When it comes to managing your ministry, ChurchTrac gives you all the tools you need in ONE application, for ONE price. Planning Center breaks up their solution into multiple modules, making you pay for each one that you want to use. For a medium size church, Planning Center's monthly cost can easily exceed 5 or 10 times the cost of ChurchTrac.

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, a small to mid-sized church switching from Planning Center to ChurchTrac can save 70% or more a year. Bigger churches save even more, making ChurchTrac the #1 most affordable alternative to Planning Center.

Sure, Planning Center offers some resources to help you learn and use their application. With ChurchTrac, 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 when you need extra help.

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. 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.

With Planning Center, you can pay for the number of monthly donations you want to track, but you can't keep track of finances. Instead, you have to purchase another third-party tool which costs more money. Seeing a trend here?

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.

Planning Center is a big name in Worship Planning, but they're not the only option out there. ChurchTrac has worship planning features built-in, at a lower price than Planning Center.

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.

Both ChurchTrac and Planning Center are easy to learn and use. However, Planning Center's user interface results in more delay and longer times to perform basic software tasks. In an independent review by Capterra, ChurchTrac was ranked #1 in church software task completion times. Planning Center also made the Top 20 list....at number 20.

ChurchTrac is the only church management solution that includes a church website AND app...at no extra charge! Planning Center 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.

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:


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