ChurchPlan vs FellowshipOne

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.

FellowshipOne provides church management software that brings together member information, communications, security, events, tasks, finances and reporting. It supports member self-service and online environments for church groups. Event tools cover registration, reservations, workflows and real-time check-in for events, classes and child care. Related products extend the offering into church finances, donations, mobile access, worship planning and websites. FellowshipOne Financials includes ledger, payroll, receivables, payables and reporting, as well as fund accounting and stated GAAP and FASB117 support. FellowshipOne Giving accepts donations through website forms, mobile apps, text messages and kiosks, and supports recurring giving and custom reports. The product set includes a church leader app and MinistryOne for members; the company says MinistryOne is included with all church management plans. WorshipPlanning supports volunteer scheduling, worship flow editing, presentations, song organization and permission-controlled file storage. Pricing is available by contacting a consultant for a tailored solution. The company describes its church management software as serving churches from small church plants to very large multi-campus organizations.