Overall Clearstream is a great application for the money. If you use planning center to organize volunteers, group gatherings and events, you need Clearstream. Planning Center doesn't have it's own texting platform, and doesn't look to get into that arena. Clearstream is a quick, simple add on with amazing benefits.

seamless integration with with Planning Center account. User friendly experience. Free Keyword. Easy to use dashboard. Incredible customer support.

So, far I don't have any cons. I've only been using Clearstream for 1 month. Everything has gone great and I'm looking forward to finding new applications for the service.

Very efficient texting application. Easy to use for mass messaging and creating groups/lists. Features including polls and integrations.

I haven't encountered anything that I dislike about this application.

Good communication but limitations

Ease of use. Accessibility to recipients.

I would like to be able to include images and this doesn't allow that.

Great customer service and love the layout of the software. Glad we signed up.

We got it because we got a landline and still wanted people to text our church. Love that people can text us. Organization is great, customer service quick and love planning center integration.

Wish we had an unlimited option for texts. We have another service we use for mass texts because of that. If that was better we would totally go fully with Clearstream. Maybe a rollover option would be better?

In my view it will be one of the effective software.I love to reccomend others to use.

This is very effective software.it help me alot in my regular activities.i use it everyday.This software work very fast to perform my duties.

This is take huge space.i think they can update their app.it will be more user friendly.sometimes this app not response properly.

I like the 3rd party connectivity, it makes everything smooth.

That there is not an ongoing thread with clients.

The price is affordable and the software is user friendly!

I genuinely have not found a con with the software.

The easy accessibility and features offered.

I don't currently have and Cons when it comes to Clearstream.

We have made good use of Clearstream and have positive reviews about the ease of messaging

ease of entering subscriber information, messages are sent quickly, easy to organize lists and groups of subscribers

the website is sometimes messy to navigate, can't edit subscribers phone numbers

Love that I can send out text blasts to all of my parents and students, as well as hear back from them when needed.

Manually refreshing integrations, I would wish that it would be doing that for me.

Fantastic! I am convinced I made the right choice.

Help is quick and real, not a bot that I can tell. They take my feedback seriously for future potential improvements.

Extra credits to use an emoji in a text.

Clearstream so far has been a game-changer in helping us stay in contact with new and old attendees of our church. We are looking forward to utilizing all of the features in their fullness as we get more comfortable with how everything operates.

I appreciate the amount of features you get with Clearstream at an affordable price. I love the mass texting, scheduled texting ability, keyword integration, and the endless subscriber lists you can create. I also love how simple it is to navigate and use the system. Additionally, the texts with MMS addition looks really clean on the phone.

I wish Clearstream would allow you to add videos without having to insert a link. We would love to send videos to our new visitors and have them pop up immediately for them. I also wish the extra credits you have for the month would rollover to the next month as other mass text messaging systems do.

Customer service is quick and easy; we have not had any problems.

We use Clearstream with Planning Center Online. This makes texting easy to use based on our current church management system; we won't lose contact data and we can start workflows to keep people connected and not fall through the cracks. Texting is reliable, VERY easy to use, and the scheduling aspect makes the use of the user's time more efficient.

It would be awesome if Clearstream would integrate with Giving/Contribution platforms. Most giving platforms have very poor texting ability, and are limited. If Clearstream could integrate, then people could text through a more reliable and easy to use platform, i.e. Clearstream.

We absolutely LOVE Clearstream! It is the final fix to a problem we've faced for many years. As Student Pastor, I send out a lot of texts communicating to our parents and students alike. We've used other services that weren't reliable or didn't work for some of our subscribers. Clearstream is an absolute home run for us. We have consistent, reliable communication being received by all our subscribers every time. It's easy to setup, easy to use keywords, the opt in feature is EXACTLY what we were looking for, and the price literally can't be beat. If you're looking for the best option for text communications, you'll find it with Clearstream.

Ease of use, setup, text to subscribe feature, use of keywords, reliability to hit all subscribers

My one complaint with Clearstream is that I would like to see more available characters per text. To get out all the info I need to communicate, I find myself using 2 credits with almost every text.

The customer service is incredible. And the product itself is just as good.

The customer service is incredible. And the product itself is just as good.

I wish the PCO integration was a little more robust, but it certainly gets the job done without needing a third party like zapier to get it done. I wish I could manage credits used by user, not just sub-account. Here's a crazy idea.. Get a plug in like Jasper AI and let me hit button like I do to "shorten links" that woudl rewrite your content to fit under 160 characters. Now THAT would be helpful. That's probably what I spend most of my time on.

We are still learning the in's and out's of Clearstream. We love the functionality of the program, and are excited to continue using Clearstream for all our needs.

We are still learning the program, we have nothing negative to say.

It's been good, i've used it now at two different churches. I like it a lot but it is more on the expensive side.

The reliability and user friendliness! I also like the different keywords and the amazing customer service!

I wish you could see the numbers when they unsubscribe and also the price is a bit expensive.

Clearstream has been fantastic I will continue to use it and recommend it

I love how clearstream works with planning center and pulls contact information from it and uses it to launch workflows as we follow up with guests

I thought I would be able to schedule messages to specific dates in workflows, but this has not been a huge con

Clean UI, easy to use. You can get up and running very quickly. Their pricing model is clear and time to value is very high. Their preview capabilities and list management is very nice and easy to use.

Contact database integration is very specific and it's hard to enrich contact information unless you're using their specific contact DB integrations. I wish their email shortener had the ability to customize more because it doesn't work with variable parameters.

Initially, I signed on for Clearstream to follow up with new worship guests, but I began sending our weekly texts for prayer requests from the congregation at large and that has been our biggest use of Clearstream. I love interacting with the members of our church via texting and NOT having everything have to run through my personal phone.

Clearstream is easy and intuitive to use both on the computer and in the app. I am grateful for the way I can respond to messages, send messages, schedule messages, and manage my user lists quickly. I also love that I can track interactions with specific messages on the message dashboard.

I would like to be able to edit users info from the app.

Overall, it's been effective, user intuitive & and an amazing resource for our teams - I'm excited now that we're through the Christmas season - to get some of our other departments on board, because I think it will be a great ministry tool for us to use church-wide.

We are still fairly new to Clearstream & we are loving it! What I love most is that is is so easy to use - our volunteers & even our least "tech-savvy" team members have been so impressed at how easy it was to learn & integrate into our current workflows. The customer service has been fabulous as well - quick response times to the simplest & most complex questions - that what a significant factor for us when we were choosing which platform would be the best fit for us. It's also been a huge benefit to us to have sub-accounts & multiple users/Admin per sub-account - this was unique to Clearstream & has been even easier to navigate than we had anticipated.

With any software there is certainly a "wish" factor. So not necessarily what I don't like - but what I would love to see added. One of the only things that CS did not have that some other texting software offered was the option to have email integrations in workflows - which we had had previously with Text in Church & it was one of the only disappointments when we decided to switch over - because our previously established workflows had included this feature. I think that the features we would love to see integrated would be for more friendly "workflows" with our CCB groups rather than via keyword. It would also be amazing if we could somehow pull specific people from an existing CCB group/subscriber list without creating a new one (if that makes sense). i.e. we have a Guest Services Volunteer Group that we have created weekly messages for - but if there were a way to checkmark specific people (those who were scheduled for a particular week) from with an existing list/subscribers - rather than having to type them all in individually. In an ideal world we would have two-way integration with CCB :) Also - I'm not sure what the answer would be, but we have a team of 20+ people managing our prayer request inbox & for the most part it has gone remarkably well. The only thing that got a bit muddled was that the only way to remove a text stream from the inbox was to archive it - thought maybe a "flag" or "note" function could be helpful for us to follow up.

We love it, it's easy to use and allows us to reach our audience in a reliable manner.

The interface is great, it is a feature-complete solution that allows an easy entry into mass-texting. I love the focus on Church/Religious Organizations.

While Clearstream is reasonably priced, sometimes I wish the pricing structure was a little more affordable. The plan structures don't always make sense because if we need more than our monthly plan allows, the additional credit cost is quite expensive.

Really glad we are subscribed and will continue to use this for our church.

I like that we can communicate with people that are desiring regular communication without creating a massive email. It helps us get the most important information into their hands quickly. We also know that people will read a two-line text over an email.

Importing subscribers and adding subscribers to specific lists seems overly difficult.

Saves hours of the day texting people.

VERY EASY TO USE and reaches a lot of people fast

EXPENSIVEI hate the cost per text per characters, most messages need to cost 3 tokens, and one complaint i have is it was NOT stated that it would cost more for larger texts or pictures at any point while i was shopping this item before i signed up. Not that i would undo using the product, its awesome, but man it costs a lot for a church on a budget that has a lot of people to reach at the same time. People dont directly tithe to the 'texting' ministry and the elder board seeing it costs $3000 or more a month to get the amount of tokens I would prefer to have would not work.