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Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses MinistryPlatform? MinistryPlatform is designed for large churches looking for the full scope of Church Management features baked into a platform that can be extended by customers and third parties. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 49 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: ACS Technologies - **Founded**: 1978 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate - **Target Audience**: 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Canada, United States ## Features - Accounting Integration - Attendance Tracking - Data Import/Export - Donation Management - Event Management - For Religious Organizations - Media Library - Member Communication - Member Directory - Membership Management - Online Calendar - Online Giving - Pledge Management - Scripture Database - Small Group Management - Third-Party Integrations - Volunteer Management - Worship Planning ## Integrations (20 total) - Ekklesia 360 - Engiven Cryptocurrency Donation Platform - Events2HVAC - GiveCentral - InThrMa EMS - Intulse - Kindrid - MortarStone - Online Giving - Protect My Ministry - Pushpay - Realm Accounting - SecureGive - SendGrid - Tithe.ly ... and 5 more integrations ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Church Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/20046/church-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Church Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/20046/church-management/software) - [Worship Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/31100/worship/software) - [Church Accounting Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/30902/church-accounting/software) ## Alternatives 1. [Planning Center](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/76708/planning-center) — 4.7/5 (1137 reviews) 2. [Clearstream](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/158103/clearstream) — 4.8/5 (656 reviews) 3. [Tithely Church Management](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/132513/breeze-chms) — 4.8/5 (623 reviews) 4. [ChurchTrac](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/125787/churchtrac) — 4.8/5 (859 reviews) 5. [Chmeetings](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/184192/chmeetings) — 4.9/5 (154 reviews) ## Reviews ### "MinistryPlatform" — 4.0/5 > **Jo** | *1 July 2025* | Nonprofit Organisation Management | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is very flexible, allowing us to set up to meet the most of our needs possible. It can be paired with other tools to keep workload down. > > **Cons**: It's flexibility can make it hard to set up. Also, it can feel like multiple databases, with data in each that isn't always easy to find. > > Overall, it has served us well enough. It has more capabilities than we use so we have room to grow. ----- ### "Ministry Platform for Mega Church" — 4.0/5 > **Lissa** | *19 December 2025* | Nonprofit Organisation Management | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: We currently utilize Ministry Platform to house all people data for volunteers as well as employees. It has been helpful is communicating important information to select groups of people as we decide. When it comes to the big church events that we put together, we use MP to blast the information to all volunteers for updates and information. > > **Cons**: There are multiple steps to complete different tasks and sometimes it can become cumbersome or confusing which way to choose and what is the better option. When it comes to sending out email blast - you have to create a group to send it to first and from the training that I received you can't delete someone from that group because it would effect something else. Rather it is better to create a whole new group or choose an end date for that specific person. We've had a person that was separated involuntarily that was still receiving manager information directly from MP because their profile wasn't end dated. > > Overall it functions and does what I need it to do. My primary role is inputting and tracking background check information and ensuring that when records expire we are notified and that function works really well. We have not lost any information and find that when it comes to holding the info we put it, it does really well. ----- ### "We love MP\!" — 5.0/5 > **Christopher** | *25 April 2022* | Religious Institutions | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: We love how customizable the software is. It has a ton of available integrations, as well as an open API, which makes it great to integrate with other platforms, when needed. Also, it seems like we can always \& endlessly customize/create the Platform to our needs. We love how PocketPlatform is directly integrated with Ministry Platform so we can tailor the user experience perfectly to what we know about them in regards to how they are engaged with our church. > > **Cons**: I don't know that I would necessarily mark this is a con, especially since the Next Gen platform is out, but MP is so powerful, that sometimes the power of the system overshadows the need for a really easy user experience. It can be a bit tough or cumbersome to navigate/use without training...we do try to tailor the user roles so they don't see more than necessary. The only other thing would be event registration. There have been many improvements to this software in the event space, but would love it to function more like the ease (\& overall aesthetic) of Planning Center Registrations. > > Overall, the software is so powerful and the staff at Ministry Platform are GREAT. ----- ### "Does Everything If You're an IT Guru" — 2.0/5 > **Daniel** | *13 January 2022* | Nonprofit Organisation Management | Recommendation rating: 1.0/10 > > **Pros**: Ministry Platform is an ideal church management software if you are an IT expert. It can do whatever you want if you have the know-how and patience to make it work. The developers would work with our church on whatever we wanted, but it came at the cost of being terribly user-friendly and nearly impossible to roll out. Still, the software proved to be able to do anything. > > **Cons**: At the time that I used Ministry Platform, I was a a pastor at a megachurch and the verdict on Ministry Platform was pretty unanimous. It was terribly hard to to use and difficult to implement. The program felt like I was using DOS again. I had to remember certain commands and functions that if were not followed perfectly, nothing would work. The simplest functions like check-in required our IT team to be present to trouble shoot. > > My overall experience with Ministry Platform was not positive. It was a terribly difficult program to learn, to teach, and to implement. Ultimately, my former church stopped using it and moved to Planning Center. ----- ### "Amazingingly Customizable, but sometime to a weakness" — 5.0/5 > **Joshua** | *15 January 2021* | Religious Institutions | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: There are several things that are pros about this software, and in most regards superior to other packages on the market: 1. Customization: This software is almost entirely customizable to the needs of your church. This is a major selling point for Ministry Platform. If you can dream it, you can pretty much do it. 2. Integrations: This software has many out of the box integrations with other packages from mail services, to background check systems, and has a full REST API for custom integrations that many have done or are doing (a few I've seen or used are digital signage, church app integrations with several app companies and authentication for Church Online Platform). 4. Community and Staff: The community is great. The community is good with other software packages, but ThinkMinistry attempts to foster a lot of inter-church communication and collaboration and it shows. We were a church that has used Shelby software for many decades and our experience with community under thinkministry has been superior. The staff are very very friendly and will do whatever they can to fulfill you needs in the situation you church finds you in. Sometimes they cant, but if they can they usually do. A++. 5. "The Grid." Being able to view all related data in a birds eye view without have to run reports saves you time. It isn't always pretty, but the power behind it is immense. 6. Full Access to "Your Data." I'll leave a quote from an employee friend of another ChMS... "We'd never do that." > > **Cons**: There are probably a few more pros, but I ran out of space... There are a couple things I wish were better about Ministry Platform: 1. I do miss the integration Shelby has between their Membership programs and their finance programs. Because ThinkMinistry does not have their own Financials software they have to integrate as best they can with what's available. That being said, they have done a great job and work to build most anything your church needs to accomplish your work. 2. Some effects of being extremely customizable software: Some Church Management Systems have better out-of-the-box reports and views. If you are a smaller church with no staff that have a basic understanding of a computer language in their past it may present some difficulties in customizing views and SQL queries. However, this can be overcome by interacting with their Professional Services department who can build pretty much anything you need, and the community interacts at a level that much can be done just in that. > > We used to have another Church Management System, and after decades of use our actual utilization stayed pretty much stagnant (to the point where our business manager who had much experience with it strongly believed that ChMSs were glorified address books). Since moving to Ministry Platform we have been continuously integrating systems moving our staff away from data entry to ministry. We are a church of around 1,000 and have no dedicated or volunteer computer programmer. Your story with Ministry Platform could be more glowing than ours if you do. If you are in the same boat as us, as long as you have someone interested in expanding your use and can run with it you can be greatly successful. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/110437/ministryplatform?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/110437/ministryplatform) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data