Tell the story of your building in your own voice. Visitors walk it at their own pace, stop by stop, listening on the phone already in their pocket. When a place moves them, they can leave a donation before they go.
Free to get started. Nothing for visitors to download, and no account for them to make. Built for volunteers, not IT departments.
A church can stand open all day with no one free to show people round. Leaflets run out, guidebooks go out of print, and the volunteer who knows every memorial cannot always be on the door. Waymarker gives every visitor a knowledgeable guide, even when nobody is there to greet them, and a gentle way to support the building before they leave.
Your doors are open more often than your guides are free. People arrive, glance about for a few minutes, and leave without the story.
The histories, the symbols, the names in the glass are held by a handful of volunteers. Waymarker keeps that knowledge safe and shares it with everyone who comes.
A quiet box by the door is easily walked past. A warm, well-timed thank you at the end of a tour is not.
You do not need a film crew or a developer. If you can fill in a web form, you can build a tour.
Create your church or site with a name, a few photographs, and where to find it on the map.
Add each point of interest with a short title, a photo or two, and an audio clip you can record on a phone.
Place a QR code or sign by the door, or set up Bluetooth beacons so the right stop appears as someone reaches it.
Turn it on. Visitors can walk the tour and give, with donations going straight to your church through your own giving link.
And your visitors? They scan a code by the door or open a link. No app to install, no account to make. They walk your building at their own pace, listening and looking, and leave a donation whenever they are ready.
Give every visitor the unhurried, knowledgeable welcome your building deserves, whoever happens to be on the door that day.
One simple dashboard holds your whole visitor experience, from the first audio stop to the thank you after a donation.
Record narration for every stop. Visitors listen as they walk, pausing and rewinding whenever they like.
Add a spoken reading to any stop, alongside the history, for a moment of quiet reflection.
Lay your stops out on a plan of the building, and let Bluetooth beacons or a map bring up the right one automatically.
Show the details people miss: the carving high in the roof, the face in the glass, a short film of the bells.
A warm, well-timed invitation to give at the end of a tour, with suggested amounts. It links to your church's own giving page, so today every donation comes straight to you.
Thank the cafe, bookshop or pub that backs you, and send your visitors their way.
Share what is happening at your church and let visitors subscribe to hear more.
Run several guides from the same building: a full tour, a short visit, a trail for children.
Add the volunteers and staff who help, each with their own login, and manage more than one church from one place.
Your visitors usually arrive in person and start the tour from a code or sign you have placed by the door. There is nothing for them to search for online and nothing to install. Anyone curious can still browse published tours here and plan a visit.
A QR code or short link opens the tour straight away, in any phone's browser.
They move from stop to stop in any order, listening and looking for as long as they like.
A simple, optional donation at the end, with no fuss and no account to create.
A few of the churches and heritage sites already telling their story on Waymarker. Open one to experience it just as a visitor would.
“Visitors used to pass through in five minutes. Now they stay for half an hour, and our donations have more than doubled. It gave our quietest volunteers a way to share everything they know.”
A churchwarden, parish church in the Cotswolds
Everything a church or venue usually wants to know before getting started.
No. Waymarker runs in any phone's web browser. Visitors open a link or scan a code and start straight away, with nothing to install.
No. Only the people who look after a church sign in. Visiting a tour and leaving a donation are open to everyone, with no sign-up.
Most start from a QR code or sign you place by the door or at each stop. You can also use Bluetooth beacons so the right stop appears as someone reaches it.
No. You can record your audio and take your photos on a phone. Beacons are an optional extra if you would like stops to trigger automatically as visitors move around.
If you can fill in a web form, you can build a tour. Everything happens in a simple dashboard, one stop at a time, and you can save and come back whenever it suits you.
Yes. A warm invitation to give appears at the end of a tour, with suggested amounts. It links to your church's own giving page, so today every donation goes straight to you and you keep all of it.
Yes. Add the volunteers and staff who help, each with their own login, and run more than one church or site from a single account.
Yes. Run several guides from the same building, such as a full tour, a short visit, or a trail for children, and publish each when it is ready.
Waymarker is free to use. There is nothing to pay to build or publish your tours, and no subscription. Today, donations are handled by each church through its own giving link, so the church receives every donation and keeps all of it. Waymarker does not take a share. We are working towards becoming a registered charity. When we are, we plan to handle donations directly for participating churches, and this is likely to become the standard way it works. At that point a donation becomes a gift to Waymarker: most of it would still support the church it was given for, and a portion would help fund restoration at other historic churches. Being a charity would also let us add Gift Aid, which increases the value of donations at no extra cost to the donor. None of this changes anything yet, and we will share the details properly before anything changes for you.
Build your first tour this week. It is free to start, there is nothing for visitors to install, and your building gets a guide that never goes home.
