For student & children's ministries

The operating system for NextGen ministry.

Trips, student funds, fundraisers, forms and family updates in one place. Leaders stay organized, parents stay in the loop, and kids get to go.

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Works on its own or alongside Planning Center.

The Braid family dashboard showing student balances, upcoming trips and forms to sign

Why it's called Braid

A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Kids grow best when the adults around them pull the same way. Braid keeps the three groups in every ministry woven together.

ECCLESIASTES 4:12

Leaders

Pastors, volunteers and finance leads

Plan trips, run fundraisers and keep every student's balance right without a spreadsheet.

Families

Parents and guardians

See what's happening, what's due and what's been paid, from their phone, any time.

Kids & students

The reason for all of it

Watch their balance grow, sign up for trips and log fundraiser hours themselves.

Braid Funds

Every dollar, accounted for.

Each student has their own account. Fundraiser earnings, trip charges, scholarships and starting balances all land in one running history, so you can answer “how much does Maya have?” in two seconds.

  • Running balance and history for every student
  • Shared ministry fund for general giving
  • Transfers and scholarship requests with approvals
A student's account balance, trip obligations and transaction history

Braid Trips

Trips without the spreadsheet.

Open registration, collect deposits and let families pay from the student's balance or by card. You always know who's in, who owes what and which forms are missing.

  • Registration with deposits and deadlines
  • Pay from student balance or online with Stripe
  • Waivers and external links on every trip
A trip page with cost, deposit, registrations and a Register button

Braid Fundraisers

Fundraisers that pay out fairly.

Run hours-based or sales-based fundraisers. Volunteers log hours from home or at a kiosk, and earnings split across students automatically when you close it out.

  • Hours or sales, with optional holdback
  • Kiosk mode for sign-in at the event
  • One click to credit every student
The fundraisers page where parents log volunteer hours

One place for the whole ministry

Hold it all together.

Forms & waivers

Permission and medical forms parents fill out and sign online. Answers save to the student's profile for next time.

Messages

Email all parents, everyone on a trip, one family or one person, and keep a record of what was sent.

Invite codes

No sign-up forms to manage. Families join with one code; each student gets their own.

Planning Center

Families and leaders can sign in with Planning Center, or you can run Braid completely on its own.

Roles & permissions

Finance leads, event leads, read-only volunteers, parents and students each see exactly what they need.

A full audit trail

Every balance change is recorded with who made it and when. No more guessing what happened in March.

For parents

Know what's happening and what's due.

Your ministry leader gives you one code. That's all you need. There's no app to download; save Braid to your home screen and it opens like one.

  1. 1

    Enter your code

    Go to braidhq.app and tap “Join with a code.”

  2. 2

    Create your account

    Your name, email and a password. Your students show up automatically.

  3. 3

    See everything in one place

    Balances, trips, fundraiser hours and forms to sign.

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The Braid menu and dashboard on a phone

What's next

Built to grow with your ministry.

Student ministry is where we started. Braid News for weekly family updates and Braid Kids for children's ministry are on the way, in the same account your families already use.

Bring Braid to your ministry

Leaders, families and kids, woven together.

We'd love to help you set up Braid for your ministry. Tell us a little about it and we'll get back to you within a couple of days.

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