Community Management Platform
Merkaz is the operating system for Jewish community life — Hebrew calendars, yahrtzeit reminders, Shabbat-aware scheduling, and a member CRM tuned to the staff who care about both operational excellence and meaningful engagement.
Built Around Jewish Time
Every workflow in Merkaz is anchored to Jewish time — Yom Tov, parashat hashavua, yahrtzeit, and Shabbat boundaries are first-class features, not bolt-ons.
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Schedule events, classes, and lifecycle moments against a Hebrew calendar that knows the difference between chol ha-moed and a yom tov. Automatic conversions between civil and Hebrew dates, parashat hashavua assignments, and three-year Torah cycle tracking for Triennial shuls.
No third-party plugin. No spreadsheet reconciliation on Friday afternoon.
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Yahrtzeit reminders generate themselves from membership records and Hebrew dates of record. Scheduling respects Shabbat boundaries, early-minyan cutoffs, and eruv status. Staff stop translating between systems that don't speak Jewish time.
Families receive a personal note on the Hebrew date, not a generic email blast.
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Households, not contacts. Family relationships, lifecycle stage, school enrollment, and giving history live in one record. The interface was shaped by former executive directors on our product team — eleven of them, in fact.
Built for the staff who answer the phone, not just the staff who report to the board.
Replace The Stack
Every separate platform your shul runs today is a workflow Merkaz already covers. Migration from ShulCloud, Chaverware, or legacy FileMaker systems is handled by our team with a 98.7% data-fidelity rate across 600+ congregations.
Donor software
Merkaz giving & pledges
Event platforms
Merkaz events & RSVPs
Membership databases
Merkaz household CRM
Email & newsletter tools
Merkaz member communications
Natively integrates with QuickBooks, Mailchimp, Stripe, Yad Vashem's Holocaust-records API, and 30+ other tools your staff already trusts.
“We replaced four systems with Merkaz and reclaimed a full day of staff time every week. The yahrtzeit automation alone changed how our families experience us during shiva.”
1,840+ congregations. 14 of the 50 largest US shuls by household count. 95% customer retention, Q4 2024.
By The Numbers
22 → 6
admin hours / week
Reduced average administrative hours per shul, per the 2023 Beth HaTephilla Institute benchmarking study.
+43%
member engagement lift
Average engagement lift measured across 1,200 deploying congregations in 2024.
$312M
donations processed
Member donations and pledges routed through Merkaz in fiscal year 2024.
Across The Denominations
Merkaz is trusted across all four major Jewish denominations. Here is how peer congregations are using it.
Orthodox
An early-minyan cut-off scheduler and eruv-aware event routing eliminated Friday-morning staffing emergencies and consolidated three giving tools into one ledger their gabbai tzedakah actually trusts.
Conservative
B’nai Mitzvah scheduling, family-lifecycle records, and school enrollment now live in one household record. Hebrew-date reminders go out automatically, freeing the executive director for pastoral work.
Reform
A multi-generational engagement program runs on Merkaz events, RSVPs, and segmented communications. Member-engagement lift measured at 51% across the first year of deployment.
Reconstructionist
Migrated from a legacy FileMaker system with a 98.7% data-fidelity rate. The Mikvah and Hevra Kadisha scheduling modules replaced two paper ledgers that had survived three executive directors.
