Sangha brings together everything your community needs — practitioners, meditation sessions, dharma talks, dana, retreats. Designed for Buddhist communities, not tech companies.
Spreadsheets for practitioners, email for RSVPs, PayPal for dana, Google Calendar for sessions... Your teachers and volunteers waste precious time on tasks that should be simple.
Modular features you can enable as needed, with vocabulary that honors Buddhist practice.
Schedule sitting meditation, walking meditation, and group practice. Manage registrations, capacity, and send gentle reminders.
Sessions ModuleA mindful directory of your sangha members, their practice interests, retreat history, and volunteer roles.
Community ModuleReceive dana with gratitude. Track contributions, generate tax receipts, and honor the generosity of your supporters.
Dana ModuleAnnounce dharma talks, sutra study sessions, and teaching events. Share recordings with your community.
Teachings ModuleManage day-long sits, weekend retreats, and longer residential programs. Waitlists, deposits, and dietary preferences.
Retreats ModuleCoordinate volunteers for setup, tea service, bell ringing, and temple maintenance. Schedule shifts with ease.
Service ModuleCreate a beautiful public page for your sangha. Share your schedule, teachings, and upcoming retreats with the world. Visitors can discover your community and join your practice.
Public SiteGenerate clear reports for sangha leadership. Track attendance trends, dana patterns, retreat participation, and community growth over time.
Reports ModuleFrom the guiding teacher to the newest practitioner, Sangha fits how each person actually practices.
"I need to focus on teaching, not tracking spreadsheets"
Dashboard shows sangha health at a glance — attendance, dana, retreat enrollment, practitioner progress
"I'm juggling emails, forms, and phone calls between sits"
One inbox for registrations, automated responses, self-service for practitioners
"Sesshin logistics consume weeks of preparation"
Housing, meals, work-practice, and teacher meetings coordinated in one place
"I can't remember who's new and who needs guidance"
Practitioner profiles show experience level, retreat history, and practice interests
Practitioners register online from their phone. You see in real time who's attending, how many cushions to prepare, and who needs support.
"We used to spend hours each week fielding texts and emails about sitting times. Now practitioners register themselves and we can focus on creating a welcoming space for practice."
Accept dana by card or bank transfer. Sangha automatically tracks contributions, generates tax receipts, and helps you honor your supporters.
"Tax receipt season used to mean a week of cross-referencing PayPal with our spreadsheets. This year, we clicked one button and acknowledgments went out that afternoon."
A living directory of your community members, their practice journey, retreat participation, and how they serve. Each person is honored, not just a name on a list.
"For the first time, I can see a practitioner's journey at a glance — their retreats, their practice interests, their service to the sangha. It helps me offer more skillful guidance."
From retreat preparation to daily administration, here's what changes when everything works together.
The winter sesshin is announced. Within a week, the retreat coordinator has 34 emails, 12 text messages, and several verbal commitments from the Sunday sit. Some people asked about fees, others about housing, one person thought they registered but didn't. The tenzo has no idea how many meals to plan.
Create the retreat in 5 minutes, set capacity and housing options, share one link. Practitioners register themselves, indicate dietary needs, and receive automatic confirmations. The tenzo sees meal counts in real time.
Zero email chaos. Clear headcount with dietary needs. 15 minutes of setup instead of 15 hours of back-and-forth.
January arrives. You need to send dana acknowledgments to 180 supporters, but contributions are scattered across PayPal, the temple's bank account, cash offerings, and retreat fees. Some gave dana, some paid fees, some did both — and the records don't distinguish clearly.
Click 'Generate Annual Receipts.' Sangha separates dana from fees, matches every contribution to the correct supporter, generates compliant acknowledgments, and sends them directly with a note of gratitude.
180 acknowledgments sent by January 5th. 30 hours of volunteer time saved. Clear separation of dana and fees.
A newcomer attended the intro class three months ago. They've been sitting on Sunday mornings but the practice leader doesn't know if they've taken refuge, attended a retreat, or need guidance on deepening their practice. The information is scattered across sign-in sheets and memory.
Pull up the practitioner's profile. See every sit they've attended, their refuge status, retreat history, and practice interests — all tracked naturally as they participate.
Welcome newcomers with awareness of their journey. Offer skillful guidance. No more lost connections.
| Task | Before Sangha | With Sangha |
|---|---|---|
| Session registration | Field texts, emails, phone calls. Update spreadsheet. Hope you counted right. Send manual reminders. | Share link. Practitioners self-register. Automatic confirmations and reminders. Real-time cushion count. |
| Retreat coordination | Endless email threads. Manual housing assignments. Phone calls about dietary needs. Last-minute scrambles. | One registration form. Housing and meals tracked automatically. Tenzo sees meal counts. Work-practice scheduled. |
| Dana acknowledgments | Cross-reference PayPal, bank, cash records. Type each acknowledgment. Send manually. Errors inevitable. | Click button. All acknowledgments generated and sent with gratitude. Accurate and compliant. |
| Work-practice (samu) | Newsletter announcements. Hope people remember. Last-minute phone tree. Usually short-handed. | Visual schedule. Volunteers claim shifts. Automatic reminders. Easy swaps. Always staffed. |
| Find a practitioner | Search emails. Check old sign-in sheets. Ask around. Maybe they're in the retreat records somewhere. | Type name. Instant results with photo, practice history, retreat participation, service roles. |
| Dharma talk archive | Recordings scattered across Google Drive, SoundCloud, old hard drives. Newcomers can't find teachings. | Organized library. Tagged by teacher, topic, date. Practitioners browse and listen from any device. |
We built Sangha because your community's data deserves better than Big Tech surveillance.
Your data never passes through Google, Amazon, Microsoft, or Facebook. Independent infrastructure, controlled by us.
Servers located in the European Union, subject to GDPR — the world's most protective legislation for personal data.
Data encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and at rest on our servers. Your community's information is protected at every step.
Full export at any time. If you leave, we delete everything. No lock-in, no traps, no selling of data.
Full access to all features, no credit card required. You practice, you give us feedback.
We're building for sanghas, not corporations. Prices will remain accessible to dharma communities of all sizes.
No artificial limits during beta. We trust in right action — use what you need.
We're a small team walking this path. We do our best, we respond mindfully, but we don't promise 99.99% uptime.
Early adopters are remembered. Join now and receive founder pricing when we launch — plus direct input on features we build next.
Terms may evolve at launch — we'll always notify you with loving-kindness.
Can't find what you're looking for? Write to us at hello@communify.site
Most communities are operational in less than an hour. You create your sangha, import your practitioners from a spreadsheet, and you can publish your first session immediately. We guide you through every step with patience.
Sangha accepts imports from Excel, CSV, and Google Sheets for your practitioner lists. For existing donation platform data, we offer assisted migration on request.
The Retreat Module handles everything — registration with deposits, housing assignments, dietary preferences, work-practice schedules, and teacher meeting signups. The tenzo sees meal counts automatically. You can manage day-longs, weekend sits, week-long sesshins, and longer residencies.
Yes. The Library Module lets you upload audio and video teachings, organize them by teacher and topic, and share with your sangha. Practitioners can listen from any device. You control whether talks are public or sangha-only.
Create shifts for grounds keeping, kitchen service, altar care, or any temple work. Practitioners see available slots and claim them. They receive gentle reminders before their service. If someone needs to swap, they can request a trade through the system.
Yes. Receipts generated by Sangha are adapted to your country's regulations. They include all required information and can be presented for tax purposes.
Absolutely. Sangha is designed for all Buddhist communities — Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Zen, Pure Land, secular mindfulness, and more. The vocabulary adapts to honor your tradition.
All data is hosted in the European Union, with GDPR-compliant providers. Your community's data is never sold or shared. You remain the owner and can export at any time.
Yes. Teachers can record private notes on practitioner profiles — koan assignments, practice guidance, dokusan history. These notes are visible only to authorized teachers, protecting the privacy of the teacher-student relationship.
Sangha supports the traditional dana model fully. You can offer retreats and programs with suggested dana rather than fixed fees, accept offerings without specifying amounts, and track contributions as gratitude-based gifts rather than transactions. The system honors the spirit of generosity.
Join the first sanghas on our platform. Full access during beta, gentle migration support, and your feedback shapes the path forward.
🪷 No credit card · GDPR · Data hosted in Europe