ChurchCMS vs RollCall

ChurchCMS is church management software for member administration, attendance, online giving, events, congregation communications, and a church website. Its CRM stores searchable member profiles, family links, giving and attendance history, messages, and printable QR membership cards. Giving supports one-time and recurring donations, donor records, statements, fundraising campaigns, and Stripe, M-Pesa, Flutterwave, and Paystack. A branded Android app provides sermons, events, giving, member messages, prayer requests, and a church calendar. The product exposes a REST API for core modules and describes payment and third-party integrations through it. Churches can self-host under the MIT license or use managed hosting. Self-hosting is free forever with all six core modules, the Android app, and no usage limits. Managed Hosting costs $29 a month; annual managed hosting costs $290 a year. A one-time installation service costs 99.00 USD. The maker says it serves small and medium churches, with no minimum congregation size.

RollCall is a self-service check-in and attendance tool for youth groups, churches, sports clubs, community organisations, events and programmes. Members enter their names at a check-in screen, choose a match and confirm arrival; duplicate protection helps prevent repeat check-ins. Leaders can see attendance as it happens, and new people can register at the door with their details added to group records. Optional sign-out records departure times and shows who is still on site and how long each person stayed. Groups can also use a QR code or share a link for check-in through a phone browser. RollCall runs on Android, iOS and the web. It imports people and check-in history from Planning Center and can return newly registered RollCall members there, but check-ins do not sync back. Brief internet interruptions do not stop check-in; data syncs once the connection returns. The free plan covers one group and up to 30 members. Above that limit, check-in and registration continue, but reports and the full member list lock until the group upgrades or reduces its active membership.