Comparing Pushpay®
vs. Faith Direct®

Which Software Is Better For Your Church?
Pushpay is the Best Faith Direct Alternative

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How Is Pushpay Different from Faith Direct?

Your parish family are more than just their financial gifts. Each member volunteers, worships, celebrates, and seeks to grow in their spiritual relationship with Christ through your community. So while having an online giving solution is important, you need insights into how and why your members engage and data to help you nurture generosity.

ParishStaq, Pushpay’s unique product suite, centralizes giving, church management, and mobile apps into one system. Unlike Faith Direct, this powerful combination ensures a seamless user experience and aligns with numerous tools in your existing tech stack, fostering connections with your parishioners at every touchpoint, and inspiring inactive members into engaged disciples.

If you’re currently using or considering adopting Faith Direct, let us show you why Pushpay is a better option.

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Flexible Giving Technology Built to Increase Generosity

On average, churches and parishes that make full use of Pushpay’s giving solution see a 12% increase in donations and a 24% boost in recurring givers. What’s more, churches using both our Church Management Software and Giving Solutions see an average increase twenty-one times larger than their subscription cost.

Pushpay offers a branded and cohesive giving experience across a wide range of giving services that combines the power of digital and traditional giving to inspire greater generosity and simplify accounting.

  • Pushpay’s Donor Management
    tracks offertory gifts in any form—checks, cash, digital, and gifts-in-kind. At the end of the year, mail or email annual giving statements to your donors.
  • Donor Insights
    provide an instant view of new, repeat, recurring, at-risk, and lapsed donors.
  • Custom QR Codes
    offer parishioners an effortless and contact-free giving experience, and can be branded with your parish logo.
  • Streamline the process
    for traditional generosity with our seamless integration with National Church Solutions, one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of church offering envelopes in the U.S.
  • Built-In Reports and Custom Reports
    that help you understand the giving trends of your community and your donors.
  • Adorable confetti animations
    that erupt on-screen, thanking your donors after every digital gift.

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Proven Return on Investment

In 2022, Pushpay helped to ensure that churches and parishes received an additional $144.3 million in otherwise at-risk gifts and grew $69.3 million in future donations through our proprietary technology—Everygift™.  It encompasses several of our most cutting-edge features, each proven to provide a significant return on investment.

  • Assured® Payments
    helps to ensure that even if there is a third party outage in the financial system, gifts will not be lost and will be queued for payment once service is restored.
  • Failed Payment Recovery
    automatically detects failing recurring payments and offers donors the ability to catch up on payments, fix their recurring payment, or set up a new payment with a simple click.
  • Expiring Card Notifications
    notifies recurring donors when their cards have an expiration date coming up, and prompts them to update their payment details before it affects their donations.
  • Offline Conversion
    makes it easy for cash and check donors to transition to digital giving whenever they’re ready—which has been proven to increase overall giving.
  • Recurring Suggestion
    is a patent-pending donor lifecycle management feature that uses machine learning to identify patterns in a donor’s giving history, and recommend an appropriate recurring gift schedule and amount.
  • Donor Covers Fees
    is a giving portal feature that gives donors the option to contribute toward processing costs, saving money for your parish.
  • Pledge with Recurring
    is a campaign feature that allows donors to easily set up a recurring gift alongside their pledge, allowing them to complete that pledge automatically over time.

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A Comprehensive Platform Built for Maximum Engagement

Engage with all your parishioners with one system that syncs your three core tools, allowing your data to flow seamlessly between every digital touchpoint, streamlining workflows, and eliminating tedious administrative processes.

Plus, you’ll have the added benefit of extending a range of several mobile services to your parishioners and leaders:

  • Offer registration and accept payments
    —faith formation, new membership, retreats, events, Vacation Bible School, and more—right from the custom app.
  • Provide
    a rapid and secure mobile giving experience in English and Spanish.
  • Empower your staff
    to better drive engagement by learning which app content is getting the most views or downloads.
  • Control scheduling
    while giving your lay ministers the freedom to switch their serving assignments in the app.
  • Only ParishStaq
    offers a mobile app in multiple languages so your pastor, staff, and leaders can pull up the information they need while they’re in or out of the parish office.
  • Keep parishioners engaged
    after Sunday by adding content to your app.

Centralized Church Management

Unlike Faith Direct, Pushpay’s intelligent design and unified ChMS experience eliminates manual data entry, making it easy and efficient for administrators to upload, track, and find data:

  • Parishioner Profiles
    are designed to give you a summary view of sacraments, collate family members into households, and track participation.
  • Reduce back-to-school stress
    and easily create groups, manage registration, and tuition payments made through the app.
  • Facility Management
    helps your leaders easily reserve rooms, request equipment, submit room layouts, and have their event visible on the master calendar.

Time-Saving Sacrament Tracking Features

Your software should enhance your work, not extend it. Only Pushpay’s Sacrament Tracking features have everything you need to quickly complete your administrative responsibilities so that you can shift your time and energy toward your other priorities.

  • View and access
    all sacrament information at a glance.
  • Update large quantities
    of sacrament data at once, as well as search for your people by specific sacrament attributes.
  • Enable master administrators
    to determine the sacrament fields, default parish address, and if a parishioner will be able to view their sacraments on their profile page.

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Analytics Designed to Enhance Parish Communications

Understanding your parish community is key to fulfilling your mission. Pushpay’s dashboards provide 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.

  • Your leaders
    can use data to understand how to minister to your parishioners and strengthen relationships.
  • Unlike a bulletin,
    app analytics paint a picture of parishioner engagement and help you curate engaging content.

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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 parish available in a fraction of the time of Faith Direct. And since only Pushpay offers Assured® Payments, this enables us to securely store payment details, even when one of our downstream partners is experiencing a problem. These otherwise at-risk transactions are processed as soon as we confirm service has been restored.

Open APIs

Our Open APIs allow you to custom build integrations with your pre-existing solutions, resulting in greater time savings and fewer administrative headaches. You’ll likely find some of the tools you already use and love on our list of 44+ integration partners and 80+ software integrations.

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Pushpay vs. Faith Direct Features Comparison

  • Product Features
  • GivingGiving
  • Branded Experience -GivingBranded Experience -Giving
  • Debit PreferredDebit Preferred
  • Spanish Web GivingSpanish Web Giving
  • KioskKiosk
  • Donor Covers FeesDonor Covers Fees
  • Giving Thank You AnimationGiving Thank You Animation
  • Check DepositCheck Deposit
  • Multi CampusMulti Campus
  • PledgingPledging
  • Capital CampaignsCapital Campaigns
  • Preconfigured Giving LinksPreconfigured Giving Links
  • One-time Future Dated GiftOne-time Future Dated Gift
  • Recurring GivingRecurring Giving
  • Split GivingSplit Giving
  • Text GivingText Giving
  • Non-cash GivingNon-cash Giving
  • QR Code & Unique Giving Page GeneratorQR Code & Unique Giving Page Generator
  • Organizational GivingOrganizational Giving
  • Donor NurtureDonor Nurture
  • Donor Development Donor Development
  • Third Party ProcessorThird Party Processor
  • Church Management SoftwareChurch Management Software
  • People ProfilesPeople Profiles
  • Sacrament TrackingSacrament Tracking
  • Group ManagementGroup Management
  • Volunteer SchedulingVolunteer Scheduling
  • Calendar & EventsCalendar & Events
  • Event Check-InEvent Check-In
  • Child Check-InChild Check-In
  • Check-In AnnouncementsCheck-In Announcements
  • Serving RotationsServing Rotations
  • Family ServingFamily Serving
  • Automatic Scheduled ReportsAutomatic Scheduled Reports
  • Create and Share Custom ReportsCreate and Share Custom Reports
  • Facility ManagementFacility Management
  • Leader AppsLeader Apps
  • On-The-Go Member ProfilesOn-The-Go Member Profiles
  • Volunteer Schedule AccessVolunteer Schedule Access
  • Group ManagementGroup Management
  • EventsEvents
  • Worship Plan AccessWorship Plan Access
  • Workflows AccessWorkflows Access
  • Church AppsChurch Apps
  • Open APIOpen API
  • Audio PlayerAudio Player
  • BlogBlog
  • Custom Branded ExperienceCustom Branded Experience
  • BulletinBulletin
  • CalendarCalendar
  • ChatChat
  • Check-InsCheck-Ins
  • Embedded GivingEmbedded Giving
  • EventsEvents
  • Event RegistrationEvent Registration
  • Group RegistrationGroup Registration
  • Web Link LivestreamWeb Link Livestream
  • Native Live StreamingNative Live Streaming
  • Media FeedsMedia Feeds
  • Multi CampusMulti Campus
  • Native FormsNative Forms
  • Prayer RequestsPrayer Requests
  • ProfilesProfiles
  • Push Notifications (w/Segmentation)Push Notifications (w/Segmentation)
  • Quick Polls or Open ResponseQuick Polls or Open Response
  • Giving Thank You AnimationGiving Thank You Animation
  • Homily/Lesson Notes (fill-in-blank)Homily/Lesson Notes (fill-in-blank)
  • Social IntegrationSocial Integration
  • Video PlayerVideo Player
  • Pushpay
  • Giving
  • Branded Experience -Givingno
  • Debit Preferredno
  • Spanish Web Givingno
  • Kioskno
  • Donor Covers Feesno
  • Giving Thank You Animationno
  • Check Depositno
  • Multi Campusno
  • Pledgingno
  • Capital Campaignsno
  • Preconfigured Giving Linksno
  • One-time Future Dated Giftno
  • Recurring Givingno
  • Split Givingno
  • Text Givingno
  • Non-cash Givingno
  • QR Code & Unique Giving Page Generatorno
  • Organizational Givingno
  • Donor Nurtureno
  • Donor Development no
  • Third Party Processorno
  • Church Management Softwareno
  • People Profilesno
  • Sacrament Trackingno
  • Group Managementno
  • Volunteer Schedulingno
  • Calendar & Eventsno
  • Event Check-Inno
  • Child Check-Inno
  • Check-In Announcementsno
  • Serving Rotationsno
  • Family Servingno
  • Automatic Scheduled Reportsno
  • Create and Share Custom Reportsno
  • Facility Managementno
  • Leader Appsno
  • On-The-Go Member Profilesno
  • Volunteer Schedule Accessno
  • Group Managementno
  • Eventsno
  • Worship Plan Accessno
  • Workflows Accessno
  • Church Appsno
  • Open APIno
  • Audio Playerno
  • Blogno
  • Custom Branded Experienceno
  • Bulletinno
  • Calendarno
  • Chatno
  • Check-Insno
  • Embedded Givingno
  • Eventsno
  • Event Registrationno
  • Group Registrationno
  • Web Link Livestreamno
  • Native Live Streamingno
  • Media Feedsno
  • Multi Campusno
  • Native Formsno
  • Prayer Requestsno
  • Profilesno
  • Push Notifications (w/Segmentation)no
  • Quick Polls or Open Responseno
  • Giving Thank You Animationno
  • Homily/Lesson Notes (fill-in-blank)no
  • Social Integrationno
  • Video Playerno
  • Faith Direct
  • Giving
  • Branded Experience -Givingno
  • Debit Preferredno
  • Spanish Web Givingno
  • Kioskno
  • Donor Covers Feesno
  • Giving Thank You Animationno
  • Check Depositno
  • Multi Campusno
  • Pledgingno
  • Capital Campaignsno
  • Preconfigured Giving Linksno
  • One-time Future Dated Giftno
  • Recurring Givingno
  • Split Givingno
  • Text Givingno
  • Non-cash Givingno
  • QR Code & Unique Giving Page Generatorno
  • Organizational Givingno
  • Donor Nurtureno
  • Donor Development no
  • Third Party Processorno
  • Church Management Softwareno
  • People Profilesno
  • Sacrament Trackingno
  • Group Managementno
  • Volunteer Schedulingno
  • Calendar & Eventsno
  • Event Check-Inno
  • Child Check-Inno
  • Check-In Announcementsno
  • Serving Rotationsno
  • Family Servingno
  • Automatic Scheduled Reportsno
  • Create and Share Custom Reportsno
  • Facility Managementno
  • Leader Appsno
  • On-The-Go Member Profilesno
  • Volunteer Schedule Accessno
  • Group Managementno
  • Eventsno
  • Worship Plan Accessno
  • Workflows Accessno
  • Church Appsno
  • Open APIno
  • Audio Playerno
  • Blogno
  • Custom Branded Experienceno
  • Bulletinno
  • Calendarno
  • Chatno
  • Check-Insno
  • Embedded Givingno
  • Eventsno
  • Event Registrationno
  • Group Registrationno
  • Web Link Livestreamno
  • Native Live Streamingno
  • Media Feedsno
  • Multi Campusno
  • Native Formsno
  • Prayer Requestsno
  • Profilesno
  • Push Notifications (w/Segmentation)no
  • Quick Polls or Open Responseno
  • Giving Thank You Animationno
  • Homily/Lesson Notes (fill-in-blank)no
  • Social Integrationno
  • Video Playerno