Pushpay and Church Community Builder alternatives

Why do churches look for Pushpay and Church Community Builder alternatives?

Pushpay is a strong platform built to serve churches up to multi-campus size, and churches look elsewhere mostly because of fit:

• Pricing isn't published. Pushpay asks churches to book a demo for pricing, and offers 1-, 2- or 3-year contract options (Pushpay pricing, verified as of 2026-10-06). Some small churches prefer a price they can see and a month-to-month plan.
• The name is changing. Church Community Builder is being renamed ChMS (Pushpay), which prompts some longtime CCB churches to take a fresh look.
• More than they need. Smaller churches may not use multi-campus tools, donor-development dashboards or advanced analytics.

If Pushpay is working well for your church, there's no need to switch.

What should you look for in an alternative?

Moving from a platform like Pushpay is a bigger step, so plan it carefully:

1. Your contract end date. Plan the switch for when your current term ends.
2. Giving continuity. Decide when recurring givers will move, and where past giving records will stay.
3. Process and follow-up. If you use workflows to follow up with guests, make sure the new tool covers your steps.
4. A price you can see and whether there's a contract.
5. Who does the migration, and what it costs.
6. Whether volunteers can learn it quickly. Smaller churches depend on people who aren't on staff.

Where does Churchory fit?

Churchory is church management software for small and mid-size churches. Start free with Core (your people directory, families, roles and church-wide email and push), then add only the products you need, like groups, events, Sunday serving and check-in, kids, care, chat and voting, or get everything with Churchory One.

Each Churchory product is $99 a year (a $201 saving on paying monthly) or $25 a month. Churchory One (every product, every future product and your church's own branded app) is $599 a year, saving $949, or $129 a month. No contracts, cancel any month, prices in USD, and no people-count tiers. That's $599 a year for every product, including your own branded app. It's a number you can put in a budget without a demo. Members use the Churchory Mobile app, or your church's own app with Churchory One. Churchory is built and supported directly by a husband-and-wife team, so you talk to the people who make it.

Church Community Builder is one of the systems our team migrates from for free: people and households, groups and leaders, serving teams and up to two years of attendance history. Giving ledgers stay with your giving provider. See Churchory vs Pushpay for a side-by-side table and switching to Churchory for the steps.

Be honest with yourself about scale: if you're multi-campus and rely on deep giving analytics, Pushpay may still be the better home.

What does Churchory replace for a church?

Churchory replaces the four to six separate tools many churches juggle (a directory, groups, events and registration, kids check-in, chat, newsletters, giving and a church app) with one platform and one directory, so nobody enters the same family twice. Fewer tools means fewer subscriptions, fewer logins and fewer admin hours spent keeping lists in sync.

• Core is free forever: the people directory, families, roles and permissions, church-wide email and push, and the Churchory web, mobile and Mac apps.
• No platform fee on giving: Churchory takes no percentage of gifts. Gifts run through your church's own Stripe account, so only Stripe's processing fees apply.
• Free, staff-run migration: our team moves your people, groups and attendance history for you.
• Your own branded app in the App Store and Google Play with Churchory One.
• Support from the people who build it: a husband-and-wife team, not a ticket queue.
• Pricing that fits a budget line: $99 a year per product, or $599 a year for everything with Churchory One. Churchory One is the better deal from the seventh product on yearly billing.

If you pay for a separate check-in tool, chat app and newsletter tool today, add up what those cost and compare it with $99 a year per product or $599 a year for everything.

What does a well-timed switch look like?

Leaving a contracted platform goes best when you work back from the renewal date. A simple timeline:

• Three months before renewal: start a 45-day Churchory trial with the products you need, and request the free migration. Nobody in your church is invited until you say go.
• Two months before: run a few Sundays on Churchory (serving schedules, kids check-in, a group or two) while Pushpay keeps running.
• Six weeks before: set up Churchory Giving with your church's own Stripe account, if you're moving giving, and ask recurring givers to set up their gifts again.
• Renewal month: invite the congregation to the app, and give notice under your Pushpay contract's terms.

Keep your old giving records where they are for past statements. If you're mid-contract, you can still use Churchory for groups or kids check-in alongside Pushpay giving until the term ends.

What are the other Pushpay alternatives?

Each description comes from the company's public page, verified as of 2026-10-06:

• Planning Center: separate products priced by usage, no contracts, with free starting levels. See Churchory vs Planning Center.
• Subsplash: apps, websites, media and church management; Enterprise includes a multi-campus app; pricing isn't published. See Churchory vs Subsplash.
• Tithe.ly: free giving, or an All-Access bundle with church management, an app and a website. See Churchory vs Tithe.ly.
• Breeze: one flat monthly rate for church management, with free giving. See Churchory vs Breeze.
• ChurchTrac: every feature in every plan, priced by names. See Churchory vs ChurchTrac.

How do you move from Pushpay (Church Community Builder) to Churchory?

Free staff-run migration lists Church Community Builder as a source: people and households, groups and leaders, upcoming events, serving teams, documents and up to two years of attendance history (giving ledgers stay with your giving provider). Self-serve: people CSV import and the generic spreadsheet history preset. Plan around your Pushpay contract term.

Read the full switching and setup guide.