Sunday morning, without the keys.
Volunteers tap their phone to come in — Sundays, midweek youth, every event on your Planning Center calendar. You stop chasing keys.
Good morning, Jamie
Built for the way your church actually runs.
You don't run a corporation. You run a church. The tools you use should fit how Sundays actually feel — not Monday morning at an office park.
Master keys, rekeys, that drawer of unmarked keys nobody can identify.
A new volunteer joins
Cut another key. Add it to the list you'll forget about.
Someone steps down
Try to get the key back. Be polite. Hope.
Office found unlocked Monday morning
Nobody knows who. Nobody knows when. You let it go.
A volunteer loses their key (or fob)
Spend $400 to rekey. Hand new keys to a dozen people.
Sunday morning setup
Get there at 6am. Walk the building. Unlock everything.
A storm rolls in during VBS
Run around with the master ring. Hope you remember every door.
Adding a new door
Cut a dozen keys for the people who need access.
What it costs your church
Master rekeying every few years. Lost-key incidents. Hours of staff time.
Same scenarios. A different week.
A new volunteer joins
You add them to the team in Planning Center. That's it.
Someone steps down
They come off the team. Their access ends that same day.
Office found unlocked Monday morning
Pull up the activity log. It was the youth pastor, 9:14pm Saturday.
A volunteer loses their key (or fob)
Tap a button. Their access is gone in five seconds. They use the phone they already have.
Sunday morning setup
Doors open on their own when each team's shift starts. Pulled live from Planning Center.
A storm rolls in during VBS
One button on your phone. Every door locked, every campus.
Adding a new door
Install a $25 wireless module. Assign it to a team. Done in 20 minutes.
What it costs your church
One starter kit, then $8 per door per month. No contract. Cancel anytime.
One Sunday. Zero keys. No texts to the worship pastor at 6am.
Here's what every Sunday looks like once Nock is running quietly in the background.
Mark arrives early. His Planning Center shift opens the main entrance and the storage room for him. No phone call. No spare key under the rock.
The whole worship team's access opens at the same time. Sanctuary, green room, sound booth. Nobody has to text the worship pastor for the door code.
Twenty-two check-in volunteers get into the nursery and classrooms. Their access ends at 11:15 — the moment service does. Nobody can wander back later in the day.
Every temporary access window closes on its own. The lead checks her phone from the parking lot and sees the whole building locked. Heads home.
The senior pastor asks who was here Sunday night. Five seconds in the activity log: it was the AV team finishing post-service edits at 7:12pm. Conversation done.
Your teams.
Your schedule.
Now they open doors.
Sign in to Planning Center once. The teams you already maintain — and the service times you already schedule — quietly become door access. Nothing new to manage on top of what you already do.
Add Sarah to Worship — she has access by Sunday
No extra step. Whatever you do in Planning Center, the doors follow.
Doors open when her shift starts, close when it ends
No 24/7 access for someone who only volunteers Sunday morning.
Move someone off a team — access ends that day
No awkward conversation about returning keys.
Last-minute schedule changes show up within seconds
If your worship pastor swaps Sarah for Jamie at 6am Sunday, the doors know.
7:00 – 11:30am
→ Sanctuary, Green Room, Sound Booth
8:30 – 11:30am
→ Kitchen, Lobby
8:45 – 11:15am
→ Nursery, Classrooms A–D
5:00 – 7:30pm
→ Youth Room, Gym
It's not really about the doors.
It's about who's safe, who's responsible, and where your team's time and your church's money should actually be going.
Kids ministry safety, built in
Nursery doors only open for background-checked volunteers, only during check-in hours. Parents notice. So does your insurance.
Grandma can use it
Volunteers open a link once, save it to their home screen, done. No app store. No training. It's the same motion they use to unlock their phone.
Access that follows the schedule
Doors open when a team's shift starts and close when it ends. Nobody has 24/7 access to your building because they helped once in March.
Answer 'who was here Sunday night?'
Every unlock is logged with a name and a time. When the office is found unlocked Monday morning, you don't have to guess anymore.
Lock everything in one tap
Severe weather, medical emergency, end of a long Wednesday night. One button on your phone locks every door, every campus.
Faithful with the building budget
Stop paying $400 to rekey every time a worship leader rotates off. Put that money toward ministry instead.
"There are 47 keys floating around this building right now. I have no idea who has what. Every time a volunteer steps down, I just hope the new one doesn't ask."
From a conversation with a facilities director at an 800-member church
Up and running before next Sunday.
Three steps. We do the hard parts. You don't need an IT director.
We get your doors connected
We send out a small wireless module for each door. A local electrician or a handy volunteer wires it in — about 20 minutes per door. No new locks. No ripping anything out. We'll walk them through it on the phone if needed.
Sign in with Planning Center
Connect your Planning Center account in one click. We pull in your teams and service schedule. Then you tell us which doors each team needs. About ten minutes for a typical church.
Send your team the link
Each volunteer opens it once on their phone and saves it. From then on it's a tap and Face ID. No app store, no training, no helpdesk. Your volunteers' parents could use it.
One box. Everything you need.
Pick the kit that fits your building. The first three ship pre-configured and ready for your electrician. For larger buildings or existing access control systems, we come install everything ourselves.
Nock Starter Kit
Small church
Front door, sanctuary, office.
3 pre-configured modules in the box
+ a full year of Nock software
Hardware + first year of software · free shipping
Best for
Where most small churches start. Covers what you'd touch on a typical Sunday morning.
What's in the box
- 3 wireless modules, pre-configured for your church
- First year of Nock admin included
- Wiring guide + a half-hour walkthrough call
- Phone-call setup support
After year one: $24/month. Cancel anytime.
No annual contract. Year-two software is month-to-month at $8 per door. 20% off for 501(c)(3) churches. Cancel anytime — the modules are yours to keep, no rental, no lock-in.
Common questions from church leaders.
Don't see yours? Email hello@nockentry.com — a real person answers, usually within a few hours.
Do we need an IT person to manage this?
No. Nock is designed to be run by whoever already manages your church calendar — usually an admin or facilities lead. We handle the setup. If you can use Planning Center, you can use this.
Will our volunteers find it confusing?
No. They open a link on their phone once, save it to their home screen, and that's it. After the first time, it's a tap and Face ID — the same motion they already use to unlock their phone. We've watched grandparents do it on the first try.
Do we have to replace any door hardware?
No. We wire a small wireless module to your existing electric strike or maglock. No new locks, no rip-and-replace. Your existing keys keep working if you want them to (and the existing key cabinet stays for vendors and one-off guests).
We already have Brivo / Kisi / Verkada / [another access control system]. Do we have to rip that out?
No. For larger buildings we install Nock alongside what you already have, and it integrates with most major access control systems via their API or a parallel wireless module on each door. The Custom option (6+ doors) is built exactly for this — talk to us and we'll quote based on what you're running. The pitch isn't 'rip out your investment' — it's 'add the Planning Center brain your current system is missing.'
What about kids ministry?
This is actually where it shines. Nursery and classroom doors only open during check-in hours, and only for the background-checked team members on shift that morning. The audit log gives you a clear record of who was where. Parents notice. Insurance notices.
What if our internet goes down?
Doors stay in whatever state they were in. Anyone on the church's WiFi can still unlock. We fail safe — your fire alarm and emergency exit hardware always work, with or without internet. Sunday morning still happens.
Is this safe for fire-rated doors?
Yes. Nock works with — never replaces — the fire alarm and emergency exit hardware your local code requires. Your installer wires it so the safety hardware always wins, and we document the safety check as part of setup.
Can we cancel?
Anytime. We'll export your activity log, your settings, everything. The wireless modules are yours to keep. No contracts and no penalties — we don't want to be the access control system holding your building hostage.
Make Sunday morning easier.
Pick a starter kit. Your first year of software is included. If you ever get stuck, we'll hop on a call and walk you through it.
No card. No contract. Real humans on the other end.