Synodo — small group software that notices who’s drifting away
Synodo is software for churches to run their small groups. It gives your church one place for the studies, the leader guides, the meetings, and the conversations in between.
Right now it’s in six places
Not for lack of care — it is what happens when a church runs a dozen groups out of a spreadsheet, a shared doc and four group texts.
- The study is in one place and the group is in another. The passage and the questions are in a shared document, the reminder went out in a group text, and the leader's own notes are on the back of last week's printout.
- Your best leader prepared in the car. Five minutes before the meeting, because nothing had said what this week was meant to cover.
- Someone stopped coming in September. Everybody half-noticed. Nobody can say which week it was, and no one has phoned, because it was never anybody's job to see it.
What Synodo does
- Leader guides your leaders actually use. Each meeting has a leaders-only guide — preparation, a run of show, discussion prompts — kept separate from what members see. Assign sections to specific leaders, highlight the parts you are covering, and print it.
- Build the study once. Write your study a single time and every new group gets its own copy. Tag it for the kinds of group it suits, or leave it untagged and every group can use it. When you improve it, a resync pushes changes down without wiping what each group has tailored.
- The group's life in one thread. Messages, prayer requests, photos, polls, and announcements live alongside the study instead of scattered across texts and email.
- See who is drifting, and reach them. The register a leader already takes, the work already handed in, and whether somebody has opened the group at all — one view, week by week, with the reason beside every name and whether it is a change for them. Call, text or email them from your own phone in one tap.
- Your kinds of group, in your words. Community, Life Group, Mentor — name them the way your church already does, and each group says what it calls its leaders and its people. Say whether a group keeps going or runs once and finishes.
- From sign-up to groups. For churches that run a round of intake: nominations, approvals, leader applications, pairing co-leaders, matching people, availability polls, and the whole meeting schedule.
- At the desk and in their pocket. Leaders plan on a computer; members open the same group on their phone or tablet, where it installs to the home screen and sends push notifications.
Every feature, a page each
- Small group attendance and care tracking
- Leader guides for small group leaders
- Group messaging for church small groups
- Small group curriculum and study builder
- Small group meeting schedules and calendar sync
- Planning Center Groups integration
- Discipleship and mentoring software for churches
- A small group app for phones, tablets and computers
A walk through Synodo — what members, leaders and admins see.
- Video: A walk through Synodo (2:02, with captions) — A two-minute walk through a week with Synodo: setting a church up, a meeting with its topics and leader guide, the group’s conversation in between, everyone’s calendar, and the view of which groups are doing well.
Pricing
Synodo costs $49 per month per church and includes unlimited groups and people, with every feature included — less than one morning of part-time help a month, for something that does the remembering every week, in every group. Churches start with a 30-day free trial and no credit card required. You can export your data at any time and cancel whenever you like. If you would rather be walked through it than read about it, book a 30-minute call.