Pulsily
Pulsily is the layer on top of your existing tools. We sync with Planning Center, we email under your domain, we route urgent flags into Slack. We don’t replace anything you already use — we add the one thing your existing stack doesn’t do.
Pulsily vs. CCB / Pushpay
A tenth the price.
A hundredth of the surface area.
Pushpay (and Church Community Builder, which Pushpay acquired) is enterprise-tier church software. Megachurches and multi-campus organizations run on it. It’s priced accordingly — typically $500–$3,000/mo, with annual contracts and sales-led onboarding.
Pulsily is the opposite end of the spectrum: $19–$199/mo, self-serve, one job done well.
What they replace
The whole stack vs. one rhythm.
Them
CCB / Pushpay aims to be the operating system of the church — giving, mobile app, check-ins, groups, communications, websites, attendance. If you go in, you go in mostly. The platform’s value scales with how much of the stack you commit.
The buying motion
A card on file vs. a contract.
Pulsily
Sign up at /onboarding. Free for 10 leaders. Upgrade with a card when you outgrow it. Cancel from your settings. No contract, no annual minimum, no implementation services.
Them
Pushpay is sales-led. You’ll talk to an account exec, get a quote, sign an annual contract, and onboard with their implementation team over several weeks. That motion is right for a 5,000-ATT church making a multi-year decision. It’s overkill for a 300-ATT church that wants a check-in cadence.
Honest sizing
Different church seasons.
Pulsily
We’re built for churches in the 50–2,500 weekly attendance range, give or take. That’s most churches in North America. Above 2,500 we still work fine, but you’ll likely also need the broader infrastructure CCB / Pushpay provides.
Them
CCB / Pushpay is built for the top decile of churches by size, and for organizations that need the integration depth of one vendor across the whole stack. If you’re there, they’re a legitimate choice. If you’re not, this is a lot of platform.
Honest about
We don’t try to compete with Pushpay on capabilities — they have a 10-year head start and a 100-person engineering team. We compete on whether your church needs a capability they have. If you do, go with them. If you’ve been quoted $1,500/mo for a ChMS and what you actually need is the monthly check-in rhythm, that’s us.
Other comparisons
Set the rhythm of your church.
Free up to 10 leaders. No credit card. You can run a real check-in cycle inside the trial and decide from your church’s actual data.