ChurchTrac Online Review - why 3.9 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Mar 25, 2022

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What is ChurchTrac Online?

ChurchTrac Online is a cloud-based church management software designed to bring all the church apps and features needed together in one simplified ChMS. The software comes with features such as:

• People and Member Management: ChurchTrac is primarily a church database program for church membership. Church managers can make a quick church directory, send bulk emails, create phone trees, and text during church. They can also view profiles of people depending on their function in their organization, such as Member, Donor, or Prospect.
• Check-In & Security: Members can keep their children secure with a ministry check-in kiosk. Church managers can keep track of allergies, name tags, emergency contact information, and more. Security tags assist in guaranteeing that each kid is only released to a family member who has been approved.
• Contributions & Online Giving: Donors can donate online or text a donation. Church managers can make tithe, offer, or pledge reports for their donors.
• Church Accounting & Budgeting: Church managers can make budgets and keep track of their finances. They can also print checks and keep track of their costs and track their cash inflows and outflows by inputting or importing bank transactions from their financial institutions, and keep track of where money is going.
• Worship Planning & Scheduling: Church managers can make service outlines, import songs from SongSelect, and transpose chords. They can also schedule teams and volunteers (not only for their worship team).

ChurchTrac Online is a church management software that started in 2004. The company is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. The company has a workforce of up to 10 employees.

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Who is it best for?

The software is a useful solution for faith-based organizations of all sizes and types. Other than the churches, it can be used by education institutions and healthcare care organizations etc. Some notable clients of the software include Hydrant Church, Revelation Advent Ministries, and others.

Main features and functionalities

The software offers a variety of membership management capabilities such as tracking of people and families along with screening. It manages groups and tracks attendance and facilitates printing of roll sheets and attendance reports. The software also helps in the tracking of contributions and pledges along with printing of contribution reports.

ChurchTrac Online offers calendar for scheduling and management of events. It also facilitates tracking of expenses, setting up of budgets, printing of checks, and managing the spending. Other important capabilities include task management, event management, newsletter management, volunteer management, member directory and profiles, pledge management, and others.

What is the actual cost?

ChurchTrac offers a free plan and two license pricing options; Standard and Plus.

• The Standard plan starts at $6 per month.
• The Plus plan starts at $18 per month.

The Free plan cokes with features such as Manage People & Families, User Accounts & Security, Free Imports & Backups, Print Reports and Directories, Send Email, SMS and Phone Messages, and Tech Support Included.

The Standard comes with everything in Free Plan, plus Track Giving & Pledges, Accept Online Donations, Child Check-In, Track Attendance, Volunteer Management, Event Sign-ups, Basic Scheduling, Church Connect Portal, Priority Support, etc.

The Plus plan comes with everything in Standard, plus Manage Finances, Create Budgets, Track Deposits & Spending, Monitor Fund Balances, Advanced Scheduling w/ SMS Invites, Plan Worship Services, Manage Song Library, Schedule Teams & Volunteers, and SMS Messaging.

ITQlick pricing score is 3.4 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for ChurchTrac Online. You can also find here pricing information from ChurchTrac Online's website.

Pros

• ChurchTrac is straightforward to use
• The software allows users to pull and print reports of the information they put in
• The software helps users stay organized with little effort, and it is very time-saving

Cons

• Users find it impossible to click on a transaction and go to it

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of ChurchTrac Online vs alternative software solutions.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Is ChurchTrac Online right for you or your business?

Churches seeking a robust yet cost-effective solution for member administration and church management will find ChurchTrac ideal. ChurchTrac is a useful tool for tracking expenditures, monitoring money, and creating budgets to plan for the future. ChurchTrac has customers like North Oaks Baptist Church, Southside Baptist Church, Iglesia Bautista Genesis, Pinewoods Chapel, Grace Center, Emerald Coast Fellowship, etc.