ChurchPlan vs Churza

ChurchPlan combines giving, events, member records, education, liturgies, calendars, and communications in a church member app and admin portal. Churches can accept online and recurring donations, keep a searchable ledger, and issue tax receipts automatically. Event tools handle publication, registration, payments, QR tickets, and QR check-in. Member profiles can include family relationships, engagement details, and emergency or health information. Education features cover ministries, Sunday school, curriculum, attendance tracking, and parent follow-up. Essentials is free and includes unlimited members, online giving, tax receipts, a personalized mobile app, and donation links and QR. Engagement costs $99 a month, billed yearly at $1,188; Education costs $199 a month, billed yearly at $2,388. Enterprise also adds multi-church administration and API access. Stripe processes card payments; ChurchPlan says it does not retain full card credentials. The service states a 99.5% uptime SLA, breach notification within 72 hours, and a 90-day data export window after termination.

Churza is a free mobile app for Pentecostal and charismatic churches, combining giving, attendance, cell groups, sermons, community activity, and member administration. Members can give tithes, offerings, and seeds through Stripe, while churches can record cash offerings with an audit trail. UK churches receive HMRC Gift Aid reports, and members can receive personal giving statements. Pastors open service check-in, members check in through the app, and counts update in real time. Cell groups provide chat, voice messages, file sharing, and prayer requests. Churches can stream through YouTube inside the app and maintain searchable audio and video sermon libraries. Administration includes a searchable member directory, role filters, approvals, group assignments, giving reports, and attendance history. Community tools support prayer requests, anonymous requests, answered-prayer markers, testimonies, and event RSVPs. It supports iPhone, iPad, and Android; the iOS listing requires version 15.7 or later. During beta there is no monthly subscription, while online giving costs approximately 3% per transaction.