Feature Comparison

Every feature in Church Admin is privacy protected. Give church members a subscriber-level login and they can edit their own details and set their own privacy options.

Most modules can display content on the public pages of your church website using a shortcode, block or Elementor widget. If the content could contain personal data, it’s password protected by default.

In the free version

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Address List — store household details securely, organise people into member types, display a login-only directory. Users set their own privacy. More✓✓
Calendar — one-off and recurring events including nth-day (e.g. first Sunday), with monthly and yearly PDFs. Table style · List style✓✓
Sermon Podcasting — upload audio and video sermons with series, produce a podcast feed, show Apple, Spotify and Amazon links. Example✓✓

Premium adds — people

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Attendance — record and analyse service attendance, track individual histories, and spot people who’ve been absent a while–✓
Follow Up — funnels for newcomers and contacts, assigning tasks to team members and tracking progress–✓
Key Dates — birthdays and wedding anniversaries, with automated celebration emails–✓
Automations — trigger actions from dates, form submissions or changes to a person’s record–✓
Pastoral Visitation — organise your visitation programme with appointments and reminders to your pastoral team–✓
Units — organise people into congregations, campuses or departments. Useful for multi-site churches–✓
Spiritual Gifts — record identified gifts and view a congregation-wide summary–✓
Acts — help people set intentional goals for outreach and record the steps they take–✓

Premium adds — communication

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Email — send to everyone or targeted groups: a ministry team, all the men, parents. Uses native WordPress email, SMTP, or the Mailersend API*–✓
SMS — text everyone or targeted groups. We recommend Twilio*–✓
Push notifications — reach app users instantly–✓
Chat — internal messaging for ministry teams, keeping everyone’s phone numbers private (unlike WhatsApp)–✓
Contact Form — routes enquiries to the right staff member and can create a directory record–✓

Premium adds — serving and groups

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Schedules (Rotas) — who is doing what at each service, with reminders sent manually or automatically by email and SMS. Volunteers see just their own dates. More–✓
Sites and Services — set up as many sites and services as you need, including ad-hoc ones like weddings–✓
Ministries — build teams and communicate with them, with online signup and leader approval, or printable forms. Example–✓
Small groups — organise groups with online and PDF signup, maps, metrics, and multilevel oversight for large churches. Example–✓
Classes — courses with start and end dates, enrolment and session tracking. Ideal for Alpha or confirmation classes. Example–✓
Sessions — attendance at individual class or group sessions, with sign-in sheets and per-session notes–✓

Premium adds — events, bookings and buildings

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Events — free and paid ticketed events, payable online or offline. Example–✓
Service Prebooking — let people book a place at a service in advance, with capacity limits. More–✓
Facilities — manage bookable rooms and spaces, handling internal requests and external hire enquiries–✓
Inventory — track equipment, furniture and consumables with condition, location and value–✓

Premium adds — giving

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Giving forms — one-off and monthly donations via PayPal, and one-off via Stripe. Fund dropdown for directed giving, full reporting, CSV export, and Gift Aid CSV for UK churches. Example–✓
Pledges — record and track pledged giving against what actually comes in. More–✓

Premium adds — safeguarding

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Safeguarding — securely record concerns and follow-up actions. Your safeguarding team gets instant email and push notification, and only those with the right role can see the log–✓
Children’s Ministry — age-related groups, safeguarding documentation, onboarding of new leaders, and check-in/check-out PDFs–✓

Premium adds — app and content

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Our Church App — an iOS and Android app for your congregation. Very customisable, and you can add your own pages simply. More–✓
Bible Readings — daily reading notes for your congregation, with push and email notification when a note is published. More–✓
Prayer Requests — collect and moderate requests for login-only display. Once published they can be sent out automatically by email and push. Private requests can be limited to the pastoral team. Example–✓

* Email and SMS are sent through a third-party service. Mailersend and Twilio accounts are free to open and bill you separately for what you send — the plugin doesn’t add any charge on top.

Pricing

You can upgrade from within the free version on your website, or subscribe here.

USDEURGBP
Small congregations
under 50 people
$50 / year——
Monthly$9.99€9.99£9.99
Quarterly$29.07€28£28
Annual
equivalent to 2 months free
$99.99€99.99£99.99

Or download the free version from WordPress.org and try it first.