Breeze ChMS vs PastorsLine: Which is a better fit?

Stephanie W.: Hi, my name is Stephanie and I work at the Bridge Church in Charles City, Iowa. I'm a NextGen Pastor and I give Breeze CHMS a five. Yep. So we looked at using Basecamp. We have used Planning Center in the past, but it didn't do everything we needed it to. There was a couple other smaller companies that were kind of up-and-coming when we first launched with Breeze, but Breeze just kind of had more encompassing things that we needed for the church. So Breeze just had a more comprehensive system that helped us engage with the congregants in our church. So it had organization for tags, we could use it through groups. I mean, it's easy for all of our small group leaders to use that as well. And we could integrate the giving portion directly into our website that made it super user-friendly for people to come in and give through the church website. So, I mean, Breeze was pretty simple. We did use Planning Center before, and so they talked to each other fairly well. So we were able to take all of our people from Planning Center and directly import them into Breeze, which made everything super seamless. Setting up our check-in system, our online giving, those were all very easy to do and very user-friendly. And if there was ever issues that we've had in the past, we could call customer service and they were with us within an hour talking to us and walking us through how to fix things. So it was incredibly user-friendly. The app is great. A lot of our people use the app too, so it's just been very seamless to go from one to the other. So, I mean, Breeze is such a great system for smaller to mid-sized churches to integrate a bunch of different systems. So, I mean, groups is fantastic. The fact that we can text message people through the app itself, you can check people in wherever you are, it's just been a really great system to have to utilize with our church because of how the functionality works for us. So it's just been a fantastic, easy thing to use for our church management systems.

Jon K.: Hi, my name is Jon. I am an assistant pastor at a local church, and I'd give PastorsLine a 3 out of 5 stars. And if you're interested in some more reviews, just click down below. We were using PastorsLine as a way to try and connect with new guests coming to our services on Sunday morning. I think the thing we like the most about PastorsLine is simply that it was an easy way to text and have an immediate response when guests connected with us. Some of the things about PastorLine that we found difficult were some of the texting options and sometimes different carriers had struggled to work around PastorsLine, sending links and things like that, making it difficult to use for all of the things that we needed.