Church management software is vital for organizations regardless of their size. Whether you’re a large church with dozens of programs or a smaller church looking to grow your congregation, church management software can help you organize every aspect of your church activities. In this article, we’ll cover 11 of the best church management software options currently on the market.
If your church has preschool classes, programs for various ages, and events, church management software can help you keep track of crucial details and ensure no one falls through the cracks.
Smaller churches can benefit from management software that offers online donation tools and volunteer management. This article explains why your church needs management software and lists eleven affordable options.
Church management software can help oversee and plan your organization’s room and resources, volunteers, events, and database. Churches depend on the information contained in this software to help run daily activities and ensure long-term success.
Relationships with members and the community are crucial to running a church. Church management software can help your church build and strengthen relationships and encourage more substantial participation.
more substantial participation.
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The following 11 options are excellent for small, medium-sized, and larger churches. As you learn more about each tool, keep in mind which features your church needs and can use in the future.
The focus of Rock RMS is relationship building. Churches rely on a variety of relationships with their members and the community. Rock RMS helps churches collect members’ contact and demographic information and connect individuals to those who brought them to your organization and those with whom they may have other ties.
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Larger churches can benefit the most from this software, but smaller organizations can customize this system to work with their groups.
Rock RMS’s pricing stands out from others because of its generosity and Godly message. The organization asks that all users donate $3 per weekly attendee per year.
This allows smaller churches to gain access to a tool that will help them grow. They also ask larger denominations to donate more and help the company to grow and reach more churches worldwide.
Texting and church is an oxymoron, right? Not exactly. Texting has become a primary form of communication for many in your congregation.
Text in Church lets you take this trend to the next level with the following features:
All plans are free for the first 14 days. Additional monthly plans start at $37 a month and include:
Churches with larger young denominations can use this tool to better communicate with their growing congregation. If you’re also looking to amp up your church giving with a text-giving option, Donorbox Text-to-Give is here to help. You can easily activate this once you sign up for Donorbox and start receiving quick donations via text messages.
If you’re looking for modular church management that grows as you grow, Planning Center might be the right option for you.
Planning Center has a suite of tools specifically developed for churches. Their starting plan includes their People tool that helps you organize and store your contacts. From there, you can add on as much or as little as you need with tools like –
This fully customizable solution allows you to choose only the tools you need right now, with the option to add more as you grow.
Plus, with the Donorbox + Planning Center integration, all donation data collected using Donorbox’s powerful fundraising tools seamlessly flows to your Planning Center account. That means all your key data lives in one place – making your workflows more efficient so you have more time to dedicate where it matters.
Planning Center pricing depends on which tools you want to add to your plan and how much you’ll use them. For example, the monthly fee for the Groups tool ranges from $0 for 15 members to $199 for infinite members. Using just the People tool is entirely free.
You can change your plan as needed so you only pay for exactly what you’re using.
All-in-one church management isn’t as easy to find as you may think, but Faith Teams offers everything most smaller churches need.
All Faith Teams plans include a database with room to add unlimited people. Churches can send texts and emails to groups of people from their database and link them to their online giving forms.
Attendance can be a safety concern, especially for children’s group activities. Church preschools can use Faith Teams to add check-ins, print name tags, and create pick-up tags for parents. Automatic workflows can help churches reach out after the event and ensure all attendees feel noticed.
Churches can sign up for a free 10-day trial with Faith Teams and gain access to the following:
After your ten-day trial, Faith Teams plans cost $40/month for everything.
Aplos offers more features than most on this list. Their church management software lets churches build lists and groups of individuals and helps them connect through household relationships, ministry involvement, volunteer interests, birthdays, anniversaries, and more.
Medium-sized and larger denominations can benefit from the extensive list of features Aplos offers. Your church leadership can log in to a group portal, view the roster of attendees, and edit member profiles. Volunteer managers can add open positions, invite new members, and add them to the team.
Volunteers can log in to Aplos’s easy-to-use software portal to view where and when they’re scheduled and receive agendas, minutes, and notes.
Aplos offers a free trial for churches that want to try their services. The way this company stands out is with an additional 50% discount for the first 12 months. Plans with Aplos start at $39.50 a month.
Tithe.ly gives churches a chance to engage with their community where they are. Churches get easy-to-use tools, automated workflows to ensure no one falls through the cracks, group management, and activity check-ins.
Tithe.ly also helps prepare for services with a place to coordinate and arrange volunteers, staff, songs, sermons, and other options to inspire your congregation.
Tithe.ly is free to set up and has no monthly fees. Churches pay a 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction platform fee for all its features.
Elexio allows churches to build relationships and strengthen communication with their congregation. Features that give members access and control over their own profiles help larger churches keep in touch with parishioners. Here’s how Elexio can help your church:
Churches can update member information, automate workflows, view giving history, upload pictures, and attach notes on Elexio’s mobile app. Members can update their own profiles.
Reach different groups of parishioners with voice, text, and email messages. Schedule messages for future dates and times.
Pre-populate event and class pages. Make it quick, easy, and safe for families to check into events and activities.
Elexio has no setup or contract fees. Monthly contracts start at $35.13 a month. Churches can sign up for a 30-day free trial to see if it fits their needs.
You can easily run your church membership program with Donorbox Memberships. You can accept automatic monthly or yearly membership payments and add unlimited membership tiers to your membership form. Your members can also login to their own member accounts to upgrade or cancel their membership anytime. Sign up today to start fundraising and managing your church memberships, all in one place!
ChurchSuite offers nine different modules. Its Address Book lets churches store member information, send emails and texts, and schedule notifications.
Churches can choose additional modules like room and resource management, event planning, children’s check-in, online donations, and more.
ChurchSuite’s Giving module also allows churches to collect online donations and direct debits, and keep parishioners informed of your church’s financial health with up-to-date reporting.
Pricing for ChurchSuite is based on your church’s number of contacts. Churches can sign up for one, three, or nine-module plans or customize a plan that works for them. This customization makes ChurchSuite an excellent option for every size congregation.
Flocknote’s mission to build a more connected church has inspired them to create friendly church management software. Churches can connect with their congregation with unlimited standard texts and emails.
Flocknote lets organizations write quick notes and customize messages with colors, gifts, and fonts. Churches can send further communications to their followers with polls, RSVPS, videos, and additional files. Smaller churches can efficiently use Flocknote to communicate with their members and leverage its other tools.
Churches with less than forty members can use Flocknote’s tools for free (and upgrade at any time). Churches with over forty members can sign up for plans starting at $8 a month. Prices increase with the number of church members. Additional costs include a 2.9% + $0.30 processing fee and a 1.1% + $0.30 transaction fee.
Communication tools, financial tools, worship and volunteer planning, and events, oh my! This all-in-one tool includes something for everyone.
Every plan with One Church Software includes –
Standard packages start at $36 a month for churches with 250 profiles. Larger churches can sign up for One Church Software’s Premium Plan and add more locations, automate workflows, and manage scheduling, room, and resources for your church.
Churches can also sign up for One Church Software’s Accounting Module for an additional $36 monthly.
Free church management software like Bitrix24 allows small churches to compete with mega-churches. Bitrix24 users can:
With this management software, churches get:
Unlike others on this list, Bitrix24 is free regardless of the size of your congregation. With the free CRM, churches that use Bitrix24 can generate, manage, and convert leads into donors. They can also build marketing campaigns and landing pages, and automate workflows and other communication to build and strengthen relationships.
They also have paid plans starting at $49/month (when paid for a year) for their advanced tools and services.
Church management can be complicated, but with the right tools, you can manage your church members, volunteers, and attendees, and achieve more with utmost ease. We hope this list of church management software with varied pricing plans and offerings helps you find the best one for your organization.
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Some church management software options on our list are free for some or all users. Others have monthly fees that correspond to the organization’s number of parishioners. These tools offer similar features for all sizes or a few extra perks for larger churches.
A little research goes a long way. Many options on our list let churches customize management software to fit their needs. Before deciding on a tool, your church must clearly know what you need and how you’ll use each feature.
The software options listed in this article give churches various management and financial choices. Donorbox also lets churches of all sizes collect contact and demographic information on their members. Churches can also create fundraising campaigns, collect recurring donations, and hold events to raise money and ensure long-term success.
Kristine Ensor is a freelance writer with over a decade of experience working with local and international nonprofits. As a nonprofit professional she has specialized in fundraising, marketing, event planning, volunteer management, and board development.
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