# Rock RMS Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026

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# Rock RMS 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

On this page

-   Overview
    
-   User Interface
    
-   Popular Alternatives
    
-   Pricing and Plans
    
-   Features
    
-   Integrations
    
-   User Reviews
    
-   Popular Comparisons
    

## Overview

Rock RMS

4.9

[(101)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/rock-rms-profile/reviews/)

Pricing

Starting at $4.10 per year

Top Alternatives

### 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.

## Rock RMS User Interface

## Popular Rock RMS Alternatives

Main Product

Rock RMS

4.9

[(101)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/rock-rms-profile/reviews/)

Ratings Breakdown

-   4.50Ease of use
-   4.88Value for money
-   4.59Customer support
-   4.81Functionality

Pricing

Starting at $4.10 per year

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Ratings Breakdown

-   4.44Ease of use
-   4.53Value for money
-   4.58Customer support
-   4.54Functionality

Pricing

Available upon request

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-   4.82Ease of use
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-   4.87Customer support
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Starting at $12.00 per month

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Ratings Breakdown

-   4.87Ease of use
-   4.95Value for money
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Starting at $19.00 per month

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-   4.53Ease of use
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4.9

[(74)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/church/one-church-profile/reviews/)

Ratings Breakdown

-   4.77Ease of use
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Pricing

Starting at $58.00 per month

## 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

Verified First

Integration rated undefined from -1 review

Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT

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Checkr

Integration rated undefined from -1 review

Planning Center

Integration rated undefined from -1 review

Sage Intacct

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Clearstream

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## Rock RMS User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.9

Ratings Breakdown

5

92%

4

5%

3

1%

2

0%

1

2%

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!

5

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

5

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

Customer support

5

Functionality

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.

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DB

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

5

Ratings Breakdown

5

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

Customer support

5

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.

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DV

Donna V.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Rock RMS Review

1

Ratings Breakdown

3

Ease of use

2

Value for money

1

Customer support

2

Functionality

Pros:

Overall the system was adequate for my daily operations.

Cons:

The customer service was very difficult!

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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

5

Ratings Breakdown

3

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

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.

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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

5

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

5

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

Customer support

5

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.

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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

5

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

5

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

Customer support

5

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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Mark L.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Not only is it the most affordable, it's simple the best!

5

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

5

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

Customer support

5

Functionality

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.

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Paul T.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Great Product, Greater Community

5

We have been using it for over a year and continue to be excited about future version releases.

Ratings Breakdown

5

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

Functionality

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.

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Andrew H.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

The RockRMS, Becoming the Standard

5

Ratings Breakdown

5

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

Customer support

5

Functionality

Pros:

The Rock RMS is a church management software that we recently began transitioning to from another leading provider. Our big attractions to The Rock were based in it's cost-effectiveness (it's an open sourced platform) and it's power. With knowledgeable programmers, it can be integrated to perform nearly anything your team can think of. It can also integrate with Planning Center Online. In addition, there are many options out there for help getting started with RockRMS if you are lacking the expertise within your local church.

Cons:

The length of time it takes to transition from our current church management platform to The Rock. It's understandable why it takes so long but it should be noted that it isn't a quick transition.

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Debbie T.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

I have only used ROCK for 6 months but have been very pleased with the user's ability to have access

5

Customization of the product to our needs.

Ratings Breakdown

4

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

Customer support

5

Functionality

Pros:

It is not as restrictive as most packaged software systems. Lots of flexibility to customize it to your organization's needs.

Cons:

Reporting is not the easiest, but can be done when you take time to think through it and create the needed reports.

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