This comparison reflects what we hear from church administrators and pastors who evaluated or switched platforms. We encourage you to try both and see what fits your ministry best.
Pushpay is one of the original online giving platforms for churches, and over the years it has bolted on church management tools through acquisitions like Church Community Builder rather than building them natively. Having changed ownership several times, it’s now a private-equity-owned platform that many churches see as expensive.
Pricing comes only by quote, church management runs through a separate product Pushpay acquired (Church Community Builder), and there is no true fund accounting. Churches that switch to One Church Software tell us what they wanted was simple: one system, one published price, and a real person to call when something goes wrong.
One Church Software publishes its pricing. It starts at $58 a month, is based on the number of people in your database, and you can start a 30-day free trial without a credit card or a sales call. You know the cost before you decide.
Church administrators who switched from Pushpay tell us they were tired of asking for a quote and sitting through a demo just to learn the price. Seeing the number on the page, up front, was one of the first things they valued.
One Church Software includes a full Fund Accounting module: fund allocation, financial reporting, and a clear view of where your church's money is going, inside the same system where you manage people and giving. No second tool. No reconciling two sets of numbers.
Churches that came from Pushpay tell us this was a recurring gap. Pushpay tracks giving well, but for real fund accounting they ran a separate system and reconciled it by hand. That workflow gets heavier every month.
Live chat, phone support Monday through Friday, same-day email, and live video training. Every customer also gets personalized onboarding with data migration and one-on-one training, not a paid upgrade.
Churches that switched from Pushpay tell us they wanted a real person to reach without going through an account tier, and onboarding help that came standard rather than as an extra line item.
People, giving, check-in, groups, service planning, reporting, and communication live in one system, one login, one data model. A family's giving and their kids' Sunday check-in sit in the same record.
Administrators who moved from Pushpay tell us their giving lived in one place and their church management in another product, Church Community Builder, and the handoff between them had rough edges. One connected system was what they were after.
One Church Software has no long-term contract. Pay month to month or save with annual billing, and leave whenever you want.
Churches that switched from Pushpay tell us they did not want to be locked into a long agreement, and the freedom to stay month to month gave them peace of mind.
Start a 30-day free trial with full access and no credit card. You get hands on the software before you talk to anyone.
Church administrators who came from Pushpay tell us they wanted to try the platform before committing, rather than book a demo and wait on a proposal to see how it worked.
Church administrators who moved to One Church Software from Pushpay tell us it did not include true fund accounting, so they kept a separate accounting tool and reconciled two sets of numbers. One Church Software offers a full Fund Accounting module inside the same platform where you manage people and giving.
Yes, especially if you want clear published pricing, no sales call, and everything in one platform including accounting. One Church Software rates 4.9 out of 5 on Capterra and includes live human support by phone and chat.
One Church Software was built as one platform: people, giving, events, groups, check-in, volunteers, communication, and accounting in one login for one published price. Pushpay is known first for digital giving and a church app, and delivers church management through a separate product it acquired, Church Community Builder. Church administrators who switched to One Church Software tell us they wanted one connected system instead of two products working together.
30 days. Full access. No credit card required.
