Merkaz brings membership, engagement, donations, and Jewish-life tooling into a single operating system — replacing the four to six disconnected tools your staff currently stitches together every week.
Each module is a first-class product surface — deep enough to replace a standalone vendor, integrated enough that the data flows without a sync job or a Zapier patch.
Household relationships, lifecycle stages, and denomination-aware fields designed for synagogue staff — not for generic contact lists.
Tour the CRM →Shabbat-aware scheduling, parashat hashavua content blocks, and segment-driven messaging that respects the Jewish week.
See engagement workflows →Campaigns, recurring pledges, year-end statements, and reconciliation built for the seriousness of a multi-million-dollar member operation.
Review fundraising surface →A native Hebrew-calendar engine with yahrtzeit automation and Mikvah, Hevra Kadisha, and B'nai Mitzvah scheduling no generic CRM replicates.
Explore Jewish-life tools →Merkaz models the relationships your staff actually manages: two-parent households, college-away children, in-laws with separate billing, congregants in mourning, and members in the midst of a conversion process. There is no flat contact list here.
Every send, reminder, and event page in Merkaz is aware of the calendar it lives on. Messages hold automatically for Shabbat and Yom Tov. Parashat hashavua content drops into your templates without a manual paste. Segments are built from real membership data, not uploaded CSVs.
Merkaz is the donation backbone for 14 of the 50 largest US congregations by household count. The module handles the full arc — from a first-time online gift to a five-year capital-campaign pledge to the year-end statement your treasurer signs.
The Hebrew calendar is not a date format your vendor translated. It is the spine of the product. Every date, reminder, and schedule in Merkaz is anchored to a Jewish-calendar engine that has been tuned over eight years by a team that includes eleven former synagogue executive directors.
Yom Tov boundaries, parashat hashavua, omer count, and choleh-specific sensitivities are first-class fields — not bolt-ons behind a settings flag. Recognized across Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist congregations.
Appointment windows, attendant rotation, and discreet member-side booking with the privacy and access controls a Mikvah actually requires.
Roster management, tahara scheduling, and shmirah sign-ups that no standalone volunteer tool replicates for a community context.
Full lifecycle from date assignment through aliyah planning, family meetings, tzedakah projects, and the post-event donor acknowledgment. Replaces a binder, a shared spreadsheet, and three group texts.
