Churchory vs Pushpay (Church Community Builder)

What's the difference between Churchory and Pushpay?

Pushpay sells giving, church management and a custom church app, and its church management product is the one formerly called Church Community Builder: Pushpay says "the product known as Church Community Builder will now be known as ChMS" (Pushpay, verified as of 2026-10-06). Pushpay's Giving and ChMS each come in Core, Advanced and Complete tiers, and ChurchStaq combines giving, ChMS, apps and insights. Prices aren't published; Pushpay offers a demo "for answers and pricing options," with 1-, 2- or 3-year contract options (Pushpay pricing).

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.

Pushpay is built to scale from small churches to multi-campus organizations, with dashboards and analytics for staff. Churchory is built for small and mid-size churches, often run by part-time staff and volunteers, with a published price and no contract. You can start with a single product at $99 a year and add more with one click, so a small church never pays for tools it isn't using yet.

How do Churchory and Pushpay compare, feature by feature?

Pushpay facts are from its pricing page and ChMS page, verified as of 2026-10-06.

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.

When you take a Pushpay demo, ask what's included for a church your size, which tier you'd need for the features you saw, the giving processing fees and the contract length, so you know exactly what you're committing to.

Who should choose Pushpay?

Pushpay is the better fit if your church:

• Is large or multi-campus and wants giving, church management and an app from one vendor.
• Has staff who will use deep reporting, donor-development dashboards and analytics.
• Wants structured, workflow-based follow-up for every step of someone's journey.
• Already gives through Pushpay and wants church management that's built in.

Who should choose Churchory?

Churchory is the better fit if your church:

• Is small or mid-size and wants a published price with no contract: $599 a year for Churchory One, or $99 a year per product.
• Is run by a few staff and volunteers who need something they can learn on a Sunday afternoon.
• Wants worship planning, serving and check-in together in the Sunday product.
• Would use chat, congregational voting, meal trains or live Q&A.

How do I move from Pushpay or Church Community Builder to Churchory?

Moving is free, and Church Community Builder is one of the systems our team migrates from. Churchory's team moves your data for free: 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, and nobody gets an invite email until you say go.

To do it yourself, export people and attendance from ChMS as spreadsheets and use Churchory's people CSV import and the generic spreadsheet history import. If you'd rather do it yourself, an admin can import people from a CSV (first and last name, email, phone, birthday, allergies and notes, matched column by column), and import past attendance and serving history from a CSV or Excel file. History imports are past records only (nobody is messaged), and an import can be undone afterwards. Check your contract's end date before you plan the switch. See switching to Churchory for the steps.

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.