Churchease vs Shepherd’s Staff
Churchease
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| Figure | Churchease | Shepherd’s Staff |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $29/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 3 | 4 |
| Spec score · Church Check-In Software | 8.5 (#8) | 7.7 (#29) |
| Integrations | The integrations page lists Stripe, QuickBooks, Zapier, Google Calendar, Mailchimp, Zoom, and YouTube Live, among other services. | The product supports payroll integration with Paycor and online giving imports through Vanco. |
| Security | Churchease states that data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is controlled with authentication including MFA, and its hosting platform is SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS certified. | Users can have access restricted by module or by specific function within a module. |
| Support | The Growth plan includes priority email support. | A support contract includes unlimited phone and email support, and without one CTS charges $65 per issue resolved. |
| Trial | Every new church starts with 30 days of Growth features at no charge and without a credit card; afterward it can continue on Starter for free. | CTS offers a full working demonstration version with sample data and access to the full version’s features. |
Plans
Shepherd’s Staff
- Small Church Edition$599, paid once
- Small Church Edition with Finance$799, paid once
- Standard Edition$999, paid once
- Standard Edition with Finance$1,199, paid once
In their own words
Churchease
Churchease is church management software for organizing people, giving, events, and communication, with AI features for pastors. It is intended for churches from new plants to multi-campus organizations, and every plan includes unlimited members without per-member pricing. New churches get 30 days of Growth features at no charge and without a credit card, then can continue on Starter for free. Starter covers people and group management, announcements, messaging, a dashboard, portal, and Power Query. Standard adds prayer requests, testimony sharing, events, service planning, attendance, check-in, volunteer management, and follow-up tools. Growth adds giving and accounting, children’s ministry, automation, forms, multi-campus management, priority email support, and AI features: Shepherd's Briefing, Giving Narrative, and Form Response Summarization. Giving tools include recurring donations, text-to-give, split gifts, pledge tracking, reconciliation, reports, and tax statements. Giving uses Stripe with a 0.5% platform fee on top of Stripe processing. Email to the congregation is included on all plans; SMS is a paid add-on. The service is available on web, iOS, and Android. The member app supports giving, event registration, check-in, directory access, prayer requests, testimonies, and announcements.
Shepherd’s Staff
Shepherd’s Staff has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.