If your church uses Planning Center and you've been frustrated by clunky email tools that don't talk to your people database, Flow Forth was built to solve exactly that. It's an email marketing platform purpose-built for churches, with Planning Center as the single source of truth for all your contact data — no exports, no sync headaches.^1
Flow Forth lets you send beautifully designed emails using a drag-and-drop editor, set up automated email sequences triggered by Planning Center list changes (like welcoming newcomers or following up after events), and pull events, groups, and registrations directly from Planning Center into your emails with a single click. Custom merge tags from any Planning Center People field personalize every message. You can send to multiple lists at once, publish announcements to Church Center alongside your emails, and track opens, clicks, and unsubscribes with pastoral-minded metrics.^1
Beyond email, Flow Forth includes free link-in-bio pages and branded, trackable QR code management — helpful for connecting people to your church's resources from bulletins, screens, or social media. Every QR code is trackable, and you can update where it points without reprinting. Link pages support custom domains (coming soon).^1
Founded by Thomas Harmond and publicly launched in May 2025, Flow Forth has shipped improvements at a remarkable pace — often multiple updates per week. Since March 2026 alone, the platform has added real-time collaborative editing for team workflows, custom open and click tracking domains for improved email deliverability, campus-based list filtering, and a more forgiving bounce policy (three bounces before cleaning a contact, rather than one).^3 The team ships weekly feature updates, and the product has grown from a simple email sender into a comprehensive church communications hub.
Notable- Planning Center native: Syncs unlimited people and lists automatically; supports Services, Groups, Registrations, and Calendar imports^2
- Pay per send, not per contact: Free tier includes 500 emails/month with all features; paid plans scale by volume^4
- Rapid development: Dozens of feature releases since launch, including collaborative editing, custom tracking domains, multi-list sending, automation improvements, template library, column layouts, and AI-powered subject line suggestions^3
- Founded by Thomas Harmond — previously at Hillsong Church, based in Houston, TX^5
- Church Center integration: Post announcements to Church Center when you send emails — one workflow, two channels^1
- Also by the founder: Previously developed under the ChurchSpace brand^6
- Listed on ChristianPicks as a Planning Center integration tool^7
Platforms: Web Pricing: Freemium (free tier + subscription)
