Chabad Suite

What Chabad Suite does

Chabad Suite is a purpose-built SaaS platform serving Chabad Shluchim (Jewish outreach emissaries) and the Chabad institutions they operate worldwide. Founded by Rabbi Yosef Romano in 2012 as a side project during his tenure as Assistant Rabbi and Youth Director at Chabad of Berkeley, the company launched commercially in 2015 as a CiviCRM implementation service, transitioned to a hosted SaaS model in 2018, added a Website Builder in 2019, and expanded into a full fundraising suite (Quick Donate, Partners recurring giving, and Campaigns) in 2020. The product is structured as three tightly integrated modules — Website, Donations, and CRM — sold as tiered subscriptions (Upstart, Grow, Professional Full-Suite plans at $234–$457/mo annual, plus Basic and Basic+ CRM-only plans at $151–$321/mo) with an additional 0.99%–1.49% transaction fee on funds raised and usage-based email overage charges.

The technical foundation is CiviCRM (open-source, used by 10,000+ organizations globally), extended with proprietary Chabad-specific customizations including Hebrew calendar integration, automated Yahrzeit and birthday reminders, Chametz sale forms, and Partners recurring-donation tiering. The stack integrates with Stripe (primary payments with Apple Pay/Google Pay), PayPal, Authorize.net, Twilio (SMS), iChessed (donation webhooks), USPS (address standardization), HebCal (candle lighting), Google Calendar (iCal sync), and SparkPost (email deliverability). The CRM is accessed via web browser and a mobile web app.

The go-to-market is product-led and community-driven: self-serve signup at app.chabadsuite.com/start, a live demo site, a referral program offering 50% off for two years on referred signups, and webinars/content marketing targeting the Shlucha community. The company is a privately held, bootstrapped corporation (ChabadSuite Inc.) headquartered in Los Angeles with 1–10 employees, founder-owned, with no external funding or parent company disclosed in the available data.

Name

Chabad Suite

Legal name

ChabadSuite Inc.

Website

https://chabadsuite.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Chabad Suite is a bootstrapped SaaS platform providing an integrated website builder, CRM, and fundraising tools purpose-built for Chabad Shluchim and their outreach institutions worldwide. Founded in 2012 and based in Los Angeles, it sells tiered subscriptions with transaction fees on donations raised.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Monthly or annual subscription fees based on tiered plans (Upstart, Grow, Professional, Basic, Basic+) with varying levels of admins, contacts, and email capacity. Annual billing offers approximately 8% discount.
2. Transaction Fees on Fundraising: Platform charges a percentage fee on funds raised through fundraising campaigns, ranging from 0.99% (Professional) to 1.49% (Upstart/Basic/Basic+). Plans include campaign credits that offset fees ($150-$350 per month).
3. Email Capacity Add-ons: Organizations exceeding included email limits can purchase add-on packages at $0.0025 per email or pay-as-you-go at $0.005 per email overage, billed monthly on the 1st.
4. Quick Donate: Quick donate feature for one-time donations, integrated with donation pages and campaigns

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Chabad Suite provides an integrated SaaS platform purpose-built for Chabad Shluchim (Jewish emissaries) and Chabad institutions, combining a website builder, CRM built on CiviCRM, and a donations/fundraising platform (including Donate Pages, Campaign pages, and the Partners recurring-giving module) into a single synced ecosystem. The platform is sold in tiered monthly/annual subscriptions with additional transaction fees on funds raised through campaigns, serving a global community of Chabad houses, synagogues, and outreach centers.

Product overview

Chabad Suite is a single, unified all-in-one platform for Shluchim (Jewish emissaries), combining three core integrated products: a Website Builder, a Donations/Fundraising Platform (including a standalone Donate Page, Campaign Platform, and Partners recurring-giving module), and a CRM built on CiviCRM. All three modules are fully synced — website form submissions feed into the CRM, donations are recorded automatically, and events are managed across the ecosystem. The platform is sold in tiered pricing plans (Upstart, Grow, Professional, Basic, Basic+) with varying feature sets for contacts, emails, website pages, and fundraising capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Chabad Suite CRM A comprehensive customer relationship management system built on CiviCRM, providing contact management, email and SMS communications, calendar sync, activity tracking, custom fields, smart groups, automated workflows, reporting, and integrations for fundraising and event management. Includes specialized tools for Shluchim (Jewish emissaries) such as Hebrew calendar integration, Yahrzeit tracking, and automated birthday/Yahrzeit notifications.
• Chabad Suite Website Builder A mobile-first responsive website builder with in-page editing, automated event listings, newsletter signup blocks, contact forms, customizable color schemes, custom logos and favicons, and full CRM integration. Websites automatically sync form submissions, event data, and contact information with the CRM.
• Donations Platform A fundraising platform including a standalone donation page (Donate Page), campaign pages with matching/teams/leaderboards/bonus rounds, and Partners Platform for recurring monthly giving. All donations are fully integrated with the CRM and include automated receipts.
• Partners Platform A recurring monthly donation platform with customizable partner tiers (6 built-in tiers or custom), partner listings, goal progress tracking, and automatic CRM sync. Supports PayPal and credit card payments. Auto-populates donor info to reduce attrition and duplicate contacts.
• Campaign Platform Feature-rich fundraising campaign platform supporting teams, leaderboards, matching donors, bonus rounds, and goal tracking. Includes CRM-synced donation tracking, automated receipts, and customizable campaign pages. Available within the Donations product area.

Quantifiable outcome

• Replaced multiple disconnected platforms with a single integrated system
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• StripecoreTechnology or IntegrationStripe is the primary payment processor for Chabad Suite, enabling credit card donations, event payments, and recurring donations. Supports Apple Pay and Google Pay via Payment Element widget. Integration handles payment processing with no upfront cost.
• TwiliocoreTechnology or IntegrationTwilio provides SMS capability for the CRM, allowing Shluchim to send and receive text messages to contacts. Requires separate Twilio account and phone number purchase.
• CiviCRMcoreTechnology or IntegrationChabad Suite is built on CiviCRM open-source platform, providing the CRM backend. Over 10,000 organizations use CiviCRM worldwide. Chabad Suite provides customized and extended instance with Chabad-specific features.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• iChessed: iChessed is a donation processing platform widely used by Chabad centers and other Jewish nonprofits, integrated with Chabad Suite via webhook. It is comparable as a Chabad/Jewish fundraising workflow tool and could be seen as both a partner and partial competitor for the fundraising layer of the Chabad Suite stack.
• Breeze ChMS: Breeze is a simple, affordable church management system offering people database, donations, events, and check-in functionality. It overlaps with Chabad Suite's CRM + donations + events positioning for small religious nonprofits, but serves Christian churches and is roughly comparable in size and target customer profile.
• Subsplash: Subsplash is an all-in-one engagement platform for churches and faith-based nonprofits offering giving, messaging, websites, and apps. It overlaps with Chabad Suite's integrated website + donations + communications model, but is primarily targeted at evangelical Christian congregations and operates at significantly larger scale.

Broad incumbents

• Pushpay: Pushpay is a leading church management and digital giving platform serving faith-based organizations globally. It overlaps with Chabad Suite's donations and CRM functionality, particularly its recurring giving and engagement tools, though it does not address Jewish-specific workflows like Hebrew calendar or Yahrzeit.
• Tithe.ly: Tithe.ly is a digital giving and church management platform offering online donations, recurring giving, church apps, and text-to-give. It is comparable to Chabad Suite's donations, campaign, and recurring Partners functionality, though focused on Christian churches rather than Jewish outreach.
• FellowshipOne: FellowshipOne (by ACS Technologies) is an established church management system with member database, giving, and small group tools. It is a broader incumbent comparable to Chabad Suite's CRM capabilities, though its scale and pricing target mid-to-large churches rather than small emissary-run institutions.
• Planning Center: Planning Center is a suite of church management apps covering people, giving, registrations, and events used by tens of thousands of churches. It is comparable to Chabad Suite's CRM and events modules in functionality, but targets Christian congregations and lacks Chabad-specific Hebrew calendar integrations.

Direct peers

• NeonCRM: NeonCRM is a CRM built specifically for small and mid-sized nonprofits, offering donor management, fundraising, event registration, and member portals. It directly overlaps with Chabad Suite's CRM + donations + events functionality and is also built on CiviCRM, sharing the same open-source CRM foundation.
• Chaverware: Chaverware is a synagogue and Jewish organization management platform with member accounts, billing, donations, and event management. It targets the same Jewish institutional buyer as Chabad Suite and competes on similar CRM + fundraising + website workflows, though it serves a broader synagogue base than Chabad specifically.
• ShulCloud: ShulCloud is a SaaS management platform for synagogues offering member management, event registration, billing, and a member portal. It is directly comparable to Chabad Suite's CRM + donations functionality for Jewish institutions, though it serves the broader Orthodox/conservative synagogue market rather than Chabad specifically.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/chabadsuite
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/chabadsuite

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Chabad Suite