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If you’re evaluating apps for a multisite church in 2026, three names will dominate your shortlist: Planning Center, Pushpay, and Subsplash.
They are each built around specific use-cases as it relates to what multi-campus churches need. It’s important to evaluate each objectively as you consider which is the best solution for your church.
Apps at a glance
Each brand offers something unique.
Pushpay is the strongest choice if you want a custom church app that offers campus-level administration, permissions, reporting, and giving to run on one system that your central office and campus staff share.
Planning Center is the strongest choice if worship planning and volunteer scheduling drive your week, especially if you’re not looking for a custom branded app and you’re comfortable assembling modular products yourself.
Subsplash is the strongest choice if a polished, media-rich branded app is the main thing you’re hoping to implement.
What to compare before you compare anything else
Design gets all the attention in app demos, but there are a number of additional features to consider as you evaluate your options:
- Campus segmentation: Can every person, event, group, and gift be associated with a unique campus, and can both members and staff filter by it?
- Role-based permissions: Can a campus admin manage their own location without touching another campus’s data, and how painful is that to administer at scale?
- Reporting: Can leadership pull one organization-wide number and a per-campus breakdown from the same data, without exports and spreadsheet surgery?
- Giving: Can donors designate a campus and fund in one step, and does that designation survive into your financial reporting?
- App customization: Does each campus get its own content, events, and notifications inside a single app?
Every platform in this comparison will tell you yes to most of these. The differences live in how much manual work “yes” conceals.
Planning Center and the Church Center app
Planning Center handles campuses through account-level campus setup.
Add your campuses in settings and a “Campus” tag group is created automatically in Calendar, campuses become assignable to groups and registration signups, and members using the Church Center app can filter events and groups to their own location.
It’s a clean, well-documented system.
The scheduling side is where Planning Center generally leads the pack. If your worship teams, production volunteers, and kids check-in rotations are the operational center of your church, Services is a very strong tool for your church.
The friction, however, shows up at scale. Planning Center is a suite of modular products (People, Giving, Calendar, Check-Ins, and so on), and campus behavior has to be managed within each one.
PCO’s interface lets you manage one person’s access across every product from a single screen, so you’re not clicking into each product one at a time. What Planning Center still doesn’t give you is a campus-level role. Access is assigned by person and by product, not as one campus role you switch on. For a church with 3 campuses and 100+ users, keeping a campus admin out of another campus’s data comes down to how carefully each person’s permissions get set, rather than a role that enforces the boundary for you.
Church Center itself is a standardized app: your church inside Planning Center’s design, not a branded app of your own.
Planning Center is a great product (in fact, Pushpay and Planning Center have worked together to have a really clean integration), but if you’re running multiple campuses, you may find that you outgrow their system quickly.
Pushpay and custom church apps
In the Pushpay system, a family that gives at your north campus and volunteers at your south campus is one record with campus tags, not two profiles that you need to keep distinct.
Attendance, giving, serving, and group involvement stay on one timeline no matter where the activity happened, and automated workflows follow people across locations, so a first-time visitor form at any campus triggers the same follow-up you run everywhere.
Permissions are scoped by role and campus rather than assigned person by person. A campus administrator manages their own location’s people, events, and volunteers without visibility into another campus’s data, while executive staff keep the organization-wide view.
Finance sees giving. Kids ministry sees check-in. When you’re onboarding a new campus pastor, that’s a role assignment, not a checklist of product-by-product grants.
Reporting works the same way from both directions.
Leadership pulls one consolidated number for the whole church or filters to a single campus inside the same report. Giving follows suit: donors pick a campus and fund in the same step, the designation carries through to financial reporting, and the platform supports both pooled and campus-separate financial structures.
On the app side, members choose a home campus and the app reshapes around it: Their campus’s service times, events, and announcements, with push notifications that can target one location or the whole church. Campus communications leads update their own screens through a drag-and-drop builder while a central admin oversees the full app.
One number worth knowing as a multisite finance team: As a direct payment provider, the Pushpay platform processes donations at a 95.1% transaction success rate, against a 92.5% industry average. Spread across two or three campuses’ worth of gifts, that gap is truly significant.
The tradeoff runs the other direction from Planning Center’s. The platform’s volunteer scheduling is capable, but if minute-by-minute worship service planning is the axis your staff turns on, look into that integration. Plenty of large multisite churches run Pushpay for people, giving, and the app while keeping Services for the worship team.
Subsplash, the app-first option
Subsplash approaches the question through the lens of media. Its core strength has always been a premium branded app experience: Sermon libraries, live streaming, and polished design in an app store listing that’s yours. For multi-campus churches, Subsplash supports campus locations in its dashboard, location-based filtering for events and groups, campus-designated giving, and home tab sections that let each location carry its own content inside one app.
If your multisite strategy is essentially a broadcast strategy (one teaching pastor, video venues, heavy emphasis on sermon content reaching every location), Subsplash’s media pipeline is a real advantage and the app your members hold will look terrific.
The gap is behind the app. Subsplash added church management tools to its platform, and 2026 reviews consistently land in the same place: the basics are covered, but churches needing deep reporting, complex workflow automation, or advanced people management will find the ChMS layer less mature than dedicated systems.
For a multisite church, that matters more than it would for a single location, because campus-level reporting and cross-campus data are exactly where operational complexity concentrates.
