TL;DR: Pushpay costs $199-399/month for giving alone, or $500-1,500+/month bundled with CCB church management. Transaction fees run 2.9% + $0.30 per card, 1% + $0.30 per ACH. Annual contracts are required. The giving UX is the most polished in the space, and the donor analytics are genuinely strong. But this is a premium platform built for large US churches (500+ attendance) with significant giving volume. If your church has fewer than 300 members or operates outside North America, the price and feature gaps make it a poor fit. Tithe.ly at $119/month covers 80-90% of the same functionality.
Pushpay Pricing Quick Reference (2026)
| What You Get | Estimated Monthly Cost | Transaction Fees |
|---|---|---|
| Giving only | $199-$399/mo | Cards: 2.9% + $0.30, ACH: 1% + $0.30 |
| Giving + Church App | $399-$799/mo | Same as above |
| Giving + App + CCB (full suite) | $500-$1,500+/mo | Same as above |
| Enterprise / Multisite | Custom quote | Negotiable |
Pushpay does not publish official pricing. These estimates are based on community reports and user reviews. Annual contracts are standard. Your quote may vary by church size and feature bundle.
What Is Pushpay in 2026?
Pushpay was founded in 2011 in Auckland, New Zealand as a mobile giving platform focused on one goal: make digital giving so easy that church members would actually do it. The company grew rapidly and became the dominant giving platform for large US churches.
Then things changed. In December 2019, Pushpay acquired Church Community Builder (CCB) for US$87.5 million, one of the most established church management systems on the market. In May 2023, the combined entity was taken private by Sixth Street Partners and BGH Capital for NZD $1.3 billion.
Today, Pushpay + CCB is positioned as an all-in-one church engagement platform covering digital giving, a custom church app, church management (via CCB), and donor analytics. The acquisition brought together Pushpay’s giving strength with CCB’s ChMS depth. In theory, it’s a powerful combination. In practice, the integration is still evolving, and the pricing reflects a premium positioning that puts it out of reach for many churches.
Pushpay Pricing in 2026
Here’s the reality: Pushpay does not publish transparent pricing. You need to contact their sales team for a custom quote. This has been a consistent criticism since the early days, and it hasn’t changed post-merger.
Based on publicly available reports, user reviews, and community discussions, here’s what we know:
| Plan | Estimated Cost | What’s Included |
|---|---|---|
| Pushpay Giving | ~$199-$399/month | Digital giving, recurring giving, donor management, reporting |
| Pushpay + Church App | ~$399-$799/month | Everything above + branded mobile app |
| Pushpay + CCB | ~$500-$1,500+/month | Full suite: giving, app, ChMS, analytics |
| Enterprise / Multisite | Custom pricing | Volume discounts, dedicated support, API access |
Transaction fees:
| Payment Method | Fee |
|---|---|
| Credit/Debit Card | ~2.9% + $0.30 |
| ACH / Bank Transfer | ~1% + $0.30 |
Important caveats:
- These are estimates based on community reporting. Your actual quote may vary significantly based on church size, feature bundle, and contract length.
- Pushpay typically requires annual contracts, not month-to-month.
- Setup fees may apply depending on the package.
The bottom line on pricing: Pushpay is the most expensive church giving platform on the market. A mid-size church can easily pay $500-800/month for giving and an app. Compare that to Tithe.ly’s All-Access at $119/month (which now includes the former Breeze ChMS), or Planning Center’s modular approach starting free. Pushpay’s pricing makes sense for churches with large budgets and high giving volume. For everyone else, it’s a hard sell.
What Pushpay Gets Right
1. Digital Giving Is Their Strongest Feature
This is where Pushpay built its reputation, and it’s still among the strongest in the space.
The giving experience is optimized for speed and simplicity. Members can give in under 30 seconds from the app, a web browser, or via text-to-give. The “Quick Give” feature saves payment details so repeat donors can give with a single tap. Recurring giving setup is frictionless, and Pushpay reports that churches using their platform see recurring giving rates significantly higher than the industry average.
In our experience, Pushpay’s giving UI is the most polished in the space. The checkout flow feels more like a consumer fintech app than church software. That matters because every extra tap or form field you add to a giving flow costs you donations. Pushpay understands this better than most.
The donor management dashboard is also strong. Admins get real-time giving reports, donor trends, lapsed giver alerts, and fund breakdowns. For churches that treat generosity as a discipleship metric (not just a finance function), these analytics are genuinely useful.
2. The Custom Church App Is Premium
Pushpay’s branded church app is one of the best available. Your church gets a custom app published under your name in the App Store and Google Play, with your branding, colors, and content.
The app includes:
- In-app giving (one-tap, recurring, fund selection)
- Sermon and media libraries (audio, video, notes)
- Live stream integration
- Push notifications for announcements and engagement
- Prayer requests and prayer wall
- Group and small group features
- Event listings and registration
- Custom content tabs that your team can manage
The app quality is comparable to Subsplash, which is the other major player in the custom church app space. Both are significantly more polished than what you get from Tithe.ly or Planning Center’s Church Center app.
3. CCB Adds Real Church Management Depth
Before the merger, Pushpay’s biggest weakness was the lack of a built-in ChMS. You had great giving and a great app, but nowhere to manage your people. CCB fills that gap.
Church Community Builder has been around since 1999, making it one of the oldest and most mature church management systems. It brings:
- People management with detailed profiles, families, and custom fields
- Groups management with leader tools, attendance tracking, and group search
- Volunteer scheduling with team management and automated reminders
- Event management with registration and check-ins
- Process queues for tracking follow-up workflows (visitor follow-up, baptism prep, membership classes)
- Reporting and data with customizable dashboards
- Check-in for children’s ministry and security
CCB’s process queue system is worth highlighting. It lets you create step-by-step follow-up workflows, such as a new visitor follow-up sequence or a membership application process, and assign each step to specific staff or volunteers. This is more structured than what most competitors offer and genuinely helps churches avoid dropping the ball on pastoral care.
4. High Adoption Rates and Giving Growth
Pushpay’s marketing leans heavily on adoption metrics, and they’re not exaggerating. Churches that implement Pushpay’s giving tools, combined with their adoption playbook and onboarding support, consistently report increases in digital giving.
The company has published case studies showing churches that doubled or tripled their digital giving within the first year. Even accounting for marketing spin, the pattern is real. Pushpay invests heavily in helping churches drive adoption, including training materials, launch strategies, and dedicated customer success managers.
If your church’s primary goal is maximizing digital giving revenue, Pushpay’s track record shows consistent results worth evaluating.
5. Data and Analytics Are Strong
The analytics dashboard goes beyond basic giving reports. Pushpay provides:
- Donor engagement scoring that identifies at-risk givers before they lapse
- Giving trends with year-over-year comparisons
- Campaign tracking for capital campaigns and special offerings
- Engagement metrics that combine giving data with app usage and attendance (via CCB)
- Custom reports for board presentations and financial planning
For churches that want data-driven decision-making around generosity and engagement, Pushpay’s analytics are among the best in the space.
Where Pushpay Falls Short
1. The Price Tag Is Hard to Justify for Most Churches
Let’s be direct: Pushpay is expensive. At $500-800+/month for giving, an app, and CCB, it’s 4-6x the cost of alternatives like Tithe.ly ($119/month for everything, including church management formerly known as Breeze).
For a church with $50,000/month in digital giving, the ROI math might work. For a church with $5,000/month in giving, spending $600+/month on the platform that collects it doesn’t make financial sense.
The annual contract requirement makes this even harder. You’re committing to 12 months of premium pricing before you know whether the adoption rates will materialize for your specific congregation.
2. Quote-Based Pricing Kills Transparency
We’ve said this about Subsplash, and it applies equally here. Not publishing pricing is frustrating for church leaders.
When a church administrator needs to present software costs to their board, “call for a quote” doesn’t cut it. It adds friction to the decision-making process and signals that the product might be out of budget. Compare this to Planning Center’s published pricing or Tithe.ly’s clear tiers, where you can evaluate affordability in 30 seconds.
Pushpay’s pricing model works for large churches with procurement processes and dedicated technology budgets. For the vast majority of churches, it creates an unnecessary barrier.
3. The CCB Integration Is Still Evolving
On paper, Pushpay + CCB is a compelling combination. In practice, the merger hasn’t been seamless.
User reviews consistently mention friction in the integration between Pushpay’s giving/app side and CCB’s ChMS. Data sync issues, inconsistent interfaces between the two platforms, and a learning curve that comes from stitching together two products built by different teams at different times.
CCB itself, while feature-rich, has an older interface that hasn’t been modernized at the same pace as newer competitors. Users coming from cleaner platforms like Tithely Church Management or Planning Center often find CCB’s admin experience cluttered and dated.
The 2023 private equity acquisition adds another layer of uncertainty. Private equity ownership in church tech has a mixed track record, and some users worry about product direction, support quality, and future pricing changes.
4. US-Only Giving Infrastructure
Pushpay supports credit/debit cards and ACH bank transfers. That’s it.
There’s no M-Pesa. No Paystack. No Flutterwave. No MTN Mobile Money. No USSD payments. No multi-currency giving.
For a church in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, or South Africa, Pushpay’s giving platform simply doesn’t function. Mobile money accounts for the vast majority of digital transactions in sub-Saharan Africa. A giving platform that only accepts US bank cards and ACH is irrelevant in that context.
Even for UK diaspora churches with members who send offerings from overseas, the lack of international payment support creates friction. Read our article on why US church software doesn’t work for African churches for a deeper look at this problem.
5. No WhatsApp Integration
Pushpay communicates through its app, email, SMS, and push notifications. There is no WhatsApp integration.
In Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and much of Asia, WhatsApp is the primary communication channel. It’s not an alternative to SMS. It IS how people communicate. Open rates on WhatsApp exceed 98%, compared to roughly 20% for email.
If your congregation relies on WhatsApp for announcements, prayer chains, group coordination, and pastoral communication, Pushpay can’t reach them where they are. For more on this, check our deep dive on WhatsApp as a church communication tool.
6. Overkill for Small and Medium Churches
Pushpay was built for churches running 500+ in weekly attendance. The feature set, the pricing, the onboarding process, and the sales model all reflect that positioning.
A church of 100-200 members doesn’t need donor engagement scoring, enterprise analytics, or a dedicated customer success manager. They need simple giving, a member directory, and good communication tools. Pushpay delivers all of that, but at a price point and complexity level that doesn’t match the need.
If you’re a smaller church, Tithe.ly (which now includes Breeze’s church management features) offers 80% of the functionality at 20% of the cost.
Pushpay vs. the Competition
| Feature | Pushpay + CCB | Tithe.ly | Planning Center | Subsplash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly Cost | $500-1,500+ (estimated) | $119/month (All-Access) | $100-200+/month | Quote-based |
| Transparent Pricing | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Online Giving | Best-in-class (US) | Strong (US) | Good (US) | Strong (US) |
| Custom Church App | Premium | Included in All-Access | Church Center (functional) | Best-in-class |
| ChMS Depth | Deep (CCB) | Mid (includes former Breeze) | Deep | Basic-Mid |
| Donor Analytics | Best-in-class | Basic | Good | Basic |
| Worship Planning | No | Basic | Best-in-class | No |
| No | No | No | No | |
| Mobile Money | No | No | No | No |
| Multi-Currency | No | No | No | No |
| Offline Support | No | No | No | No |
| Best For | Large US churches | Budget all-in-one | Operational depth | Media-heavy churches |
The short version:
- Pushpay wins on giving quality, donor analytics, and adoption support. Best for large US churches with significant giving volume and the budget to match.
- Tithe.ly wins on bundled value. One price, one login, everything included at $119/month.
- Planning Center wins on feature depth, especially worship planning and operational tools.
- Subsplash wins on custom app quality and media tools.
Who Should Use Pushpay?
Pushpay is a great fit if:
- You’re a mid-to-large US church (500+ weekly attendance) with a significant technology budget
- Maximizing digital giving adoption and revenue is your top priority
- You want a premium branded church app that members will actually use
- You need a mature ChMS with structured follow-up workflows (CCB’s process queues)
- Data-driven donor engagement and analytics matter to your leadership
- You’re willing to sign an annual contract and invest in the onboarding process
Pushpay is NOT a good fit if:
- Your church has fewer than 300 members and a limited software budget
- You need transparent, published pricing before engaging with sales
- Your church operates outside North America
- Your members give through mobile money, not credit cards
- WhatsApp is your primary communication channel
- You need worship planning tools (Pushpay doesn’t include them)
- You’re looking for a simple, affordable solution without a long sales cycle
- You want month-to-month flexibility without annual commitments
What Real Users Say
From reviews across Capterra, G2, GetApp, and church technology communities:
What they love:
- “Our digital giving increased by 60% in the first six months. The adoption playbook really works.”
- “The giving app is incredibly smooth. Our members actually prefer giving through the app over writing checks now.”
- “CCB’s process queues changed how we do visitor follow-up. Nobody falls through the cracks anymore.”
- “Push notifications through the church app get way better engagement than email blasts.”
- “The customer success team helped us launch strategically, not just technically.”
What they wish was better:
- “The price is brutal. We’re paying over $700/month and it’s hard to justify to our finance committee.”
- “CCB’s interface feels dated compared to newer platforms. It works, but it’s not pretty.”
- “The integration between Pushpay and CCB isn’t as seamless as they advertise. There are still rough edges.”
- “We got locked into an annual contract and realized halfway through that we were overpaying for features we don’t use.”
- “No worship planning tools means we still need Planning Center Services on top of everything else.”
- “We wish it supported international giving for our members overseas.”
The pattern is clear: churches love the giving performance and the app quality. The pricing, the CCB integration experience, and the lack of global support are the recurring pain points.
The Private Equity Factor
It’s worth addressing the elephant in the room. In May 2023, Pushpay was taken private by Sixth Street Partners and BGH Capital in a deal valued at NZD $1.3 billion. The company is no longer publicly traded on the NZX or ASX.
This matters for a few reasons:
Less public transparency. As a public company, Pushpay had to disclose financials, product roadmaps, and strategic direction. Now private, that transparency is gone. Churches have less visibility into the company’s long-term direction.
Pricing trends. Private equity ownership typically optimizes for revenue growth. Some users have reported price increases following the transition to private ownership. When a platform already charges premium prices and then removes public accountability, the pricing trajectory is worth watching.
Support quality. User reviews are mixed on support since the ownership change. Some churches report the same great support they’ve always had. Others notice changes in response times and the depth of assistance.
Our take: The Pushpay + CCB combination is a strong product today. But if you’re committing to a premium-priced, annual-contract platform, it’s worth understanding the ownership structure and asking your sales rep direct questions about product roadmap, pricing guarantees, and contract flexibility.
The Verdict
Pushpay built its reputation on one thing: making church giving better than anyone else. And in 2026, they still deliver on that promise. The giving experience is polished, the donor analytics are among the strongest available, and the adoption playbook genuinely works. Adding CCB to the mix gives churches a mature ChMS with real workflow depth.
But premium features come with premium pricing.
For large US churches with the budget and giving volume to justify the investment, Pushpay + CCB is a legitimate powerhouse. If digital giving is your top strategic priority and you have $500+/month to spend on church technology, Pushpay’s track record speaks for itself.
For churches under 500 in attendance, the math gets harder. You can get 80-90% of the functionality from Tithe.ly’s All-Access plan at a fraction of the cost, or piece together Planning Center modules for exactly what you need.
And for churches outside North America, Pushpay’s limitations are fundamental, not just inconvenient. No M-Pesa, no Paystack, no WhatsApp, no multi-currency, no offline mode. These aren’t edge cases for churches in Africa, Latin America, or the UK diaspora. They’re table stakes. Pushpay’s premium positioning is anchored entirely in the US church market, and that’s unlikely to change.
Our recommendation:
- If you’re a large US church (500+ attendance) with a strong giving culture, Pushpay is worth the conversation. Request a demo, negotiate on pricing, and ask for a trial period before committing to an annual contract.
- If you’re a mid-size US church weighing options, compare Pushpay’s quote against Tithe.ly All-Access ($119/month) and Planning Center. You might get 90% of the value at 25% of the cost.
- If you’re a church outside North America, Pushpay doesn’t solve your core challenges. If you’re outside North America, see our guide to choosing church management software for region-specific recommendations.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Pushpay cost?
Pushpay doesn’t publish pricing. Based on community reports, giving-only plans start around $199-399/month, and full bundles with the church app and CCB can range from $500 to $1,500+/month depending on church size and features. Annual contracts are standard. Contact Pushpay directly for an exact quote.
What happened with Pushpay and Church Community Builder?
Pushpay acquired Church Community Builder (CCB) in December 2019 for US$87.5 million, combining Pushpay’s giving and app platform with CCB’s church management system. In 2023, the combined entity was taken private by Sixth Street Partners and BGH Capital. Today, Pushpay + CCB is marketed as an integrated church engagement and management platform.
Is Pushpay worth it for small churches?
For most small churches (under 300 members), Pushpay is difficult to justify financially. The pricing is designed for larger congregations with significant giving volume. Small churches will find better value with Tithe.ly (free giving plan, $119/month for everything including church management) or Planning Center (free tier available).
How does Pushpay compare to Tithe.ly?
Pushpay offers a more polished giving experience and stronger donor analytics. Tithe.ly offers far more transparent and affordable pricing, with the All-Access bundle at $119/month including giving, ChMS, an app, a website, and worship tools. Pushpay is better for large churches focused on giving optimization. Tithe.ly is better for churches that want solid features at a reasonable price. Read our full Tithe.ly review for details.
How does Pushpay compare to Planning Center?
They solve different problems. Pushpay is giving-first with a church app and ChMS bolted on. Planning Center is operations-first with modular apps for worship, check-ins, groups, and more. Planning Center’s worship planning tools (Services) are among the strongest available, something Pushpay doesn’t offer at all. Planning Center’s pricing is also transparent and modular. See our Planning Center review for the full breakdown.
Does Pushpay work for churches outside the US?
Pushpay is available in a few countries (US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), but the payment infrastructure is limited to credit/debit cards and bank transfers. There’s no mobile money, no multi-currency support, no WhatsApp integration, and no regional payment methods. Churches in Africa, Latin America, or the UK diaspora will find critical gaps. See our article on why US church software doesn’t work for African churches.
Does Pushpay have a free plan?
No. Unlike Tithe.ly (free giving) or Planning Center (free tier for small churches), Pushpay does not offer a free plan. All plans require a paid subscription, typically with an annual commitment.
Can I use Pushpay without CCB?
Yes. You can use Pushpay’s giving and app products without the CCB church management system. However, the combined Pushpay + CCB package is increasingly positioned as the core offering, and you may get better pricing by bundling.
What is CCB’s process queue feature?
Process queues are CCB’s workflow management tool. They let you create step-by-step sequences for tasks like visitor follow-up, baptism preparation, membership applications, or volunteer onboarding. Each step can be assigned to a specific person with a due date, and the system tracks completion. It’s one of CCB’s most distinctive and useful features.