We get this question a lot: "Which plan should we start with?" The honest answer depends on your church's size, your current pain points, and which features matter most to you. Here is a plain-language breakdown.
Essential — Free Forever
The Essential plan is genuinely free — not a trial, not time-limited. It is designed for smaller churches (under 100 active members) that need the basics: member management, financial transactions, event calendar, and standard reports.
What you get: member records, households, basic financials, chart of accounts, event calendar, service scheduler, online giving via Xendit, email communication, and standard financial reports.
Best for: church plants, small congregations, or churches just starting to digitize their operations.
Premium — For Growing Churches
The Premium plan adds capabilities that growing churches need: SMS communication, Facebook posting, AI Compose for faster content creation, advanced member import/export, custom membership fields, and priority support.
Best for: churches with 100 to 500 members that want to communicate more effectively and need more data flexibility.
Professional — For Multi-Ministry Operations
The Professional plan adds Congregation Insights (the data explorer), advanced budget tracking with forecasting, ministry fund reporting, expanded audit trails, and custom roles and permissions.
Best for: larger churches with complex ministry structures, multiple staff members accessing the system, and a board that wants detailed financial oversight.
Enterprise — For Multi-Site and Networks
Enterprise is for church networks, denominations, or multi-campus churches that need to manage multiple church entities from a single account. Includes all Professional features plus multi-tenant management, network-level reporting, and dedicated support.
Best for: denominational offices, church planting networks, and multi-campus churches.
Our Recommendation
Start with Essential. Get your member database clean and your chart of accounts set up. Add online giving. Once you feel the value of having everything in one place, you will know which additional features are worth paying for. Most churches that upgrade do so because they discovered a specific need — not because we pushed them.
