Church Office Online vs Pushpay

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ChurchTrac

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Director of Administration

Their customer service support is outstanding.   If I have had questions, they have always worked to provide answers, even if they didn't have them immediately.  

Church Office Online is a church management software which includes native iPhone and Android apps, designed to support churches of all sizes

Accounting Integration

Activity Dashboard

Alerts/Notifications

Attendance Tracking

Built-in Accounting

Child Check-in

Communication Management

Contact Database

Contact Management

Credit Card Processing

Customizable Branding

Customizable Reports

Customizable Templates

Data Import/Export

Donation Management

Electronic Payments

Email Management

Event Management

Event Scheduling

Forms Management

For Religious Organizations

Member Communication

Member Directory

Member Portal

Membership Management

Mobile Access

Multi-Location

Online Calendar

Online Giving

Pledge Management

Registration Management

Reminders

Reporting & Statistics

Role-Based Permissions

Small Group Management

SMS Messaging

Social Media Integration

Third-Party Integrations

Visitor Tracking

Volunteer Management

Website Management

Worship Planning

Church Office Online

Web-based

iPad

iPhone

Android

Planning Center

Elvanto

Subsplash

CharityTracker

WildApricot

ChurchStaq

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Registered Nurse

Helps organising contacts for the church members and thus makes it easy to track members and check on them.

I appreciate that this software is robust enough to handle multiple functions, ie giving reporting, data base for church membership, directory options, and linking to security checks for our volunteers.  

Church Treasurer 

We are a small church and needed some software that would allow us to take care of giving reports and document membership.

Church Secretary

Very hard to figure out how to make changes to forms.  

Training and Learning Curve

Church Management

Reporting

Data Entry

Customer Support

Ease of Use

Small Business

Mid-size Business

Large Enterprises

Ministry Brands

DonorPerfect

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Givebutter

Givebutter is a cloud-based, all-in-one fundraising platform for student organizations, sports teams, companies, and nonprofits which offers a range of tools for collecting donations online, running social peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns, selling tickets to fundraising events, and more

Tithe.ly

Tithe.ly is a web & mobile based donation platform providing digital giving tools & event management features for ministries & churches of all sizes

Pastor

It takes a very long time to get a response from our customer success representative; we've had to wait 6-7 days for a response when told we would hear something the next day.

Lead Pastor

Worship Leader

There is great explanations and customer support as well.

Data & Finance Mgr

Also, the support team is very responsive and helpful.

Pushpay’s nonprofit giving platform boosts donor retention by connecting with your donors in a more meaningful way.

Access Controls/Permissions

ACH Payment Processing

Ad hoc Reporting

AI Copilot

Campaign Analytics

Campaign Management

Contribution Tracking

Cryptocurrency Processing

Customizable Fields

Customizable Forms

Dashboard

Data Security

Debit/Credit Card Processing

Digital Wallet Payments

Donation Tracking

Donor Management

Electronic Signature

Email Reminders

For Nonprofits

Generative AI

Goal Setting/Tracking

In-Person Payments

Mobile Giving

Mobile Payments

Multiple Payment Options

Online Payments

Payment Fraud Prevention

Payment Processing

Payment Reconciliation

PCI Compliance

Personalization

Real-Time Data

Receipt Management

Recurring Giving

Recurring/Subscription Billing

Reporting/Analytics

Search/Filter

Self Service Portal

Status Tracking

Summary Reports

Transaction Monitoring

Some users say Pushpay’s robust functionality and ease of use justify its higher price, and reviewers appreciate the value delivered. However, some reviewers feel the cost is prohibitive, with restrictive contracts and unclear discount policies.

Value for money

By industry, Pushpay reviewers are most commonly professionals in religious institutions (56%). The most frequent use case for Pushpay cited by reviewers is donation management (69% of reviewers).

Pushpay

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Core

Advanced

Complete

Student Ministry Director

Our church does not use Pushpay's customized church app feature or church management software because we found it lacking in comparison to competitor's products.

The only way to contact them is through a portal requesting a call back and setting an appointment, which is automatically confirmed on a calendar only to have the rep repeatedly fail to keep.

Treasurer

I’m hoping they provide this feature to allow donors to put a single amount for example of $120 and be able to break it down to say Tithes & Offerings $100 and Building project $20.   

Finance Clerk

They mislead donors by thinking they are paying the fee for the church but in reality they are just giving more which Pushpay takes their percentage off the total and still bills the church the full amount plus the extra.

A. Their mail merge and data reports won’t download the giving data I need.

It works well within our site and gives us intuitive tracking.

Executive Director

Having emails and messages filtered through care@pushpay.com caused a delay and allowed for misunderstandings.

Associate Pastor

We have been using Pushpay for 9 years and find it to be a great way to receive donations from anyone, anywhere, at any time.  

No capability to breakdown the donation amount to different funds.  

The customer services reps (three so far) are all great at telling us what we want to hear and making promises.

It was a positive experience overall and a great on-boarding app to help our church transition into online giving.

Executive Pastor

At our last renewal we tried to negotiate going to month to month as we attempted to transition to another service.

Also, all of the folks I have encountered along the way, have gone above and beyond to assist:  [sensitive content hidden]  [sensitive content hidden] created a "how to give" video only because a member of our congregation directly reached out to Pushpay for guidance.  

There is nothing wrong with the service, just limited in a full solution.

The only reason I did not score a 10 is because we are still in the implementations process.

Integration between Pushpay and the church management software are seamless and add a lot of functionality to both platforms.

The virtual open-door policy has been a blessing for me and my team.

Some of the integration and fund management features could likely be set up from the beginning or could be handled by more robust automation.

I love how efficient, effective, and excellent the presentation and interaction with this platform is.

Not to mention the additional processing fees!

Finance Assistant

A feature that I feel could be added is more options to run financial data reports.

We are a one year old church plant with 30 members, and the pricing is definitely justified and fair for the functionality received.

Board Chair

Instead we were over sold a product that was much more than we needed.   While attempting to contact customer services we discovered that we were in a two year contract that could not be canceled.  

They are not addressing my concerns and will not cancel with us even though we have paid in full and are not requesting a refund.  

We have not had many issues with the giving platform.  

As far as we are concerned, they failed to fulfill the contract so we notified them we were opting out on promise that if the service did not produce x percent increase in giving we could opt out — they continue billing us and every effort at communicating with Pushpay has been the same as per above.

Senior PAstor 

donor management is very good, and payment processing is very good for our church.

Research Executive II

It reduces manual work and reduces time and we can track everything in a automated way and online giving can be automated.

It is competitively priced and much more robust than Tithe.ly.

Their policies are company centered not customer centered.

I love the online giving platform in Pushpay!

Administrator

Even off-boarding took 90 days, and we didn't have positive interactions when we were exiting for another platform.

Music Director

Like any online payment tool, this is super convenient, and eliminates the necessity of carrying money or a check to church.  

Myself

The AMEX code behind pushpay is buggy and does not allow adding AMEX payment options if the card has a 3-digit CVV code.

Owner

I asked for the cancellation of the contract as it does seem a good fit for me. And they bluntly refused.

Teacher

The lack of grace this company has for churches is beyond ridiculous.

The interface is simple enough that most can use it without issue.

The dishonesty and outright lies of their sales staff.  

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