ChurchPlan vs ChurchTools

ChurchPlan combines giving, events, member records, education, liturgies, calendars, and communications in a church app and administration portal. It serves churches and parishes, including dioceses and multi-church organizations. Giving accepts cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, with recurring donations and automated tax receipts; Stripe processes card transactions, and standard payment processing applies without added ChurchPlan fees. People records are unlimited and can connect household family relationships. Churches can publish events, take free or paid registrations, issue QR tickets, and check attendees in by mobile. Education tools cover curriculum and lesson plans, attendance tracking, and parent access to children's curriculum. Essentials is free forever and includes unlimited members, giving, automated receipts, a personalized church mobile app, donation links, and QR codes. Engagement costs $99 a month, billed $1,188 yearly, and adds events and ticketing, announcements, push notifications, and mobile admin search and outreach. Education costs $199 a month, billed $2,388 yearly. Enterprise has annual volume pricing and includes API access, webhooks, custom integrations, and dedicated support. The listed platforms are Android, iOS, and web.

ChurchTools is church management software with modules for people, groups, posts, calendars, resources, events, wiki, check-in, chat, Sync and finances. It is designed for Christian churches and congregations of different denominations and sizes, from church plants to multi-site churches. Each package includes unlimited groups, calendars, events, wiki sites, chats, check-ins and reports, as well as a church app, 5 GB of storage, integrations, an open API, a writing assistant, ChurchTools Academy and email support. The service has web access and Android and iOS apps; the mobile app can be signed into several installations at once. ChurchTools lists more than 800 REST API endpoints, with API access free of charge. Packages start at $39 a month, billed monthly, with a 30-day trial and no free plan. Package XS allows 100 people, no additional campuses, 10 resources and 20 rosters. The service was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany.