Realm 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Realm

4.4

(273)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Realm

Realm is a comprehensive church management software solution designed to facilitate effective and connected ministry operations for churches of all sizes. The Realm platform offers a wide range of features and tools that cater to various aspects of church administration, communication, membership management, and ministry operations, aimed at enhancing engagement, organization, and outreach within congregations.

The Ministry Highlight feature emphasizes the importance of integrating solutions to grow ministries effectively, showcasing Realm's commitment to providing administrators with real-time dashboards, reports, background checks, and stewardship tools to support the achievement of mission-driven objectives. This underscores Realm's focus on empowering churches with the necessary resources to streamline their operations, maximize efficiency, and drive growth and impact within their communities.

Realm offers a user-friendly and integrated platform, which provides administrators, staff, and leaders with the tools needed to succeed across different ministry areas. With a broad range of ministries supported, including Pastoral Care, Administration, Children's & Youth Ministry, Edu...

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Realm Pricing and Plans

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Free Trial

Free Version

Inform

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

Connectivity With Members
Customized Profile Field Creation
Deep Insights
Donation Acceptance
History Access
Information Security
Manage Donor Pledges
Manage Funds
Private Staff Notes
Profile Creation & Updates

Connect

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

Attendance Dashboards
Automatic Attendance Tracking
Check-in System
Find Connections
Group Organization
Increase Group Participation
Meet Creation Tools
Message Broadcasting
Simple Setup
Staff-Managed Registration

Multiply

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

Advanced Trend Analysis
Assign Pathway Oversight
Automated Triggers for Events
Automatic Notifications
Church-Wide Process Sharing
Create Personalized Discipleship
Help Staff Guide

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Realm Features

Popular features found in Fund Accounting
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Bank Reconciliation
Billing & Invoicing
Budgeting/Forecasting
Expense Tracking
Financial Reporting
Income & Balance Sheet
Partnership Accounting
Payroll Management
Real-Time Reporting
More features of Realm
Accounting
Accounting Integration
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
Attendance Tracking
Built-in Accounting
Child Check-in
Compliance Management
Credit Card Processing
CRM
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Donation Management
Donation Tracking
Donor Management
Electronic Payments
Event Management
For Religious Organizations
Fund Accounting
Fund Management
General Ledger
Member Communication
Member Directory
Member Portal
Membership Management
Mobile Access
Multi-Location
Online Calendar
Online Giving
Pledge Management
Recurring/Subscription Billing
Reporting & Statistics
Small Group Management
Volunteer Management
Worship Planning

Realm Integrations

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Constant Contact

Planning Center

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Realm User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

55%

36%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.1

Susan G.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2021

Great church management software

I have loved using Realm, it's easy to use, the report feature is crucial and it is reasonably priced.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Our congregation loves the online giving feature, the directory and the communication tools.

Cons:

Not all of our congregation members were able to find the communications easy to use.

Audra N.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

Realm Church Management Software

We are overall satisfied with both the functionality and support.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The simplicity of Realm is what I like the most. We do not have to invest a huge amount of time getting staff to understand the modules. The system is intuitive and able to handle complex workflows.

Cons:

We do have some functionality that hasn’t been deployed. I wish there was an easy way to take a look at the functionality prior to a decision to implement.

Reasons for switching to Realm

We switched to take advantage of newer platform and functionality.

Loseke L.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Good product and always improving

Tech support is very helpful if you just need basic help in making something work. They don't seem to know the "big picture" to make suggestions or improvements on what you are asking. However their developers are very accessible, so I like that I can reach someone else with a question or when I need guidance on setting up something.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 4

Value for money

Customer support

Previously 5

Functionality

Pros:

It is very user-friendly and easy to train new employees on it. Being a new product, they are constantly updating and improving on the features. It was developed from years of software experience, so it is very relevant in everyday church use.

Cons:

Several of the newer releases address needs we've been asking for, but they are done in a somewhat complicated way. It addresses the need, but not as directly and simply as I would like. I feel like they need to take a step back from some new features and refine and improve what they currently offer.

Reasons for choosing Realm

We mainly looked at Realm because we were already an ACS Client. The little bit that I looked around, I didn't find a product that offered everything that we had with People Suite. We are using Planning Center for our facility usage and our worship team uses it for volunteer management. It doesn't offer enough features that we need for it to be our main church database software.

Reasons for switching to Realm

People Suite was extremely comprehensive and gave us everything we needed, but it was VERY difficult to train new employees on it. We had 3 different pieces, which we had added over many years and I was here from the start so I learned it slowly. To bring a new employee up to speed on everything was very labor intensive and took weeks/months to get them trained on just the basics. Realm offers most of what we had before, at a lower price and it is much more user-friendly and intuitive.

Kim S.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

Review of Realm

It is a love hate relationship. As a smaller church without professional tech help and only one person to implement it has been a struggle to move forward. The guides sometimes are not updated to reflect recent changes or stop short of explaining how feature will work ie. What I need to do to get desired outcome. It is a trial and error. The videos sometimes just show features but don’t go into detail if you want this outcome do this kind of instruction. Features work differently in Realm as the admin than a regular congregant on connect - it becomes confusing trying to learn two different ways of accessing what I need and communicating that to congregants.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The online database and connectivity with congregants who will use the app.

Cons:

Congregants who refuse to use the app. Struggle learning the system from admin side - congregants complain not user friendly. People still having glitches with sign in so they have abandoned using it. To meaning settings required to opt in to notifications.

Reasons for switching to Realm

Online accessibility- new pastor to used it at previous church.

Kelly J.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

Realm is easy to use and has data at my fingertips!

Great support and prompt help. Tons of resources to learn more online. I love having one place to go for everything - check-in, member data-base, directory, giving, registration/events, etc.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use. I can add, edit, unactivate, or even delete profiles in seconds. Online giving is the best! Having used other providers, the ability to create separate giving page links, funds, text giving is far superior to any other product I have tried. Plus, it all pulls over into reports got me to look at YTD data in a moment.

Cons:

Integration of Pathways. We still struggle with utilizing this tool as it seems cumbersome. And when an event is created in a group, it can't be shared outside that group. I would love group events to show up in "Registrations" with a way to hide repeating events or have repeating events show up as just 1 event with the next one shown. I also would appreciate the ability to delete profiles that gave 7+ years ago. We have no need to keep them. Wish there was a service planning option so we didn't need to use Planning Center anymore!

Reasons for choosing Realm

To have everything in one place - database, check-in, registrations, etc. Planning Center had not yet released all of these options.

Reasons for switching to Realm

Ease of use and for member access. ACS still functioned and looked like an old DOS program.

LESLIE O.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

Glad we chose Realm

Getting used to a new system is never easy, but with use I'm very comfortable with Realm. The reporting is very helpful, and managing the data is pretty straight forward.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

We haven't encountered any glitches in Realm. It works as it is supposed to. Once you get used to how things work in Realm, it's easy to use.

Cons:

There are features I requested be added to Realm. These requests have not been acted upon.

Reasons for choosing Realm

I liked the fact that Realm had a more advanced version available. We didn't need all of the higher priced option's features, but it gave me confidence that Realm would be a quality product.

Reasons for switching to Realm

We Share was purchased by another company who dropped all the products we were using. We had to find a new company.

Bruce F.

Verified reviewer

Civic & Social Organization

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

CRM system for churches

Realm is an excellent CRM system for churches and has the added benefit of offering (for additional cost) an integrated accounting system. Customer support hours and level of services are just fine. It takes a while for staff to catch on to its power and Excel skills for a few staff are critical for custom reporting. Cost is very reasonable considering its power and customer service support.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Realm is a very well constructed CRM system for churches, not surprising consindering how long ACST (maker of Realm) has been in business. It has an integrated donations system. You can buy (which we did) the integrated accounting module, thus eliminating the need to double post donation summary information. Customer support is excellent. Customers get to suggest and vote on enhancements.

Cons:

Conversion to Realm should have been easier. I'd like to be able to construct queries like in any database system using parentheses to bracket query logic. It is overkill for many small (under 100 Average Sunday Attendance) churches in my opinion.

Reasons for choosing Realm

1. Integrated accounting system. 2. Completeness, robustness of the CRM systerm, including mobile app and integrated donation system. 3. Customer support hours and cost (no additional cost) 4. Stability, experience of ACST 5. Cloud-based system; security of data

Reasons for switching to Realm

August 2019. This was one aspect of working with ACST that should have gone better. In particular, a better explanation of the system fields Realm uses should have been provided.

Verified

Reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Strong Software in a Frustrating Box

Compared to our previous ChMS, Realm is very good, and the frustrations are surpassed by a solid experience and feature set.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Realm does almost anything you would need a church management software suite to do, and does it well: tracking attendance, giving, financial transactions; keeping family and sacramental records; providing good communications and volunteer coordination features. It even integrates with ConstantContact and the web interface is intuitive and keeps improving.

Cons:

Realm does so much so well--but it isn't good at anything out of the box. For instance, each household in Realm must have a "head of household" --an antiquated notion of family dynamics that isn't necessary. The structure of reports--and what reports are available by default--are limited and can be frustratingly to customize on the fly.

Reasons for choosing Realm

Realm was recommended by other churches, and we liked working with a company we already knew and trusted.

Reasons for switching to Realm

ACS was too cumbersome, slow, and not cloud-based. While ACS did everything we needed, the features and data were not well integrated.

Catherine R.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed August 2024

Excellent Support System

Real is a relatively intuitive platform, but the support system available to the user is truly what makes

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The Realm support team are tremendously helpful, patient when we have questions or need instruction, thoughtful when crafting solutions, professional and polite. All our interactions with the Realm team have been very positive, and it is a relief to hear the voice of folks like [sensitive content hidden] on the other end of our calls with we need assistance!

Cons:

It sometimes difficult to make corrections or back out entries/actions when simple mistakes are made.

Tamara W.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed December 2024

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