A calm home for your religious education program
Registration, attendance, family records, and parent messaging in one place — so Sunday mornings feel less like paperwork and more like ministry.
No subscription. No trial clock. Ready in an afternoon.
Sunday School · CCD · Faith Formation · Religious Education · Hebrew School · Confirmation Prep · Youth Ministry · Vacation Bible School
Everything the program binder used to hold
Family records, classes, attendance, and communication — organized for you, visible at a glance, and ready before anyone knocks on the office door.
One clear view of the whole program
The dashboard greets you with what matters today: who's registered, which classes meet, and what needs a decision.
- Every family, student, allergy note, and pickup person in one record
- Programs, terms, classes, and rooms — scheduled once, visible always
- Pending registrations and today's sessions surface themselves
Sunday, Sep 14 · Fall term
Good morning, St. Mary's
132
Families
214
Students
18
Sessions this week
6
Pending registrations
Attendance by week
Today's sessions
Grade 2 · Room 4
9:00 AM · Mrs. Delgado
Grade 5 · Parish Hall
9:00 AM · Mr. Bennett
Confirmation · Room 12
10:30 AM · Ms. Osei
Attendance in under a minute
Teachers open their class, tap down the roster, and get back to teaching. It saves as they go — and you see it instantly.
Grade 2 · Room 4
Sunday 9:00 AM · 14 students
Messages that reach every family
Send an announcement once. Bead delivers it by app, email, or text — however each family prefers — and keeps replies in one thread.
Announcement · All Grade 2 families
42 households
Reminder: no class next Sunday for the parish picnic. We'll see everyone back on the 28th! 🧺
Thank you! Lucia will be at the picnic 👋
Message Grade 2 families…
Parents register from the couch, not the parish hall line
Give families one link. Everything they submit lands in Bead, organized and ready for the first day.
- 1
Share your registration link
Put it in the bulletin, on the website, or on a QR code by the coffee. Public or invite-only — your choice.
- 2
Families fill it out anywhere
Household details, students, emergency contacts, allergies, pickup people — with phone or email verification and optional fees paid online.
- 3
The year runs itself
Rosters build themselves, teachers see their classes, and parents are invited into the app for updates. No retyping from paper forms.
Fall Faith Formation 2026
St. Mary's · Registration
Student
Lucia Reyes · Grade 2
The Reyes household
Allergies
Peanuts (EpiPen in bag)
Pickup people
Ana Reyes · Abuela Rosa
Materials fee (optional)
Pay online or at the parish office
Verified by email · Takes about 4 minutes
Not a trial. Not a starter plan. Free.
Bead is built and cared for as an act of service from the community — for the volunteers and administrators who keep these programs running. There is no software subscription, now or later.
If your program collects fees online, standard card processing costs apply to those payments — the software itself never costs a thing.
Create your free workspaceSt. Mary's Faith Formation
Hi, Ana
No class next Sunday
Parish picnic! We'll see everyone on the 28th.
Your students
Lucia · Grade 2
Room 4 · Mrs. Delgado
Bead · St. Mary's
Lucia was marked present at Faith Formation 🎉
There's an app for Sunday morning
Bead comes with a mobile app for the people who are on their feet: teachers in the hallway, parents in the parking lot.
Teachers — today's roster, one-tap attendance, and allergy flags right where they need them
Parents — announcements, schedules, and messages the moment they're sent
Every family reached — push, email, or text — each household chooses how to hear from you
Available for iPhone and Android — and everything works in a web browser too.
Built around the people who make Sunday work
Administrators, teachers, and parents each get their own view of the same tidy records.
For administrators
Cleaner records, calmer mornings
- Registrations, rosters, and reports without the spreadsheet gymnastics
- Roles and permissions, so helpers see exactly what they should
- Optional online payments, tracked next to each family
For teachers
Your class, and nothing else
- Today's roster with attendance a tap away
- Allergy and pickup notes visible when they matter
- Message class families without sharing your cell number
For parents
One place to stay close
- Register children online in a few minutes
- Announcements and schedules in the app, by email, or by text
- Update contacts and pickup people anytime
“The people who run these programs give their Sundays for years on end. Good software for them felt like the least we could do.”
— the community behind Bead
$0
what your congregation pays for Bead
1 afternoon
to set up your program and share your link
3
places it works: web, iPhone, and Android
Want company while you set it up?
A real person will create your workspace with you, bring your families over from spreadsheets, and stay until Sunday runs smoothly. It's free — helping is the point.
Schedule a walkthroughRegistering a child? Use the link your congregation shared — or tell them about Bead.
Questions, answered plainly
The things administrators usually ask before creating a workspace.
Give your program a calmer year
Create your workspace in a few minutes, or bring us your questions first — either way, Sunday mornings get easier.
Free for congregations. Really.