Your staff directory, time off, onboarding, documents to sign, and approvals live together in Grow Teams. Everyone knows who’s out, new hires are ready on day one, and the handbook actually gets signed.
Time off lives in texts, the handbook lives in a shared drive, and the new hire’s paperwork lives in someone’s inbox. That’s a tools problem, not a you problem.
The kids wing is short a leader, and the only record of the vacation request is a text from three weeks ago.
The welcome plan was a sticky note. Now your new worship leader is filling out a W-4 on a clipboard in the lobby.
You think so. Proving it means digging through folders, emails and a box in the office closet.
You’re not disorganized. Your staff just needs one place to look.
No consultant and no training day. If your staff can open a link, they can request time off and sign the handbook.
Import a BambooHR export with a dry run first, or add people one at a time. Departments, locations and managers come along.
Start from ready-made vacation, sick and personal policies, match them to your handbook, and assign them to everyone at once.
Each person gets a private, single-use link. They sign in, see their balances, request time off and sign what’s waiting.
Six tools that stand in for the spreadsheet, the shared drive and the group text. Pick one to take a look.
A searchable directory and org chart for the whole staff, and a profile for each person with their job history, pay, emergency contacts and equipment. Sensitive fields are encrypted and only HR sees them.
Staff request time off and see their own balances. Their manager approves it. Accruals, carry-over and holidays follow the policies you set, and the shared calendar shows who’s out before Sunday morning.
Pick a checklist when you add someone. Tasks go to the new hire, their manager and HR with due dates around the start date, and the new person gets a welcome page with where to park, when to arrive and what to bring.
Keep the handbook, policies and forms in one library. Ask everyone, or just the kids and student teams, to read and sign. Each signature gets a certificate. Private files like background checks stay on each person’s profile, with a reminder before they expire.
Time-off requests, profile changes and password help land in one place for the right person. Approve from the inbox or straight from the home page, and the balance updates on its own.
Headcount by department or campus, turnover, time off taken, birthdays and anniversaries, and a salary report only HR can open. Export any of them, or build your own list of fields.
Full-time pastors, part-time coordinators, hourly custodians and interns, across one campus or several. Grow Teams keeps each of them in the right place.
One place for every staff record, policy and report, instead of a spreadsheet only you understand.
Approve your team’s time off, see who’s out this weekend, and welcome new hires properly.
Child-safety policies signed by everyone who serves, and background checks with an expiry reminder.
Their own balances, requests and documents on any phone, without needing to ask the office.
Locations, departments and divisions for every campus, with a directory that spans them all.
Pay history, a confidential salary report and a full export when the auditor asks.
Export your employee report from BambooHR as a CSV and drop it into Grow Teams. Match the columns, review a dry run with every row explained, then import. Time-off balances come over the same way.
Each person sees what they should and nothing more. Managers see their own team. Pay, birthdays and bank details stay with HR, and every sensitive change is written to an audit log.
Most churches use some mix of these, and each one is good at something. Here’s an honest look at where Grow Teams fits.
| Feature | SpreadsheetsSheets | Shared drivesDrives | Big HR suitesSuites | TeamsGrow Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A staff directory everyone can use | ||||
| Time-off requests, approvals and balances | ||||
| Read-and-sign with proof of who signed | ||||
| Onboarding checklists for new hires | ||||
| Each person sees only what they should | ||||
| Priced for a church staff | ||||
| Payroll and benefits enrollment |
Grow Teams doesn’t run payroll. Keep your payroll provider and use Grow Teams for everything around it.
You get instant access the moment you sign up. After your trial, pick the plan that fits your budget.
Flexible. Pay as you go, one month at a time.
After your 10-day free trial
One payment for the whole ministry year.
About $8.08/month after your 10-day free trial
The questions church leaders ask about people tools, answered plainly.
Our team is happy to help you move over from a spreadsheet or BambooHR. Email support@stuffyoucanuse.org or call 877-486-3272.
You get 10 days of full access right away. After that, choose $9.97 per month or $97 per year.
No. It’s one price for your church: $9.97 per month or $97 per year, whether your staff is five people or fifty.
Yes. Export your employee report from BambooHR as a CSV, match the columns in Grow Teams, and review a dry run before anything is saved. Time-off balances import the same way, and re-running an import updates people instead of duplicating them.
No. Keep your payroll provider. Grow Teams keeps each person’s pay history and gives you exports, and it handles the people side: directory, time off, onboarding, documents and approvals.
There are three roles. Admins see and manage everything. Managers see their own team’s time off and approve it. Everyone else sees the directory and their own profile, time off and documents. Pay, birthdays and bank details stay private, sensitive fields are encrypted, and changes are written to an audit log.
Ask everyone, or a chosen group, to read and sign a document by a due date. Each person opens it, types their full name and confirms. Grow Teams records the time and keeps a signature certificate you can download.
Yes. Grow Teams runs in the web browser, so it works on any phone, tablet or computer. Staff can request time off, check balances and sign documents from their phone.
Not yet. Invites and password resets are private links you copy and send yourself, by text or email, so nothing lands in a spam folder.