The things churches ask us first.

Forty-five days, free, with every feature switched on — and it’s the same thing as the demo. There’s no separate sales version of Churchory to be shown.

When you sign up you can either let yourself straight in, or tick the box asking us to set it up for you. If you tick it, we import your groups and people, build out your ministries, and put your branding on the app before you ever log in — then we walk you through your church rather than a sample one.

Either way it’s a real account, not a sandbox. Nothing you set up during the 45 days gets thrown away afterwards.

No. We don’t ask for one at signup and we don’t keep one on file during the trial. That also means nothing can renew or charge by accident.

We ask you. That’s the whole policy.

There’s no card on file, so nothing renews and nothing charges on its own — and we won’t lock you out at midnight on day 45 while you’re still deciding. One of us will email you, by name, before anything changes.

$89 a month for churches up to 250 people, and $208 a month above that. Pay for the year instead and it drops to $747 or $1,250 — 30% off under 250 people, 50% above it — and it stays there for as long as you bill annually. Either tier covers every feature, every ministry, and an app on both stores under your church’s own name. There is no feature tier we can sell you later, because there isn’t one to sell. Either tier also includes a monthly texting allowance: 1,500 text messages a month up to 250 people, and 3,000 a month above that.

If your church is currently paying for a database, a giving platform, an events tool, and a texting service separately, the honest comparison is the sum of those — plus the hours your staff spend keeping them in sync. We’ll work that number out with you — on a call, or while you’re already inside the trial.

Really everything. All twenty areas of the product — people, groups, attendance, events, care, serving, worship, kids, youth, chat, leader forum, the bulletin, documents, giving, open floor, prayer, insights, the mobile app, communications, and settings — are switched on for every church, at both prices. The two prices are church-size bands, not feature levels — nothing unlocks by paying more.

The one thing that costs extra is not ours: Stripe’s standard payment processing fees apply to online giving and paid registrations, the same as they would with any other provider. Apple and Google also charge for the developer accounts your branded app is published under.

It’s an annual subscription. We’d rather keep your church because the software is good than because a contract says so — if you want to leave, you can delete your account and your data from settings yourself, at any time, without asking us.

There’s no per-member charge and no seat count — bring your whole church, including guests, kids, deacons, elders, and staff. Church size only decides which of the two prices you’re on: $89 a month up to 250 people in your directory, $208 above it. Nothing switches off if you grow, and we’ll talk to you before anything reprices.

Days, not months. A typical church is importing their directory in the first week and running a real Sunday inside a month. The long pole is almost never the software — it’s deciding who gets which permissions and getting your people to download the app.

See the switching guide for a week-by-week version.

Yes. Export your people from whatever you use now as a spreadsheet, and we’ll import it — matched into households, with a duplicate review step before anything merges. If your export is messy (it usually is), that’s our problem to sort out, not yours.

Historical giving records can be loaded for you as well. Send us a sample export whenever you like — during your 45 days, or before you start them.

Yes, included — and it carries your church’s name, not ours. Most church software puts you inside the vendor’s app, so members download something called Church Center and find your church within it. Churchory publishes a listing under your own name, from your church’s own Apple and Google developer accounts, so members search for your church and your church is what installs. You can also go live inside Churchory Mobile immediately at no extra cost while that’s being set up.

The features are identical in both. Nothing is held back for the branded version. See Your Own Mobile App.

Permissions are a grid, not a list of fixed roles: twenty areas of the product, each set to none, view, manage-what-you’re-assigned-to, or manage-everything. A youth leader can run youth and never see a giving record. A group leader can manage their own group and nothing else.

Church settings and billing are administrator-only and can’t be granted through a role at all. Details on the security page.

Your church’s records are encrypted in transit and at rest, on managed, replicated infrastructure in the United States. Separation between churches is enforced by database security rules evaluated on every read and write — underneath our application code rather than inside it.

The security page sets out which standard applies at each layer — transit, storage, sign-in, payments, and isolation between churches.

No. Giving runs through your church’s own Stripe account. Funds settle to your bank on Stripe’s normal schedule, and card numbers are handled entirely by Stripe — they never reach a Churchory server.

Tell us. We build this ourselves, and a meaningful share of what’s in Churchory today exists because a church asked for it on a call. You won’t be filing a feature request into a void — you’ll be talking to the people who write the code.

You get the founders. Not a ticket queue, not a chatbot, not a customer success manager who escalates to someone else. Email [email protected] and one of the founders will answer.

Yes — one app, both stores, same features. And everything a member can do on the phone, staff and leaders can also do in a full web app on a laptop.

Every person has their own notification preferences, per category and per channel — push, email, or text. Your church sends once; each person hears about it the way they’ve chosen.