MinistryPlatform 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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MinistryPlatform

4.5

(49)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About MinistryPlatform

MinistryPlatform is a web-based church management suite of software solutions designed to help large churches create groups and connect and communicate with members. Key features include forms management, child check-in, member directory, worship planning, event management and SMS messaging.

Congregations using MinistryPlatform can manage online giving, event registration, contribution statements and mission trips from within the Portal. MobileTools enables ministries to contact and manage small groups using mobile devices. The Care Cases solution allows churches to input, save and access data at any time.

MinistryPlatform's check-in functionality helps users to print a variety of labels for each person checking in and generate reports from within the platform. It is available on a monthly subscription and support is extended via phone and email.

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MinistryPlatform Pricing and Plans

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MinistryPlatform Features

Popular features found in Church Accounting
Asset Tracking
Bank Reconciliation
Billing & Invoicing
Budgeting/Forecasting
Donation Management
Expense Tracking
Financial Management
Financial Reporting
Payroll Management
Receipt Management
More features of MinistryPlatform
Accounting Integration
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
API
Attendance Management
Attendance Tracking
Child Check-in
Communication Management
Contact Database
Contact Management
Credit Card Processing
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Email Management
Event Management
Event Scheduling
Forms Management
For Religious Organizations
Media Library
Member Communication
Member Directory
Member Portal
Membership Management
Mobile Access
Multi-Location
Online Calendar
Online Giving
Pledge Management
Registration Management
Reminders
Reporting & Statistics
Scheduling
Scripture Database
Small Group Management
SMS Messaging
Third-Party Integrations
Visitor Tracking
Volunteer Management
Worship Planning

MinistryPlatform Integrations

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Pushpay

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MinistryPlatform User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

65%

22%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.1

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.6

Christopher H.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

We love MP!

Overall, the software is so powerful and the staff at Ministry Platform are GREAT.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We love how customizable the software is. It has a ton of available integrations, as well as an open API, which makes it great to integrate with other platforms, when needed. Also, it seems like we can always & endlessly customize/create the Platform to our needs. We love how PocketPlatform is directly integrated with Ministry Platform so we can tailor the user experience perfectly to what we know about them in regards to how they are engaged with our church.

Cons:

I don't know that I would necessarily mark this is a con, especially since the Next Gen platform is out, but MP is so powerful, that sometimes the power of the system overshadows the need for a really easy user experience. It can be a bit tough or cumbersome to navigate/use without training...we do try to tailor the user roles so they don't see more than necessary. The only other thing would be event registration. There have been many improvements to this software in the event space, but would love it to function more like the ease (& overall aesthetic) of Planning Center Registrations.

Reasons for choosing MinistryPlatform

We don't have any developers on staff and The Rock requires a heavy development base.

Reasons for switching to MinistryPlatform

Need for customizations & ability to grow with our church.

Jo M.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2025

MinistryPlatform

Overall, it has served us well enough. It has more capabilities than we use so we have room to grow.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very flexible, allowing us to set up to meet the most of our needs possible. It can be paired with other tools to keep workload down.

Cons:

It's flexibility can make it hard to set up. Also, it can feel like multiple databases, with data in each that isn't always easy to find.

Reasons for switching to MinistryPlatform

It better met our needs, offering more flexibility in how we set it up.

Lissa H.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Ministry Platform for Mega Church

Overall it functions and does what I need it to do. My primary role is inputting and tracking background check information and ensuring that when records expire we are notified and that function works really well. We have not lost any information and find that when it comes to holding the info we put it, it does really well.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We currently utilize Ministry Platform to house all people data for volunteers as well as employees. It has been helpful is communicating important information to select groups of people as we decide. When it comes to the big church events that we put together, we use MP to blast the information to all volunteers for updates and information.

Cons:

There are multiple steps to complete different tasks and sometimes it can become cumbersome or confusing which way to choose and what is the better option. When it comes to sending out email blast - you have to create a group to send it to first and from the training that I received you can't delete someone from that group because it would effect something else. Rather it is better to create a whole new group or choose an end date for that specific person. We've had a person that was separated involuntarily that was still receiving manager information directly from MP because their profile wasn't end dated.

Daniel E.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2022

Does Everything If You're an IT Guru

My overall experience with Ministry Platform was not positive. It was a terribly difficult program to learn, to teach, and to implement. Ultimately, my former church stopped using it and moved to Planning Center.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ministry Platform is an ideal church management software if you are an IT expert. It can do whatever you want if you have the know-how and patience to make it work. The developers would work with our church on whatever we wanted, but it came at the cost of being terribly user-friendly and nearly impossible to roll out. Still, the software proved to be able to do anything.

Cons:

At the time that I used Ministry Platform, I was a a pastor at a megachurch and the verdict on Ministry Platform was pretty unanimous. It was terribly hard to to use and difficult to implement. The program felt like I was using DOS again. I had to remember certain commands and functions that if were not followed perfectly, nothing would work. The simplest functions like check-in required our IT team to be present to trouble shoot.

Joshua S.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2021

Amazingingly Customizable, but sometime to a weakness

We used to have another Church Management System, and after decades of use our actual utilization stayed pretty much stagnant (to the point where our business manager who had much experience with it strongly believed that ChMSs were glorified address books). Since moving to Ministry Platform we have been continuously integrating systems moving our staff away from data entry to ministry. We are a church of around 1,000 and have no dedicated or volunteer computer programmer. Your story with Ministry Platform could be more glowing than ours if you do. If you are in the same boat as us, as long as you have someone interested in expanding your use and can run with it you can be greatly successful.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

There are several things that are pros about this software, and in most regards superior to other packages on the market: 1. Customization: This software is almost entirely customizable to the needs of your church. This is a major selling point for Ministry Platform. If you can dream it, you can pretty much do it. 2. Integrations: This software has many out of the box integrations with other packages from mail services, to background check systems, and has a full REST API for custom integrations that many have done or are doing (a few I've seen or used are digital signage, church app integrations with several app companies and authentication for Church Online Platform). 4. Community and Staff: The community is great. The community is good with other software packages, but ThinkMinistry attempts to foster a lot of inter-church communication and collaboration and it shows. We were a church that has used Shelby software for many decades and our experience with community under thinkministry has been superior. The staff are very very friendly and will do whatever they can to fulfill you needs in the situation you church finds you in. Sometimes they cant, but if they can they usually do. A++. 5. "The Grid." Being able to view all related data in a birds eye view without have to run reports saves you time. It isn't always pretty, but the power behind it is immense. 6. Full Access to "Your Data." I'll leave a quote from an employee friend of another ChMS... "We'd never do that."

Cons:

There are probably a few more pros, but I ran out of space... There are a couple things I wish were better about Ministry Platform: 1. I do miss the integration Shelby has between their Membership programs and their finance programs. Because ThinkMinistry does not have their own Financials software they have to integrate as best they can with what's available. That being said, they have done a great job and work to build most anything your church needs to accomplish your work. 2. Some effects of being extremely customizable software: Some Church Management Systems have better out-of-the-box reports and views. If you are a smaller church with no staff that have a basic understanding of a computer language in their past it may present some difficulties in customizing views and SQL queries. However, this can be overcome by interacting with their Professional Services department who can build pretty much anything you need, and the community interacts at a level that much can be done just in that.

Reasons for choosing MinistryPlatform

1. Customizability and integrations (and the level of those integrations) 2. Better multi-campus usage, ability to integrate (even though not seemlessly) with our Financials program, 3. Community excitement (most people who are doing amazing things with it are crazy about it), 4. The staff we interacted with prior to moving to them weren't salesmen, they mostly didn't have to go back and forth between developers and our team to answer questions... the people were very knowledgeable about the workings of the system. That confidence greatly overshadowed the confidence and knowledge of the people we interacted with at more than one ChMS company.

Reasons for switching to MinistryPlatform

We made the switch for three reasons: 1. Our previous ChMS was stagnant. It was being actively developed but after many years of seeing no real addition of features we wanted do more than it would allow. 2.Cross Platform Compatibility: Being a church whose staff is split 50/50 Mac/PC half our staff either had to remotely connect to a PC to use the software or had to call someone else. 3. Our old ChMS was going have it's development cease in the next few years. We proactively began looking for alternatives. 4. We were going multi-campus and we wanted a product built from the ground up with multi-campus in view, not an add-on.

Penny A.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

We love Ministry Platform

From what I said above, in addition they have an extensive Knowledge Base that is regularly updated and tons of coaching videos and webinars. They support from Ministry Platform is nothing like I have experienced anywhere. They have really come up with what I think is a brilliant plan to do support by assigning each organization 3 single points of contact and those SPoC's are able to do chat support or support tickets and get almost immediate responses. You can also request one on one coaching, we have also hired a coach to physically come to us and meet face to face. They allow the organizations to give feedback and post on an idea board with dreams of upgrading the software and they read EVERY SINGLE ONE and allow other org's to vote on the ideas. I may change my mind and say that their staff and support system are my favorites. They also offer a once a year User Conference that is above and beyond and I always leave so excited for what is coming and also empowered to do my job better - or sometimes even do parts of my job at all that I thought I couldn't figure out with my level of expertise.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love that it is easy to learn almost everything about Ministry Platform. I say "almost" because I do not know how to write SQL and that has been a lot harder for me to learn but the database is designed with my kind of user in mind. There are short cuts and "easy buttons" for those of us who need to do more complicated tasks but don't know that depth of technology.

Cons:

That there are no group registration products yet - to make events such as conferences easier to reserve seats. But really that is probably my biggest struggle.

Reasons for choosing MinistryPlatform

Price point, abilities and MP staff (which I think we made the best decision)

Reasons for switching to MinistryPlatform

Our church Business Administrator decided to make the switch due to Shelby not doing updates to keep up with the changes of technology fast enough or to support enough devices. MP is browser based as compared to Shelby was a software that had to be installed on each machine and updated on each machine, We outgrew it basically.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your review of MinistryPlatform. We always love to hear what our community is thinking (especially when it's positive!). So glad you "love MP," it speaks to how its features and tools are able to #MakeMinistryEasier for you and your staff at Pure Heart. (Oh, and MP loves you, too. :D) Hope to see you at our next [virtual] MPUG!!!

Replied December 2020

Andrew L.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Flexible and Powerful

We have integrated MinistryPlatform into several other key systems and processes that used to be completed separated from our church database, such as our website. This has allowed us to remove multiple silos of data and consolidate down to a single source that gives us far more visibility into key processes. We have made many modifications to MP that are specific to our church, and this has allowed us to do our ministry the way we want to do it, rather than conform to a particular approach that our software expects.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

There are several things that I love about MinistryPlatform--its almost endless customizability, its ability to integrate with other systems, its long list of useful features--but probably the most significant is the team of dedicated servants of the Kingdom who create and support it. They are a genuine partner in ministry, and we definitely feel like they have our back and understand what we care about, and it shows in their hard work and consistent achievements in improving their product.

Cons:

MinistryPlatform's primary user interface is not as pretty as most staff users would like; and although for me as a power user it gives me great flexibility to dig deep into our data, it can be overwhelming for more casual users whose objectives are more task-oriented. This is getting much better, however, and I am looking forward to the next major release to improve things even further.

Reasons for choosing MinistryPlatform

Greater flexibility, high enthusiasm of MP customers we talked to, more full featured and full API access.

Reasons for switching to MinistryPlatform

We moved off of FellowshipOne due to lack of effective support, a lack of development of useful features, lack of an effective API to interact with other systems, and a lack of flexibility in the database structure.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for your review we love hearing what our customers have to say about MP! So glad to hear you've been able to integrate/consolidate systems for #OneSourceOfDataTruth it's one of the things we really strive for. And YES! Our next major release is gonna be the bomb. You're coming to MPUG 2021, riiiiggghhhhttt?! It's a true pleasure to have Bethlehem Baptist in the MP Community and we so appreciate all that you contribute in our forums and at our gatherings. (And a certain someone still has their MPUG lanyard signed by the one and only Andrew Lang!!!)

Replied November 2020

Christopher A.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Beyond a standard ChMS, making it difficult to fully understand at first

Overall, we are very happy with what we are able to accomplish because of Ministry Platform. It is easily extended to accommodate the most creative and complex requests. We even made custom apps that generated Apple Wallet boarding passes and receipt-paper boarding passes for our airline themed sermon series and used those to check congregants in and award frequent flyer miles. All of the data was stored in Ministry Platform and the apps accessed the data through their robust and easy to use API. We also made thousands of phone calls during the onset of COVID in 2020 to pray with our congregation and see if there were any needs we could help meet. We were able to track those calls and escalate them to prayer requests or pastoral care cases easily because of Ministry Platform. This calling tool was not a native feature of MP, but because it is so easy to customize and extend we were able to get a working reliable system tailored to our specific needs up in a matter of days. It isn't the prettiest system under the hood, but it is the most feature rich and customizable congregant care and engagement system I have worked with in my 14 years in Church IT.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is the most flexible system we have found, and gives us the ability to accommodate the various creative ideas our staff and ministry leaders dream up. Despite the flexibility, the interface is the same for every record type, so once you understand how it works on one page in the back-end, that translates to every other page of the app. It also has so many automation and notification options that we rarely need to run reports because the information goes to the right people at the right time. There are now charts and graphs that we can add to staff member's dashboards, and when they click a bar or slice of a pie it actually goes to the records that made up that portion of the graph, whether it was number of kids attending that weekend, or number of people who filled out a custom form on the website. Ultimately, the biggest pro is you not only get an overall picture of your congregation's engagement, you can actually do something about it in the form of sending emails, text messages, prompting staff or ministry leaders to reach out to specific individuals, etc.

Cons:

Although I've heard it has improved, our on-boarding was a little rough and we required additional training once we were live. We also made some poor decisions during on-boarding that I wish we had more help with at the time. The back-end interface is also difficult to train new staff on and it does not have many user-friendly interfaces for our non-technical staff. Because of this, some staff don't want to use the system.

Reasons for choosing MinistryPlatform

FellowshipOne was the most popular ChMS when we were searching, but it simply didn't allow customization because it was a shared platform used by thousands of churches. We interviewed about 5 churches using FellowshipOne and every single one of them were planning or hoping to switch to something else, and they all had their own separate systems they designed from scratch in order to meet the diverse needs of modern churches. Besides that, it was a hosted solution which meant a few extremely large churches having special events could cause issues for us since we would be sharing many of the same resources and bandwidth. It was also nearly four times the cost of Ministry Platform for our size and licensing needs. Rock RMS was a very close contender, but in 2018 it didn't have the same feature set as Arena, which we were leaving, and we wanted something more stable with a proven track record of satisfied customers.

Reasons for switching to MinistryPlatform

We switched in 2018, and at that time, the public facing portions of Arena were not customizable enough and were not mobile friendly. Many of the features did not match the documentation, and we weren't able to have various issues resolved by their support. Ultimately after 2 years on Arena we weren't close to implementing all of the features we needed because we couldn't customize things the way we needed in order to have our ministry determine how our software works, rather than having software drive how our ministry works. In the end, after 2 weeks we had deployed more areas of ministry in Ministry Platform than we had in 2 years with Arena.

Vendor Response

Thank you for taking the time to review MinistryPlatform we love to hear it all: Pros and Cons! Sooo glad you have enjoyed our flexibility and customizability and it sounds like you have leveraged it to maximize ministry, even during COVID. This makes our heart sing. Yes, we have reworked our onboarding process, making it just as customizable as our product, allowing churches to determine how quickly they get to cutover and they work much more closely with their coach to ensure they have the best platform environment when they go live. I'm sorry to hear that your experience was challenging. Ah yes, our interface. I'm sure you already know this, but we'll be releasing some super exciting updates in 2021. Perhaps that will change your non-tech staff's minds on embracing MP? We sure hope so! And we of course welcome any feedback that you can provide just hit us up on the Idea Board. We're always listening! Thanks for being an integral part of the MP Community!!

Replied November 2020

JK W.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

A Powerful Resource for Doing the Work of Ministry

With MinistryPlatform, we now have powerful resources for supporting our congregation and feedback on their engagement, which allow us to make informed decisions for helping to create disciples and empower our membership to do the same. Plus, I've never seen a company work so hard to be responsive to user needs, to continually improve itself, and to offer more benefits to its users. This is truly a stellar company and product.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

MinistryPlatform is comprehensive, flexible, and solution- & ministry-oriented. - We did not lose one byte (35+ year's worth) of data from our previous church database program, and it was seamlessly integrated into a useable format. - MinistryPlatform was simple enough that all our staff members now engage with our database. (Our previous system was too complicated and frustrating for most of them.) - It's possible to empower our lay leaders to communicate with group participants, track attendance, and add new group members. - Registrations and volunteering are easy to facilitate. - It's simple to setup processes for reviewing data and notifying responsible parties of updates to events or groups. - Getting useful information out in a variety of formats is easy, and when we have encountered any question or problem at all, we have found their support to be unparalleled.

Cons:

What surprised me was that it took a bit more time to manage, but that was actually for an excellent reason: MinistryPlatform took our previously stagnant data-holding pot and made it a living, breathing resource for helping people and supporting the work of the church.

Reasons for choosing MinistryPlatform

MinistryPlatform was more comprehensive and flexible than other systems we looked into, was user-friendly, and we did not lose any of our historical data.

Reasons for switching to MinistryPlatform

Our communication platform was closing and since we weren't thrilled with our database program's functionality, we decided to look around on both options.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review we love getting feedback! And, my!, your feedback was 'stellar'!! We LOVE hearing that MP is your #OneSourceOfTruth and that it's #MakingMinistryEasier. We continually strive to make MinistryPlatform the very best system for church management. And we consider you not just a customer, but our partners in ministry family, even! It's been a pleasure serving St. Andrews and we love having you as a part of our MP Community. Thanks again and God bless. :D

Replied November 2020

Lisa V.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Ministry Platform meets all your church data needs

We now have all of our data in one place from contact information to care needs to financials. It's all in one spot. We are able to limit the security roles for each user so that only those that need access to personal data has it. We are very pleased with our Ministry Platform experience.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love how customizable this software is. It's great right "out of the box" and so easy to use. The initial training and set up was awesome! Once you learn more about how the database works and what your church needs they are more than willing to help you customize the product. Their customer service is amazing. The community of users feels like a family, they are so helpful.

Cons:

It's hard to say anything I don't like about this software. I was totally new to the world of managing a database. I knew nothing about coding. But you really don't need to. They help you learn what you need to know and provide opportunities to learn more.

Reasons for choosing MinistryPlatform

We looked at a variety of products and chose MP because of the community aspect. The sales team, trainers, everyone seemed like they really care about our church and our ministry. Now after using MP for just over 2 years, I know that they do. The product offered everything we knew we wanted and more. We couldn't be happier!

Reasons for switching to MinistryPlatform

Our old database was not going to be supported any longer and the alternative they were offering wasn't nearly as robust as we needed.

Vendor Response

We are so grateful you took the time to write this review thank you!! It's great to hear all the things you are loving about MP, from training to customizing! And yes!! our security roles allow you to give just the right access to just the right people, all the way down to the field level! The entire MP Team is thrilled to serve and partner alongside Liberty Christian and we couldn't imagine our Community without you!

Replied November 2020

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