Hustle vs Text In Church

Hustle is a communications platform for texts, calls and video messages, with broadcasts, automated responses and live one-to-one conversations. Users can send personalized SMS and MMS to targeted audience members, tag them and retarget smaller groups. Its video options include short Clips distributed by text, Personalized Clips and longer Hustle Stories. The AI-powered Script Assistant helps users create communications described as creative and brand-safe. Hustle offers mobile and web apps, plus integrations for Salesforce, NGP VAN and EveryAction, Blackbaud Luminate Online, Blackbaud TeamRaiser and PDI. It also lists a public API, although programmatic message sending through it is in development. Salesforce imports support up to 100,000 Campaign members or 2,000 Report rows. Hustle says it is SOC 2 certified and lists encryption in transit and at rest, penetration testing and vulnerability scanning. The PAYGO plan has a $250 a month platform fee, with SMS billed at $0.04 per segment. Annual commitments start at $10,000 a year and include priority support queue access and Client Success Manager support. Hustle serves nonprofits, education, commercial organizations, politics, government, and labor and unions.

Text In Church provides church communication tools for engaging members, following up with visitors, and growing a church community. Messaging includes mass texting, two-way conversations, scheduled and recurring messages, and automated workflows. Digital Connect Cards and website widgets collect visitor information for guest follow-up. The platform also includes email messaging, shareable Pages, surveys, groups, keywords, audience segmentation, and contact management. Integrations named across its pages include Planning Center, CCB, Rock RMS, Tithely, Elvanto, MinistrySafe, Mailchimp, and Zapier, along with API, webhooks, and OAuth apps. It runs on the web and offers iOS and Android apps; a Chrome extension adds calling and texting in Planning Center. Plans list 1,250 credits per month on CORE, PLUS, and SUITE, but prices are not shown. Credits do not roll over: incoming messages are free, standard SMS uses one credit, and image MMS uses three. Service supports churches in the United States and Canada, with messaging limited to phone numbers there. The company says contact data is not sold or shared and is wiped after account closure.