I’m relatively new to the Frappe community and have been diving deep into all whole Frappeverse. As an avid open-source contributor & user, I’m surprised it took me so long to find Frappe.
Recently I started a new custom app called ‘Church’. I wanted to make the community aware of the app and to seek additional contributors. I intend to keep the app fully open source and to list it on the Frappe marketplace when it reaches a v1.0 state (whenever that is!).
I would appreciate any suggestions or contributions from anyone interested.
The nonprofit app was very limited and generic. This church app is solely intended for churches, so it has much more specific doc types like ‘Prayer Request’, ‘Bible Reference’, ‘Song’, ‘Missionary’, ‘Mission Agency’, ‘Church Person’ (which has fields like baptism, membership, etc), ‘Church Belief’, etc.
Currently the church app does not share any doctypes with ERP Next and only relies on Frappe framework.
Currently there is fund and expense tracking along with collection creation to track donations. It does not use the ERPnext accounting module which is more advanced than what most churches need. In the future I may add more to the module or integrate with the ERPnext accounting module.
Congratulations on getting the project to this stage. What stands out to me is the decision to keep it fully open source while actively inviting community contributions. Many projects focus only on features, but building an engaged community around the project is often what determines long-term success.
I also like that you’ve provided both a demo instance and public repository access, which makes it much easier for people to evaluate the project and contribute. It will be interesting to see how the app evolves as more users test real-world church management workflows and share feedback.
I’m relatively new to the Frappe community and have been diving deep into all whole Frappeverse. As an avid open-source contributor & user, I’m surprised it took me so long to find Frappe.
Repository: GitHub - meichthys/church: A church management app based on the Frappe framework.
Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#the-church-app:matrix.org
Demo Instance: https://church.meichthys.com
