Planning Center vs. Pushpay
Over 85,000 customers choose our transparent pricing, responsive support, and all-in-one system—without getting locked into a contract.
Stuck in a contract with Pushpay?
We’ll cover your subscription to Giving—our donation management software—until your contract is over.
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What makes Planning Center different than Pushpay?
Transparent pricing: No hidden fees
We list our prices and processing fees publicly. You don’t have to talk to a sales team to figure out your bill.
No contracts
You can adjust your plan or cancel completely anytime without any additional fees.
Weekend support
Our team will reply to you in ~1 business hour, 7 days a week, and stay with you until you have a solution.
Independently owned
Customers—not investors—help set the tone for our product, and we’re never going to sell
PLANNING CENTER VS. PUSHPAY
A fully integrated church and donation management system.
Our feature sets are mostly similar to Pushpay. This graph compares those offerings.
Features
Weekend support
We have a ~1 business hour response time.
No onboarding or support fees
No contracts
Transparent processing fees
2.15% + $0.30 per credit card transaction and $0.30 for ACH. Calculate your savings.
SOC 2 Type 2 certified
The industry-leading standard for information security. See more.
App for leaders + admins
Church app for members
Including Giving
Branded app and site domain
This is how we keep our prices for the custom app and site lower than Pushpay.
Check-in system
Communication
Email, text, push notification, chat
Event management
Musician rehearsal tools
Parrish-specific support
We keep our feature set broad so that churches of any tradition can use our software. We have many Catholic and other liturgical churches that use our products, but we have not tailored our features to their specific needs.
Multi-lingual support
Hosted streaming platform
Churches can embed a livestream from YouTube, Vimeo, and other platforms and share on their Church Center website or app. Pushpay owns Resi.
*This is based on information on Pushpay’s website and includes what they offer through Church Community Builder (CCB).
MOBILE CHURCH APP
The Church Center app helps you connect your congregation to your ministries.
Pushpay’s most unique offering is a branded mobile app for your church. We offer a mobile church app, too—Church Center—but not with quite the same level of customization.
Church Center is a mobile app and website integrated with the admin side of Planning Center. So you can give people ways to give, sign up, chat, watch videos, listen to audio, and more! You can publish custom pages and add your own theme and content.
5 reasons churches choose Planning Center over Pushpay
We want you to make the best decision for your church.
SCALABLE SUBSCRIPTION
Transparent pricing with no contracts or hidden fees.
You can pick what you want to pay for based on your church’s needs. You can let your ministry dictate your cost: upgrade for seasonal events, adjust your plans anytime without any penalties or fees, and cancel anytime.
Everything you need to know to is on our website, including our pricing. No need to talk to a sales team–create your subscription, and we’ll be here to help!
Planning Center's modular setup ensures we don't pay for features we don't use, but leaves us with options should our needs change and we decide to expand.
Alex Biddles, Teaching Pastor at
LoveNOW Community Church
TRANSPARENT PROCESSING FEES
Save money on processing fees for online donations–we have the lowest.
We process online donations at 2.15% + $0.30 per transaction for credit cards and 0% + $0.30 per ACH bank transfer donations.
Pushpay doesn’t list their processing fees publicly.
Planning Center Giving has saved us over $26,000 a year in processing fees since we left our contracts!
Steven Terrones, Assistant Director
of Finance at ChurchLV
FREE CHURCH MANAGEMENT SUPPORT
Our support team’s response time is currently ~42mins
We will answer questions before you’re a customer, and will continue to support any of your staff or volunteers after you migrate.
Our support team is made up of product and ministry experts who will respond with kind, in-depth answers and suggested resources on how to best use our tools.
Pushpay support took days while Planning Center takes minutes. Pushpay staff always made it about the sale, while Planning Center people have all been fabulous.
Steve DePaul, Church Administrator
at Believers Fellowship
NOT FOR SALE
Customers help shape our product and business, not investors.
Everything we do, we do for the churches who use us. We don’t answer to a board of directors nor are we available for purchase.
This means we can stay focused on you. We will always continue to update our products to help your ministry.
You’ll never be forced to use another system that doesn’t meet your needs or support you.
I firmly believe that the reason we can prioritize our love for the church is because we do not have the pressures of venture capitalists or corporate sales. I am committed to keeping Planning Center independent so we can continue in our mission.
Jeff Berg
CEO and Founder of Planning Center
ALL-IN-ONE CHURCH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
All your tools on a single platform for admins, and a mobile app for members.
Planning Center is a single system of tools, so your reporting for donations, volunteer scheduling, and event planning are all connected to the same database.
The Church Center app, works the same way—everything your congregation can do in the app, is from the settings you enable in Planning Center.
Pushpay is not intuitive on the back end. People were confused with so many different systems, apps, and places where their info was stored for the church.
Brynn Copron, Executive Pastor at
Grace City Church
