Press Release: SaaS Company eCatholic Acquires GabrielSoft

Aug 4, 2021 by

Joe Garcia

SaaS Company eCatholic acquires GabrielSoft and is poised to become a one-stop software solution for the Catholic Church

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AUSTIN, TX and BOSTON, MA, August 4, 2021: eCatholic, a technology SaaS company with its own website CMS, online giving, and live streaming products, has acquired GabrielSoft, a Catholic SaaS company based in Boston, MA focused on church management for dioceses and parishes.

“Our mission is simple: to help the Church fulfill her mission of evangelization by providing amazing software and phenomenal service,” stated Josh Simmons, Founder and CEO of eCatholic. “GabrielSoft will help us continue on the path towards this vision.”

Simmons founded eCatholic in 2005 and the company has since become the world's largest provider of beautiful Catholic websites and currently serves over 6,500 dioceses, parishes, schools, and ministries in the United States and 19 other countries. In 2015, eCatholic expanded its portfolio to include a donor-focused online giving and payments platform, and in good timing released a live streaming platform before the pandemic of 2020.

“Our goal is to help the Church more effectively communicate, evangelize and engage people through beautiful, simple tools that foster relational ministry,” said Simmons. “We’re excited to welcome the GabrielSoft team to the eCatholic family!”

GabrielSoft’s church database management began in 1999 for a single Catholic Church in Attleboro Falls, MA, and is now serving parishes around the world and dioceses around the country.

“Our goal has always been to provide software that ensures administrative work does not detract from valuable time that can be devoted to ministry,” said Armand Brunelle, Founder and CEO of GabrielSoft. “Now that Gabriel has joined the eCatholic family, parishes and dioceses can finally streamline ALL of their data and communications through one centralized platform!”

Collectively eCatholic and GabrielSoft have partnered with 24 dioceses and archdioceses in the U.S. to onboard every parish onto their platforms.

“These partnerships allow (arch)dioceses to share website content and online giving forms to every parish website, sync people data and records, and allow for parish and diocesan communications with just a few clicks,” said Joe Garcia, Senior Evangelist for eCatholic. “We’re looking forward to adding even more sophistication in the coming months as this partnership matures.”

“We are inspired daily by the priests that we work with from around the world as we witness their constant love, sacrifices, and struggles in leading their flocks,” said Simmons. “We hear you and are working hard to help solve those challenges.”

People are searching for God and a digital presence is an opportunity for the Church to get her foot in the door. Once they enter, our faith communities can take it from there and eCatholic and GabrielSoft are ready to help.

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For more information, please contact:

Joe Garcia
eCatholic Senior Evangelist
(877) 932-1776 ext. 4

Media Inquiries: [email protected]
Dioceses and Archdioceses: [email protected]
 

eCatholic Quick Facts:

• eCatholic was founded by Josh Simmons in 2005 to provide an easy-to-use website platform for Catholic parishes.
• eCatholic currently serves over 6,500 Catholic churches, dioceses, schools, and ministries in all 50 states and 20 countries around the world.
• In 2015, eCatholic expanded its portfolio to include a donor-focused online giving and payments platform (eCatholic Payments) as well as a live streaming platform (eCatholic Live).
• eCatholic has partnered with 19 dioceses in the US to provide exclusive software and individualized support that helps solve communication roadblocks for parishes and diocesan partners.
• eCatholic is a multi-year member of the Aggie 100, recognizing the 100 fastest-growing, Texas A&M Alumni Aggie-owned companies in the world.
• The eCatholic team is 100% remote with team members in 27 cities across North America.

GabrielSoft Quick Facts:

• GabrielSoft was founded in 1999 to serve an individual Catholic parish in the Diocese of Fall River.
• In 2016, GabrielSoft was rearchitected in the cloud to help parishes and dioceses securely manage their data at any time, on any device, from anywhere.
• In 2018, GabrielSoft trademarked Parishioner Relationship Management ® to differentiate their approach to parish data management.
• GabrielSoft includes integrated email communications, and the recording of parishioner interaction to develop stronger relationships between the parish and their parishioners.
• In addition to managing data at the parish level, GabrielSoft offers dioceses the ability to manage Annual Appeals, Issues, Diocese-wide funds and committees as well as helps with multi-parish management functions in order to assist individual parishes that may be collaborating together.
• GabrielSoft currently serves over 700 parishes in 25 dioceses in the United States and Australia.
• GabrielSoft has partnered with six dioceses in the US that have implemented the software at all of their parishes to facilitate data management and improve communications across the diocese.