ChurchTrac is the best Breeze alternative.
Here are a few reasons why...
Why Choose ChurchTrac over Breeze?
Better Price
Breeze has a "simple" flat rate of $67/month. But
simple does not mean
affordable.
While Breeze has one flat-rate price for every ministry, it's not affordable for most churches.
At just over $800 a year, it puts heavy pressure on the budgets of churches and ministries with less than 250 people.
Additionally, Breeze has already increased their prices 33% following their recent buyout, and we expect them to do so again.
Or they will encourage you to migrate to a more expensive product as Breeze is phased out in the coming months.
ChurchTrac not only has more features than Breeze,
the price of ChurchTrac
is typically a small fraction of what Breeze would charge.
In fact, Breeze costs TEN TIMES more than ChurchTrac for smaller ministries.
At ChurchTrac, our belief is that smaller churches should pay less. We also believe in the mission of the local church, and we don't
want any church (large or small) to pay more than what is reasonable. ChurchTrac's pricing makes it easy to customize your plan
according to the size of your church and the features you want without needing to overpay. We think the software you choose
should be a blessing to your ministry, not a financial burden.
On average, mid sized churches switching from Breeze ChMS to ChurchTrac save 40% a year. Smaller churches save even more,
making ChurchTrac the #1 most affordable alternative to Breeze. And if you're a larger church or if you want the
ChurchTrac's "Unlimited"
name option, your monthly cost tops out at the same price that ALL Breeze customers pay, regardless of ministry size.
When you take into consideration the fact that Breeze does not include worship planning or accounting features, your savings with ChurchTrac are even bigger.
With the recent buyout of Breeze from a larger company, their next new feature will likely be a price increase.
"ChurchTrac had by far the most options included for the price. And their price is at least
half of most companies. The monthly subscription includes not only management tools for people, but also accounting as well
(which is a huge bonus)."
-Pastor Jerrod @ Harlowton Faith Chapel (Capterra Review)
Better Support
Sure, Breeze has some resources to help you learn and use their application. Breeze offers free support which consists of a knowledgebase,
a handful of videos in Breeze University, and an online ticket system. Continued support from Breeze is questionable with their recent buyout from a larger firm.
With most software company acquisitions, support usually takes the backseat of priority.
With ChurchTrac, support is priority #1. We take more of a hands-on approach. ChurchTrac is intuitive and super simple to use, but we still offer training videos,
live webinars with Q&A, and even one-on-one workshops. Plus you can schedule a call with a member of our team.
While many companies take a day or more to reply to your questions, our team typically handles most support incidents in less than 1 business hour.
Our support goes deeper than software.
We see every church as a ministry partner, not a customer. Any way that we can help your ministry succeed, we're here for you.
Whether it's helping you craft a better safety protocol for your Children's Ministry, or simply praying for you and your
family...that's what we do.
Accounting and Budgeting
With Breeze, you can track giving, but you can't keep track of finances. Instead, you have to purchase (yet another) third-party tool.
ChurchTrac gives you the ability to track all of your income and expenses, and to plan your spending using budgets.
You can also print checks, reconcile transactions, import bank statements, and generate easy-to-understand financial reports.
Since ChurchTrac is a true Fund Accounting program made for churches, you can easily track and manage your
fund balances. Volunteers love ChurchTrac's simplicity; Accountants love the features.
Worship Planning
While Breeze gives you the option to integrate with other companies for worship planning, ChurchTrac has worship planning features built-in.
With Breeze, you'll need to pay for another (expensive) service to have access to worship planning tools. Why would anyone want to pay for
Breeze AND ANOTHER application to plan services? This makes Breeze's actual cost even more expensive. Using ChurchTrac for this one thing
could save your ministry hundreds of dollars every year.
ChurchTrac gives your worship leader the tools to plan services, schedule teams, and manage their song library. ChurchTrac also features
chord transposing, scheduling reminders, and an integration with SongSelect.
Since your worship leader can use ChurchTrac for all their scheduling, they don't have to worry about double scheduling volunteers.
Let's say your Children's Pastor scheduled Emily to serve in the nursery next Sunday.
If your worship leader tries to schedule Emily on that same Sunday, ChurchTrac will show a scheduling conflict.
Simplicity
Both ChurchTrac and Breeze are easy to learn and use. However, Breeze's user-interface is designed in such a way that makes you click more
times than necessary to complete simple tasks. In an independent review by Capterra, ChurchTrac was ranked #1 in task completion times.
Breeze was much further down the list at almost double the time!
Church Connect
ChurchTrac is the only church management solution that includes a church website AND app...at no extra charge!
Breeze doesn't have anything that compares.
Church Connect is the member-facing side of ChurchTrac. Your congregation can install the App on their Apple or Android devices in seconds by simply scanning a QR code.
Best of all, it works seamlessly with ChurchTrac.
When people sign in or register for Church Connect, they're automatically linked to the correct person in ChurchTrac
(or you can quickly add a new person to ChurchTrac based on their registration information).
Members can view and update some elements of their own profile, making it easy to keep your database information current.
Your people will always be up-to-date with the latest announcements, plus they have the ability to submit
prayer requests, spiritual decisions, or any other information to your leadership through our custom form builder.
Church Connect also has a self-check-in feature, allowing your members to mark themselves and family members present when arriving at church.
Members and contributors can give online through Church Connect, as well as view their giving history, and print their own contribution statements. Your donors can set up ACH giving or text giving too.
Church Connect can display upcoming events for your ministry. Your people can even register for events right from your page, or from the web app.
Volunteers and band members can respond to invites to serve when they are scheduled, or they can enter dates they're not available to serve.
Musicians can access this week's worship outline, sheet music, or chord charts....all from their mobile devices.
We Love the Local Church
ChurchTrac has been around since 2002, growing to be the preferred choice of most small and mid-sized ministries.
We focus on the needs of churches first. While many companies only care about larger
churches,
we decided to be different.
We're a team of people that have firsthand experience in leading worship, teaching, preaching, church finance, children's ministry, and more.
We serve in the local church, so we know the needs of the local church. Our experience helps us to serve you better.
Your ministry is our ministry. Your mission is our mission. We love to help churches, and we often get feedback like this:
And this...
ChurchTrac is the best option for price and performance, beating Breeze...and everyone else.
Your ministry is our ministry.
We go deeper than software. We see every church as a ministry partner, not a customer.
Our mission is to help you achieve your mission. Our passion is to serve you.
Nobody cares for churches like ChurchTrac.