How a church treasurer can reconcile M-Pesa in 10 minutes, not 10 hours
The Monday morning problem
If you are a church treasurer in Kenya, you know the routine: arrive at the office on Monday morning with a stack of M-Pesa confirmations from Sunday’s three services. Open the PayBill statement in one tab, the member register in another, and start matching — line by line, phone number by phone number. On a good week, it takes two hours. On a harvest Sunday, it takes all day.
What automatic reconciliation looks like
When your church uses Shiriki, every M-Pesa gift — whether it arrives via STK Push, PayBill, or USSD — is matched to the member’s profile the moment Safaricom confirms it. By Monday morning, the giving ledger is already complete.
Your new Monday morning
Open the Shiriki dashboard. Check the reconciliation summary: total giving per department, per service, per payment channel. Export the report as PDF for the board or Excel for your spreadsheet. Done before tea.
What about cash and envelopes?
Cash and envelope offerings are entered manually by an usher or the treasurer. Each entry generates a receipt number (RCP-YYYYMMDD-NNNN) and lands in the same ledger as the mobile money gifts. One ledger, every channel.
Practitioner perspectives from church treasurers, pastors, and administrators across East Africa.
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