Pushpay ChurchStaq review

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.

Who it is for

Large and multisite churches that put digital giving first and want a custom app.

Price

See vendor pricing (USD check pending).

US price check pending. See the vendor pricing page.

Key features

• People profiles, groups, events, calendars and attendance tracking
• Volunteer scheduling, service plans, check-in and facility management on Advanced
• Multi-site tools, metric dashboards and private pastoral notes on Complete
• Giving with Apple Pay, embedded giving and campaign pledging
• Branded MyChurch app and Lead app

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Deep multisite features and per-campus giving
• Strength: Strong giving tools with stock and crypto gifts through Engiven
• Strength: 12-month no-cost grant for qualified pre-launch church plants
• Weakness: No published prices, so budgets need a sales quote
• Weakness: Check-in and volunteer scheduling need the Advanced tier
• Weakness: More than a small church needs

Key facts

• Tiers: Core, Advanced and Complete
• Formerly: Church Community Builder (ChMS)
• Church plants: 12-month no-cost grant if qualified
• Scale: 7 of the 10 largest US churches (vendor figure)

Where it ranks

Pushpay ChurchStaq is No. 8 in our Best Church Management Software verdict.