Church Community Builder vs. Planning Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Church Community Builder
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Church Community Builder in Colorado Springs offers their church management applications designed to manage church involvement, schedule events and register attendees, and manage giving.N/A
Planning Center
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Planning Center in Carlsbad offers modular church management applications, providing CRM, tithe management, event registration and attendance, and volunteer resource scheduling.
$14
per month
Pricing
Church Community BuilderPlanning Center
Editions & Modules
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Calendar
14+
per month
Check-ins
14+
per month
Giving
14+
per month
Groups
14+
per month
Registration
14+
per month
Services
14+
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Church Community BuilderPlanning Center
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—Prices increase based on the number of members and attendees.
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Church Community BuilderPlanning Center
Considered Both Products
Church Community Builder

No answer on this topic

Planning Center
Chose Planning Center
Planning Center provides more integrated people management than FellowshipOne or CCB at a better monthly price. Planning Center Giving is more competitive than Pushpay and also available at a better rate. Planning Center Services is hands-down the standard for worship planning …
Chose Planning Center
At one point, I was presented with both Asana and Trello as helpful tools to facilitate teamwork and collaboration amongst a large group of people. However, when it comes to putting on productions/services/events, Planning Center just seemed to have everything we need. I have …
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User Ratings
Church Community BuilderPlanning Center
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(2 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Church Community BuilderPlanning Center
Likelihood to Recommend
Church Community Builder
Church Community Builder is ideal if you are seeking to connect your church members to your pastoral staff and to one another in an effective way. If you are looking to plan major events (like our church's 25th Anniversary Service, for example; or our annual Marriage Conference), then Church Community Builder will be incredibly helpful to you! Church Community Builder is also helpful for distributing items like membership applications and mass emails.
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Planning Center
Planning Center is incredibly helpful if you are in the business of putting on events, performances, or productions. In such situations, Planning Center will help you coordinate with a large group of people, clearly showing who is expected to do what during the order of a service. If you are planning a major event (a wedding service, a major birthday party, a work event, or any kind of production), Planning Center will foster both teamwork and clarity. The only scenario I can envision Planning Center not being helpful would be a more laissez-faire type of event, (like a "come and go" reception).
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Pros
Church Community Builder
  • Helps church members connect with one another.
  • Provides church leaders with church members contact info readily and efficiently.
  • Helps register attendance at retreats and other church events and functions.
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Planning Center
  • Volunteer Management
  • Scheduling
  • File Hosting
  • Communication tools
  • Automated reminders
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Cons
Church Community Builder
  • "Processes" option can sometimes be a bit confusing
  • Mass communication process (via email) is a bit confusing
  • Mass communication process (via text message) seems to be lacking
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Planning Center
  • Adding files to an item on a playlist can be hard to find outside of that set.
  • Previewing songs on import gives very limited info - can be hard to find the correct one.
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Support Rating
Church Community Builder
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Planning Center
I've not needed to use Planning Center support. In the few instances that I would have thought would "require support," tips and notices popped up on screen letting me know what was happening. There are very VERY few issues that I've found with Planning Center. The interface has been intuitive and powerful, so I've not needed to use their support service.
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Alternatives Considered
Church Community Builder
Far and away, Church Community Builder is an incredibly superior product to PowerChurch. PowerChurch did not nearly feature all of the useful tools that Church Community Builder offers. Church Community Builder's greatest advantage over PowerChurch would be its accompanying Lead App, which allows me as a Pastor to easily pull up the contact information of any church member simply from my iPhone - PowerChurch didn't offer anything even remotely that useful. Choosing Church Community Builder was a clear no brainer.
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Planning Center
At one point, I was presented with both Asana and Trello as helpful tools to facilitate teamwork and collaboration amongst a large group of people. However, when it comes to putting on productions/services/events, Planning Center just seemed to have everything we need. I have never really once given thought to moving on from Planning Center. I'm sure Asana and Trello have much to offer, and I did briefly consider the, but Planning Center (for what we needed) was a grand-slam, home run.
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Return on Investment
Church Community Builder
  • We have seen increased connection between pastoral staff and church members
  • We have been able to more effectively put on excellent church-wide events
  • We have been able to systematize our membership application process (and also keep a better paper trail)
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Planning Center
  • Planning Center Services has become an irreplaceable part of our Sunday gathering preparation
  • Planning Center Music Stand is an invaluable tool for rehearsal and performance of songs each week
  • Planning Center Giving helped us establish easy ways for folks to give online during COVID and beyond
  • Planning Center Registrations helped us navigate attendance issues during COVID, and has always been our go-to for gathering information for Events
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