Comparison
How MyBimah compares — and what to look for in synagogue service software.
Synagogues evaluating tooling for service planning, honors coordination, gabbai workflows, or bimah projection usually ask the same five questions. Here's how to think about them — and why MyBimah is built the way it is.
Question 1
Is the run-of-service a real document or a re-typed weekly chore?
Most synagogues land on a Word doc that gets duplicated every Friday and edited by hand. The pages get stale, the durations get wrong, and the gabbai ends up with two versions. MyBimah treats run-of-service as a versioned database: clone a template, edit, save, and every connected surface — printed PDF, projector, day-of card — pulls from the same source.
Question 2
Can the honors workflow actually involve families before the service?
If your honors planning is a clergy-only spreadsheet, B'nei Mitzvah families end up emailing names back and forth. MyBimah's honors portal generates a private link the family fills in directly. Coordinator reviews + applies. Honor-history badges flag whether each honoree had something recent.
Question 3
Does the projector know about the run-of-service, or is it a separate PowerPoint?
If your tech producer maintains a 200-slide PowerPoint that has to stay in sync with the rabbi's plan, you have two sources of truth. MyBimah's bimah projector (SAGE) reads the run-of-service directly. Mid-prayer page flips, posture banners, honoree announcements, and the operator's control panel all derive from the same data.
Question 4
Can I onboard a media-team volunteer without giving them edit access?
A SAGE Operator volunteer needs to drive the projector. They don't need to edit the service. MyBimah ships with a dedicated tenant.services.run_sage permission so synagogues can grant operator access without service-edit privileges. Grant exactly what you mean to grant.
Question 5
How does it fit alongside my membership system?
Membership systems are great at the books — dues, donations, accounting, tax receipts. They're not built for the operational layer (who's leading Pesukei D'Zimra, what time is havdalah, who's honored at the next B'nei Mitzvah). MyBimah is the operational + relationship layer. The two complement; they don't compete. ShulCloud is the books. MyBimah is the people.
What MyBimah includes
- • Run-of-service editor
- • Honors planning portal
- • B'nei Mitzvah workflow
- • Lifecycle events (shiva, weddings, funerals)
- • Live bimah projector (SAGE)
- • Multi-display support, fullscreen-ready
- • Hebrew calendar integration
- • Yahrzeit memorial board (kiosk-friendly)
- • Pulse — congregational help-desk
- • Multi-tenant per-synagogue subdomains
- • Per-user permissions + role-based access
- • PDF export + Bimah Mode
Want to see it in your synagogue's context?
We're running with one launch partner and onboarding a small cohort next. Beta synagogues lock in their pricing.