LodgeMadeSimple

Made in Australia, for Australian lodges

Run the whole lodge from one place.

Members and officers, dues, dinners and money — in one secure place, built for Australian lodges. Less time on the paperwork, more on the Craft.

No sign-up, no card — the demo is already signed in. Amounts in AUD, on the Australian financial year, data kept onshore. Free for the rest of your Masonic year, then $250 a year for the whole lodge.

LMS

Made for the lodge, not the accountant.

Hosted in Australia Encryption only your lodge can unlock Continuous backups No ads, never sold

Privacy

Privacy is the default, not an extra.

A lodge’s roll is nobody else’s business — not even ours. Which is why every new lodge is set up with member-privacy encryption switched on, unless you ask otherwise.

Encrypted before it leaves the room

Names and emails are encrypted in your officer’s browser, using its own cryptography, before they ever reach us. What we store is ciphertext we cannot read back into names.

Only your lodge holds the key

No master key on our side — nothing we, or anyone who compelled us, could read. Several officers can each hold a passphrase, and recovery goes to your lodge’s own email, never through us.

Recommended, and honestly described

A few conveniences switch off while it’s on — AI receipt scanning among them — and we tell you which. No vague promises.

How strong is that, really?

The encryption can’t be broken by trying keys — there are more of them than atoms in the earth. The only way in is to guess your lodge’s passphrase, and we make each guess deliberately slow. So the strength is in your hands. Here is roughly how long an attacker who had stolen our entire encrypted database would take to grind through passphrases of randomly chosen words:

Your passphrase A criminal’s GPU cluster A nation-state (1,000× bigger)
4 random words — the least we allow “copper willow tin garden” a few years about a day
5 random words “amber pilot marble hedge lantern” ~25,000 years ~25 years
6 random words “cedar orbit ribbon flint marsh clover” ~200 million years ~200,000 years

Four words already sees off a criminal; five or six puts your roll beyond any attacker, at any budget, for thousands of years. That’s why the app asks for at least four words and nudges you higher — a phrase you’ll actually remember beats a short jumble. (Cautious estimates on today’s hardware; “random” means chosen by chance, not a saying you’d recognise.) The recovery code is no back door either: it’s 128 random bits, stronger than any passphrase, and a keyholder can retire it at any time.

Read the in-depth explanation on the Privacy page.

The working tools

Everything a lodge needs to run its accounts.

Built around how a lodge actually works — the roll, the offices, the dues, the South and the money.

Members & the roll

Active and past members, types and titles, always to hand.

Officers for the year

Fill every office on a simple board, from the Master to the Tyler.

Notice papers

The summons as a polished PDF — officers, agenda and dinner filled in.

Dues & subscriptions

See at a glance who has paid and who still owes, for any year.

Meetings & dinners

Who attended and who paid — the night’s takings total themselves.

Income, expenses & receipts AI

Photograph a receipt; the vendor, amount and date read themselves.

Cash float & the bank

Know exactly what’s in the float and the bank at any moment.

Reports & PDF statements

One-click profit-and-loss for a whole year or a single night.

Activity log & handover

Every change recorded — who entered it, what it was, and when.

Shaped around your lodge

Every lodge is a little different.

LodgeMadeSimple is fully customisable. If there’s something you’d like changed, added, or working another way, tell us — and we’ll build it for your lodge, free of charge.

Security

Your lodge’s data, looked after properly.

A lodge’s finances and membership are private. Here is exactly how they’re protected — no vague promises.

In Australia, and encrypted

Everything runs on AWS in Sydney, so your records stay in the country — sent over HTTPS and encrypted where they’re stored.

Private by design

No public sign-up. Each lodge is set up individually, and the app only ever touches the data of the lodge you’re signed in to — checked on every request.

Nothing lost

Records are backed up continuously, restorable to any point in the last 35 days, and protected against deletion.

Built to be readable

Strong contrast in every theme, keyboard-friendly, and tested to stay that way.

Off the cloud

Would rather keep it off the cloud altogether?

Some lodges don’t want their records on anyone’s servers — ours included. Fair enough. There’s a version that runs entirely on your own computer, for Mac and Windows.

On your computer, not ours

The same app on the Secretary’s or Treasurer’s own machine. The roll, the books and every receipt live there and nowhere else.

Works without the internet

Run a lodge night with no connection at all. The one thing it ever sends is a small licence check — never a record.

Handover in an envelope

An encrypted backup file and an unlock code. Give the next officer both, separately, and they carry straight on.

Move to the cloud whenever

Decide the hosted version suits you better? One step in Settings moves it all across.

To be plain: there are no automatic backups — you make your own — and the records are only as safe as the computer, so we ask you to turn on FileVault (Mac) or BitLocker (Windows). It’s one officer per computer, and AI receipt scanning is off. It isn’t downloaded from this site — get in touch and we’ll set your lodge up with it.

One price for the lodge

Simple pricing, no tiers to puzzle over.

No per-member charges. One yearly fee covers your whole lodge.

Free for the rest of your Masonic year

then $250 a year, per lodge

Every feature included, however many members and officers use it.

  • All features — nothing held back
  • Unlimited members and officers
  • Secure, Australian-hosted, backed up
  • Try the demo first — no card needed
Try the live demo Get your lodge set up

The demo is already signed in and loaded with example data — you can’t break anything, and it resets twice a day.

Get in touch

Get your lodge set up.

Tell us a little about your lodge and we’ll be in touch. No obligation — and free for the rest of your Masonic year.

Questions, answered

The things lodges ask us first.

What is LodgeMadeSimple?
Web-based software that keeps a Masonic lodge’s members, annual dues, meeting dinners, expenses and money in one simple, secure place. It’s built for the lodge Treasurer and Secretary, not for accountants.
Is it made for Australian lodges?
Yes. Amounts are in Australian dollars, reporting runs on the Australian financial year (from 1 July), and your data is kept in Australia on Amazon Web Services in the Sydney region.
How much does it cost?
AUD $250 a year for the whole lodge, not per member, with every feature included — and free for the rest of your current Masonic year when you start. Get in touch and we’ll set your lodge up and arrange billing to suit.
What happens when the Treasurer or Secretary changes next year?
The records stay with the lodge, not the person. When officers change, the outgoing officer’s access is removed and the incoming one added — nothing to hand over on a USB stick — and the Activity log shows exactly what was done before and after.
Can we stop even you from reading our members’ details?
Yes — it’s our recommended default for every new lodge. With member-privacy encryption on, your members’ names and emails are encrypted in your officer’s browser before they reach us, and only your lodge holds the passphrase. We store ciphertext, with no key on our side. A few features switch off while it’s on — AI receipt scanning, bulk import at setup, and emailing notice papers in — and your lodge chooses at setup.
Can we use it without the cloud?
Yes. There’s an off-the-cloud version for Mac and Windows: the same app, running entirely on the officer’s own computer, with nothing sent to us but a small licence check. Backups are an encrypted file and an unlock code you keep, and one step in Settings moves everything into the cloud later. It isn’t downloaded from this site — get in touch and we’ll set your lodge up with it.
Does LodgeMadeSimple use AI?
For one job: when you photograph a receipt, the image is sent to a specialist AI service (Anthropic’s Claude) to read the vendor, amount and date so you don’t have to type them. It’s used only for that reading — never to train any AI — and the receipt is stored with your other records in Australia.

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