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Joroan Church: a shrine app that carries the news feed and the store together

A parish and shrine app: a banner carousel, a Latest News feed, and a devotional store with cart, coupons and delivery.

Our Lady of Salvation Parish and Diocesan Shrine welcomes pilgrims and devotees — the words sit on its own banner — and the Joroan Church app carries that welcome onto a phone.

Joroan Church — Parish and shrine app with a news feed and a store built by VenderIT
Client
Joroan Church
Industry
Community & Non-Profit
Platform
Parish and shrine app with a news feed and a store

The brief

A shrine app has to serve two very different visits from the same five tabs. One person opens it to find out what is happening: the feast, the announcement, the date of a celebration. Another opens it to bring a piece of the devotion home — a novena, a magnet, a shirt. Built badly, one of those visits buries the other. The Joroan Church app keeps them side by side and separate: Home carries the banners and the Explore pictures, InfoHub carries the dated news feed, and Shop carries a priced catalogue that ends in a cart with a coupon field, a shipping address and a shipping method, so an order can be delivered rather than collected in person.

What we built

  • Made the home screen the shrine's own noticeboard: a swipeable banner carousel, with the parish's welcome to pilgrims and devotees on one of the slides.
  • Added an Explore row of picture tiles — the shrine building, devotional images, a statue and the parish shirts — so browsing starts with pictures rather than a menu.
  • Built InfoHub as Latest News: a dated, tagged feed with search, sort and refine and two view modes, so an announcement from March is still findable in September.
  • Gave the store real catalogue mechanics — shelves by category, three layout toggles, the price on the card, a New badge, a star rating and a plus button that adds an item without opening it.
  • Finished the purchase properly: quantity steppers, a remove control, a coupon field with Apply, a shipping address and a shipping method.

Inside the platform

01

Shrine banner carousel

Home leads with the shrine's own artwork on a swipeable carousel — dots underneath, the next slide peeking at the edge — including the parish's welcome to pilgrims and devotees.

02

Explore picture tiles

Four tiles sit under the banners: the shrine building, a set of devotional images, a statue and the parish shirts. A visitor sees what is there before reading a single menu label.

03

Latest News feed

A proper feed rather than a wall of text: thumbnail, category tags, headline, publication date, the joroanchurch byline and a comment count, with a search icon in the header and both card and list views.

04

Sort and refine on the long lists

The same Sort and Refine pair sits above the news feed and above the store shelves, with three layout toggles in the shop, so a long list can be reordered or narrowed instead of endlessly scrolled.

05

Priced store shelves

The Magnets shelf shows each design at its price — ₱150.00 on the cards in the screenshot — with a New badge, a star rating and a plus button that drops it straight into the cart.

06

Cart, coupons and delivery

The cart header counts what is in it. Each line carries a thumbnail, price, quantity stepper and remove control, then a coupon field with Apply, a shipping address with Change Address, and a shipping method.

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An app with a news feed, a priced catalogue, a cart and checkout is a Pro build at ₱149,000, live in about 10 working days, and that package includes a branded Android app. If you want a larger structure with more sections and roles, the Business build is ₱199,000 in about 15 working days.

That is your decision, not ours, but the structure keeps it out of the way. Shop sits on its own tab, so anyone who opened the app only to read an announcement never has to pass through it. And because the cart ends in a shipping address and a shipping method rather than a pickup counter, a devotee who is nowhere near the shrine can still buy a novena, a magnet or a shirt and have it sent.

Yes, and that is a scoping question rather than a technical one. Every VenderIT build includes online and offline payment options, so an offering or donation flow can use the same checkout the shop uses, with its own record in the admin panel so the parish can account for it separately.

Your own office staff or volunteers. The admin panel and CMS come with every build, along with training, documentation and one year of support. Publishing a feast announcement or adding a new magnet design takes a few minutes and does not go through us.

No. Unlimited listings and unlimited users are included, as is free cloud hosting, so a busy feast week does not change what you pay. Every build also comes with a free lifetime 24/7 AI assistant to answer the routine questions — where the shrine is, what the schedule is, where an order has got to — at the hours no office is staffed.

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