Help churches switch. Build a practice doing it.
Churches don’t stay on software they dislike because they haven’t heard of anything better. They stay because moving is frightening and nobody has the weekend. Be the person who has the weekend — charge for it, keep all of it, and earn a share of every subscription you bring for as long as the church stays.
Why this isn’t an affiliate link.
PewHQ costs $49 a month. We pay a 25% residual — more than the 20% most software programmes offer — and that is still $12.25 per church, per month. To make $4,000 a month on referrals alone you would need about 330 active churches. Nobody does that part-time, and we’re not going to pretend otherwise to get you to sign up.
Sending us names
A referral link is worth real money to a company selling $400-a-month software to businesses. At church prices it is worth a coffee. If a programme won’t show you this number, it’s because the number is the argument against it.
Doing the move
Fifteen years of giving history is what holds a church in place, and getting it out safely is a weekend of skilled work. That’s priced per project, not per month — and it’s the part we can’t do at a thousand churches at once. The residual then rides on top and compounds quietly underneath it.
What you actually earn.
100% of your service fees
Migration, launch-day support, training a church office, an ongoing admin retainer. You bill the church directly, at your rate. PewHQ takes none of it and doesn't set it. Most platforms tax their implementers; we think that's exactly why nobody has built a real implementer channel for small churches.
25% of every subscription, for life
For as long as the church stays with PewHQ. It's $12.25 a month on Standard and $24.75 on Pro — small once, meaningful at fifty churches, and it arrives whether or not you did any work that month.
Churches sent to you
We route enquiries to certified partners by geography and denomination. A church in your county that finds us on its own becomes your project, not ours.
We don’t publish a rate card, because it isn’t ours to publish. What you charge a church is between you and that church — we take no part of it and we won’t tell you what it’s worth.
What a year of this looks like.
We publish what churches pay in processing fees on the front page. It would be odd to be vague about what we pay you. Move the sliders.
One or two is a side practice. Four or more is a job. Most of the work is the migration weekend and the Sunday after it.
Your fee, your rate, billed by you to the church. PewHQ takes none of it and doesn’t set it.
Assumes the Standard plan at $49/mo and that the churches stay — the residual stops if a church leaves, which is the point of paying it monthly rather than as a bounty. Service income is what you invoice, before your own costs and taxes. You are an independent contractor, not a PewHQ employee.
You probably already do most of this.
You run tech for one church
A worship or tech director, a bivocational pastor, the person who already fixes the database at 10pm on a Saturday. You know exactly what the job is. The only new thing is doing it for nine more churches and invoicing for it.
You serve many churches already
Denominational or association staff, a church AV or IT consultant, a bookkeeper with a dozen church clients. You have the relationships and the trust, which is the part that can’t be bought.
You’ve retired from a church office
You’ve done year-end statements, a directory clean-up and a check-in rollout. That is the entire skill set, and it is rarer than you think.
What you don’t need
A sales background. Churches don’t buy from salespeople; they buy from someone they already trust who says “I’ll handle it.” If you have to talk anyone into it, this probably isn’t the right church.
A weekend, not a course.
Learn the product
Work through a sandbox church end to end — giving, people, groups, check-in, the member app. A few hours.
Do one migration with us
Your first real church, with us on the call. We do the worrying; you do the work and keep the fee.
Get listed
Your name, your area and your rates on our partner directory, and enquiries near you start coming to you.
No fee to join, no minimum, no exclusivity, and nothing to buy. If it isn’t working for you, stop — you keep the residual on the churches you brought.
The rules, in full.
Short, and all of them are here. A programme that reveals its terms after you’ve done the work is telling you something about the terms.
Not your own church
You can’t take a commission on a church where you are staff, a board member, or immediate family of one — unless the board approves it in writing and knows what you’re paid. Churches are 501(c)(3) and this is their protection, not our paperwork.
90 days, and a code
Churches take months to decide and sign up on a different device than they browsed on. Your link is credited for 90 days, a church can enter your code at signup, and we ask everyone who told them about us. If a church names you and the tracking missed it, you get paid — write to us.
Say that you’re paid
When you recommend PewHQ — on a stage, in a newsletter, in a Facebook group — say that you earn from it. It’s the law, and it’s the difference between a recommendation and an advert.
No dumping, no discounting
A church that leaves within 90 days reverses that commission, so nobody profits from signing a church that shouldn’t have switched. And our pricing is published and identical for everyone, so it isn’t yours to discount — offer the free first three months instead.
Paid monthly, whatever the amount — there’s no minimum to clear before your first one arrives. You’re an independent contractor, so we’ll need a W-9, and anyone paid $600 or more in a year gets a 1099-NEC.
Early, and saying so.
PewHQ is in early access with pilot churches, and this programme is opening alongside it. That means two honest things. The first is that the churches you bring will be among the first to arrive, and you will find rough edges before we do. The second is that the residual on a church you sign now runs for as long as that church stays — which is the whole argument for being early rather than waiting to see how it goes.
We’d rather take a handful of partners who can genuinely do the work than a hundred links on a hundred websites. If that’s you, the form is below.
Apply to partner.
Tell us who you already serve. We read every one of these ourselves and reply like people.