Features
Everything a Catholic parish needs to manage Mass intentions, from request to fulfillment.
Mass Requests Made Easy
Anytime, Anywhere
Parishioners submit intentions from any device, day or night, with no phone call or office visit. No account is needed before submitting.
Options Simplified
Request several Masses in one checkout, including more than one Mass for the same intention. Pick a preferred date for each and pay online by card.
Automated Notifications
Parishioners hear from you at every step: confirmation, scheduling, day-before reminder, fulfillment, and receipt. Every message links straight back to their dashboard, no password needed.
Scheduling and reminder notifications let parishioners add the Mass to their personal calendar.
Admin Dashboard
The dashboard shows requests waiting to be scheduled, pending offerings, and stipends ready to disburse, along with this week's and next week's Masses and a bulletin snippet ready to copy.
Manage Intentions
Open any Mass intention to polish its public wording, schedule it, assign a priest, or record a cash or check offering. Add walk-in and phone requests by hand, several at a time for the same person, paid together by card at the office or recorded as cash or check.
Admin Calendar
All your Mass slots at a glance. Assign pending intentions and schedule priests. Create ad-hoc Masses for funerals, weddings, or other special occasions.
Public Mass Calendar
A public calendar on your parish homepage shows available and taken Mass times. Parishioners click any open slot to start a request with the date pre-filled.
A compact embed widget puts the same calendar on your own website. Drop it into your homepage, Mass times page, or sidebar.
Faithful by Design
Canon Law Compliance
- Voluntary Offerings:
- Online, cash, and check offerings are recorded against each intention, with receipts, refunds, and follow-up emails that say the offering is voluntary.
- Intention Capacity:
- Auto-pause stops new requests once pending intentions fill the open Mass times in the next 90 days. You can change that window or turn auto-pause off.
- Pro Populo:
- Mark the pastor's Sunday and holy day Masses as Pro Populo. They stand out on the public and admin calendars, and auto-scheduling never places an intention on them.
- Collective Intentions:
- One celebrant can offer a single Mass for several intentions, and the request form tells requesters when the Mass they picked is collective.
- Concelebration:
- Several priests can concelebrate one Mass, each with his own intention and stipend tracked separately.
Invite the Faithful
Embeddable Widgets
Let parishioners request Masses directly from your parish website. Copy a snippet from the Promote page, paste it onto any page on your site, and you're done.
Bulletin, Flyers & Social Media
Encourage the faithful to request a Mass with a printable bulletin invitation or a flyer for the vestibule, rectory, and parish events. Each includes a QR code linking to your request form and can feature your own photos. A matching image for social media invites parishioners to request a Mass online.
Thoughtful Administrative Reports
Built for the Diocesan Return
The annual report totals Masses offered and offerings collected, with breakdowns by priest and by month. Export to PDF or CSV when it's time to file, or review it on screen with your finance council.
Reports & Analytics
Each report answers a question the parish office asks: How long are requests waiting to be scheduled? How full are the coming weeks? Which priest stipends are still unpaid?
More Features
- Free With Online Offerings
- When your organization accepts offerings online, scheduling, reports, and staff accounts are free. A processing fee applies only to offerings made online.
- Online Mass Offerings
- Accept voluntary offerings online by card. Set suggested amounts for weekday and Sunday Masses, and receipts go out automatically.
- Direct-to-Parish Payments
- Online offerings are paid into your parish's own Stripe account and deposited to your bank. We never hold or pool your funds.
- Cash & Check Offerings
- When someone pays by cash or check at the office, an admin records it against the intention and the requester gets a receipt automatically.
- Auto-Scheduling
- Requests paid online are scheduled automatically on the requested date, or on the next open Mass time when any date will do. Staff only schedule the rest by hand.
- Recurring Mass Schedules
- Set weekly or monthly Mass times. Mark any schedule as unlisted to keep private Masses or retreats off the public calendar.
- Ad-Hoc Masses
- Add a Mass to any date for funerals, weddings, or other special occasions, separate from your recurring schedule.
- Multiple Mass Locations
- Run Mass schedules at more than one church or chapel, for parishes with missions, parish clusters, and religious organizations. Requesters can choose where they would like their Mass offered.
- Bundled Mass Intentions
- Parishioners can request a Triduum, Novena, or Gregorian series, scheduled on consecutive days, alongside single Masses.
- Dedications
- Offer a sanctuary light, altar flowers, or your own items. Parishioners request them for a week or a day, with an intention and an offering, on the same request form, and get confirmations, reminders, and receipts.
- Intake Management
- Pause new requests, manually or automatically, when your backlog is full. Visitors can join a waitlist and get notified when intake resumes.
- Request Window
- Decide how far ahead visitors can request a Mass: a rolling number of days, or a fixed end date for parishes that open their Mass book one period at a time.
- Kiosk Mode
- Put the request form on a tablet in the vestibule or a laptop in the gift shop. Visitors stay signed out, and the form resets itself between requests.
- Parishioner Dashboard
- Every requester gets a personal dashboard tracking their intentions through fulfillment. They can pay outstanding offerings and send a thank-you note to the celebrant.
- Mass Cards
- Requesters can send a printed Postcard or free Email Card to a friend or loved one. Recipients can subscribe to Mass updates and send thank-you notes.
- Thank You Notes
- Requesters and Mass Card recipients can send thank-you notes to the priest who offered the Mass, and card recipients can also thank the person who requested it.
- Published Intentions
- Choose whether the public Mass calendar shows published intentions on past Masses, upcoming Masses, or both.
- Special Intentions
- Flag a private request so it appears as "Special Intention" in the bulletin and on the public Mass calendar.
- Calendar Feeds
- Admins and priests can subscribe to scheduled Mass intentions and priest Mass assignments in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook, and the calendar keeps itself up to date.
- Priest Management
- Manage resident clergy and visiting priests in one roster, and assign them to Masses and intentions.
- Priest Dashboard
- A personal dashboard for every priest with their Mass schedule across every parish they serve, plus stipends received and expected.
- Stipend Disbursements
- Record stipend payouts to priests, at fixed weekday and Sunday rates or matched to each offering, and disburse any surplus to a parish or the diocese. Each payout has a printable record.
- Bookkeeper Tools
- Prepare a disbursement as a draft, and your bookkeeper is notified to cut the check, record the payment, and complete the payout.
- Mileage Reimbursements
- Set a per-mile rate, track the miles a visiting priest drove for each Mass, and include reimbursements in stipend disbursements.
- Sacristy Schedule
- A printable PDF of the week's Masses for the sacristy, listing the celebrant, intentions, and requesters for each Mass.
- Backup Reports
- Have your Mass intentions and dedications emailed to you weekly or monthly as PDF and CSV files, so you keep a copy outside MassRequest.com.
- Activity Log
- A history of new requests, scheduling, payments, and priest changes, showing who did what and when.
- Spanish Language Support
- The request form, parishioner dashboard, and notifications are all available in Spanish.
Free When You Accept Offerings Online
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