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Church Management Software

A ChMS that Strengthens Connections

Our all-in-one church management software (ChMS) is designed to grow with your church, whether you’re a small community, a mid sized church, or a large church expanding rapidly. Lean on our ChMS to help streamline processes and stay organized, so you can focus on strengthening connections with your congregation, improving visibility into member engagement, and supporting church operations more effectively.

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What is a ChMS?

ChMS stands for church management software, a centralized platform churches use to organize member data, automate ministry operations, and bring the people, processes, and information that keep a church running into a single system. Instead of tracking attendance in one spreadsheet, groups in another, and volunteer schedules in a third, a ChMS pulls everything together so staff and ministry leaders can see the full picture of each person’s involvement at your church.

Most ChMS platforms include:

  • Member and family profiles with engagement history
  • Check-in and attendance tracking
  • Group and volunteer management
  • Workflow automation for follow-up and pastoral care
  • Email, SMS, and push notification tools
  • Reporting on attendance, engagement, and church health

Churches adopt a ChMS to reduce administrative work, surface people who are drifting before they disappear, and give every team the same view of who’s involved and how. The right system grows with you, whether you’re a single campus tracking a few hundred regulars or a multi-site organization managing thousands. Pushpay’s ChMS is part of ChurchStaq, our integrated platform that connects church management with Giving, Apps, and Pushpay Insights for a complete view of church health.

Other key features of our ChMS include:

Text Messaging & Polling

Move beyond email. With our ChMS, you can deliver targeted communications via automated one-way text messaging, push notifications, and interactive polls.

Process Automation

Our church management software is chock full of organizational features to support your ministry –  automated check-ins, event registrations, volunteer scheduling, and more.

Event Engagement Tracking

Not only is it easy to create, invite, and share events, you’re also able to measure event engagement, and keep track of all your event notes and information in one place.

“It’s been four years since we started with Pushpay's church management software (ChMS), and I’m as excited today as I was the day we started.”

Karen Filkins, Connect Coordinator & Treasurer
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With Church Management
Software You Can:

Connect with guests and encourage ongoing engagement with a unified ministry platform

When all your church’s information is accessible from a single place, it makes it easier to create personal relationships with your congregants.

  • See the complete journey of your members, including first-time guests and long-time congregants
  • Connect and follow-up with first time guests
  • Coordinate pastoral care quickly and efficiently
  • Track attendance, with check-in for individuals and families

Advance your mission with tools that simplify communication, processes, and workflows

ChMS app features centralize opportunities for your people to create stronger relationships with your church members.

  • Instantly find the right people using AI-powered natural language search
  • Easily coordinate care for congregational needs
  • Quickly communicate with the church leader and church members
  • Create people workflows for any type of ministry scenario
  • Quickly look up and reach people on-the-go, with LEAD App
  • Craft impactful messages in minutes, not hours with our collection of tailored email templates

Get an accurate view of your church’s health and drive initiatives forward

You can’t manage what you don’t measure. The best church management platforms track key performance metrics and reports for data visualization.

  • Track involvement across attendance, groups, giving, etc.
  • Leverage automated reports or customize them to match what you want to track
  • Create and save unique people searches, that are shareable

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Do Even More with a Church Management System

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Groups

Bring your people together with groups to help them connect through Events, communicate with Messages, and build community with Needs within your church.

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Check-In

Create a secure drop off and pick up experience for parents with our digital kiosks. Send text messages to parents, print tags, set room capacities, and print room rosters.

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Attendance Tracking

Track the growth and involvement of people in your church with attendance features like setting headcounts, tracking individual attendance, and sharing post event details through emailed summaries and reporting.

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People Workflows

Custom workflows for items like First Time Guest Follow up, Volunteer pipelines, and Care to make sure everyone is getting connected with their next step to grow at your church.

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Forms

Throw out the paper forms and choose from ready-to-use and custom form templates to collect sign ups, registrations for up to ten people in a single form, and payments. Pre-built templates and automation streamline workflows to give you even more time back in your day.

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Schedules & Plans

Make sure your weekend experiences go off without a hitch with volunteer scheduling and service planning.

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Reports and Metrics

System, Custom, and Dashboard Reports and Metrics all give your team insights into how their ministry is performing in every area you want to track.

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Church Event Management

Encourage deeper involvement with church wide and group events that allow every member to know what's coming up and then rsvp directly from your church calendar or event invitation.

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Rooms and Resources

Manage facilities and assets needed for church events with our room and resource management tool. Get the right people involved with specific approvals, reports, and calendars for each room and resource.

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No need to start from scratch. With 44 partners and more than 80 software integrations available, you can link all of your software tools and databases into one harmonious system.

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FAQs about church management software

What is church management software (ChMS)?

Church management software is a digital platform that brings your people data, communication tools, administrative tasks, and ministry workflows into one place. Instead of tracking attendance in a spreadsheet, managing groups in another app, and running event registration through a third tool, a ChMS centralizes all of it. Pushpay’s church management software helps you organize member profiles, automate follow-ups, coordinate volunteer scheduling, track attendance, and communicate with your congregation through email, text, and push notifications. It’s built for churches of every size, from a 150-person community to a multi-campus organization running thousands of weekly touchpoints.

How is Pushpay's church management system different from other church software?

Pushpay’s church management system was built to grow with your ministry. Where some church software tools require you to bolt together separate products for giving, management, and communication, Pushpay’s ChMS integrates natively with our giving platform, mobile church app, and Pushpay Insights. That means your giving data, attendance tracking, group involvement, and event engagement all live in a single member profile. Your team doesn’t re-enter information across systems, and your church leaders get a complete picture of how each person is connected to your community. Churches comparing options across providers like Planning Center, Breeze ChMS, Shelby System, or Tithely church management often find that Pushpay’s unified approach reduces the number of tools their staff juggles day to day.

Who uses church management software?

Practically everyone on your team. Senior pastors use it to monitor church health and engagement trends. Executive pastors and church administrators rely on it for church operations, from tracking attendance patterns to managing event registration and coordinating pastoral care. Ministry leaders use it to run groups, organize serving teams, and follow up with first-time guests. Volunteer coordinators build schedules and send reminders. And your congregation interacts with it too, through the church app where they RSVP for events, update their profiles, and manage their online giving. Whether you’re a smaller church where one person wears every hat or a large church with dedicated staff for each ministry area, the software scales to fit.

What tools and features are included in Pushpay's ChMS?

Pushpay’s ChMS covers the core operational needs of church administration. Member management gives you complete profiles with family relationships, attendance history, group involvement, and giving data. Volunteer scheduling lets you build rotations, send requests, and manage availability. Attendance tracking records check-ins for individuals and families across services and events. Group management helps you organize small groups, classes, and ministry teams. Event management handles creation, promotion, RSVP tracking, and post-event reporting. People workflows automate follow-ups for first-time guests, care needs, and volunteer pipelines. Forms collect registrations, sign-ups, and payments without paper. And worship planning tools help you build service plans, manage song libraries, and coordinate your worship team. You also get built-in reporting and dashboards so your ministry leaders can track what matters across every area of church life.

Can Pushpay's ChMS handle online giving and donation management?

Yes. Pushpay integrates your ChMS with our industry-leading giving platform, so donation management happens inside the same system where you track member engagement. Your team can view giving history on individual profiles, run reports on campaign progress, track pledges, and generate giving statements for tax purposes. Because the giving and management tools share data, you get a clearer picture of each person’s full connection to your church, not a siloed view where attendance lives in one system and church finances live in another.

How does a ChMS help with church communication and engagement?

Pushpay’s communication tools let you reach your people through email, text messaging, and push notifications, all from inside the ChMS. You can segment your messages by ministry, campus, group membership, or any custom filter you build, so announcements go to the people who need them. Interactive polls and automated alerts help you keep engagement active between Sundays. And because communication is tied to your member data, you can see who’s opening messages, who’s engaging with events, and who might be slipping through the cracks. That kind of visibility turns your communication strategy from “send and hope” into something you can actually measure and adjust.

What about churches switching from Planning Center, Breeze ChMS, Fellowship One, etc.?

Churches move to Pushpay from a range of platforms, including Planning Center, Breeze ChMS, Subsplash, Fellowship One, Shelby System, and Rock RMS. Pushpay’s customer support team works with you to migrate your data and get your staff trained on the new system. If you’ve been running church accounting or fund accounting on a separate tool, Pushpay connects with over 80 integrations to keep your financial data in sync. The transition is designed to minimize disruption so your team isn’t scrambling during a busy ministry season.

What happened to Church Community Builder?

Pushpay acquired Church Community Builder, and its technology is now part of the Pushpay platform. If your church was using Church Community Builder, you’re already within the Pushpay family. The core strengths that made CCB popular (people management, process queues, donor development tools) have been integrated into Pushpay’s ChMS and giving products. Current users benefit from the same relationship-focused approach with expanded capabilities across giving, mobile apps, and Pushpay Insights.

Is Pushpay's church management software a good fit for a midsized church?

Pushpay works with churches across the size spectrum, and midsized churches in particular tend to benefit from consolidating their tools. When you’re a growing church, your staff is often small relative to your administrative tasks. Volunteer scheduling, event registration, attendance tracking, and follow-up workflows all compete for the same limited hours. Pushpay’s automation features, like conditional workflows and triggered follow-ups, give midsized church teams time back. And as you grow, the platform scales without requiring a migration to a different system.

Can smaller churches afford church management software?

Yes. While some providers offer a free plan with limited features, most churches quickly outgrow those constraints. Pushpay offers flexible packages so smaller churches can start with what they need and add capabilities over time. The question worth asking is how much time your team currently spends on manual administrative tasks, like re-entering data across spreadsheets, chasing down volunteer confirmations by text, or printing paper forms for event registration. If your pastor or a single church administrator is doing all of that, a ChMS pays for itself in reclaimed hours.

Does Pushpay offer a mobile app for church members and leaders?

Pushpay provides three mobile apps. The MyChurch App is your congregation’s hub for event RSVPs, group communication, giving, and updates. The Custom Church App gives you a fully branded church app experience with your logo, colors, and content. And the LEAD App is built specifically for church leaders and ministry leaders who need access to member profiles, attendance data, giving dashboards, and messaging while they’re away from a desk. All three sync with your ChMS data in real time, so your team isn’t working from stale information.

How does Pushpay help with event management and event registration?

Creating and managing church events happens inside your ChMS. You can build events, set registration forms, collect payments, and promote them through your church app, email, or text. After the event, engagement tracking shows you who attended, who RSVP’d but didn’t show, and how participation compares to previous events. For events that require childcare or room assignments, Pushpay’s rooms and resources tool handles facility scheduling and approval routing. It’s one workflow from creation to follow-up, with no data living in a separate system.

What does volunteer management look like in Pushpay?

Volunteer scheduling in Pushpay lets you create serving positions, build rotations, send schedule requests, and manage confirmations. Leaders can see who’s available, who’s been serving frequently (and might be heading toward burnout), and who’s new and ready for their first assignment. Household scheduling coordinates family members to serve on the same days. And because volunteer data connects to the broader member profile, you can see how each person’s serving fits into their overall engagement with your church. Volunteers get reminders and schedule access through the church app, which cuts down on the Sunday morning “I didn’t know I was on the schedule” problem.

How does attendance tracking work?

Pushpay’s attendance tracking covers individual and family check-in across services, events, groups, and classes. Digital check-in kiosks create a secure experience for children’s ministry, with name tags, parent pickup labels, room capacity limits, and instant text notifications to parents. For general services, you can record headcounts or track individual attendance. The data feeds into dashboards and reports so your team can spot trends, like a family that’s attended four weeks in a row or a regular member who’s been absent for three. That visibility is where attendance tracking becomes useful for pastoral care, not just recordkeeping.

Can I use Pushpay's ChMS for worship planning?

Yes. Pushpay includes worship planning tools that let you create detailed service plans, manage a song library (with SongSelect® integration), build chord charts, attach files, and coordinate your worship team’s schedules. Service planning lives inside the same platform as your volunteer scheduling and attendance data, so you can see how often your worship team members are serving across other ministries and adjust accordingly.

Does Pushpay integrate with other church software and tools?

Pushpay offers more than 80 integrations with tools churches already use, including solutions for church accounting, fund accounting, live streaming (through Resi), background checks, payroll, and more. If your church runs QuickBooks for bookkeeping, uses a specific tool for live streaming your services, or needs your church website to sync with your member data, Pushpay connects to keep data flowing between platforms. Features like Church Connect workflows help you maintain those touchpoints automatically. The goal is to eliminate double entry and let your staff spend their time on ministry instead of data management.

What kind of reporting and insights does Pushpay's ChMS provide?

Pushpay gives you system reports, custom reports, and dashboard views across attendance, giving, groups, events, and overall engagement. You can build and save custom people searches, share them with other leaders on your team, and automate reports on the metrics that matter to your ministry. For churches using the full ChurchStaq platform (ChMS plus Giving plus Apps), Pushpay Insights brings all that data into one view so your church leaders can spot engagement trends, identify people falling through the cracks, and make decisions based on real numbers.

What's the best church management software for my church?

The best church management software depends on your church’s size, staff capacity, budget, and what you need the tool to actually do. If you’re comparing platforms, ask specific questions: Does it handle attendance tracking and volunteer scheduling in the same system? Can your giving data connect to your member profiles? Will the tool scale if your church doubles in size? Does the vendor process payments directly, or are you routing donations through a third party? Pushpay is designed to answer yes to all of those, but the right fit is the one that matches your church’s reality today and where you’re headed.

How do I get started with Pushpay?

Request a demo and walk through the platform with our team. They’ll help you evaluate which package fits your church, whether you need the full ChurchStaq suite or want to start with Giving individually. You can see how the tools work together, ask questions specific to your church operations, and get a clear picture of what implementation looks like. Learn more at pushpay.com/get-started.