Keep Planning Center on its own
- Your worship team lives in Services and your staff know the system well
- Someone already follows up with every first-time guest within the week
- You have built and maintain Workflows for follow-up
$200–$500+/month
Passport vs Planning Center: keep PCO and add guest follow-up
Planning Center is a deep, modular suite, and Services is hard to beat for worship planning. Passport is built for following up with first-time guests, and it reads Planning Center Check-Ins, so you can add it without leaving Planning Center.
- 30-day free trial, no charge today
- Cancel a monthly plan anytime
- Most churches are live in under 30 minutes
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Is Passport a Planning Center alternative?
It can be either. Beside Planning Center, Passport imports your people, households, groups, events, check-ins and services, reads Check-Ins to see which guests came back, and starts follow-up for first-time guests checked in there. Companion is $49/month. To replace Planning Center, Passport Plus covers people, groups, check-in, giving and service planning for $69/month.
Every competitor price carries the month we last checked it, with a link to where it came from.
Planning CenterThe products most churches use
$200–$500+Passport CompanionGuest follow-up alongside PCO
$49/moPassport PlusPeople, groups, check-in, giving, services
$69/mo- Planning Center: $200–$500+/month, from planningcenter.com/pricing, checked July 2026.
Planning Center prices each product by church size and usage, so the range is our estimate for the products most churches run. Passport prices are monthly list prices; yearly billing costs less.
How does Passport compare with Planning Center?
Planning Center goes deeper on worship planning and has more years behind it. Passport is built for the week after a first visit and costs less. Here is where each one leads.
| What you need | Planning Center | Passport |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $200–$500+/monthAs configured, as of July 2026 | Companion $49/mo alongside Planning CenterOr Plus at $69/mo instead |
| Pricing model | A separate subscription for each product | Four flat plans, $9.95–$99/mo |
| Worship and service planning | YesServices, a specialist tool | YesService planning, on Plus |
| Check-in | YesCheck-Ins | YesIncluding kids check-in, on Plus |
| App for your congregation | YesChurch Center app | YesiOS and Android app |
| Automatic texts and emails after a first visit | Workflows your team builds and maintains | YesGuest Journeys, ready on Companion |
| A named person for every first-time guest | Possible with Workflows | YesCare assignment within 48 hours |
| Plan Your Visit page and QR welcome card | Build your own with Forms | YesVisit page, connection card and QR welcome card |
| See which guests came back | Check-Ins attendance reports | YesRetention reports, read from Check-Ins |
| Multiple campuses | Yes | YesUp to 5 campuses, on Pro |
| Time to start following up | Depends on the Workflows you build | Most churches are live in under 30 minutes |
| Export your own data | Yes | YesCSV export on every plan |
- Planning Center: $200–$500+/month, from planningcenter.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.
Keep Planning Center, add Passport, or switch?
If your worship team depends on Services, keeping Planning Center and adding follow-up is usually the easier path. If you pay for several products you barely use, switching can make sense.
Keep Planning Center and add Companion
- First-time guests check in on Sunday and then hear nothing
- You want a named person on every guest without building Workflows
- You want to see who came back from your Check-Ins data
$49/month on top of Planning CenterTry Companion free
Switch to Passport Plus
- You pay for several Planning Center products and want one flat price
- You want follow-up, check-in, giving and service planning in one system
- You are ready to move your team over once
$69/monthCompare Passport plans
How does Passport work with Planning Center?
Passport works alongside Breeze and Planning Center. Keep your church database where it is: your staff and volunteers go on using the system they know, and Passport handles follow-up with your guests.
Connect Planning Center
Import your people, households, groups, events, check-ins and services from Planning Center.
Capture every guest
Guests come in from your Visit page, connection card or QR welcome card, and first-time guests checked in with Planning Center Check-Ins start their follow-up in Passport.
Follow up by name
Within 48 hours of a first visit, a named person gets a care assignment, and a Guest Journey sends the first texts and emails until the guest is connected to a group, class or ministry.
See who came back
If you check people in with Planning Center Check-Ins, Passport reads the check-ins for the events you match to your services, so it knows when a guest comes back. First-time guests checked in there start their follow-up in Passport.
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.
Questions Planning Center churches ask about Passport
Still deciding? Open the live demo and look around a sample church, or see every plan on the pricing page.
Yes. Import your people, households, groups, events, check-ins and services from Planning Center.
No. Passport works alongside Breeze and Planning Center. Keep your church database where it is: your staff and volunteers go on using the system they know, and Passport handles follow-up with your guests. Companion ($49/month) is the plan for churches that keep Planning Center.
No. Guests Passport captures from your Visit page, connection card or QR welcome card stay in Passport. If you check people in with Planning Center Check-Ins, Passport reads the check-ins for the events you match to your services, so it knows when a guest comes back. First-time guests checked in there start their follow-up in Passport.
Passport Plus includes service planning. If your worship team depends on Planning Center Services, keep it: Companion adds guest follow-up alongside Planning Center without touching Services.
It can be. Passport Plus covers people, groups, classes, check-in, giving and service planning in one plan at $69/month. If you would rather keep Planning Center, Companion adds guest follow-up alongside it for $49/month.
Planning Center prices each product separately, by church size and usage. For the products most churches run, we estimate $200–$500+/month (checked July 2026 on Planning Center's pricing page). Passport's plans are flat: Companion is $49/month and Plus is $69/month.
Churches that use Planning Center today get three months of Passport Plus free with the code SWITCHPC. To qualify, show your Planning Center billing or an active Planning Center login on your onboarding call. The code can’t be combined with yearly billing.
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.
Add guest follow-up to Planning Center this week
Start a 30-day Companion trial, connect Planning Center, and your next first-time guests show up in Passport with a person assigned to each one.
- 30-day free trial, no charge today
- Cancel a monthly plan anytime
- Most churches are live in under 30 minutes