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Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/rock-rms-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/rock-rms-profile/alternatives/) # Rock RMS Review From $4.45/year Free version Free trial 1 plan On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview Rock RMS 4.9 [(103)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/rock-rms-profile/reviews/) Pricing Starting at $4.45 per user per year Top Alternatives ### About Rock RMS Rock RMS is an open source church management system (ChMS) that helps churches manage people, operations, and ministry in one place, backed by the most powerful and native AI Agent in the industry. Rock brings together people management, communications, online giving, event registration, volunteer scheduling, and engagement tools, and an AI Agent that surfaces insights, automates routine tasks, and frees up staff time to focus on people instead of paperwork. Rock is built by churches, for churches. An active community makes sure you are never alone, and its open architecture and flexible workflows let you shape the system around your ministry, not the other way around. Rock uses a suggested donation funding model with a grant program, making it accessible to all churches. Whether you run a single campus or manage several locations, Rock RMS gives you a foundation built to grow with your church. Do you work for Rock RMS? [Manage this product listing](https://www.g2.com/products/rock-rms/claim_requests/new?auto=true) ## Rock RMS User Interface ## Popular Rock RMS Alternatives Main Product Rock RMS 4.9 [(103)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/rock-rms-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.51Ease of use - 4.89Value for money - 4.58Customer support - 4.80Functionality Pricing Starting at $4.45 per year Alternative Product [Clearstream](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/clearstream-profile/) 4.8 [(695)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/clearstream-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.72Ease of use - 4.55Value for money - 4.85Customer support - 4.59Functionality Pricing Starting at $35.00 per month Alternative Product [Planning Center](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/planning-center-profile/) 4.7 [(1138)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/planning-center-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.44Ease of use - 4.53Value for money - 4.58Customer support - 4.54Functionality Pricing Available upon request Alternative Product [Chmeetings](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/chmeetings-profile/) 4.9 [(168)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/chmeetings-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.82Ease of use - 4.87Value for money - 4.88Customer support - 4.68Functionality Pricing Starting at $12.00 per month Alternative Product [Text In Church](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/text-in-church-profile/) 4.6 [(265)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/text-in-church-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.54Ease of use - 4.43Value for money - 4.71Customer support - 4.41Functionality Pricing Starting at $37.00 per month Alternative Product [Tithely Church Management](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/breeze-chms-profile/) 4.8 [(624)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/breeze-chms-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.83Ease of use - 4.87Value for money - 4.89Customer support - 4.59Functionality Pricing Starting at $72.00 per month ## Rock RMS Pricing and Plans Starting price: $4.45 per year Free Trial Free Version Recommended Donations $4.45 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 Verified First Integration rated undefined from -1 review Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT Integration rated undefined from -1 review Checkr Integration rated undefined from -1 review Planning Center Integration rated undefined from -1 review Sage Intacct Integration rated undefined from -1 review Clearstream Integration rated undefined from -1 review See all 20 integrations ## Rock RMS User Reviews ## Rock RMS customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.9/5 - Total reviews: 103 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 95 reviews (92%) - 4 stars: 5 reviews (5%) - 3 stars: 1 reviews (1%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 2 reviews (2%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.5/5 - Value for money: 4.9/5 - Customer support: 4.6/5 - Functionality: 4.8/5 --- ### How Awesome Rock Is - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Bill S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We have been on Rock since 2017, and overall we love our Rock. It is truly the Rock we stand on #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use, versatile and great support from the community and vendors. Easy check-in setup giving and the website setup is awesome #### Cons Not truly sure other than you really need a developer or a vendor to work with to make modifications that you need #### Vendor response Thank you, Bill! We're so grateful for your long-standing partnership! It's wonderful to hear how Rock has supported your ministry and that you're finding strength in both the platform and the community. Many of our churches use Rock out of the box – no developer required. Though if churches want to, there are vendors ready to help with customizations. Rock is flexible like that! We’re honored to be part of your mission—here’s to many more years of building together! Replied May 2025 --- ### ROCK your Church - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Yesu C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Religious Institutions - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I've enjoyed the community and the platform. It is very easy jump on board and so many people are willing to go out of their way to help. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's versatility and personal touch allows for ministry to feel one-on-one. #### Cons Not necessarily with Rock, but more so with the changes that our instance had prior to my joining our team has made it so there is a lot of cleanup that has to be done due to changes to core and other clutter throughout our instance. #### Reasons for switching to Rock RMS It was not meeting our churches needs as we expanded to multi-site. --- ### Rock RMS Review - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Donna V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Religious Institutions - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros Overall the system was adequate for my daily operations. #### Cons The customer service was very difficult! --- ### Amazing Community Centric System - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: David B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Religious Institutions - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### RockRMS is the easiest to use, implement, and train on software I have ever used, period! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Shawn R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Religious Institutions - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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 - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Leave expensive ChMS systems - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Josh C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Fully featured, incredibly customizable, and a pleasure to work on - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Chris M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Religious Institutions - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### An awesome relationship management system for any size church - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Brandi M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Religious Institutions - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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 - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Not only is it the most affordable, it's simple the best! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mark L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We are using the Rock to help us bring together the reach of the web and the power of data to make disciples. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love how flexible it is. We generally don't have to worry about workarounds like we did in systems past. We love how it fixed so many of our difficult problems without becoming a problem itself. The community is also a great part. You aren't buying into a company, you are joining a community. #### Cons Waiting for the newest features and tools. It can seem like forever when it's something you didn't even know you needed until you heard it's coming soon. Then you have to wait until it's polished and ready. When it's here though, it's basically Christmas. --- ### Great Product, Greater Community - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Paul T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We have been using it for over a year and continue to be excited about future version releases. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros User Friendly. Web site and Church DB all in one. Lots of modern features built in to the core product. #### Cons No Paid support ; although the community is very supportive via social tools. --- Showing 1 - 10 of 103 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/rock-rms-profile/reviews/) ## Rock RMS Popular Comparisons [Clearstream vs Rock RMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/clearstream-profile/vs/rock-rms/)[Tithely Church Management vs Rock RMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/breeze-chms-profile/vs/rock-rms/)[ChurchTrac vs Rock RMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/churchtrac-profile/vs/rock-rms/)[Planning Center vs Rock RMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/planning-center-profile/vs/rock-rms/)[Chmeetings vs Rock RMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/chmeetings-profile/vs/rock-rms/)[Tithe.ly vs Rock RMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/rock-rms-profile/vs/tithe-ly/)[Subsplash vs Rock RMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/rock-rms-profile/vs/subsplash/)[Realm vs Rock RMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/compare/112293-rock-rms/vs/151411-Realm/)[Pushpay vs Rock RMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/pushpay-profile/vs/rock-rms/) [Compare All Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/rock-rms-profile/alternatives/) ## See what companies are saying about Software Advice