Realm vs. TouchPoint Software

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Realm
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Realm is a church management system from ACS Technologies, designed to create real ministry opportunities by making it easier for your church family to connect with each other throughout the week.N/A
TouchPoint Software
Score 8.0 out of 10
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TouchPoint Software, now a division of Pursuant, provides what they offer as a robust and flexible yet affordable church management software system for mobile devices and computers that enables and equips church leaders to manage their church, engage their people, and fund their vision.N/A
Pricing
RealmTouchPoint Software
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
RealmTouchPoint Software
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
RealmTouchPoint Software
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User Ratings
RealmTouchPoint Software
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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Support Rating
10.0
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User Testimonials
RealmTouchPoint Software
Likelihood to Recommend
ACS Technologies
In my current project, I am saving the full model into the Realm Database. it takes very little time to integrate into our existing project. So it helps us to save a lot of time and easy to fetch data and CRUD operation with any type of data. and according to our need, we can modify it as well.
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Pursuant
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.
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Pros
ACS Technologies
  • Tracking attendance
  • Running reports, both financial and membership-related
  • Nursery check-in
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Pursuant
  • 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.
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Cons
ACS Technologies
  • As it has all type of necessary feature which should have any Data base.
  • If we can save full structure in Realm easily then i think it will be good for developer.
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Pursuant
  • 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.
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Support Rating
ACS Technologies
Our transition to Realm was fantastic. We had a rep do two days of training with staff. She also provided us with a step-by-step plan for our rollout to the congregation. In addition to the fabulous customer service team, the "help" section of the Realm website is useful--it includes written answers and also video tutorials/webinars. The search function in the help section is built effectively.
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Alternatives Considered
ACS Technologies
From my experience Realm is fatter than SQLite. Realm has less Query and is easy to understand. even new developers also can use it In his/her project. It has a good document so a new developer can read and understand and apply it to the project. SQLite is old and not so easy to understand. we need to add a third-party library to easily use SQLite.
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Pursuant
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.
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Return on Investment
ACS Technologies
  • This is not my area (finance), but efficiency increased when we moved from Church Windows to Realm.
  • Formatted reports are a huge plus--no need to create a merge document for handouts to be in a usable format.
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Pursuant
  • Touchpoint's value has been in the ability of staff and lay leaders to be able to connect with and manage others.
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