How we review church software
Every entry in the software directory follows these rules, including the entries for software from our partners, which share owners with Church Posting.
Where the reviews stand
Each entry rests on what the vendor publishes: its pricing page, its documentation and its terms, read on the date the entry gives. No entry yet rests on an account we paid for and used. When one does, the entry will say so and give the date.
Prices
A person reads every price off the vendor's own page, and the entry links to that page so you can check it. Prices in the directory were last read on July 28, 2026. We print a processing fee the way the vendor states it, with the percentage and the charge per gift together. When a vendor publishes no price, the entry says the vendor publishes no price.
Who should skip it
Every entry names the church that should pass on the tool. A review that only praises reads like an advertisement, and it cannot help a church decide.
What Church Posting owns and what it recommends
Church Posting publishes churchposting.com and owns Church Posting Social and Church Posting Plus. Hamilton Holdings LLC, a Kansas company owned by Scott and Will Hamilton, makes the free tools Church Posting publishes and owns and operates Covenant OS, Berean Blue, Free Church Texting and Church SEO Experts. Church Posting partners with those four products and recommends them. They share owners. Berean Blue appears in the directory beside the tools it competes with, and Covenant OS appears beside the systems it competes with. Each carries the label "Church Posting partner" and the line "Church Posting partners with Covenant OS and recommends it. They share owners." Each sits last in its list, after the tools a church can sign up for today.
Money
No vendor pays for an entry or for its place in a list, and no vendor sees an entry before it is published. The links on these pages earn us no commission. Church Posting earns its money from Church Posting Plus, and the products it partners with share its owners.
What rules a tool out
- The church cannot export its records to a file that opens without the software.
- The fee schedule stays hidden until after a sales call, and the company will not send it in writing.
- The company sells or shares congregation data, or its privacy policy leaves room to.
- Attendance, giving or Bible reading earns points, streaks or a place on a leaderboard.
- A church under 200 members has to sign a contract longer than a year.
- The product shows advertising to a church's own members.
A tool that fails one of these gets no recommendation. If many churches use it anyway, its entry names what it failed, so a church already using it knows what to ask the vendor for.
Corrections
If a price or a fact here is wrong, write to [email protected]. We fix the entry and change its date. The rest of how we work is in the editorial standards.