Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review For our church size (1000 weekly attendees), Touchpoint has been a great option for us. We moved from a legacy server based system to Touchpoint which has brought a much needed transition to a web-based product with all its advantages. The various features that stand out in our use of Touchpoint includes: good child-care check-in process, the integration of volunteer background checks with third party vendors, increasing integration with accounting packages like
Sage Intacct , strong contributions module with flexibility on selecting various providers for the front end, generally intuitive ease of use combined with good flexibility to tailor to our needs.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review Connects well with online merchant processors for ACH and Credit card gifts Integrates well with our accounting software (Sage Intacct) Retreat and event management that require fees is also very robust. Read full review Cons "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 Read full review The onboarding/training process was not as smooth as it could have been. As new features roll-out, sometimes the communication is not as clear as it could be. Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review We moved from Shelby to Touchpoint 5 years ago. Although Shelby has moved on to the web, it has been a more recent development after a 40 year history as a server based product. We wanted to go with a web-based option that started on the web.
Read full review Return on Investment 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) Read full review Touchpoint's value has been in the ability of staff and lay leaders to be able to connect with and manage others. Read full review ScreenShots