The shul's books, reconciled as the money arrives

Pekudei

An AI-powered finance and management platform for synagogues. Shul staff, treasurers and volunteer lay leaders run membership, dues, donations, vendor bills and the shul calendar from one place, while an AI agent reconciles accounts receivable and accounts payable against your financial institutions every day.

AI-powered means privately hosted AI. Your shul's data never leaves that private system, and no training whatsoever is performed on it.

Works with what a shul already has: Stripe for cards, Plaid for the bank feed, and an import of all of your data from ShulCloud, ChabadMS and Rakefet. It integrates with most US banking systems and with CRMs like Salesforce and Zoho.

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Why shuls need it

In most shuls, the office bills members in one system, pays vendors out of QuickBooks, and leaves the treasurer to match deposits by hand at month end.

A member pays dues by Zelle. Another sends a check for a kiddush sponsorship with no memo. The caterer invoices twice. Someone spends late nights untangling it, and the board still waits weeks for numbers.

With Pekudei, the AI agent does that matching work as transactions come in, and billing, giving and the general ledger live in one system.

What Pekudei does

One system for the office, the treasurer and the board, with an agent doing the matching that used to take the late nights.

Receivables reconciled with every financial institution

The agent matches each deposit, card payment, transfer and check to the right member pledge, dues invoice or aliyah donation, even when the memo is missing or vague. Card processor fees are booked as it goes.

It works with every financial institution a shul is paid through: banks, card processors, Venmo, PayPal, Cash App and Zelle, all reconciled in one system.

Payables reconciled too

The agent matches vendor bills to payments, flags duplicate invoices, and catches bills paid twice or never paid.

A real general ledger

A full double-entry accounting system underneath, with restricted funds kept apart from the general fund, so the books are audit-ready for the board and the accountant.

Board reporting on demand

The treasurer asks "who still owes building fund pledges from 5786?" and gets an answer immediately, without building a report.

Member billing and portal

  • Online dues, with membership join, renew and cancel
  • Pledges, with a page where a member pays what they pledged
  • Statements, receipts and saved cards
  • Sign-in by emailed link, with no password to forget

Giving, the way a shul gives

  • Appeals and campaign pages
  • Kiddush and occasion sponsorships
  • High Holiday seat reservations
  • Tribute gifts, with a note to the family
A synagogue sanctuary: the ark between two tall menorahs under a painted vault

Jewish calendar and lifecycle

Zmanim, minyan schedules, yahrzeit reminders by Hebrew date, and simcha tracking. Families update their own yahrzeit records and can give in memory from the same page.

Receipts and year-end statements

Each gift and donation gets a receipt by email or as a printed letter, with your organization's logo and the wording the IRS requires. Annual giving statements separate dues from contributions.

Your data stays yours

Export all of your data at any time to Excel, CSV or plain text. If you ever want to move to another vendor, you take everything with you. No vendor lock-in.

Security

  • PCI compliant: cards are processed by Stripe and card numbers never reach our servers
  • PII compliant: member and donor records are kept private to your shul
  • Encrypted in transit and at rest with the latest security standards
  • Two-step sign-in for administrators, and a log of every change

When the agent is unsure, it asks

When the agent is unsure, it asks the treasurer in plain language, with its confidence and its reasoning, and learns from the answer. Nothing uncertain is posted until a person approves it.

Reject a match and give a reason, and that pair is never proposed again. Both records go back to be matched with something else.

Every decision, by the rules, by the model or by a person, is kept in a log that cannot be edited. The board and the auditor can see who decided what, and when.

אֵלֶּה פְקוּדֵי הַמִּשְׁכָּן

The name comes from Parashat Pekudei, where Moshe gives the community a full accounting of every donation to the Mishkan. Pekudei gives every shul board that same level of transparency.

Who it is for

Shuls that have outgrown a spreadsheet plus QuickBooks, and shuls already on ShulCloud or a similar system whose treasurers still reconcile by hand.

  • Treasurers and gabbaim who want the month-end matching done before they sit down
  • Office staff who bill members and answer "did my payment go through?"
  • Volunteer lay leaders who need the books to outlast their term
  • Chabad houses and small congregations with no bookkeeper on staff
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Pricing

Your first month is free. After that, one price for the whole shul: every feature, every member, every user in the office.

After you sign up, a real person emails you within one business day to set up your shul and bring your data over.

Month to month

1 month trial on us

$40 a month

Billed monthly. Cancel any time.

Forty is the gematria of חָלָב.

Six months

1 month trial on us

$196 every 6 months

Six months paid at once, renewing every six months. That is $32.67 a month, $44 less than paying monthly.

196 is the gematria of פְקוּדֵי.

See it with your own shul's numbers

We are onboarding a first group of shuls. Write to us and we will set up a walkthrough on a copy of your pledges and payments.

Email help@pekudei.ai A real person will read and reply, not AI.

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