Pulsily
Who needs a touch this week? Pulsily reads responses, watches the silences, and surfaces the people most worth a coffee, a prayer, or a follow-up. The care wall, the walk, and the question library are the whole product.
Pulsily vs. Planning Center
We’re not a Planning Center replacement. We’re the pastoral-care layer on top of it.
Planning Center is the right answer for “who’s in our database, who’s on which team, who gave last week, who’s scheduled Sunday.” It’s a system of record, and it’s excellent at being one.
Pulsily is the answer for “who hasn’t been seen in three weeks, who quietly flagged for prayer last month, whose mom is about to have heart surgery.” It’s a pastoral-care layer, and you already need both.
Built for
Different questions, different surfaces.
Them
Who’s in our church, where are they serving, who’s giving? Planning Center People is the system of record. Check-Ins runs Sunday attendance. Groups runs small groups. Giving handles donations. Each module is excellent at its job.
The data flow
Pulsily lives downstream of PCO.
Pulsily
We sync people, teams, and memberships from Planning Center People. Your PCO data is the source of truth — Pulsily reads from it, never the reverse. Add a new leader to PCO and Pulsily picks them up. Remove someone from a team in PCO and Pulsily reflects it.
Them
Planning Center has built-in “Forms” for one-off surveys, and you can export attendance reports. But there’s no concept of a monthly care rhythm, no care queue, no “who’s gone quiet,” and no place for the small notes that compound into pastoral knowledge.
The money
Add-on pricing, not replacement pricing.
Pulsily
Pulsily prices by weekly attendance — $19 to $199/mo for a single church. Free up to 10 leaders. Most churches will pay 15–30% of their PCO bill for Pulsily — a comfortable add-on ratio.
Them
Planning Center charges per module (People, Check-Ins, Groups, Giving, Registrations, etc.), and a mid-to-large church running the full stack pays $400–$1,300/mo. We’re not in that category and don’t try to be.
Honest about
Planning Center is bigger, older, and more proven. If you’re asking “Planning Center or Pulsily,” the answer is almost always Planning Center first. Add Pulsily when you’ve realized your roster of record doesn’t answer the question that wakes you up on Tuesday mornings: who am I forgetting?
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.