ChurchSuite Integration
Your events, rotas and sign-up forms already live in ChurchSuite. Expanse pulls them onto your parish website automatically — as proper pages that Google can read, not a widget bolted into the corner of a page.
Most parishes that use ChurchSuite end up maintaining their information twice. The administrator adds the Baptism Preparation Day to ChurchSuite, then opens the website and adds it again. Then the date moves, and only one of them gets updated.
You know how this ends:
It isn’t a technology problem. It’s that two systems are being kept in step by a human being who has forty other things to do.
Expanse connects directly to ChurchSuite through its API. What’s in ChurchSuite is what appears on your website — events, service times, rota information and sign-up forms — without anyone re-typing anything.
Change a time in ChurchSuite on Thursday evening and the website reflects it on Thursday evening. Nobody has to remember. Nobody has to be available. There is no second place for information to go stale.
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This is worth understanding before you compare Expanse to anything else, because it’s where most parish websites quietly lose out.
ChurchSuite has its own embed system, and it’s genuinely useful — you can drop an events widget or a sign-up form onto more or less any website. Most parish sites, including most built by other agencies, stop there.
The limitation is that an embedded widget sits inside a frame borrowed from another website. That has two consequences:
Google can’t read it. Content inside an embedded frame is generally not indexed as part of your page. So your Mass times, your RCIA sign-up, your Christmas services — the exact things people search for — are invisible to search engines, even though a human visitor can see them perfectly well. You can have every event beautifully listed and still return nothing when someone searches for it. This is the most common reason a good-looking parish site gets no search traffic.
It doesn’t look like your website. Embedded widgets carry their own styling. They usually sit awkwardly inside the page, don’t match your fonts or colours, and behave differently on a phone.
A full API integration solves both. Your ChurchSuite content is rendered as genuine pages on your own domain, in your own design, marked up with structured data so search engines understand that these are real services at a real place with real times. It’s the same data — published in a way that actually works. See church website SEO for what that unlocks.
Events and service times Your ChurchSuite events appear on the site automatically — the weekly pattern, one-off services, Holy Days, Christmas and Easter schedules. Add it once, in the place you already manage it.
Sign-up forms that write back RCIA, Confirmation, Baptism preparation, parish socials. Someone signs up on your website and the registration lands in ChurchSuite, where you already track it. No inbox full of emails to transcribe.
Rotas Readers, ministers, welcomers, choir. Published to the site and updated as the rota changes, so volunteers can check from their phone instead of hunting for the last email.
Giving ChurchSuite’s giving widgets integrated cleanly into the site’s design, so online donations flow into the same giving records you already reconcile.
Onsite training, included A half-day session at the parish for staff and volunteers, in plain language. Not a video, not a PDF — Ian in the room with the people who’ll actually be using it. Most parishes find this is the part that makes it stick.
1. A walkthrough. Ian looks at how your parish uses ChurchSuite now — which modules you’re on, what’s already embedded, what’s being duplicated by hand.
2. Connection. The API integration is configured and tested against your actual ChurchSuite data. You don’t touch anything technical.
3. Training, then it runs. A half-day onsite session for your team. After that, you carry on using ChurchSuite exactly as you do now, and the website keeps itself current.
| Starter £29/mo | Essentials £59/mo | Complete £99/mo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChurchSuite event calendar embed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full ChurchSuite API integration | — | — | ✓ |
| Sign-up forms writing back to ChurchSuite | — | — | ✓ |
| Rota publishing | — | — | ✓ |
| Onsite ChurchSuite training | — | — | ✓ |
| 30-day post-training support | — | — | ✓ |
In short: the standard embed is available on every plan. The full API integration — the version Google can read — is the Complete plan.
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Common questions
It’s the same data, published differently. The embed works and it’s better than nothing. The difference is that embedded content generally isn’t indexed by Google and doesn’t match your site’s design. If your events and Mass times matter for being found — and for most parishes they’re the most-searched thing you have — the API integration is what makes them visible.
No. Plenty of Expanse parishes don’t use it. The integration is there for the ones that do.
The integration reads from your ChurchSuite account and writes sign-up responses back into it. ChurchSuite remains the system of record — the website doesn’t create a second copy of your parishioner database. Ian will walk through exactly what moves where as part of setup, and it’s covered in the training session.
It’s configured against your ChurchSuite account with credentials you control. You can revoke access at any time. Expanse is monthly rolling with one month’s notice and full content export on request.
Typically it’s done as part of the site build. For an existing Expanse parish, allow a couple of weeks to configure, test against your real data and schedule the training.
Not necessarily — the walkthrough is a good moment to look at it together. A tidy-up is often worth doing anyway, but it isn’t a prerequisite. If you’re still deciding whether to adopt ChurchSuite at all, the free ChurchSuite guide covers that from the beginning.
That’s the point of publishing them as real pages with structured data rather than embedded widgets. Google decides what to display, so nothing is guaranteed — but marked-up events on your own domain are the only version that can appear at all.
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Ian will show you what your parish’s events, rotas and sign-ups look like published properly — using your actual ChurchSuite data, not a generic demo. About half an hour, no cost, no obligation.