If your church is juggling separate tools for bulletins, giving, email, events, volunteers, and your website — and paying for each one — ChurchRaise (formerly eChurch) was built to solve that exact problem. It's a free, all-in-one church management platform with 80+ tools and 9 AI specialist assistants, all in a single connected system.^1
Originally launched as a digital church bulletin tool over 20 years ago by Faith Systems, ChurchRaise has grown into a full-featured platform covering people management, online giving (with Stripe, Square, or Vanco — zero platform fees, funded by optional donor tips or a small service fee), peer-to-peer fundraising, membership dues, email and SMS, an AI website builder, small groups with feed and polls, event registration with check-in, volunteer scheduling, sermon highlight clips, engagement scoring, pastoral care alerts, an online store, live polls, signups with QR codes, bulletin advertising, and automated giving statements — all at no cost.^2 AI features like image generation, sermon transcription, faith-safe worship graphics (still and motion backgrounds), and the specialist assistants run on Ministry Credits, with 1,000 free credits included per account.^3
What makes ChurchRaise stand out is its commitment to eliminating platform fees entirely. Most church software charges monthly subscriptions plus per-transaction fees that can add up to thousands annually. ChurchRaise lets churches choose their own payment processor and keep those dollars in ministry.^2 The nine AI assistants are specialists trained for church work — a general assistant, comms team, giving specialist, design team, finance assistant, marketing director, SEO specialist, sermon studio, and service planner — handling everything from drafting bulletins and designing social graphics to analyzing giving trends and planning worship sets.^4
Recent additions extend the platform into physical spaces and back-office efficiency: Quick Tap, a print-once smart link system pairing QR codes and NFC tags whose destination changes on a schedule (Sunday morning it opens the bulletin, Wednesday night the small-group page), with built-in scan analytics;^5 Automatic Envelope IDs, which suggest the next sequential offering-envelope number when staff create or import people; and member self-serve contact updates, where a secure link lets attendees correct their own phone numbers and addresses.^6 Earlier 2026 additions remain: signups with custom questions and QR codes, live polls with real-time results, faith-safe still and motion worship background generators, daily devotional and SMS-text generators, donor analytics (giving personas, retention rates, lapsed-giver alerts), ticketed events with pricing tiers, and group feeds with polls.^7 A compare page shows how ChurchRaise fills gaps alongside Pushpay, Planning Center, Tithe.ly, Breeze, and Subsplash at no additional cost.^8 Integrations include Zapier (7,000+ apps), QuickBooks, Google Calendar, Outlook, Twilio, and MinistrySafe.^2
Notable- Built by Faith Systems, an independent, non-venture-backed technology company focused entirely on serving churches — no founder or CEO is publicly named on the site^9
- First verified third-party review is in: 5/5 on G2 (October 2026) — "The AI Layer Church Tech Has Been Missing," praising the sermon-to-clips pipeline and plain-English reporting, noting only a small learning curve for AI-shy teams^10
- 80+ free tools covering people management, giving, communications, events, website building, worship planning, signups, polls, Quick Tap smart links, and AI-powered content creation^7
- 9 AI specialist assistants included free with every account; data stays private inside each church's workspace and is never used to train models^4
- Sermon-to-content pipeline: turn one sermon into clips, blog posts, social captions, devotionals, and discussion guides^4
- Engagement scoring with configurable weights for attendance, giving, volunteering, and group participation^2
- Supports multilingual bulletins and forms (Spanish, French, German, and more)^2
- Blog actively publishing through August 2026; listed on Capterra (2026) and G2 as a free church management platform^11
