For shuls that run on WhatsApp
No more WhatsApp groups.
Shuli is where your members hear from the shul, talk to each other and reach the Rav. Announcements that keep Shabbos, chat by name and photo instead of phone numbers, and a Home that’s full even when nobody posts.
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Runs in the phone browser, so there’s nothing to install. Free up to 25 members.
Why the groups can close
Everything the group chat did, without what it did to Shabbos.
WhatsApp carried your shul further than anyone admits. It’s also a consumer chat app doing a kehilla’s job. Four things it can’t do:
Announcements that keep Shabbos
An Announcements room only the office posts in, so the one message that matters isn’t buried under forty mazel tovs. Members reply in a thread underneath it, not on top of it.
- Push is queued at candle lighting and released after havdalah
- Worked out from your shul’s own coordinates, Yom Tov included
- Pinned posts stay on top
The Rav’s door
Every member has a private thread to the Rav through Ask the Rav, answered on the shul’s terms. His posts sit in their own place at the top of Home, above the conversation instead of scrolled away by it.
- Posts in text, audio or video
- A private question never lands in a group
- Replies under his posts only if the shul switches them on
Chat without phone numbers
Members join with the shul’s six-character code and see each other by name and photo. Only the office sees a number, and only one a member chose to share. Rooms for simchas, chesed or the women’s group, each with its own rules.
- Threads, photos, voice notes, polls and search
- Direct messages, if your shul switches them on, and staff can’t open them
- A block is enforced by the database: the blocked member can’t message you
Full, even when nobody posts
A group is silent until someone types. Shuli’s Home opens on the Today card, written by the calendar rather than by a volunteer, and it’s there on day one of a shul with no posts at all.
- The next tefillah, with a countdown
- Minyan times from zmanim for your coordinates, not a typed PDF
- The day’s learning, Ya’aleh v’yavo, the omer and the kiddush sponsor
The row-by-row version is on Shuli vs. the WhatsApp groups.
Shabbos mode, built in
From candle lighting to havdalah, the shul goes quiet.
A group buzzes all Shabbos. In Shuli, push and email alike queue automatically and release only after Shabbos or Yom Tov ends — calculated from your shul’s own coordinates and your candle-lighting minhag, aware of multi-day Yom Tov and the Israel–chutz la’aretz difference. The Today card just says Good Shabbos. It isn’t a setting someone has to remember; even an urgent alert waits, and we publish the checks.
Moving the group over
A dated bridge, not a leap.
Shuls leave WhatsApp on habit, not on features. So the office gets a Migration kit, and the group closes on a date everyone saw coming.
- 1
Set up in two minutes
Sign in with your email, name your shul and you’re the admin. Set the schedule; the zmanim are calculated for you.
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Set a date for the group
The Migration kit writes the countdown text to paste into the old group and prints a QR sheet for the door and the kiddush table.
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Watch the shul arrive
A reach panel shows each room’s reach this week beside the size of the WhatsApp group it replaces. When the one catches the other, close the group.
And the rest of the week
The things a group chat was never going to do.
Pledge Pad
Motzei Shabbos, the gabbai types each pledge card in seconds. After havdalah every member gets one push and pays in a tap.
Kiddush, sponsored
An open date is a tap from sponsored, dedication and payment included. Friends can chip in on one kiddush together.
Giving
One-off or monthly, cover-the-fees on by default, straight into the shul’s own Stripe account. Year-end statements and CSV for the accountant.
Shiurim
Upload once; members pick up where they left off, at their own speed, with a podcast feed for the regulars.
Yahrzeits
A real Hebrew-date engine, Adar by your shul’s psak. The reminder goes out the night before with that day’s minyan times.
Events and Tishrei
RSVPs with capacity, sign-ups, anonymous polls. On Full Shul, High Holiday seats that can’t oversell and appeals with a live bar.
Free up to 25 members. Then $49 or $129 a month.
Free and Community ($49) carry the same product; Full Shul ($129) adds Yamim Noraim seating, kibbudim auctions, appeals with matchers, chavership, comp codes and the numbers page. A 60-day full trial, no contracts.
See pricing →Built Shomer Shabbos. Founder-owned.
Halachic correctness is an engineering discipline here — a Shabbos gate nothing can jump, zmanim checked against the luach, and a commitment that Shuli will not become the next roll-up.
Read how it’s built →Let the group chat rest.
Two minutes to set up. One code to share. A date to close the group.
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