ChurchDesk 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

Overview

ChurchDesk

4.7

(15)

Pricing

Starting at $59.00 per month

About ChurchDesk

ChurchDesk is a cloud-based church management platform that helps users manage the various tools used to engage and support members of a congregation. Churches of all sizes can expect to take advantage of the features available in the ChurchDesk suite.

ChurchDesk offers an integrated database for tracking and communicating with community members. Users can also maintain a church intranet for storing files and photos, collaborating and sending internal messages among administrative members.

A calender feature facilitates the management and booking of people and resources.

Users can collect payments and receive donations from members of their community by using ChurchDesk’s contributions module. A custom church website can be created and connected with other congregation apps.

ChurchDesk comes with a phone and chat support, all of which is supplemented by videos, tutorials, webinars and live training. Users can purchase ChurchDesk on a per contact per month basis.

ChurchDesk Screenshots

ChurchDesk Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $59.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$59.00

per feature, per month

No plan information available

ChurchDesk Features

Popular features found in Church Management
Attendance Tracking
Event Management
Member Communication
Member Directory
Online Calendar
Online Giving
Pledge Management
Small Group Management
Volunteer Management
Worship Planning
More features of ChurchDesk
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
API
Contact Database
Contact Management
Customizable Templates
Donation Management
Electronic Payments
Forms Management
For Religious Organizations
Member Portal
Membership Management
Mobile Access
Multi-Location
Role-Based Permissions
SMS Messaging
Social Media Integration
Website Management

ChurchDesk User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

67%

33%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.4

Andrew B.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2017

Becoming an essential way of managing activity and resoirces

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This is feature rich software that allows us to enter information once for dissemination to multiple channels, including our own website. It has a very good calendar and contact database. We like the cloud hosting and the general feel of the software/

Cons:

Because the software is so comprehensive it takes a while to get used to using the features. More drag and drop would be helpful for Windows users so we could expand our registered users.

Andy W.

Religious Institutions

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Full Integration

We are still setting up and will be fully live on the first functions in early 2019 - having one reliable and authoritative source of information for our services, events and bookings makes this an invaluable tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Pros:

Getting all of our back office functions into one place with integrated database management has been central to improving communication across a dispersed team - we are on the way but the infrastructure of ChurchDesk is just what we have needed. Easy connection between our calendars and the website is also solving a lot of time otherwise wasted on duplication of data with the inherent need to check for coping errors.

Cons:

Using the basics are straightforward but there is a need for steady regular use and the fantastic support from the team behind ChurchDesk to make the best use of its functions

Carl L.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed September 2015

Church Website System

We have recently moved from an old (rarely updated) FrontPage website to ChurchDesk. The changeover was rather seamless apart from during the launch in church, our router crashed with the number of people trying to use the WiFi! The CMS is easy to use and reasonably speedy. Apart from a couple of niggles about not being able to import events from a spreadsheet and multiple clicking to change options which we are told ChurchDesk are working on; the system is stable and works well for us. We chose this to replace not just our website, but also our MailChimp email newsletter and event management. So far it seems to be doing the trick. It's still early days but so far I am impressed.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Vendor Response

Thanks, Carl. We appreciate your feedback and look forward to be working with you!

Replied September 2015

Karen H.

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2017

Good Calendar/Homepage interaction

Once the homepag has been set up it is easy to maimtainntain. You save time by avoiding to contact newspapers with advertisements as the Calendar includes a function that will, when chosen, send the relevant information. It is easy to call in relevant staff and should mistakes happen it's not due to ChurchDesk

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy interaction

Cons:

The frequent system changes

Sanna A.

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

A very good calendar system and easy to use

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

A perfect system and it is easy to use and easy to get a overview of the days. I will recommend it to other churches

Cons:

It takes some time to set the Picture in the calendar and try to keep new feature slower it is to often changes in the systems

pernille j.

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2016

love chuichdesk

I love the simplicity in churchdesk. If you acounter a problem the support system is very informativ and also easy to use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The easy use

Cons:

How to lock in. It's located wrong in the button.

Mogens Skriver F.

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2017

I am confident with the pograms.

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Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

"Before I retired, I worked as a partner in a consultant company. Because I was the only good Microsoft user, I was responsible for our IT and took care of our website, which was very complicated. With ChurchDesk, I quickly became familiar and comfortable with the technology. This is to a large extent due to the sweet support team: Birita, Maria and Marika and their expertise and kindness. I want to thank them for their patience with me as an elderly customer."

Cons:

The people who have designed the program some times use words - expressions which sometimes can be a little difficilt to understand

Kit G.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed February 2015

St James Clapham

A good presentation, the people who did the presentation clearly knew their product. They asked good questions to understand our needs and focused on possible solutions. It might have been better if they had a more fact finding session before coming to do the presentation. Overall I was impressed by the product, but felt it did too much for us to justify the cost.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Vendor Response

Hello Kit, Thanks for giving us some feedback. I'm sorry to hear that ChurchDesk does too much. We are in fact trying to make it very simple despite. Most of our customers make use of the features over time as they get used to the digital workflow. I hope to see you back another time! Thanks, Christian

Replied February 2015

Tom K.

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Proving to be a great tool for mission

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of communication with parishioners through text messaging and in keeping up to date necessary information.

Cons:

Too soon to say. I am not an intuitive user of such packages and therefore value guidance at every step. This can be frustrating.

John-Stuart N.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed March 2015

Getting going with Churchdesk.

For me, getting going with Churchdesk was a steep learning curve. I am so very impressed by the quality of the technical help I have received, which has enabled me to design a website with all the aspects I need in a short space of time. I am also most impressed by the friendliness of the Churchdesk staff, from Philip Waters, who introduced me to the concept, to all the other people I have emailed and/or spoken to. My vicar and I, and our colleagues and the congregation of our church, are all in agreement that moving to Churchdesk was a great thing to do.

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