Same modules. One bill. Compliant receipts on both sides of the border.
Planning Center is the category's default for a reason — and it's priced one module at a time, each scaling by usage. SundayHQ ships the same operational surface as one product with one flat price, and treats switching as a built feature, not a leap of faith.
SundayHQ
$59/mo
Flat. Every module, unlimited staff. Multi-campus at $179/mo.
Planning Center
$100–250+/mo
Typical fully-equipped total across separately priced modules, per third-party estimates.
Planning Center's People module is free; Check-Ins, Giving, Services, Groups, Calendar, and Registrations are each priced separately by usage. Totals vary by church size and module mix; the range shown is a third-party estimate as of July 2026 — check their pricing page for your exact stack.
| SundayHQ | Planning Center | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | One flat price: $59/mo single campus, $179/mo multi-campus. Every module included, unlimited staff and people. | Per-module: each product priced and scaled independently by usage. Fully equipped commonly lands at $100–250+/mo (third-party estimates). |
| People & assimilation | Households, custom fields, permissioned notes, and a real workflow engine — follow-up pipelines with owners, deadlines, and auto-triggers on first check-in or first gift. | Strong people database (the free base module) with list-based automation; a dedicated assimilation pipeline is thinner out of the box. |
| Giving & receipts | CRA official receipts with split-receipting and gap-tracked sequential serials per legal entity per tax year, plus 501(c)(3) statements — same app, same donor record. | Mature US-native giving; Canadian annual/period statement styles are supported. We found no public documentation of split-receipting or gap-tracked serials — verify with the vendor. |
| Kids check-in & safety | Matched security codes for pickup, rooms that refuse unscreened volunteers, allergy flags, and capacity warnings — included in every tier. | Check-Ins is a mature, widely used module — priced separately and scaled by check-in volume. |
| Services & volunteers | Service plans, song library with CCLI logging, live multi-user plan editing, and decline-and-replace scheduling. | Best-in-class worship planning — the most mature module in the category, and honestly ahead of ours in depth today. |
| Multi-campus | Native from the schema up: campus-scoped roles, org-level rollups, and campuses as separate legal charities with independent receipt sequences. | Supported and positioned via a dedicated multi-campus page; reviewers describe assembled workarounds rather than native-first design. |
| Migration | A built-in Planning Center importer: preview with duplicate and error reports, commit in tracked batches, roll back if it's wrong. Giving history keeps its dates and funds. | Data exports are available; the migration out is yours to plan and execute. |
Competitor details come from Planning Center's public pricing page, help docs, and third-party sources as of July 2026. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we'll correct it.
If your church runs several Planning Center modules and the bill has become a board-meeting conversation, yes — that's exactly the church SundayHQ was built for. You get the same operational loop (people, giving, check-ins, services, groups, events) as one coherent app with one flat line item, plus receipting depth Canadian and cross-border churches specifically need.
If your worship team lives in Services' deepest features and that's the whole reason you're on Planning Center, be honest with yourself: Services is the category benchmark and our planning tools are younger. Try the demo, run a real plan through it, and judge whether what we have covers your Sunday.
The importer maps Planning Center's export formats, dry-runs the whole import with duplicate and error reports, commits in tracked batches, and can roll back. Your giving history arrives with dates and funds intact, so historical receipts still reproduce.
Services has a decade of refinement — rehearsal media workflows, transposition edge cases, integrations. Our services module covers planning, songs, CCLI, and scheduling, but the maturity gap is real.
Their member app is widely regarded as one of the best in the category. Our member experience is an installable portal plus a member app that's newer to the world.
Years of third-party integrations and a large installed base. We're the newer product — which is why the demo is open, no card, before you commit to anything.
In raw feature maturity, yes — Services is the category standard and we say so plainly. The case for switching anyway: one app and one bill instead of six, receipting that satisfies the CRA and the IRS from the same donor record, live multi-user plan editing, and a migration path you can preview before committing. Run a real service plan through the demo and decide with your worship lead in the room.
Yes — that's the point of the importer's design. Gifts arrive with their original dates, funds, and donor links, the import dry-runs first with duplicate and error reports, and it commits in tracked batches that can roll back. Historical receipts remain reproducible after the move.
Church Center is polished, and we won't pretend otherwise. Members get an installable member portal for giving, groups, and kids pre-check-in, plus the SundayHQ member app. The structural difference: everything behind it is one system, so a volunteer's schedule, their group, and their giving live in the same place your staff actually manages.
No implementation fee, no migration service to buy, no contract — plans are month-to-month and the importers are part of the product. The honest cost is your team's time to verify the preview and learn a new tool, which is why the demo church exists: evaluate before a dollar or an hour is committed.
If you only need a plain annual statement, Planning Center's Canadian statement styles may serve you fine. The difference shows up at the edges the CRA audits: split-receipting for galas and benefit events, strictly sequential gap-tracked serials per legal entity per tax year, and void-and-reissue with an audit trail. If your church runs benefit events or multi-charity campuses, that's the gap.
Walk through a working demo church — check a family in, take a gift, issue a receipt, build a service plan. No card, no call, two clicks.