ParishSOFT

ParishSOFT provides church management software for Catholic parishes and dioceses, with tools for records, accounting, giving, and related parish work. Families manages household and member details, sacramental records, communications, and reporting. Accounting supports budgets, payroll, purchasing, and financial reporting; the maker describes it as GAAP compliant. Giving handles online and recurring donations, reports, payment forms, and contribution and pledge tracking. Family Suite adds records, offering, pledges, religious education, and ministry scheduling, and connects with several ParishSOFT products. MinistryOne is a mobile app for digital giving, media, event management, prayer requests, group messaging, and push notifications. Family Suite does not itself offer online giving, though it can link parishioners to a parish giving website. ParishSOFT offers a live support center, online resources, support tickets, and professional services. The platform serves parishes, dioceses, schools, and ministry organizations in the United States and Canada. Pricing is on request; a ParishSOFT Giving announcement offers prospective customers a free 30-day trial.

ParishSOFT brings parish records, accounting, giving, and ministry tools into a product suite. Its distinct products and consulting plans make it useful to compare specific needs and costs with the vendor.

ParishSOFT suits Catholic parishes, dioceses, schools, and ministry organizations that need tools for member records, finances, giving, and ministry scheduling. Organizations seeking online giving through Family Suite should note that it links to a parish giving website rather than providing the function itself.

Overview

ParishSOFT is a collection of church management products for Catholic parishes, dioceses, schools, and ministry organizations. It suits organizations that want parish records, financial tools, and ministry functions connected across purpose-built products. Its broad coverage is useful, though choosing the right combination matters: Family Suite does not process online giving.

Key features

ParishSOFT Families manages household and member information, sacramental records, parish communications, and reporting. Family Suite adds offering, pledges, religious education, and ministry scheduling, giving parishes a wide set of administrative tools in one product family. Offering can connect with ParishSOFT Accounting to create deposits and map offering funds to revenue accounts, a practical link for reducing manual transfer of collection data into financial records.

Accounting covers budgets, payroll, purchasing, and financial reporting. ParishSOFT describes it as GAAP compliant and as a secure web-based fund accounting system. That combination makes it relevant to parishes looking to manage operational and financial work together, though the product’s breadth does not remove the need to assess whether its accounting workflows fit a particular organization.

ParishSOFT Giving supports online and recurring donations, payment forms, contribution and pledge tracking, and giving reports. This is a separate product consideration from Family Suite: Family Suite can link parishioners to a parish’s online giving website, but does not itself offer online giving. Parishes that need donations handled online should account for that distinction when choosing products.

MinistryOne is the mobile app, with digital giving, media, event management, prayer requests, group messaging, and push notifications. It integrates with ParishSOFT Giving and Facility Calendar, and can connect to YouTube and Vimeo for media. ParishSOFT also supports group management, event registration, child check-in, SMS messaging, and volunteer scheduling. Its Safe Environment Program integrates with background check services from Protect My Ministry, and release notes refer to an API for updating family records.

Support options include a live support center, online resource library, support tickets, consulting, data services, and implementation services. That mix can help organizations that need assistance adopting or configuring products, and the paid consulting plans make that help a separately priced part of the decision.

Pricing

ParishSOFT is paid, with product pricing on request. The ParishSOFT Giving product page directs prospective customers to contact sales; a product announcement says it offers a free 30-day trial. The trial gives a parish a limited window to assess Giving before committing, but does not establish the cost of continuing.

The published consulting plans are one-time fees, not product subscription prices. ParishSOFT Giving Consulting Plan costs $250, paid once and includes two hours with a dedicated consultant plus training for forms, pledges, events, and MinistryOne. It is the lowest-cost way to get focused help with Giving tasks, but its two-hour allocation is limited.

Family Suite Guided Consulting Plan costs $900, paid once, with four consulting hours, self-paced learning, a dedicated consultant, and online learning access. It fits teams that want guided onboarding alongside independent study. Family Suite Basic Consulting Plan and ParishSOFT Accounting Basic Consulting Plan each cost $1,700, paid once and include eight consulting hours, a dedicated consultant, and implementation support. The Standard plans for Family Suite and Accounting each cost $3,200, paid once and double that allocation to 16 hours, making them a better fit for organizations expecting a more involved rollout. These fees buy consulting and implementation support; they do not state the price of the underlying products.

Platforms

ParishSOFT supports Android, iOS, web, and API access. MinistryOne’s mobile focus gives parishioners app-based access to ministry and giving functions, while the web products cover parish and financial administration.

Who it's for

ParishSOFT is aimed at Catholic parishes, dioceses, schools, and ministry organizations in the United States and Canada. The maker says more than 185 dioceses and 12,000 parishes use its products, suggesting a substantial footprint in this audience. It is a stronger fit for organizations seeking connected parish-specific administration than for a buyer who only needs a single general-purpose business tool.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Family Suite spans member and sacramental records, offering, pledges, education, and scheduling, so parishes can address several administrative needs across connected products.
• Pros: Offering can pass deposit and fund-mapping information into Accounting, which can reduce duplicate handling of collection data.
• Pros: MinistryOne combines mobile giving and communications with events, prayer requests, and media connections.
• Cons: Family Suite does not include online giving, so parishes must use a separate giving site or add ParishSOFT Giving.
• Cons: Product pricing is on request, making total cost harder to compare before contacting sales.
• Cons: Consulting packages have defined hour limits, and even the larger plans price implementation help separately from the products.

Alternatives

For payroll-focused comparisons, ADP Workforce Now offers payroll processing, tax filing, direct deposit, employee access, and multi-jurisdiction payroll, with custom pricing. CDM+ is another paid option, with a $25 monthly Essentials plan for one program and one user. isolved HCM offers a modular platform with customized pricing. FellowshipOne is a church-focused alternative with custom pricing.

Readers comparing adjacent categories can also browse Church Payroll Software, Church Accounting Software, Fund Accounting Software, Church Facility Management Software, Church Volunteer Management Software, and Church Directory Software.

Verdict

ParishSOFT is best for Catholic parishes and dioceses that want member records, financial administration, giving, and ministry tools linked across a product suite. Its strongest reason to choose it is the combination of parish-specific coverage and the Offering-to-Accounting connection. Look elsewhere if online giving must come with Family Suite itself, or if you need firm product pricing before engaging a sales team.