Named after the room where the books get done

Why this exists

Vestry started with a familiar scene: a church treasurer, a Tuesday evening, and accounting software asking them to create a "customer" for Mrs. Wiebe so her offering could be entered as a "sales receipt." The books got done, eventually. They usually do. But every step needed translating, and translation is where mistakes live.

The strange part is that church accounting isn't exotic. Funds, giving, receipts, a monthly reconciliation, an annual review — the same rhythm in a parish of forty and a congregation of four hundred. It's a well-defined job that mainstream software has simply never taken seriously, because churches aren't a growth market. Fair enough. We're not a growth market either.

So we built the tool we wished that treasurer had: a real double-entry ledger underneath, church language on top, and CRA receipts where they belong — in the same books as the giving. It's made in Canada, defaults to CRA rules, and takes stewardship as seriously as your finance committee does.

What we believe about church money

It's not ours, and it's not really yours either. The congregation gives it in trust. The job of the books is to keep that trust verifiable — every fund accounted for, every receipt accurate, every correction on the record. Software should make the honest path the easy path.

If that sounds like your kind of bookkeeping, we'd like to hear from you.