9 Best Church Management Software of 2026

Planning Center splits church management into separate products that share one People database: Giving, Check-Ins, Groups, Services, Registrations, Calendar and Publishing, plus the Church Center app for members. The People database, reporting and communication are free with no record limit, and every other product has a free tier, so a small church can run on it at no cost. Paid tiers follow usage: Check-Ins starts at $15 per month for 30 daily check-ins and Services at $15 per month for 20 team members, rising to $239 per month for unlimited. Giving charges 2.15% + $0.30 per US card gift, which is lower than several rivals. Texting uses a $5 per month toll-free number plus $0.02 per text. The tradeoff is that a church using five or six paid products can spend more than an all-in-one plan, and there is no fund accounting, so budget the full stack before comparing.

ChurchTrac sells one product in six sizes, and every size includes the same modules: people, fund accounting, giving, website and app, check-in, worship planning, groups and events, volunteers, registrations and automations. Pricing follows how many names you track, from $29 per month for 75 names to $119 per month for an unlimited database, with 10% off for yearly billing and a 30 day trial that needs no card. The built-in fund accounting is the main reason to pick it over Planning Center or Breeze ChMS, since a volunteer treasurer can work in the same system that records gifts. Data import from a spreadsheet or a previous provider is free, and there are optional paid services for a built website and app or a guided accounting setup. Two-way texting, voice messages and text giving sit in the Enhanced Messaging add-on rather than the base plan.

Breeze ChMS is now sold as Tithely Church Management, powered by Breeze, at a single price of $72 per month with no tiers tied to the number of contacts. That price covers unlimited people and admin users, volunteer tracking and scheduling, service planning, a church calendar, groups, automated follow-ups, check-in with name tags, member directories, an admin mobile app and email newsletters. Online and text giving run through Tithely Giving at no monthly fee, with US card gifts at 2.9% + $0.30 on Tithely's pricing page. Text messaging includes 250 messages per month, then $10 per 500. Worship Tools are a $29 per month add-on, and a bundle with Tithely church apps and sites costs $119 per month. Breeze is the simplest bill on this list, but a church under 100 people pays more than on ChMeetings or ChurchTrac.

ChMeetings is the lowest-cost full ChMS we compared. The Free Forever plan covers 50 people and 50 donations per month, and paid plans run from $12 per month for 100 people to $60 per month for an unlimited database, with annual billing priced at 10 months. Every plan includes a calendar, contributions tracking, people and groups management, a member portal, ministries, events and check-in, a form builder and follow-ups. Paid plans add online giving and pledges, event payments, volunteer scheduling and worship planning, and accounting starts at the $25 Small plan for 250 people. The ChMeetings website is published in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Arabic, a useful sign for multilingual congregations. There are no setup or termination fees, and the team migrates data for free. It is less established in large churches than Planning Center or Pushpay, so bigger congregations should test reporting depth during setup.

Elvanto counts only active adults, meaning people who attend, volunteer or give, so children, community contacts and archived members do not raise the price. The 50 Plan costs US$19 billed monthly or about US$15.20 per month billed annually, the 100 Plan US$39 monthly, and larger sizes scale from there, each with a US$149 setup cost that includes data migration help. Every plan has all features: member and group management, pastoral care tools, worship planning with run sheets, volunteer scheduling and a song database, children and youth check-in, and giving and pledge tracking that connects to online giving providers. Data sits on servers in Australia, Europe or the US, and the interface is available in seven languages. Elvanto is owned by Tithely, which also sells Breeze ChMS, so ask both teams which product fits your church before signing.

Pushpay started as a giving platform and now sells ChurchStaq, an all-in-one church management system, alongside its giving apps. The ChMS covers groups, events and calendars, follow-up processes, custom searches and reports, attendance tracking, child check-in, service planning and volunteer scheduling, with the LEAD app for staff and the MyChurch app for members. Giving tools include tracking of online, offline and non-cash gifts, giving in Spanish, and stock and crypto gifts through Engiven. Higher tiers add a donor development dashboard and campaign pledging. There is no limit on users or administrators, no setup fee, and payment is monthly or annual by ACH. Pushpay does not publish prices; you request a demo for a quote, and check scanning starts at $0.29 per check. Pre-launch church plants that qualify can apply for a 12-month grant for the full platform.

Flocknote began as a parish messaging tool and remains strongest at communication: every plan includes unlimited emails and standard texts, unlimited admins and groups, signups for events and volunteering, open rate tracking and free online giving by text, website or QR code. Starter is free for life up to 40 members and then priced by member count, starting at $10 per month for 41 to 50 members. Flocknote Complete adds $75 per month on top of Starter and brings the church management side: a household database with custom fields, attendance and participation tracking, family and religious education registration, sacrament tracking, pledges, donor summaries and automatic year-end tax receipts. An Enterprise plan connects parish subnetworks to a diocese. The plan comparison does not list child check-in or service planning, so churches that need Sunday operations should pair it with another tool or choose a full ChMS.

Subsplash is best known for custom church apps and live streaming, and its church management system adds people, groups, check-in and volunteers to the same platform. Volunteers can set availability, accept requests and see pending assignments inside the church app, and admins can build service plans and schedule people where they are needed. Child check-in uses stations with AirPrint support, groups get a finder, chat and events, and profiles sync across every Subsplash product. Newer additions include Workflows for follow-up checklists and an AI People Assistant that searches the database in plain language. Subsplash Giving costs $0 per month with card fees of 2.3% + 30 cents and ACH at 1%, and rates can drop to 1.9% for cards as giving grows. The ChMS itself is priced through a sales proposal, so it fits churches buying the full Subsplash One package more than those that only need a database.

Servant Keeper sells two plans. Core costs $79.99 per month, or $73.32 per month paid annually, and covers unlimited families and members, about 4 users, apps and full reporting, and integrated giving at the standard processing rate, with child check-in as a $199 option and self-guided onboarding. Complete costs $159.99 per month and adds check-in, a preferred processing rate, a kick-off call, white glove data transfer, email, text-to-give, 1,000 SMS messages per month, a website, an app, a 50GB content library and 25 hours per month of 720p live streaming. Phone, email and chat support come with both. The user cap and the price are the weak points: ChurchTrac and ChMeetings include check-in and more users for less, so Servant Keeper fits ministries that value guided setup and a single vendor for website and streaming.