How much does ChurchTrac cost?

ChurchTrac's price depends on how many people are in your database and which plan you choose: $5–$80+/month as of July 2026, from ChurchTrac's pricing page. Passport's plans are flat per church, $9.95–$99/mo, with guest follow-up on Companion at $49/month.

Can I import my data from ChurchTrac?

Yes. ChurchTrac exports your people as a CSV file, and you can import that file into Passport.

Does Passport replace ChurchTrac completely?

It can. Passport Plus is a full church management system: people, groups, classes, check-in, giving and service planning, built around keeping your guests. Passport has no accounting or pledge management, so a church that depends on those may want to keep ChurchTrac for its books.

Can we keep ChurchTrac for accounting and use Passport for everything else?

Yes. Some churches keep their books in ChurchTrac and run people, follow-up, check-in and giving in Passport Plus. Passport connects to Breeze and Planning Center, not ChurchTrac, so the two run side by side without syncing.

What does Passport do that ChurchTrac doesn’t?

Passport is built around one job: keeping the people who visit. Every first-time guest gets a care assignment for a named person within 48 hours, Guest Journeys send texts and emails until the guest is connected to a group, class or ministry, and retention reports show who came back. ChurchTrac is built for church administration and leaves follow-up to your own process.

Does Passport have a mobile app?

Yes. Every Passport plan includes the iOS and Android app.

Is Companion worth $49/month for a small church?

U.S. households that gave to religious congregations gave an average of $2,738 in 2020 (Philanthropy Panel Study, 2020 giving). At that average, one family who stays covers a year of Passport Companion ($588/yr) about 4 times over. You can put in your own church's numbers on the ROI calculator.

Passport vs ChurchTrac for churches that want guests to come back

ChurchTrac is affordable all-in-one church admin with accounting built in, and it starts cheaper than Passport. Passport is built for the week after a first visit, with guest follow-up on Companion at $49/month.

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Came back

Is Passport a good ChurchTrac alternative?

It depends on the job. ChurchTrac is low-cost church administration with accounting, priced by database size at $5–$80+/month (July 2026). Passport is built for guest follow-up: automatic texts, a named person for every first-time guest within 48 hours, and reports on who came back. Companion is $49/month, and Plus adds the full church management system at $69/month.

Every competitor price carries the month we last checked it, with a link to where it came from.

What a month costs

ChurchTracRises with your database size

$5–$80+

Passport GoReachOutreach only, no guest follow-up

$9.95/mo

Passport CompanionGuest follow-up

$49/mo

Passport PlusThe whole church in Passport

$69/mo

ChurchTrac: $5–$80+/month, from churchtrac.com/pricing, checked July 2026.

ChurchTrac starts lower than any Passport plan. Passport prices stay flat as your database grows; yearly billing costs less than twelve monthly payments.

How does Passport compare with ChurchTrac?

ChurchTrac covers more of the church office, including the books, for less money at the start. Passport goes deeper on the guests who visit.

What you need	ChurchTrac	Passport
Monthly price	$5–$80+/monthAs of July 2026	From $9.95/moGuest follow-up from $49/mo on Companion
Pricing model	Grows with the number of people in your database	Flat per church, whatever the size of your database
Lowest starting price	Yes$5/mo	$9.95/moGoReach, outreach only
Church accounting	YesBuilt in	No
Online giving	Yes	YesOn Plus
Check-in, including kids	Yes	YesOn Plus
Groups and classes	Yes	YesOn Plus
Automatic texts and emails after a first visit	NoNot a built-in sequence	YesGuest Journeys, on Companion
A named person for every first-time guest	Up to your team	YesCare assignment within 48 hours
Plan Your Visit page and QR welcome card	QR codes for check-in	YesVisit page, connection card and QR welcome card
Works alongside Breeze or Planning Center	No	YesImports and reads attendance from both
Multiple campuses	Yes	YesUp to 5 campuses, on Pro
Export your own data	Yes	YesCSV export on every plan

ChurchTrac: $5–$80+/month, from churchtrac.com/pricing, checked July 2026.

Competitor details come from their public websites. Products change, so check anything that decides your choice with the company itself. Passport details describe what each plan includes today.

Which one fits your church?

They solve different problems, so the right answer depends on which problem keeps you up at night.

Choose ChurchTrac if

You want church records and accounting in one low-cost tool
Your database is small, so pricing that starts at $5/mo fits your budget
Few guests visit, and someone already follows up with each one

$5–$80+/month

Choose Passport if

First-time guests visit once and then go quiet
You want a named person on every guest and the first text sent for you
You want one flat price as your church grows: $9.95–$99/mo

Companion $49/monthTry Companion free

How do you move from ChurchTrac to Passport?

Bring your people across and start following up the same day. Most churches are live in under 30 minutes.

Export from ChurchTrac
Download your people records from ChurchTrac as a CSV file.
Import into Passport
Import that file into Passport. If you ever leave, every plan exports your data again as CSV.
Open your front doors
Publish your Visit page and print your connection card and QR welcome card, so every new guest lands in the Guests hub.
Turn on follow-up
Within 48 hours of a first visit, a named person gets a care assignment, and a Guest Journey sends texts and emails until the guest is connected to a group, class or ministry.

The first few Sundays decide it. In a Lifeway Research survey, 71% of churchgoers who switched churches decided to attend regularly within three visits; only 20% decided after a single visit. Lifeway Research, 2023.

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Passport people list showing imported church members and visitors with their status

Questions churches ask when comparing ChurchTrac and Passport

Still deciding? Open the live demo and look around a sample church, or see every plan on the pricing page.

: ChurchTrac's price depends on how many people are in your database and which plan you choose: $5–$80+/month as of July 2026, from ChurchTrac's pricing page. Passport's plans are flat per church, $9.95–$99/mo, with guest follow-up on Companion at $49/month.
: Yes. ChurchTrac exports your people as a CSV file, and you can import that file into Passport.
: It can. Passport Plus is a full church management system: people, groups, classes, check-in, giving and service planning, built around keeping your guests. Passport has no accounting or pledge management, so a church that depends on those may want to keep ChurchTrac for its books.
: Yes. Some churches keep their books in ChurchTrac and run people, follow-up, check-in and giving in Passport Plus. Passport connects to Breeze and Planning Center, not ChurchTrac, so the two run side by side without syncing.
: Passport is built around one job: keeping the people who visit. Every first-time guest gets a care assignment for a named person within 48 hours, Guest Journeys send texts and emails until the guest is connected to a group, class or ministry, and retention reports show who came back. ChurchTrac is built for church administration and leaves follow-up to your own process.
: Yes. Every Passport plan includes the iOS and Android app.
: U.S. households that gave to religious congregations gave an average of $2,738 in 2020 (Philanthropy Panel Study, 2020 giving). At that average, one family who stays covers a year of Passport Companion ($588/yr) about 4 times over. You can put in your own church's numbers on the ROI calculator.

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Every first-time guest, followed up by name

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