You resell ParishMart to your parishes at a wholesale discount — one product, $3,000 a year — we build and run every storefront, and the parish earns multiples of what it pays. You keep the customer. You put in nothing.
The numbers
One product, $3,000 per parish per year. The Ministry Brands column is the minimum — membership margin alone, at a conservative $1,200 per parish per year. It does not include donation processing, marketplace space or account management. Tap any figure to see the arithmetic.
The parish pays $3,000 and earns ≈$65,100 — about twenty times what it costs, and it does not degrade as this scales.
The two Ministry Brands columns are deliberately different. The membership margin is the one that is fast, simple and practically secured — it arrives at signature, with nothing to build. The additional opportunity is 1.7× larger but it arrives as the parishes go live: 10% of every Founder Biz, 10% of every sponsor the parish brings in, and 1% of the donation volume.
That donation volume is the part nobody has counted: it is new giving that does not exist today — year-round campaigns, events, missions and causes — and it has to be processed somewhere. At 10,000 parishes it is half a billion dollars a year. We have used a conservative 1%; your own rate is yours to know, and every point above 1% goes straight onto this column.
Your volume discount — set by parishes under annual contract
20%1 – 25 parishes$600 each / yr
30%26 – 50$900 each / yr
40%51 – 99$1,200 each / yr
50%100 +$1,500 each / yr
The table above uses a flat $1,200 at every scale — deliberately conservative. At 100 parishes and up the ladder pays you $1,500, and the whole table understates you by 25%.
Your margin is the volume discount off a $3,000 list price, set by parishes under annual contract: 20% at 1–25 · 30% at 26–50 · 40% at 51–99 · 50% at 100+ — $600 to $1,500 per parish, per year.Separately, the Founder Biz line. Every business joins at $499 a year, split 50/50 with the parish. On the businesses a parish brings in, Ministry Brands earns a 10% referral fee — ≈$50 per business, per year, recurring. That is a second income line and it is not counted anywhere in the table above.You never pay before you are paid. The parish signs for twelve months, you invoice it once upfront, and you pay us wholesale out of money already collected.The pace. A storefront is a template we localize and publish. With AI onboarding we activate 100 parishes per 30-day batch, provided each batch gets its 30-day setup window. Every batch is prepaid, and each prepayment funds the capacity for the next — which is why it compounds. The 10,000 row is the size of the market, not a schedule.
How Ministry Brands wins
Seven ways. None of them costs you money, headcount, or a line of code.
You hold the customer, the contract and the invoice. We never sit between you and the church. We are the supplier; you are the merchant of record.
A volume discount off a $3,000 list price — 20% at 1–25 parishes, up to 50% at 100+. This is membership margin only. Transaction revenue, marketplace space and account management are separate, and they are not counted anywhere in this page.
Renewal season stops being a negotiation. The parish is no longer weighing your invoice against its budget — it is weighing it against the revenue the platform brought in. The ARR you protect this way is worth many times our margin, and every dollar of it is yours.
A rep does not have to sell ParishMart. A rep uses it to close the deal that is already stuck — the one they are paid on. So there is no new SKU to configure, nothing to add to a comp plan, and no quota to carry. And every parish that said no on price is callable again tomorrow: same reps, same territories, a different answer.
Campaigns, events, missions and causes running all year instead of twice a year produce giving the parish was not capturing before. Today it settles through Stripe Connect. The day you decide the traction is worth it, you take that volume onto your own rails and earn on it. We are not asking for an integration, or a single engineering hour, now or as a condition.
Once the community is live, ParishMart is the only place in the Catholic market where a brand can reach parishioners through their own parish — with the parish’s endorsement rather than around it. Nobody else is building this, and there is no second one.
That makes it inventory you can sell. You and ParishSoft resell sponsor placements and marketplace space to your own partner network, and bill parishes for managing their storefronts. Your relationships, monetized — with nothing to build and no inventory risk.And our AI does the matching — putting a sponsor in front of the parishes, causes and moments where it actually belongs, instead of selling blind impressions. That is what makes a placement worth renewing.
100 parishes per 30-day batch, prepaid, with each batch funding the capacity for the next. No capital, no build, no hosting, no support load, no engineering hours. A simple purchase agreement, not an integration. And it ends on a date — if it does not work, it stops, and you are not out of pocket for a dollar.
Where the parish money comes from
For a parish of 1,000 families — in order of how firmly we can stand behind each layer.
The first 100 businesses in every parish join as Founder Biz — $499 a year (two months free) or $49.99 a month on an annual contract, split 50/50 with the parish. A launch month brings in about twenty per parish — ≈$5,000 a year to the parish, and there is room for 100. The business buys reach into a congregation — a marketing decision, not a donation. That is why it repeats: it is self-interest, not goodwill. The parish is paid whether or not anyone shops, and never pays for this.
Saint Katharine Drexel and Schoenstatt sold ≈$12,500 a year on a plain Shopify store, with more than 20% of every merch product going to the parish — no marketing, no platform, no promotion, no local businesses, donations not counted. That is the floor with nothing turned on. With the storefront running we model ≈$2,400.
Two parish sponsors a year, plus the orders local businesses fulfil through the marketplace. Both are commercial revenue, not appeals — nobody is asked to give twice.
Campaigns, parish events, missions and causes, all in one place, running all year instead of twice a year. We take nothing from donations — every dollar is the parish’s. Across a full year of appeals, one parish festival and one mission collection, the bar below is a low one. We are not promising it; we are showing the arithmetic.
Model it with your own numbers — you know this data better than we do
–raised by one parish, per year — 100% of it stays with the parish
–in annual giving volume across that base — the transaction revenue waiting on your gateway the day you decide to plug in
One decision. Nothing to build.
Start the pilot at whatever size you are comfortable with. One parish is a real answer — and it is live in thirty days.
1ParishThe parish earns ≈$65,100 You keep $1,200
10ParishesThey earn ≈$651,000 You keep $12,000
25Parishes · suggestedThey earn ≈$1.63M You keep $30,000
1Diocese · ≈65They earn ≈$4.23M You keep $78,000
Whichever you pick, the terms are the same:
3 months free — you pay 9, you get 12Live in 30 daysBilled annuallyEnds December 15One named owner on your sideYou choose the metric
Forward this to whoever has to approve it — or give me ten minutes and I’ll walk them through it myself.
A simple purchase-and-sale agreement — you buy at wholesale, you resell. It replaces the current referral agreement, which has produced no referred customers and no fees for either side.Contracted with ParishMart Inc., a Public Benefit Corporation.Nothing here asks for a roadmap slot, an integration, or a change to your catalog. We would also welcome Ministry Brands as a Founding Strategic Partner in what comes after this.
Ministry Brands · September 2026