Rock RMS 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Rock RMS

4.9

(101)

Pricing

Starting at $4.10 per year

About Rock RMS

Rock RMS is an open-source church management software designed to help churches of all sizes manage relationships, data, finances and more on a unified portal. The platform enables organizations to maintain visitor records, group them into categories, add custom notes, and handle events check-in/out.

Rock RMS allows administrators to create custom workflows to streamline visitor communication and capture details using custom forms. It offers a host of features such as engagement tracking, structured programs management, dashboards, calendar management and more. Additionally, users can design, launch and manage personalized websites with custom content, themes and layout to establish brand identity with the audience.

Rock RMS lets managers gain insights into pledges, transactions, batches, fundraising, and other metrics using analytics and custom reports. It also supports integration with various third-party applications via API. Pricing includes annual subscriptions and support is extended via FAQs, a community and other online measures.

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Rock RMS Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $4.10 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Recommended Donations

$4.10

per user, per year

Plan includes:

No contract
All features

Rock RMS 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 Rock RMS
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
API
Child Check-in
Communication Management
Contact Database
Contact Management
Credit Card Processing
Customizable Branding
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Donation Management
Electronic Payments
Email Management
Event Scheduling
Forms Management
For Religious Organizations
Member Portal
Membership Management
Mobile Access
Multi-Location
Registration Management
Reminders
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
SMS Messaging
Third-Party Integrations
Visitor Tracking
Website Management

Rock RMS Integrations

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Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT

Checkr

Planning Center

Sage Intacct

Clearstream

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Rock RMS User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.9

Ratings Breakdown

92%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.9

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.8

Shawn R.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

RockRMS is the easiest to use, implement, and train on software I have ever used, period!

More people are using our Church Management System than ever. Ministry staff interact with it, and the data helps them to build relationships with people. Event Registration is enabling us to streamline the process of people signing up and not losing that data in the process Groups as a central tool (instead of just small groups) gives our teams a common tool that provides clear understanding or what smaller groupings of people look like. eRA is a revolutionary tool for our team. We've never had this level of insight into who is connected to our church We haven't even fully integrated our giving processes, and we're anxious to leverage Rock's abilities there, as it's WAY easier.

Ratings Breakdown

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Pros:

The most valuable things about Rock to me: 1. Rock is open AND extensible. We no longer have to compromise on the way we manage our ministry. The software can be configured to work with the way our ministry teams need. 2. Rock's community... I'm continually thankful for Rock's community. From Core developers working with and solicting the community on how to make the next version better, to the level of support we get from other churches, it's all top-notch. We previously paid thousands of dollars per year for a lesser product with less support 3. RockRMS' "Shop" has given us access to tools and ways to accomplish the 'fringe' needs that pop up in a supported way. We can say 'yes' to the "Is it possible" question instead of "not with our software" 4. RockRMS has documentation and real-world examples that work for someone on the administrative/management end, such as myself. However, the documentation and examples are also approachable for my ministry and volunteer staff

Cons:

The biggest hurdle that I (and my org) had to work to overcome was taking a more involved and invested approach to integrating and using the software in our ministry areas.

Cameron A.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Best decision we have made!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to receive both core updates from the development team of Rock RMS, as well as customise Rock RMS using the built in features, plus perform custom development ourselves if necessary.Child Check-in was improved dramatically for us!The community is amazing as well, with forums, ideas, chats, and recipes on how to set new features up using Rocks customisation features.

Cons:

It takes a bit of extra work to set it up for countries outside of the USA.

Reasons for choosing Rock RMS

Customisation abilities, as scalability for a growing church. Full access to our data.

Reasons for switching to Rock RMS

Elvanto wasn't meeting our needs anymore and Tithely wasn't interested in helping to meet them.

Donna V.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Rock RMS Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Overall the system was adequate for my daily operations.

Cons:

The customer service was very difficult!

David B.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Amazing Community Centric System

Ratings Breakdown

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Functionality

Pros:

I love the community behind Rock. You are never alone. There is always someone in the community willing to step up and help at any moment.

Cons:

There is nothing that I do not like. RockRMS is not perfect but you can customize it based on your needs.

Reasons for switching to Rock RMS

We needed all of our data to be in one place and usable beyond just collection.

Helen S.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2025

Endless possibilities!

While challenging, our overall experience has been great! Change is always difficult, much of our staff was not thrilled with learning a new system. However, a few years in now and they hardly remember what we had before! I have learned and developed my skills personally because of Rock.

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Value for money

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Pros:

I like the customization possibilities of Rock. It has been such a gift to our ministries to be able to have tools that work the way we need them to.

Cons:

The degree of difficulty involved to customize and build new things. However, this has challenged me to learn.

Vendor Response

Thank you! We're so encouraged by your story—hearing how Rock has both supported your ministries and sparked personal growth means so much to us. We know that change can be tough, and we’re grateful for your perseverance and leadership through that journey. Having lots of options can mean lots of things to learn. It sounds like you’re on the right track! We're honored to be part of your mission, Helen!

Replied May 2025

Lilly D.

Verified reviewer

Facilities Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2025

Hospitality Coordinator

With my years on staff at Manna Church Rock RMS has always been super helpful for many different things we do. Every lane at Manna uses Rock RMS in some way or another!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use!! For example viewing weekly attends, finding people by name or phone

Cons:

Right now we are having a hard time with Room management with it not being up and running yet. We are still having to use an old form we do not like and are hoping it will be on Rock RMS within this year

Vendor Response

Thank you, Lilly! We're so glad to hear how Rock is supporting your team across so many areas—it’s an honor to serve Manna Church. Sorry to hear the Room Management plugin hasn’t replaced your old form yet. We'd encourage you to submit the issue to the plug-in developer at their plug-in support link: https://github.com/BEMADEV/Room-Management/issues. We are so happy to be part of Manna Church’s incredible growth story!

Replied May 2025

Rachel B.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2025

Great Product. Amazing Community.

Overall I love Rock. It's a great product with a lot of abilities. The community is great and gives so many amazing ideas.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

The ability to customize just about anything and really make it work for our church.

Cons:

It can be hard to navigate and the documentation is often very lacking.

Vendor Response

Thank you, Rachel! We're so glad to hear Rock is serving your church well and that you’re finding value in its flexibility and the amazing community around it. We appreciate your honesty about documentation—it’s something we’re always working to improve. Keep an eye out for some big changes in our documentation, making it easier to search and simpler to read. Thanks for being part of the journey and for all you contribute to the Rock community!

Replied May 2025

Josh C.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

Leave expensive ChMS systems

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Have you ever thought it was weird that a private hedge-fund bought both Fellowship One and Shelby and created a quiet monopoly in the ChMS market? Rock is the free, open-source rebellion against monopoly higher prices and lower service for church software. With Rock you have a church database system that allows you to automate ministry workflows and view ministry reports. Want to see "Show me everyone who's attended twice, who's not in a small group, who lives within 2 miles of an open small group". And then you can put that into a list to send an email to them, or make a list for a pastor to call. The best part of Rock is how easy it is to get help and support in the community slack chat. Rock users hang out there all day and answer each other's questions.

Cons:

You install Rock on your own server. 1-click, handled-for-you hosting has not arrived yet (2018-10-18). (But it may have by the time you read this) Going from "I'm interested" to "we are setup and running" is the hardest part. You'll probably need a tech-savvy person at your church OR work with a Rock Partner (professional consultants). One common path is take advantage of Microsoft's $3,000 non-profit credits to host on their Azure cloud hosting. So if between saving the money you'd spend on your current ChMS and having effectively free hosting on Azure, there's a big incentive/budget to get yourself over the "we are now setup" hurdle.

Chris M.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Fully featured, incredibly customizable, and a pleasure to work on

I have heard from many of the church staff from different ministries that they genuinely enjoy using Rock, and it saved us from using multiple different systems with separate, redundant databases of our congregants. Everyone's jobs are made easier with Rock. The community is incredible and the core development team works closely with us to make sure that any changes we're making are the best they can be for us and for the community. It's an absolute pleasure working with Rock.

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Functionality

Pros:

Although I am a developer that has made many customizations to the software, I am consistently impressed with how well-designed all of the features are, and how many of them there are. A church could do incredible things with this software without employing a developer. But when we do choose to customize or build new features, Rock makes this process incredibly easy compared to other systems I have worked on. New versions are released all the time with a plethora of new features. Just when you think Rock couldn't possibly do any more for your church, they announce a new version with things you never knew you wanted but now must have!

Cons:

Anything I could mention here would be nitpicking.

Brandi M.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

An awesome relationship management system for any size church

We were on Arena and migrated to Rock v7.3. Before go live we did a huge amount of planning, process redesign with the inidivual ministries as well as training everyone. Once we went live, we had probably the best softwear launch ever in my 20 years of managing software releases. We launched to 9 campuses across kids, students, volunteer check-in, events, connects, groups, and next step registrations, integration with Pushpay and Secure Give, email and text to workflow etc. We are getting ready to deploy 7.4 next week and will start testing v8. We are super excited to start utilizing content channels to basically replace our website and have partnered with a group of churches to build a mobile app completely open source with Rock as the back end. Our mission is to impact our world with the love and message of Jesus Christ to everyone, everyday, everywhere. Rock helps us to use technology to do that!

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Rock is so powerful right out of the box but because it is open source, intuitive, and there is huge support community that comes with it...Rock has completely transformed our IT department. We can quickly delivery small, medium and large asks from all areas of ministry. This in turn is changing how the ministries are looking at processes in general and they can see results.

Cons:

Truthfully there aren’t really cons, the folks at Spark are awesome in helping us to customize where needed on the more complex functions and where it make sense they actually add the functionality to core product. They are growing and so is the community of Rock developers.

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