Welcome To Nucleus
Welcome, welcome, welcome! If you're reading this, then the team here at Nucleus would like to applaud you for investigating and considering new tools to help your church become full of active participants, not just passive spectators. We know there are a lot of options out there that you've likely weighed against each other, so thank you for taking the plunge and giving our platform a try.
We want you to feel successful using all the tools that Nucleus provides. Whether you fall in love and decide to use every single product we offer (including any future ones we release), or whether you decide to use our free (yet invaluable!) products, we're here for you every step of the way.
In fact, we've put this entire Help Center together specifically to make sure you start off on the right foot and can engage with our products in ways that help you make the best decision for your church. So whether you're all in from the onset or you need to take all 30 days of the free trial to make an informed decision, these guides are for you.
Below, we'll cover the following topics. Click on any one to jump ahead.
Why Nucleus?
So what's all the commotion about? Well, for starters, we're not trying to be a carbon copy of other platforms. We're trying to push the boundaries of what online church software can be. We're not here to chase money to make the quickest buck.
We're here to transform how churches collect submissions and people's information to see more next steps, and more life change. (We accomplish this through Nucleus Flows and the Launcher.)
We're here to create the easiest avenue for people to submit and share prayer requests with your church, complete with security and privacy features built in. (We accomplish this through Nucleus Prayer.)
We're here to revolutionize how the online giving world operates, saving churches millions of dollars collectively each year. (Don't believe us? Check out Nucleus Giving.)
We're here to consolidate all your people records into one location and give churches the power to communicate as little or as much as they want with their congregation. (We accomplish this through Nucleus People + Messages.)
We're here to hone in on the purpose of your church's website, all the while ensuring it exceeds the first impression test and grabs the attention of any new visitor. (We accomplish this through Nucleus Web + Sermons.)
We're here to enhance your social media presence with content proven to increase engagement across the 167 hours outside of your Sunday service. (We accomplish this through Nucleus Media.)
Furthermore, our company isn't bound to keep shareholders happy. Nucleus is 100% established without any outside investments, meaning we can make decisions and build products that are 100% designed to serve The Church, rather than to satisfy a board who's more concerned about increasing their pay checks instead of solving real church problems with helpful (and beautifully designed) products.
At the end of the day, Nucleus is designed to grow your church by growing your people. It's our first priority to make sure Nucleus is one easy destination for everyone in your church family — from staff, pastors, and leaders, to your members, general congregation, and visitors.
And what's great is that Nucleus actually gets results. But don't take our word for it! Check out all of the testimonies and reviews customers have written about us. Every single one is genuine. We don't pay anyone to use our products or to create aliases to write positive reviews.
Check out all our reviews here.
These reviews have come in over the past 5+ years that Nucleus has been in operation, along with our sister company, Pro Church Tools, which has been operating for even longer. Point being, we've developed trust for years with real people in real churches across the globe who believe in our philosophy and our products. And we've developed a community of over 4,000+ members who vary from using our free tools to every single product we have to offer. (Feel free to join here.)
So welcome! You're in good hands whether you're just here for the free products or all the great services we provide.
Our Products
The Launcher (FREE!)
Labelled Next Steps in the Dashboard, this is such a powerful tool that can be added on virtually any modern website (meaning one that's built later than the early 2000's 😅) The Launcher exists in the bottom right or left corner of your website, and is the portal that hosts all of your church's most important next steps. You can direct people to various places directly on your website (linking to external URLs) or keep people within the Launcher and have them take next steps directly there using a Nucleus Flow! (More on that below.)
Then, there's Banners, which allows you to call out specific action items or announcements at the top of your website. Is your church hosting a fundraiser? Banners. Are you promoting a church-wide event? Banners. Do you have a special guest speaker coming? Banners.
The best part? It's free 😱 Because we believe churches should have more access to well designed modern tools to help people take more next steps, to see more life change.
Prayer (FREE!)
Including the PrayerFlow, Prayer Wall, and Prayer Time, this product is a powerhouse that helps your church pray more together. With these tools, you can invite anyone in the world to submit a prayer request through the PrayerFlow. At the same time, you can limit access to your church’s private Prayer Wall of shared prayers to just those in your church to encourage open, honest prayers. And, with Prayer Time, a focused, elegant interface clears away distractions for focused prayer.
Security and privacy are of utmost importance. Baked directly into Nucleus Prayer are key features that keep your prayers private and protected from search engines, and shields you and your church from all the latest creepy, data-mining behavior.
Additional to the above you have more moderation control and private inboxes so you can direct prayers automatically to individual leaders or ministries.
Flows ($29/MONTH USD)
We like to say that anything forms can do, Flows can do better. Flows are friendlier and faster than any other forms - and they can live directly inside of your Launcher, making it effortless for anyone to take next steps. Nucleus Flows are fully customizable, so you can build whatever you need: simple or super complex.
Then, from an admin perspective, managing your Flows submissions is easy in the Nucleus Dashboard. Quickly see all the results of your Flow: from submissions, to a list of people records from those who filled out the Flow, to a list of transactions (if your Flow included a payment) - all with detailed view. And if you need it, you also have the ability to export a CSV of your submissions!
Included with Flows is the ability to take online payments. Have a paid event coming up? Have a book or resource that requires payment for a small group? Using the Payment Step is an easy way to bolster any Flow's capabilities to accomplish both receiving someone's information as well as their payment.
Note: Payments can only be used when you have an active subscription to Nucleus Giving, as they use the same processing account to handle both donations and payments.
Giving (AS LOW AS $29/MONTH USD)
A fundamentally better church giving solution, Nucleus Giving ensures you stop paying a cut of every tithe you receive. (This ugly practice is called rev-share, and almost all online giving platforms operate on this business model. Click here to learn more.) Instead, you pay to use our platform, and the Giver covers the processing fee 100% of the time.
Even better, we have the lowest processing fees in the industry, with only 1.9% for credit card donations, and a flat rate of $0.25 for ACH donations no matter the size!
Note: Some methods of giving are not yet supported in Canada. Contact us to learn more
The GivingFlow never pushes donors away from your church to a different page, app, or text message thread like other platforms do. Instead, the GivingFlow exists on every page of your church website, and opens beautifully wherever people are. It can be triggered open from anywhere: your website, an email, social media, or the free Next Steps Launcher.
People + Messages ($29/MONTH USD)
Want a master list of all your people records and profiles? Nucleus People is your solution. As a centralized database for your church's people, Nucleus People automatically builds and keeps your people records up-to-date based on actions folks take in Flows, Prayer, and other areas of Nucleus. You can also create, view, and update your people records manually - and categorize them in custom lists to help keep your database as organized as you'd like!
Not only that, but you can create email campaigns, sending unlimited number of emails to an unlimited number of subscribers. You can easily create an audience of subscribers through a custom list of people, but Messages also plays well with other products like Flows, where you can create an audience based on people who have completed a specific Flow. (Pretty cool, right?)
The Power Of Using Everything
Speaking of playing well with other products, that's actually a key component about all our products: they all work well together. The more products you use, the more value you'll find in all of them.
While each product has its own database of people records, Nucleus People compiles all your people data from every other product you're subscribed to and hosts it in one convenient and centralized database.
While Flows and Prayer are powerful products on their own, using them in tandem with the Launcher makes them so much more accessible and effective.
While Giving is an incredible platform to help reduce online giving costs for your church and introduce an effortless way to give for your congregation, subscribing to Flows unlocks your ability to also take in online payments.
But don't take our word for it. Sign up for a 30-day trial of Nucleus and see for yourself how powerful Nucleus can be with all our products working together!
The Future Of Nucleus
The future is bright for Nucleus! 💡 We originally started out with three amazing products that existed on our old platform: Web, Sermons & Media. All three of these products will soon be brought into the universe to live alongside all our other products (listed above), starting with Web, then Sermons, and then Media - all to be released in 2023.
But that's not all! Our amazing product team and developers are concocting some other incredible tools to introduce as time goes on that will continue to revolutionize online tools for churches. So keep an eye out for those updates. We'd hate for you to miss out!
Click here to see the latest updates from Nucleus.
What Next?
That's a great question. Onto amazing things, we hope! The following is our recommended path to take to help set you up for success. Of course, if you have specific questions, you can always type in keywords into the Help Center search bar and find a guide that way. But if you're just starting off, we advise that you go through the entire Start-up Guide in the order we've set it up to help explain key components that are critical to making the most out of all Nucleus has to offer.
Below is the next article on your path to set you up for success. Click on the link below whenever you're ready 😎