9 Best Church Management Software of 2026

Planning Center ranks first because it lets a church run members, check-in, groups, worship scheduling and giving in one account while paying only for the parts it uses heavily. The People database and reporting are free with no record limit, and so is the Church Center member app. Each other product has its own free tier: 10 daily check-ins, 15 group members, 5 service team members and 10 donations a month. Past those limits, plans start at $15 a month per product, for example 30 daily check-ins or 75 group members, and rise to $115 for 500 daily check-ins. Every Check-Ins plan includes all features and unlimited kiosk stations. Giving runs at 2.15% plus 30 cents per card gift in the US. The trade-off is that a busy church moving four or five products to mid tiers can pay more than an all-in-one flat rate, and there is no fund accounting, so the treasurer still needs another tool.

ChurchTrac takes second place because it bundles the features a small church usually buys from three vendors. Every plan includes people and family records, fund accounting, giving, a website and app, child check-in, worship planning, groups and events, volunteers, registrations, automations and human support. Pricing depends only on the number of names you track: $29 a month for 75 names, $59 for 250, $99 for 1,000 and $119 for unlimited, with 10% off for paying yearly. The 30-day trial needs no credit card, and ChurchTrac imports people and families for you from a spreadsheet or your old system. Optional one-time services include a website and app build from $477 and accounting setup from $399. Weak spots: two-way texting, group messaging and a dedicated number sit in the Enhanced Messaging add-on, and churches with very large or multisite operations may want the deeper permissions and reporting found in Planning Center or Pushpay.

Breeze, now sold as Tithely Church Management powered by Breeze ChMS, has a reputation for being easy to pick up, and its pricing is equally simple: $72 a month with no tiers, no setup fees and no contract. That price covers unlimited admin users and contacts, member management, volunteer scheduling, service planning, the church calendar, groups, an email editor with blasts and newsletters, automations and follow-ups, check-in with name tags, attendance and giving reports, and an admin mobile app. Online giving through Tithely has no monthly fee. Texting includes 250 messages a month, then $10 per 500. Worship Tools add $29 a month, and a bundle with Tithely church apps and websites costs $119 a month. Breeze lacks fund accounting, so the books live elsewhere, and a church of 60 people pays the same $72 as a church of 1,000, which makes ChurchTrac or ChMeetings cheaper for small congregations.

ChMeetings is the cheapest full system on this list. The Free Forever plan covers up to 50 people, and paid plans run from $12 a month for 100 people to $25 for 250, $40 for 500, $50 for 1,000 and $60 for unlimited people. Annual billing charges 10 months instead of 12. Every plan includes people management, a calendar, contribution tracking, ministries, a member portal, a church app, events and check-in, groups, a form builder and follow-ups. Paid plans add online giving and pledges, event payments, volunteer scheduling and worship planning, and accounting arrives on the Small plan. Data migration is free. The main extra cost is messaging: texts and voice messages started from ChMeetings are bought in packages, though you can send them free through your own phone plan. The interface covers a lot of ground, so it takes a little longer to learn than Breeze.

Elvanto charges by active adults, defined as people who attend, volunteer or give, and stores children, community contacts and archived people at no charge. That makes it cheaper than it first looks for family-heavy congregations. The 50 Plan is US$19 a month billed monthly, the 100 Plan is US$39, and 200 active adults cost US$78, with 20% off for paying a year upfront. Every plan includes all features, from worship planning and rostering to pastoral care, children and youth check-in and financial records, and there are no add-on modules. A US$149 setup cost applies, which covers help with data migration. Elvanto is a Tithely company and supports seven interface languages, which suits international churches. The downsides are the setup fee and a price curve that climbs steeply for larger churches compared with Breeze's flat rate.

Rock RMS is the most capable system here for churches that can staff it. It is open source software from a nonprofit, so there is no license fee; instead each church pledges a suggested $4.45 per average weekend attendee per year, and cloud-hosted churches pay that donation plus a hosting fee through a partner. Grants exist for churches that cannot pay. Features cover check-in, metrics and reporting, prayer, finance tools, event registration, email, SMS and push messaging, websites, mobile and TV apps, groups, steps, an LMS and a workflow builder with AI agents. The vendor says Rock powers 10 of the 12 largest churches in the US. The catch is effort: Rock rewards churches with a developer or an IT-minded administrator, and a small church without that help will find hosted systems such as Planning Center or ChurchTrac much quicker to run.

Churchteams is a good fit for churches that run on small groups and texting. Its core package, the Churchteams Essentials, covers the member app, volunteers, check-in, registration, groups, communication, contributions and workflows, and plans are priced by the number of people in your database. The All-Star, MVP and Homerun plans include Text-to-Church, which gives the church a data line for sending and receiving texts plus 500 outgoing messages; after that texts cost 2 cents each unless you buy a bulk package, and MMS messages bill at three times the normal rate. Check scanning and archive storage cost $15 a month, and small data imports are free. A 30-day trial includes every feature. We could not confirm plan prices because the pricing page shows them only as an image, so compare a written quote against ChurchTrac and Breeze before signing.

Pushpay ChurchStaq joins Pushpay giving with the church management system that used to be Church Community Builder and with branded apps. The ChMS comes in three tiers. Core covers profiles, groups, events and calendars, follow-up processes, website integration, custom reports and attendance. Advanced adds volunteer scheduling, service plans, check-in, facility management, forms and 7 years of giving history. Complete adds multisite administration, metric dashboards, a group leadership hierarchy and private pastoral notes. On the giving side Pushpay offers Apple Pay, embedded giving on the church website, pledging, stock and crypto gifts and per-campus giving. Qualified pre-launch church plants can get the full platform free for 12 months. Pushpay publishes no prices, so smaller churches will likely pay more than with Planning Center or ChurchTrac for similar day-to-day features.

Servant Keeper has long been popular with church clerks and treasurers who care most about member and contribution records. Two plans are published. Core at $79.99 a month covers unlimited families and members, 4 users, full apps and reporting, integrated giving at the standard processing rate and phone, email and chat support, with check-in available as a $199 option. Complete at $159.99 a month raises users to 8, adds a preferred processing rate, check-in, premium onboarding with white glove data transfer, email, text-to-give, 1,000 texts a month, a website and app, a 50GB content library and 25 hours a month of HD live streaming. Paying yearly cuts the price to $73.32 or $146.66 a month. The value case is weaker than ChurchTrac or ChMeetings, which include accounting or many more features for less, and Core's user cap is tight for churches with several staff.