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Ministry Brands®
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Ministry Brands®
ParishMart turns Ministry Brands' existing church relationships into a new stream of recurring commerce revenue — no inventory, no new technology, no extra staff. We're asking Ministry Brands to put skin in the game: a $50,000 pilot commitment, applied toward future expansion and revenue sharing.
Today, a parish's income depends almost entirely on three sources — all of them manual, episodic, and hard to grow.
One collection a week. Flat, seasonal, and tied to who shows up on Sunday.
Labor-intensive and one-off. Every dollar costs volunteer hours to raise.
Capital appeals and drives — exhausting to run and impossible to repeat at scale.
What if the everyday transactions of parishioners — and the local businesses around them — could fund the parish and the causes it serves?
Ministry Brands already owns everything needed to deliver this — except the product itself.
ParishMart transforms existing church relationships into recurring commerce revenue.
Over the last six months we ran referral partnerships. They taught us exactly what to fix.
Referral partnerships generated awareness — but they did not generate adoption.
The reason was structural: in a referral model, nobody owns the sale.
So we redesigned ParishMart around ownership of the sale.
Awareness without accountability. No one is responsible for activation, so adoption stalls.
Ministry Brands wholesales ParishMart as a membership it owns and bills — so someone owns the sale, and adoption follows.
This is a Wholesale Membership Program — not a referral program.
A quick look at the parish storefront — giving, events, and the local-business marketplace that powers the whole model.
This is the heart of the model. No inventory, no integration, no IT project — a parish goes from signup to earning in one short sitting.
Activated straight from the relationship Ministry Brands already owns.
Picks a tier on the ladder — the membership scales as the parish grows.
A branded storefront goes live instantly — pre-loaded, nothing to build.
Giving, events, and local-business income begin flowing from day one.
Pricing shown per parish. A parish starts on the rung that fits and climbs as it grows — each tier earns more, and is never started until the one below it is live and billing. Full tier-by-tier detail lives in the appendix.
Why deferred: this is where supplier + commerce integration begins. Tiers 1–2 buy the time and cash to do it right.
Don't touch it until the first three are live. The cash from below funds the hard part above.
A product only scales if the people in front of the customer want to pitch it. ParishMart is built to be the easiest "yes" in the bag.
A monthly membership, not a one-time sale.
"A storefront for your parish, live in 5 minutes."
Nothing to stock, ship, or operate.
No integration, no IT project, no PCI on Tier 1.
A real, repeating commission line for every rep.
Close and go live in the same conversation.
An add-on on relationships they already own — recurring, commissionable, and live in minutes.
Every asset Ministry Brands already owns gets a new revenue layer on top — ParishMart supplies exactly the piece that's missing.
Beyond the membership revenue, ParishMart invites Ministry Brands & ParishSOFT to anchor the network as its Founding Preferred Sponsorship Partners — premium, named placement across every parish storefront, locked in at a founding rate.
A founding discount of 20% on an annual commitment — premium sponsorship placement across the parish network, reserved for Ministry Brands & ParishSOFT as the anchor partners.
Ministry Brands resells the platform's sponsorship space to its own Partners — a new recurring, passive-income stream on top of the membership revenue.
Puts MB's partners in front of a high-trust, faith-aligned community — exactly the natural audience they're trying to reach.
One channel reaches parishes, dioceses & vendors (B2B) and millions of parishioners (B2C) at the same time.
Reps struggle to make quota on today's catalog. Reselling sponsorship gives them an easy, commissionable, in-demand line — and the motivation to sell it.
Passive income for Ministry Brands, visibility for their partners, and a product their reps can finally hit quota with.
One focused pilot to validate the model in market — together. Objective: validate activation, adoption, and revenue generation before scaling across the base.
A Ministry Brands commitment that puts skin in the game — applied toward future expansion and revenue sharing, not a fee. It funds the co-branded launch and helps both teams move now.
How many go live
Conversion to billing
Subscription + transactions
Signal to scale the base
A 90-day Market Activation Pilot, a $50K commitment to validate it together, and a clear path to scale across ~12,000 parishes. Skin in the game on both sides — starting now.
Everything below supports the pilot ask but isn't needed to decide on it: the wholesale-to-retail channel, the interactive economics, the build sequence, and the full activation plan with revenue projections. Reference material — not the headline.
This structure is what lets the model scale without selling parish by parish. Ministry Brands doesn't "sell" — it adds a line to an invoice it already issues. The diocese activates in bulk so nobody has to touch 12,000 relationships one at a time.
Resells ParishMart as an add-on membership inside the ParishSOFT invoice to its ~12K parishes.
Activates or sponsors parishes in bulk and co-brands the rollout — no one-by-one onboarding.
Runs its storefront, lists local businesses, and earns a 50% rev-share — at near-zero friction.
Pay for visibility in front of a trusted parish community — and fund the parish's membership.
Pick a membership tier, set the variables for each player, and watch both sides move at once: what the parish nets and what Ministry Brands earns. Everything recalculates against the tier you choose.
parishioners × ticket × gifts/motier base × (1 + markup)businesses × fee × 50% (Tier 2+)giving + local-biz income − membership costmembership cost × parishesgiving × transaction fee × parishessubscription + transactionIllustrative model for discussion — every rate and volume is adjustable and subject to final agreement. Transaction revenue assumes giving runs through ParishSOFT Giving (Ministry Brands' rail). Yearly figures = monthly × 12.
The ladder is the roadmap — there is nothing left to re-decide. This section exists to protect the team from re-scoping: what's frozen, what's parked, and the three rules that keep it that way.
Ship the storefront and business supporters. This is the only scope. It generates the cash and reach that fund everything above.
Painted in the roadmap and sold in the pitch — but off-limits in production until Phase 1 is live and billing.
They are the only scope for 60–90 days. Tier 3 & 4 stay painted but untouched. The cash from below funds the pain above — this isn't procrastination, it's sequencing.
Every "while we're at it, let's integrate payments" is exactly the decision that burned out the team. Redirecting to their merchant is the feature that makes 12K activations possible.
Show all four tiers to Ministry Brands — that's the vision. In production only Tier 1 & 2 exist. The client buys the future; you ship the present.
A realistic ramp — not a flat line. A small paid pilot to validate, a steady build through the rest of 2026, then a consistent cadence in 2027 — reaching 1,200 within twelve months of launch. The church count here matches the Economics model above, so both calculators reconcile.
The paid pilot — 25 the first month, 50 the second. Validate activation, adoption & revenue, funded by the $50K commitment.
Step up to 100 a month and hold it — closing 2026 with around 450 churches live, sourced by diocese in bulk.
A steady 120 a month — a repeatable cadence that carries the total past 1,200 within the first year.
Ministry Brands' recoverable commitment funds the co-branded pilot launch in July — skin in the game, credited against expansion.
Each cohort comes from activating dioceses in bulk — one signature each, not hundreds of cold calls.
Validate in the pilot, build through late 2026, then hold a steady ≥120/month cadence in 2027.