Agora

Agora is the unified community operating system tailored for youth groups, fellowships, and community organizations. Designed to replace scattered chat threads and disjointed spreadsheets, Agora combines event planning, volunteer duty rosters, confidential mentoring, and transparent community finance management into one cohesive platform.

KEY FEATURES:

📅 Events & Appointments
• Schedule regular gatherings, weekend retreats, and special events with cover images and rich markdown descriptions.
• Support for multi-day events, recurring appointments, and target group filters.
• Attendee registration with minimum/maximum participant caps and automatic waitlists.
• Export schedules directly to your preferred calendar app (Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook) using personalized iCal / webcal feeds.

🤝 Service Duties & Team Rosters (Dienstplan)
• Organize duties across teams and roles (technology, moderation, setup, cleanup, and kitchen groups).
• Assign responsibilities to individual members or entire predefined groups.
• Receive automated duty invitations with 1-tap Accept or Decline actions.
• Transparent overview of open, requested, and confirmed duty slots.

🛡️ Confidential Mentoring
• Safe pastoral care and guidance connecting youth with leadership-approved mentors.
• Low-threshold contact: Seekers can reach out to mentors completely anonymously without exposing their personal identity.
• Private 1-on-1 direct messaging with unread status indicators.
• Management portal for leaders to review and approve new mentor applications.

💳 Community Finances & Treasury
• Contribution tracking: Overview of membership statuses, monthly fee rates, and individual "paid until" timelines.
• Member self-service: Submit payment confirmations, standing order updates, and expense reimbursements with receipt attachments (JPEG, PNG, PDF).
• Comprehensive treasurer dashboard: Real-time cash balance, donation records, receipt archiving, and transaction search.
• Export official, printable financial reports directly as clean PDF documents.

🤖 Built-in AI Assistant
• Integrated AI support for community leaders and treasurers to answer questions about group finances, guidelines, and organization.
• Real-time streaming answers with collapsible step-by-step reasoning.

🔔 Real-Time Sync & Notifications
• Instant updates across web and Android via real-time server streams.
• Reliable notifications for incoming duty requests, mentoring chats, and financial approvals via Firebase Cloud Messaging.
• Strict data privacy: Self-hostable, ad-free, and protected by role-based access controls.