Flock vs One Church Software

Flock is a church management platform for tracking attendance, managing members, organizing leaders, and viewing church activity. Attendance can be submitted and tracked on web or mobile, including for first-time visitors. Member profiles can hold contact information, baptism records, NBS status, and member type. Churches can build a hierarchy with unlimited depth, using structures such as Zones, Districts, and Cell Groups, and assign granular permissions to roles including Super Admin, Zone Overseer, District Pastor, and Cell Leader. Notifications can cover birthdays, attendance completion, and custom broadcasts. The mobile app includes attendance, dashboards, push notifications, and member profiles. The Starter plan is free for up to 100 members and five leader accounts. Growth costs $29 a month, billed annually, and includes unlimited members and leaders, push notifications, advanced analytics, and custom branding. Enterprise pricing is custom and adds multi-campus support, dedicated support, and API access. The maker says church data is isolated by database and encrypted in transit, and member, attendance, and group structure data can be exported at any time.

One Church Software’s accounting module provides fund accounting for churches, tracking unlimited restricted and unrestricted funds with real-time balances. Contribution batches post to the general ledger, while Plaid connections import bank transactions multiple times per day. The module handles bills, recurring payables, bulk payments, payment history, and check printing. Churches can make annual budgets by fund and compare them with actual income and expenses. Reports include a Statement of Activities, Balance Sheet, Trial Balance, Budget to Actual, and General Ledger, exportable as PDF or CSV. Accounts receivable invoices can be paid by credit or debit card or ACH through One Church Giving. The accounting module is a separate add-on to a One Church subscription, though the Financial Plan includes it. The add-on costs $36 a month, and the page offers a 30-day trial without a credit card. The accounting page says bank connections are read-only, credentials are not shared with One Church Software, and data is encrypted in transit and at rest.