Every tool a trip leader needs, from accepting the first donation to filing the last expense report.
Managing a church mission trip used to mean three spreadsheets, a group text nobody reads, and a Venmo chain that somehow loses $47 along the way. GO by MKDSCPLS is the mission trip management software that replaces the patchwork: one platform for fundraising, tasks, documents, budgets, itineraries, and team discipleship.
Built specifically for churches, not for generic nonprofits. That means donor tax receipts, guardian co-signatures for minors, self-funded participant tracking, and integrated reading plans, features that generic project management tools simply do not have. If you are still running a Dominican Republic youth trip out of Google Sheets, this is the tool you have been missing.
Below is a full breakdown of every feature. If you want a faster overview first, see what GO does at a glance, the pricing breakdown, or the step-by-step mission trip planning guide.
When a donor gives to your trip, the software splits it across your team with zero rounding loss. Remainder pennies are distributed fairly. Every dollar is accounted for.
Create tasks across 8 categories: preparation, training, documents, fundraising, logistics, packing, spiritual, and other. Assign to one person or the whole team at once.
Upload liability waivers, medical forms, and trip agreements. Participants sign digitally right from the platform: no printing, scanning, or mailing required.
Set deadline-based milestones (like "50% raised by April 1") and instantly see who is on track. Per-person stoplight indicators make it obvious where to focus.
Track every dollar in and every dollar out. One unified view shows Total Gross, Stripe Fees, Net Received, Checks & Cash, Expenses, and Available Balance.
Donors access their giving history through a simple magic link: no password, no account creation. They can download tax receipts, see trip updates, and view prayer requests.
Build a day-by-day schedule the whole team can see. Add activities, locations, times, and descriptions. When plans change, update once and everyone is current.
A mission trip is more than logistics. Assign reading plans, devotionals, and courses to your team. Track spiritual preparation alongside practical preparation.
Customizable trip application form with optional auto-approval. Manage participant profiles, emergency contacts, trip roles, and more.
Three scenarios from real kinds of trips, to show how the pieces fit together.
A youth pastor recruits 14 students and 4 adult chaperones. Every student gets an individual donation page with a $2,400 goal. Parents sign waivers and medical forms via email link with guardian co-signature. Task reminders keep students on top of passport renewals, immunizations, and packing lists. The youth pastor's Monday morning leader digest shows exactly who is behind on fundraising so he can intervene before it becomes a crisis.
A missions pastor runs a 30-person trip alongside a long-term Guatemalan ministry partner. Budget tracking shows real-time total raised, Stripe fees, cash received, expenses logged on the ground, and remaining balance. Support staff designations let the church bookkeeper access financial reports without seeing personal applications. Self-funded participants opt out of donation splits cleanly.
A church with an active missions department runs 6 trips a year: two youth, two adult, two college. The Ministry plan gives them unlimited trips with a single dashboard view. Tasks, fundraising, and reports roll up across every active trip. Integrated reading plans from MKDSCPLS are assigned as team discipleship prep on every trip, so spiritual formation is tracked alongside logistics.
Most mission trip software treats a trip like a project to ship. GO treats it like a season of formation.
Every GO account comes with the full MKDSCPLS discipleship platform built in: reading plans, Bible study methods, and spiritual growth tools. You can assign mission-focused reading plans to the team as part of trip preparation, alongside logistics tasks. Track who has engaged with the material the same way you track who has their passport.
For youth trips, this is the difference between a team who arrives shaped by weeks of formation and a team who arrives having only filled out paperwork. For church-wide trips, it is the scaffolding that turns a week abroad into a catalyst for the next year of growth.
Every team member gets a personal donation page with their own fundraising goal. Donors can give to a specific team member or to the trip as a whole. Individual gifts go to that person's goal; team-wide gifts get split automatically across members who are below their goal, penny-accurately. Leaders see per-person progress with stoplight indicators (green, yellow, red) and a summary line like "2 behind, 5 on track, 1 fully funded."
Yes. GO integrates with Planning Center Giving for fund mapping, donation sync, and reconciliation. Churches already running PCO for general giving can keep using it and layer GO on top for mission-specific tracking, participant-level fundraising, and trip logistics that PCO does not handle.
Yes. The Free plan covers up to 5 active trips with task checklists, manual payment tracking, and help center access with no time limit. Paid plans start at $9/month and add features like online donations, e-signatures, and larger storage. There are zero platform fees on donations on any plan.
E-signatures are built into the platform, no separate DocuSign or Adobe Sign subscription. Upload a PDF (waiver, medical form, trip agreement), assign it to participants, and the software captures a digital signature with a full audit trail. Minors can route to parents or guardians via email for co-signature. Starter plans include 1 signable document; Ministry plans include unlimited.
Yes. Donors never need an account to give. They can check out as a guest on the public fundraising page with card, ACH bank transfer, or digital wallet. If they want to see their giving history or download a tax receipt later, they request a magic link by email: no password, no account to create.
Yes. Minors on the team can have waivers and forms routed to a parent or guardian email address for co-signature. The platform collects consent with a full audit trail so your church has a legally defensible record. Emergency contact info and medical details are collected in the same flow.
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