Pushpay^®vs. ParishSOFT^® – A Detailed Comparison of Catholic Church Management Software

Your parish leaders are doing the important work of sharing the Gospel with every soul that longs to hear God’s message. While ParishSOFT provides church software, they don’t integrate with other tools your leaders are already using, and fall short of equipping them to minister efficiently. ParishStaq, Pushpay’s all-in-one Parish software solution is a fully integrated technology that works with many of the tools currently in your tech stack, develops connections with your parishioners at every touchpoint, and converts inactive members into fully committed disciples.

Your leaders deserve clean and refreshingly intuitive software. Just like our 14,000 customers, they’ll love being able to show up to work knowing that they can rely on Pushpay’s technology to take on their everyday needs—from parishioner engagement to giving and parish management.

If you’re currently using or considering ParishSOFT, let us show you what Pushpay and our Catholic product, ParishStaq, can offer your parish.

Fully Integrated Platform That Serves Your Entire Parish

Engage with all your parishioners on one solution that syncs your three core tools—Catholic church management software, giving, and mobile apps. Your data flows seamlessly between every digital touchpoint, streamlining workflows and eliminating tedious administrative processes.

Plus, you’ll have the added benefits of offering your community and staff the following mobile services:

Giving Tools That Increase Offertory

Maximize your Sunday offertory with a giving solution that enables donors to give quickly and safely on any device.

On average, churches taking advantage of Pushpay’s parish giving solution see a:

• 12% increase in total dollars given
• 24% boost in givers who choose recurring giving

What’s more, for churches using our giving product, the average increase in giving after adding our giving solution is twenty-one times larger than their subscription cost. Plus, only Pushpay offers the patent-pending Recurring Suggestion feature. This automated notification on a giving page provides a shortcut for your regular donors to set up recurring gifts.

Pushpay offers several more options to help your parish increase generosity, including:

More Time For Ministry, Less Time In Front of Your Computer Screen

ParishStaq ChMS gives you more control, more productivity, more connections, and more time back for ministry.

Our dynamic ChMS eliminates the need for manual data entry, making it easy and efficient for administrators to upload, track, and find data. Here are a few of the many benefits we offer to help you and your team preserve your joy for ministry:

Sacrament Tracking Made Easy

Your parish administrator can now breeze through Pushpay’s Sacrament Tracking as they search for sacrament information or work on updating parishioner data. We recently released the following features and have more planned for Sacrament Tracking throughout this year:

Relationship-Focused Donor Management

Pushpay’s people-focused approach to donor management helps you personalize communication, nurture donor relationships, and identify opportunities to reach out and support parishioners who may have fallen into financial hardship.

Easily manage campaigns and pledges with automations that will save you time and energy, so that you can focus on what’s important—your people.

Multi-Language Options

Not only are ParishStaq ChMS and Giving in English and Spanish, you can also create custom content like groups or app media in any language you need! This is mission critical for every parish who serves a diverse community.

Our LEAD App intuitively translates localized content, based on the device language preference, to help you easily connect with your Hispanic and Vietnamese communities.

Best-In-Class Analytics

Parishes today know that gathering data and statistics about their parishioners is key to achieving their mission—our ChMS Insights, App Analytics Dashboard, and Donor Development insights deliver that and more. You’ll instantly be informed about donor behaviors and giving trends, while also receiving actions to nurture donors to their next steps of generosity.

The Dashboard also provides first-of-its-kind insights for custom church apps, letting you view what content is used most by time-of-day and day-of-the-week, so you can learn which of your efforts are making the strongest impact.

World-Class Design and User Experience

When your database and church management tools are outdated, your staff wastes precious time digging and clicking through pages of data to locate and enter the information they need.

Pushpay’s intelligent design solves all those problems and more. Our unified ChMS experience helps your staff and leaders quickly pull reports, create ministry groups, and set up automation processes.

In-House Payment Processing Services

Having your funds readily available matters—this is where Pushpay excels. Because of our secure in-house processing services, we can make the funds committed to your ministry available in a fraction of the time of our competitors. And only Pushpay offers Assured® Payments, enabling us to securely store payment details, even when one of our downstream partners is experiencing a problem. The would-have-been-lost transactions are processed as soon as we confirm service has been restored. Pushpay has Assured® more than $100,000,000 for our church partners!

Open APIs

Beyond creating a richer web experience and harnessing the power of your ChMS database, our Open APIs allow you to custom build integrations with your pre-existing solutions.

With our world class design and user experience, giving tools designed to increase offertory, and a ChMS that helps your staff focus on ministry, Pushpay is the complete solution to turn your parishioners into disciples that will fulfill your parish mission.