WeShare

What WeShare does

WeShare is an online giving and donation platform purpose-built for Catholic parishes, dioceses, and other Catholic non-profit organizations. The platform enables parishes to accept online donations via credit card and checking account, configure scheduled and recurring gifts, run text-to-donate campaigns from the pews, register and collect payment for parish events, print tickets, and generate downloadable giving reports. Backed by PCI Level 1 compliance, the underlying technology is a cloud-hosted transaction processing system that integrates with WeGather, a sister Catholic church management platform owned by the same parent company, Ministry Brands Holdings, LLC.

The business model is a transaction-fee / take-rate structure on donations processed through the platform, with no set-up fees or software download requirements for parishes. Distribution is direct, sales-led, and website-anchored: parishes submit a contact form and a sales representative follows up, supplemented by content marketing via downloadable PDFs on parish giving best practices. Customer support is provided through dedicated Customer Service Specialists who act as operational extensions of parish staff. The asset is operated as a product brand inside Ministry Brands, with parent-level contact shared via a ministrybrands.com domain.

The customer base is highly fragmented across more than 2,000 small and mid-sized Catholic parishes in the United States. Documented customer outcomes include near-tripling of online donations within two months of implementation at one parish and a 24% increase in household Operating Fund giving at another. The company was founded in 2001, was previously known as Parish Pay, and rebranded to WeShare; it now reports 1-10 employees and operates from Santa Monica, California.

Name

WeShare

Legal name

Ministry Brands Holdings, LLC

Website

https://wesharegiving.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

WeShare is an online giving and event management platform purpose-built for Catholic parishes and dioceses, processing donations via PCI Level 1 compliant infrastructure on a transaction-fee model. It serves more than 2,000 US parishes as a product brand under Ministry Brands Holdings, LLC.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa Monica

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. Transaction Processing Fees: WeShare processes online donations for Catholic parishes and likely earns revenue through transaction/percentage fees on donations processed through the platform. The platform enables parishes to collect donations and payments with consistent cash flow throughout the year.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

WeShare is a cloud-based online giving platform built for Catholic parishes and dioceses that enables digital acceptance of one-time and recurring donations, text-to-donate contributions, event registration and ticketing with payment, donor and contribution tracking with reporting, and parish administrator user management. The service is PCI Level 1 compliant, has no set-up fee and no software to download, and is sold to parish organizations with parish staff/donors as end users.

Product overview

WeShare is a unified online giving platform for Catholic parishes, offering a single core product that enables parishes to accept online donations, manage events, and track contributions. The platform supports multiple payment methods including credit cards and checking accounts, text-to-donate functionality, and scheduled recurring donations. WeShare can be optionally integrated with WeGather, a Church Management platform also offered by parent company Ministry Brands, to provide extended parish management features for Catholic parishes and dioceses.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• WeShare Online Giving Platform Cloud-based online giving platform designed for Catholic parishes and dioceses, enabling them to accept one-time and recurring online donations, run text-to-donate campaigns, process event registration and ticket payments, manage parishioner accounts and giving history, and download giving reports. PCI Level 1 compliant, no set-up fee, no software to download. Sold to parish and diocesan organizations.
• WeGather Church Management Platform Church Management platform specifically designed for Catholic parishes and dioceses, offered under parent Ministry Brands. Integrates with WeShare to provide a unified parish management experience combining donation processing with broader church administration capabilities.

Quantifiable outcome

• Parishes can more than double or nearly triple their online donations within months of implementation
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• WeGathercoreTechnology or IntegrationWeGather is a Church Management platform specifically designed for Catholic parishes and dioceses. WeShare can be integrated with WeGather, allowing parishes using both platforms to have a unified church management experience. Both products appear to be owned by Ministry Brands Holdings, LLC.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Breeze ChMS: Breeze is a lightweight church management system with integrated online giving used by thousands of small and mid-sized churches. It is an emerging competitor that bundles giving with broader parish admin tools, similar to WeShare's WeGather integration strategy.
• Planning Center: Planning Center is a church management software suite used by tens of thousands of churches for people, giving, registrations, and check-ins. While its giving module is more limited, it is an ecosystem competitor under the same Ministry Brands-adjacent parish software category.
• Aplos: Aplos provides church accounting, donation tracking, and CRM software for faith-based nonprofits. It is an adjacent competitor focused on the financial-management layer of parish operations, where it overlaps with WeShare's reporting and donation-tracking functionality.

Direct peers

• Tithe.ly: Tithe.ly is a digital giving and church engagement platform serving churches of multiple denominations with online, text, and app-based giving. It directly competes with WeShare's online/text-to-donate offering for parish customers.
• SecureGive: SecureGive offers church giving hardware (kiosks) paired with online and mobile giving software for houses of worship. It overlaps with WeShare in donation collection infrastructure for churches, though it has stronger emphasis on physical kiosk hardware.
• Pushpay (Resi Media): Pushpay is a leading church engagement and giving platform serving churches and faith-based organizations across denominations. It is the most direct competitor to WeShare in online giving for parishes, with overlapping transaction-fee revenue model and church-admin tools.
• Subsplash (Givelify): Subsplash is a church engagement platform (with Givelify giving app) serving faith-based organizations with mobile giving, events, and communications. It competes directly with WeShare on donor-facing giving experience and parish admin functionality.
• Vanco Payment Solutions: Vanco provides faith-based payment processing and online giving services to churches, faith-based organizations, and nonprofits. It competes with WeShare in donation transaction processing for religious institutions, particularly Catholic and mainline Protestant parishes.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/parishpay
• Facebookfacebook.com/ParishPay

Compliance1 record

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 →

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