Excellerate 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Excellerate

4.9

(18)

Pricing

Starting at $49.00 per month

About Excellerate

Excellerate is a church management solution designed for midsize and large churches and ministries that offers attendance management, group management, visitor tracking and reporting functionalities within a suite. The solution can be deployed either on-premise or in the cloud.

Excellerate enables users to perform member check-ins in three different ways - express mode, touch-screen mode or attendant mode. The express mode records attendance with the help of barcodes and key tags. The touch-screen mode allows members to look up their records on the tablet application and punch in their attendance, while the attendant mode allows volunteers and attendants to punch in attendance.

Excellerate features membership management, which allows users to create member records using customizable fields. Based on information in the records, users can send targeted emails and mass messages based on attributes such as attendance and physical location.

The volunteer management functionality of the solution allows users to schedule volunteers based on their availability, send email or text notification and access their assignments.

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Excellerate Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $49.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$49.00

per month

No plan information available

Excellerate 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 Excellerate
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
Child Check-in
Communication Management
Contact Database
Contact Management
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export
Donation Management
Email Management
Member Portal
Membership Management
Mobile Access
Multi-Location
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
SMS Messaging
Visitor Tracking

Excellerate Integrations

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Excellerate User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.9

Ratings Breakdown

89%

11%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.9

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.9

Functionality

5.0

Verified

Reviewer

Fund-Raising

51-200 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Pastor

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What I really like must about this software is the easy access to the desired information.

Cons:

At this time I have no dislikes about this program, it's safe and secure.

Karen P.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

An Excellent Transition

Excellerate has always been very critical to us in stewarding over our donors' contributions.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We have been with Excellerate for many years and recently integrated to ATOM in 2022. Although I'm usually hesitant when making big changes, the transition was very smooth and it wasn't very difficult to learn the new way of entering and tracking donations. I just completed the year end donor statements for 2022 and it was so quick! Tech support has always been very quick & reliable.

Cons:

The only negative (which is a very small one) is that it takes a little longer and more use of the mouse to enter donation batches.

Jason P.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2018

I have used this in my current role.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software is a really great data base. You can collect and organize data in an amazing way and communicate efficiently.

Cons:

There is so much that this software can do which will slow it down at times. I totally understand and it's worth the wait.

Marty H.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Customer Support is Top Notch!

The Customer Support people are so knowledgeable and quick to return/answer calls. This means so much to our staff as we strive to be good stewards of our time. We have been pleased with this software for the 12 years we have been using it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to customize reports to our fit our needs.

Cons:

I honestly cannot think of anything I don't like about this software.

Henk V.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2020

Great Product complimented with Great Support

Being fairly new to the product, I have had an excellent experience modifying and adding the functionality my application requires.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The flexibility in most all areas is very obvious as each entity using the Excellerate product has needs for customization to make it fit more closely to their needs and this product has that ability. Excellerate provides it - in spades. Any request for assistance in operating and customizing the product has been met with immediate and accurate responses. The single best feature is the ability to import membership data from other applications in record time but depends on properly exporting the source data in the format utilized by Excellerate.

Cons:

There was not single except that a knowledge of the SQL language is very helpful.

Reasons for choosing Excellerate

The myriad of modules that are, and might be, used over time as well as the more than adequate pricing along with the numerous possibilities for modifications, made the selection simple.

Reasons for switching to Excellerate

Visual FoxPro was end-of-lifed in 2012!

Betty Ann T.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed June 2013

I would highly recommend Excellerate to any Church!

I would highly recommend Excellerate to any church no matter how large or how small. It's adaptability to meet the specific needs of your congregation is priceless.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Pros:

We have been using Excellerate for many years and it always accomplishes the task at hand. As we have grown to multiple campuses and made changes to better care for our congregation it has done so with us! Its adaptability to meet the specific needs of our church is simply amazing and appreciated. It helps us from A-Z, from scheduling our volunteers, organizing our small groups and classes, to handling our contributions and much more.

Cons:

The only downside I can think of would be the fact that it is not accessible from home, however for the safety and privacy of our congregations records perhaps it is not a downside after all.

Julie H.

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

Altho I use this only for posting weekly contributions, I absolutely love this product.

I spend much less time accounting for the weekly offering. AND I know it is accurate. Our church has an offering counting team so that when I (as the financial secretary) get the offering to post, I already have a balance to use for "check" purposes. Great product!!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I am currently using only the Contributions tab and the features included in it. We are a small church that needed a better way to account for weekly offerings that was accurate & basically self-checking. Instead of the 20+ minutes spent in the past posting our weekly offering, I now spend all of 5 minutes posting. And I know everything has been posted accurately and to the correct accounts. Thanks for a great product and for your awesome customer service.

Cons:

I haven't found anything yet that I dislike but I only use the contribution section. So far I haven't found anything that rates as "con."

Bob R.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed May 2015

A great system that is easy to set-up and use with outstanding customer support.

Since we have installed the Excellerate system we have reduced the amount of time it takes to count and record our tithes and offerings from 8 - 10 hours to as little as 40 minutes. We continue to find new ways to take advantage of the flexibility and utility of the system. We recently automated our on-line giving to load directly into the Excellerate system saving even more time. The support has been excellent. The Excellerate team will do everything they can to ensure that your needs are met. I reviewed many systems before selecting Excellerate and without a doubt I made the right choice.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Matt B.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed June 2013

Excellerate is a great church database program

I would recommend Excellerate to anyone. Whether you have a church of 60 or 6000, you can use Excellerate.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Pros:

Excellerate has helped us out immensely as a church. We are able to keep track of attendance for class, connect groups, and people serving weekly. Pete and the team are always finding new ways to update the program and are always there to help you out.

Cons:

I wish it was a web based program that you could access from anywhere. I know that if it is available Pete will do it.

Leslye O.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed May 2013

Great

Definately recomend this program to anyone who is looking to have only ONE system for their entire organization.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Pros:

With the unlimited version we are able to do anything that we as a congregation may come to need. Customer support is absolutely the best, Adam is always fiendly and understanding with any questions or request that we may have.

Cons:

At this day I am still looking for the cons, I have not had many issues that have not been able to be resolved, quickly and easily.

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