ChurchPlan vs SermonAudio Church App

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.

SermonAudio Church App, also called ChurchOne, gives a church’s members access to that church’s sermons through Android, iOS, and web apps. Members can browse and sort the library by date, series, year, Scripture, speaker, or category, and download audio or video for offline use. The app also carries live audio and video webcasts. Members can opt in to alerts for live broadcasts and new sermons; broadcasters can send push notices from the Dashboard. ChurchOne is activated for SermonAudio broadcasters and requires no setup or maintenance work. The ChurchOne App plan is free for eligible broadcasters. A SermonAudio Broadcaster account costs $59.95 a month, plus a one-time signup fee of $150.00; it includes ChurchOne, while some optional broadcaster features may cost extra. SermonAudio’s broadcaster platform supports cross-publishing sermons to Facebook and YouTube. The company describes its audience as theologically conservative churches and ministries.