FixedProductsNavigation
Social access fixed and a tidier sidebar
- Fixed. Church owners on the Ministry plan can now open Social media — it no longer says “not open to this account”.
- AI Knowledge is hidden for now, on every plan.
- Product types. A new product no longer offers “Community” as a type, since communities have their own page. Products you already created are untouched.
- Sidebar. The “Channels” group is gone. “Engage” now lists Newsletter, Events, Forms, Sign-up pages and Check-in.
SocialEventsWebsite
Social media gets its own section, plus a new Storefront
- Social in the sidebar. Social media now has its own section with Analytics, Planner, Inbox and Auto-DM. Planner has Compose, Calendar and Queue tabs. Connected social accounts live under Settings → Social accounts, and the ”+” next to accounts in the composer takes you there.
- Rebuilt scheduler. Queue, a week calendar and a composer with a live post preview, with network logos shown throughout.
- Analytics. Views, engagement (likes, comments and shares), plus your most viewed and most liked posts — for 7, 30 or 90 days, filterable by network.
- Inbox. DMs, comments on your posts and reviews from every connected account in one list, newest first, with filters for type, platform and account. Reply without leaving Harvest, see star ratings on reviews, and spot unread items with a dot.
- Auto-DM (Instagram and Facebook). When someone comments a keyword, they get a private message automatically. Triggers include comments, and on Instagram also story replies, story mentions and live comments. Pick any post, an existing post, or a scheduled Harvest post, with keyword matching options. Each automation has an on/off switch, edit, activity log and delete, and the overview shows DMs sent, link clicks and click rate.
- Events list. The header button reads “New event”; each row has a Copy link button and a ⋯ menu (Edit, Pin to feed/Unpin, Delete); pinned events show a pin icon. Live events no longer show a status badge (drafts and cancelled still do).
- Look. In light mode, cards and panels now take the sidebar’s warm grey on a light page for more contrast. Dark mode is unchanged.
- Livestream has moved out of the admin sidebar into the community — open it from the main community on the Communities page.
- Plan admins. Ministry now includes 5 admin seats (was 15) and Church includes 2. Extra seats are still available as an add-on, and nobody already an admin is removed.
- New Storefront. A link-in-bio page for your ministry under a new Website section, beside the Blog. Blocks cover category, link, text, video (YouTube, Vimeo, Loom), email signup, give, upcoming events, latest blog posts, community, course, form, testimonials and book a call. Add a profile photo, name, short bio and social links, choose the Classic template with an accent colour, preview it live on a phone, and switch “Page is live” on when you’re ready.
CommunitiesCRMNewsletter
Communities, a single CRM list and newsletter themes
- New Communities page on the Public side, next to Products. Every community is listed with badges (Default, Public/Private, Draft/Published), and “New community” lets you create one — limited by your plan.
- Your existing community is the Default community. Deleting it closes it while keeping posts and members, and you can restore it.
- Step-by-step editor for new communities, with a live preview of the community page.
- Free communities that anyone can join can be published. Each gets its own public page, feed, a General chat everyone is in, and a Members section. Paid communities show “Coming soon”.
- Clear consent before joining. Visitors see a notice that joining shares their name and email with the ministry that runs it, and members can leave anytime.
- Discover now lists every live public community, not just one per ministry, with member counts.
- Member app. The desktop sidebar now matches the admin sidebar, content sits in a card, and the Ask Harvest AI chat has been removed from communities.
- CRM. One list across every community, with new filters: community, status in it (active/left), newsletter (subscribed/unsubscribed/not subscribed), source (Discover, direct link, website, community, newsletter import, other) and joined/left dates. CSV export now applies every filter — before, it could export rows the list didn’t show.
- Newsletter email themes. Five ready-made themes (Letter, Essay, Card, Midnight, Minimal), save your own and set a default. Logo, footer note and social links sit in email settings; the ”/” menu inserts Issue header and Box blocks; preview as Computer, Phone or Dark, with a warning when text contrast is too low.
- New event dialog reworked. Title, What it’s about, Date and Time (15-minute steps), How long (15 minutes to 8 hours, no end time, or custom), Time zone, Repeats, Where and Open to anyone — with More options for cover image, capacity, registration, pricing and status. Changing the start keeps the length, and the button reads “Make event”.
EventsCommunitiesFixed
Rebuilt events and people joining your communities
- Events rebuilt. Recurring events, with people registering for a specific date in the series; registration questions shown one at a time; registration deadlines; optional members-only events; per-date capacity with “spots left”; add-to-calendar; and a Join link for online events. Members see Upcoming, Going and Past.
- Joining communities. People can join a ministry’s community, and more than one. Joining adds them to your CRM with name and email, with a Leave button and a consent line shown.
- Fixed. The admin sidebar kept jumping back to People when you opened a Public page. It now follows the page you’re on.
- Newsletter now says clearly when it can’t reach the database, instead of claiming you can still save drafts.
PricingForms
A new Free plan and Sign-up pages
- New Free plan. Discover, Communities and Sign-up pages, without the admin dashboard or a subdomain.
- New Sign-up pages. Share by link or QR code at theharvest.app/s/your-handle, see submissions and export them to CSV. Paid plans get them from the admin dashboard too.
ProductsCommunitiesBlog
Digital downloads and the first step of the community builder
- Digital downloads. Create a Digital download / Ebook product, upload a PDF (up to 15MB) and a cover, set title, description and price, then save as draft or publish. Members get a Products tab to claim free products and download them.
- Community builder. Turn each member module on or off (feed, blog, courses, events, messages, prayer, give, livestream, bible, map), set community rules and joining questions that members accept or answer before entering. Members post text-only in the feed (up to 500 characters) while admins keep full posts. Chat is group-based: an All members group, admin-only groups, and new groups for selected people. Member-to-member direct messages are off; admin-to-member messages still work.
- Blog. Public articles are easier to read on desktop: 18px body text and headings no bigger than the title. The editor text no longer grows to 24px on wide screens.
PricingGivingSocial
New pricing, Giving records and media in the scheduler
- New pricing. Two paid plans: Church $30/month or $300/year, and Ministry $90/month or $900/year. Free is unchanged. Yearly gives you 2 months free; quarterly billing is removed, so it’s monthly or yearly only. There’s a 0% Harvest fee on donations. Church includes 500 people and 2 admins; Ministry includes 5,000 people.
- “Accounting” renamed “Giving records” and moved under Giving. Old links still work.
- Social scheduler media. Add images and videos with drag and drop and reordering, with progress shown. Images JPEG/PNG/GIF/WebP up to 8MB and videos MP4/MOV up to 200MB, up to 10 items. Instagram needs an image or video; YouTube and TikTok need one video.
SearchNavigationNotes
Search finds your church’s content
- Search (Ctrl K / ⌘K) now finds your church’s content — people, notes and more — not just pages. Fixed: every row in search looked highlighted at once.
- Social scheduler is included on the Ministry plan; fixed it briefly flashing the upgrade screen while the plan loaded.
- One page header across every admin section: title top left, main button on the same line, and clickable breadcrumbs in the top bar.
- Sidebar regrouped. Notes is now “Boards”, its own section with a + to create a board. Each board shows its 3 newest notes, and “See all” opens a grid of cards.
- Products page with a product-type picker.
NewsletterSettingsCourses
Newsletter is live, plus rebuilt Courses
- Newsletter is live on plans that include it: overview, broadcasts, editor, send, subscribers and settings. Subscribers are your CRM contacts who opted in — there’s no second list. CSV import merges into the CRM, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe. Preview, then confirm before sending or scheduling.
- Settings on desktop open as a popup: Profile, Campus & branding, Plan & billing, Campus setup and Danger zone. Some older sections (SMS, integrations, payment-link settings) are hidden for now.
- Courses rebuilt. A step-by-step builder covering offer, lessons, page and publish, with a checklist and share link. Text-only lessons are allowed (Text, Video, Video + text), you can choose who can open a course and attach it to communities. Members get a course page and a new player with lessons, progress and “Mark done and next”. Paid checkout for courses comes later.
- Fixed. Restricted course lessons are properly protected; the public course page only shows published courses, and restricted ones show titles only.
Search
Search in the top bar
A search button now sits in the top bar on desktop, opened with ⌘K / Ctrl K.BlogSocialDesign
Scheduled blog posts and a new social scheduler
- Blog scheduling. Schedule a post for a future time in the post’s time zone; it stays hidden from your public page and feeds until then. Post settings have a Publish / Schedule / Draft picker.
- Social scheduler (new). Compose posts, calendar, queue and connected accounts. Shown under Home in the sidebar for plans that include it.
- Member feed. Clicking a giving or fundraising campaign banner or card now opens its details — before, only Give Now worked.
- Refreshed admin look. A floating sidebar that collapses to icons, softer neutral backgrounds, gold primary buttons and breadcrumbs in the top bar. Harvest navy and gold remain the colours.
SettingsDesignNotes
Data export and the first phase of the new look
- Church data export. Admins can download the whole ministry — members, contacts, giving, events — as CSV files through a private link that expires after 15 minutes.
- New look, phase one. On desktop, the icon rail is replaced by a sidebar with visible labels and collapsible groups. Light mode is the default unless you chose otherwise. Phones are unchanged.
- Fixed. Notes: a save no longer gets stuck on “Saving”.
NotesFixed
Notes could show an older version
Fixed. Reopening a note could show an older version and overwrite your latest edit, and save errors could show on the wrong note.MembersFixed
My Events only when your plan includes it
The My Events row in a member’s profile now only shows when your plan includes event registration.NavigationSettings
Check-in hidden on the Individual plan
Check-in — and the Reach menu group — no longer appears on the Individual plan, which doesn’t include it.NotesGivingBlog
Notes fixes and fundraising payment links
- Fixed (Notes). Switching notes in the sidebar could keep the previous note’s text in the editor and save it over the new note. Long note titles are shortened neatly.
- Fundraising. Choose which payment link each campaign uses; Donate opens that link. The card form is hidden while card giving is off.
- Blog. Automate is hidden while the knowledge base is hidden.
NewsletterMembers
Newsletter choice on sign-up
On sign-up, the newsletter switch now sits above “Sign up with Google” so Google sign-ups see it too, and the choice is saved.Plans
Campuses are unlimited on every paid plan
The campus add-on is gone. Individual, Small Team and Ministry can each add as many locations as they need. Forever Free still has none — it is one evangelist, not a multi-site church.Contact caps moved at the same time, and the old Contacts +500 pack went with the campus pack:- Individual: 150 → 500 (same cap as Forever Free)
- Small Team: 500 → 2,000
- Ministry: 2,000 → 4,000
DesignFixed
Your logo disappeared on the dark theme
Ten screens show your church’s logo. Only two of them handled a dark background — so on the other eight, a church with a dark-ink logo showed almost nothing.Seven of those eight were the pages your congregation and the public actually see: giving, pledges, campaigns, event registration, check-in, forms and the calendar. None of them forces light mode, so a visitor with dark mode switched on saw a near-black logo on a near-black page.Fixed. Every surface now puts a subtle plate behind an uploaded logo when the page is dark, and paints nothing at all in light mode.Forms
Rating and scale questions on forms
You can now ask “how would you rate this, 1 to 5” — as stars, or as a numbered scale.An unanswered rating exports as empty, never as zero. A zero is a rating, and averaging a column of accidental zeroes is how a survey ends up looking far worse than it was.
PlansFixed
Adding a second campus told you to buy the wrong thing
A church at its campus limit was told to upgrade to Ministry. Ministry does not include a second campus — every plan includes exactly one, and extra campuses are an add-on on every tier. So the advice pointed at a purchase that would not have helped.The button was also unpressable on a phone, so on touch nothing happened at all.Both fixed. The message now names the actual cost and offers the add-on.Fixed
Your profile photo, and a button that flickered
- The header showed your initial instead of your photo. There are two places a photo can live, and the header was reading the wrong one. It looked intermittent because signing in with Google filled both — but anyone who uploaded a photo directly saw a letter forever.
- The Automate button on the blog appeared, vanished and came back while your plan was still loading. A plan that has not loaded yet is not the same as a plan that does not include something, and Harvest was treating it as a refusal.
GivingFixed
A $50 gift was showing as $5,000
Three charts on your dashboard multiplied every giving figure by a hundred — Giving & growth, Giving over time, and the Giving mix tooltip. The legend beside that last one showed the right number, two elements away from the wrong one.Fixed. Every money figure on the dashboard now reads correctly.AccountingFixed
Two screens were telling you something untrue about your own money
Accounting and Giving statements both said that a gift you record in the CRM does not count towards their totals and will not reach a member’s statement.That has been false since we made manual recording write a real receipt. Three other screens in Harvest already said it counts. These two said the opposite, and nobody noticed.Both now say what actually happens: a gift you record by hand reaches your accounting, your dashboard and that member’s year-end statement, exactly like a card gift.CRMFixed
Deleting a contact did nothing
A contact you deleted came straight back on the next refresh. The delete was aiming at the wrong record entirely for anyone who had a Harvest account, so it was quietly writing to a document that had never existed.Fixed — and while we were there:- Deleting a contact now removes their activity timeline too, instead of leaving it behind with nothing to attach to.
- Your receipts are never deleted. Accounting and giving statements do not move when a contact goes.
- An admin can no longer delete their own account, which previously had no guard at all. You could have locked yourself out of a church you were the only admin of.
- A failed delete now says so instead of closing the dialog as though it had worked.
LivestreamFixed
The support button during a livestream went nowhere
It opened a second tab onto your app’s home page. Now it goes to your giving page, and it is hidden entirely if you do not have one.EventsGiving
Paying for an event actually works
If your church took ticket payments, the registration page was not showing your payment links — so people registered and then had no way to pay you.Now: the page shows the payment links you chose for that event, gives the attendee a reference code to put in the payment note, and lets them tell you they have paid. That claim lands in your inbox, and you confirm it after checking your own account.This works for anyone with the link — they do not need a Harvest account, which matters for outreach where most people are not members yet.We also removed old wording that promised to send people to a payment page that no longer existed.GivingAccounting
A gift you record now counts everywhere
Recording a donation in the CRM used to update the CRM and nothing else. Your dashboard did not move and your books did not know about it.Now: one entry updates your dashboard, creates the invoice in accounting, appears in that member’s own giving history, and lands on their year-end statement. You enter it once.AccountsFixed
People could join your church and be invisible
Someone signing up on certain setups ended up connected to no church at all. They could not be found in your CRM, could not post a prayer request and could not see your blog — with nothing on screen to say anything was wrong.Fixed. Harvest now refuses the sign-up loudly instead of quietly creating an account that belongs nowhere.MessagesFixed
The member chat holds still
The message box used to drift up and down as you scrolled, and half of it sat behind the bottom menu.Now: it stays pinned to the bottom of a conversation, and the bottom menu gets out of the way while you are reading a thread.Admins also get the full attachment menu here — notes, contacts, fundraising and forms, with search across all four — rather than forms only. Members do not see the paperclip.Fixed
Fixes from a week of testing on a phone
- The blog page crashed for some churches. Fixed.
- The map zoomed out far enough to show the world three times over. Now bounded.
- A course you adopted and later lost kept eating one of your plan’s course slots. Fixed.
- The List and Month buttons on events were the wrong size and misaligned.
- Notes moved its menu to three dots, added share-on-web with a link you can revoke, and the expand button now hides the bottom menu properly.
- The chat message box was not using the full width of the screen.
Pricing
Ministry is now $60
Down from $80, as an early bird price.If you join at the early bird price, you stay at it. Raising the price later applies to new subscriptions only.
Services
Volunteers get their invitations by email
Rota invitations used to depend on your church connecting a Google account, which meant clicking past a security warning to use a feature.Now: invitations, reminders and unfilled-slot warnings go out by email from Harvest, on every plan. The email shows your church’s name as the sender, and volunteers accept with one tap — no account needed.Design
One theme, and a darker dark mode
We had two colour families running side by side. That is gone — there is now one, with a light and a dark mode.Dark mode is a deeper neutral grey than before, and the dividing lines between rows are far dimmer. They were reading as bright white on a dark screen.Fixed
Lists no longer quietly show you part of the truth
Some screens loaded a slice of your data and presented it as everything — a church with 600 contacts saw 500 and no indication the rest existed.Now: where a list is incomplete, it says so on screen, and the counts above it are exact.The admin course screen and the member course page also disagreed with each other about how many library courses existed. They now read the same list.Navigation
Broadcasting is now Reach, and Forms moved into it
The mobile menu and the desktop sidebar had drifted apart — different group names, different order. They now match.Navigation
A new sidebar
The desktop sidebar was a single column of every screen in Harvest, scrolling. It is now a narrow rail of categories — hover or click one and its section opens beside it, full height.Only one panel opens at a time, and clicking pins it open.Fixed
The map stopped working, quietly
Our map provider changed their terms and began stamping API KEY REQUIRED across every tile instead of returning an error. Nothing broke loudly, so nothing alerted us.Fixed — the map now uses OpenStreetMap, which needs no key, with their attribution shown as their licence requires.AccountsFixed
Creating an account failed at the last step
New sign-ups hit an error on the final onboarding screen and could not finish.Fixed, and the underlying cause — a failed save that said nothing — now shows the person what went wrong.Services
A service no longer needs an event first
Planning a Sunday used to mean creating an event and then attaching a service to it. Most churches do not advertise their weekly service as an event, so this was backwards.Now: create a service directly, with its own date. Attaching it to an event is optional, for when you want to advertise it publicly too.Dashboard
Your dashboard says what changed, in words
The insights under your numbers used to show database paths. They now read like sentences — “Nobody has given for four weeks running” — and compare against your own previous weeks rather than anything else.Services
Service planning, in full
Three parts landed together:- The order of service — a run sheet with lengths, so moving one item shifts the clock times after it. Save a weekly service as a template.
- Volunteer rotas across weeks — see the month at once, with a warning when you put the same person in two places.
- Invitations — volunteers accept or decline from an email link, with reminders and a flag on any slot nobody has taken.
Fixed
Editing your profile could fail without telling you
Saving your personal information could fail silently — the dialog closed, nothing was saved, and nothing said so.Fixed. A failed save now shows the error, keeps the dialog open and keeps what you typed.FormsFixed
Forms
- Form responses were counted from the wrong place, so a form with real submissions could show zero. Fixed.
- Options could not be added to a multiple-choice field in the builder. Fixed.
- A per-question view now shows every answer to one question at a time, over a complete read of the responses.
GivingDashboard
The Giving tab, and a public giving page
Your dashboard’s Giving tab now reads your ledger, your campaigns and your pledges.The giving page is also public, so you can share it with people who are not members — by link, by the phone’s own share sheet, or as a QR code for the back of the room.Fixed
The bottom of the screen on a phone
On phones with a home indicator, the bottom menu sat under it and dialogs opened behind it.Fixed — the menu reserves the space it needs, and dialogs and sheets open above it.Dashboard
A dashboard worth opening
The dashboard became tabbed — Overview, Growth, Giving, Engagement and Content — with a member trend, a countries table, and real figures for who is actually using your courses and reading your articles.Content
A proper editor toolbar, and folders for notes
Notes, courses and the blog share one editor, and it now has a toolbar that stays put instead of appearing only when you select text.Notes also got a folder tree you can see all at once, rather than clicking down into one folder at a time.Courses
Smaller things
- Courses show a status badge, and the button changes with the status rather than always saying the same thing.
- Deleting a check-in session now removes its attendee records too, instead of leaving them orphaned.
- Signups moved out of the analytics screen onto its own page.