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At Faithmade, we use a flexible phone credit system to manage communications costs for calls and text messages. This guide will help you understand how phone credits work.

What Are Phone Credits?

Phone credits are a prepaid system used to pay for the calls and text messages you send and receive through the Faithmade Engage platform. Instead of fixed pricing plans, credits allow for more control over your church's communication costs.

Phone Credit Costs

• Outgoing Calls: Making calls cost $0.0154 per minute. With $10 you can make approximately 650 minutes of calls.
• Incoming Calls: Incoming calls cost $0.0094 per minute. With $10, you can receive about 1065 minutes of calls.
• Text Messages: Text messages are charged at $0.0087 per segment. A segment is equal to one SMS of 160 characters. $10 allows you to send around 1150 segments. Keep in mind, things like emojis can make segment length shorter.

Managing Your Phone Credits

1. Log in to your Faithmade Engage dashboard on a desktop.
2. Navigate to the Settings menu located in the left sidebar.
3. Click on Billing within the Settings menu.
4. Here, you can view your current credit balance and add more credits if needed.

By managing your credits effectively, you can ensure that your church remains within budget while maintaining solid communication with your church and visitors.

Benefits of Using Phone Credits

• Flexibility: Adjust your spending based on actual usage rather than pre-set limits.
• Cost-Effective: Only pay for what you use, helping your church save money.
• Simplicity: Easy to monitor and top up credits directly through your Faithmade account.

For more information or assistance with your phone credits, please contact our support team at [email protected].

Yes! The church portal/membership area has several key features:

Courses: Provide your church with discipleship opportunities via courses you create.

Communities: Many churches use this functionality to replace tools like slack for communication.

Groups: Other churches use this capability to handle communication between small groups to foster community.

App Based: The desktop/mobile version is available with your plan directly. BUT, you can create your own app around this portal for $79 monthly. Just purchase it from your dashboard. Keep in mind, this is not supposed to be a 'church content' app with sermons and the like. This is more for community and learning type environments.

During onboarding we will show you how to purchase a number. It's pretty straight forward.

After the number is purchase we will handing its verification for you so carriers don't penalize your number being used.

We can also set up call forwarding to your staff so calls go directly to their phones.

Emails work from the same credit system as phone calls. Each email is $
0.000675. So for $10 you send roughly 14,105 emails.

Premium Triggers & Actions

Using tools like AI, web hooks and so on cost $.0105. So, with $10 you can get about 950 of these triggers/actions.

Email Verification

Email verification helps ensure your email lists stay clean and healthy. Each email is 0.002625 to verify, so you can verify 3,810 emails with just $10.

Other tools such as AI Chat, AI content, and AI review replies are available as well. We find most churches do not have a need for these as they are cost prohibitive, but if you do, feel free to let us know and we can turn them on. 🙂

We setup every part of your account  and work with you directly during onboarding. This includes choosing a phone number, importing your contacts, setting up custom automation and workflows, connecting any integrations, and if needed, calls with your staff to train them on this new system.

Learning a new system can be daunting. Our goal is for your team to feel empowered and confident.

Subaccounts allow you to have separate accounts within your church, complete with their own phone numbers, workflows, pipelines etc for different ministries or campuses.

This is also a great opportunity if your pastor, or any notable staff, have ministries of their own.

Subaccounts are only $49 per month, per subaccount.