Church Admin Plugin was created because churches don’t need more software – they need simple tools that support ministry rather than distract from it.
Built by a pastor, who understands church life, volunteers, and limited admin time. Andy Moyle has led two churches in the United Kingdom and initially started the plugin to improve church management. It has grown as his church has grown and some of the 1,000 users make suggestions and ask for features.
Yes — Church Admin Plugin installs on an existing WordPress site, the same way any other plugin does. If your church already has a WordPress website, you can be running in an afternoon. If you don’t, you’ll need one first; most churches host with a standard shared provider for around £5–10 a month. You don’t need technical skills beyond ordinary WordPress use — if you can add a page, you can use this.
Church Admin Plugin is $50 per year for churches up to 50 people and $99 per year for larger churches, priced per church rather than per user or per member. Hosted alternatives such as ChurchSuite and Planning Center typically charge monthly, scaling with your membership. The free version — people and family records, sermon podcasting, and a calendar — is available from the WordPress.org plugin directory with no time limit. Premium comes with a full refund within 14 days.
Yes — Church Admin Plugin places no limit on the number of administrators. Because it runs on WordPress, you assign access through standard WordPress user roles, so a pastor, an administrator and a rota coordinator can each have appropriate permissions without paying per-seat fees. Pricing is per church ($50 or $99 per year), not per user.
The main difference is where your data lives. ChurchSuite and Planning Center are hosted services — your church’s records sit on their servers, and you pay a monthly fee that grows with your membership. Church Admin Plugin runs inside your own WordPress site, so the data stays in your own database, and you pay a flat annual fee. Those services offer more depth in some areas; this plugin is built for small to medium churches (roughly 30–300 people) that want the everyday essentials without the complexity or the recurring cost.
Your data is stored in your own WordPress database on your own hosting — it never sits on a third-party SaaS server. For UK and EU churches this makes GDPR compliance considerably simpler, because you remain the data controller and there’s no international data transfer to account for. The plugin includes consent tracking and data-removal tools.
It’s built by Andy Moyle, a pastor who has led two churches in the UK and wrote the plugin for his own church’s needs. Around 1,000 churches now use it, and many features come from their suggestions. If you stop subscribing, your data doesn’t go anywhere — it’s in your own WordPress database in standard MySQL tables, and the free modules keep working.
And get our free Church Admin Manual as a PDF download and a discount code off the Premium.
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