaders just get a private link to their own people, with no login at all.
What if we don't track everything in Planning Center?
Most churches don't, and that is fine. A step can be finished more than one way. If someone signs up for the class, that counts. If they skip the form and just show up, that counts too.
What about churches that aren't on Planning Center?
Today we are Planning Center only, and we would rather do one thing well. If you are on Realm, Breeze, or Subsplash, send me an email and I will tell you honestly when we are ready for you.