Churches that use Breeze or Planning Center usually start with Companion, which adds guest follow-up for $49 a month with unlimited staff seats. Texts and emails are billed by the message, and most churches spend $2 to $10 a month on them.
Outreach teams meeting people in the community before they visit.
$9.95/month
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
Best fit if you use Breeze or Planning Center
Guest follow-up for churches that keep Breeze or Planning Center.
$49/month
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
Churches running everything in Passport.
$69/month
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
Churches with more than one campus, or that want check-in by face recognition.
$99/month
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
Every plan includes the iOS and Android app, CSV export of your own data and Passport’s shared texting number. Not sure which plan fits? Answer three questions.
A year of Companion costs $588. Households that give to a congregation give an average of $2,738 a year, so one family who visits and stays covers the plan about 4 times over.
The plan price is flat, whatever your size. It pays for the week after a first visit, when a guest either hears from someone or drifts away. Put your own attendance and giving into the calculator to see the figure for your church.
Work out what follow-up is worth to your churchAverage yearly giving to religious congregations among households that give (Philanthropy Panel Study, 2020 giving). Your church’s figures will differ.
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Companion$49/month
Companion is built for churches that keep Breeze. Your staff go on using Breeze, and Passport follows up with every guest. If you take attendance in Breeze, Passport reads it from the Breeze events you match to your services, so it knows when a guest comes back.
Try Companion free for 30 daysYour plan covers the software. Each text or email is billed as it is sent, at rates below what Twilio publishes, and there is no monthly minimum. Most churches spend under $10 a month.
| Message | Passport | Twilio, list price |
|---|---|---|
| Text sent per 160-character segment | $0.006 | $0.0083 + carrier fees |
| Text received | $0.005 | $0.0083 |
| Picture message sent | $0.018 | $0.022 + carrier fees |
| Picture message received | $0.015 | $0.0165 |
| Email sent | $0.001 | $19.95/mo minimum (SendGrid) |
Passport’s per-message rates are lower than Twilio’s published list price, and Passport absorbs the carrier surcharges Twilio adds on top. Twilio’s US base rate is $0.0083 per text before AT&T and T-Mobile A2P fees of $0.003–$0.005 each. Passport’s $0.006 is all-in.
$4/month. That covers the number, the A2P 10DLC brand and campaign registration carriers require (Twilio bills those separately at $4/month plus $10/month per campaign) and ongoing carrier compliance. Every plan already includes Passport’s shared number at no cost.
Twilio pricing shown is US list price as of July 2026 (twilio.com/en-us/sms/pricing/us) and excludes A2P 10DLC carrier surcharges of $0.003–$0.005 per outbound message. Email comparison uses Twilio SendGrid Essentials, which carries a $19.95/month minimum. A text is billed per 160-character segment; messages containing emoji use more segments. Rates subject to change.
Published prices for church management software run from about $5 a month for a small ChurchTrac plan to $500 or more for a fully configured Planning Center. Breeze lists at $72/month. Passport’s plans run $9.95–$99/mo, and Companion runs alongside Breeze or Planning Center, so churches that keep those systems pay for both.
| System | Published price | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Passport | $9.95–$99/mo | This page |
| Breeze | $72/month | July 2026, breezechms.com |
| Planning Center | $200–$500+/month | July 2026, planningcenter.com |
| ChurchTrac | $5–$80+/month | July 2026, churchtrac.com |
| FellowshipOne | $200–$500+/month | July 2026, fellowshipone.com |
| Rock RMS | $100–$300+/month total cost of ownership | July 2026, rockrms.com |
| Tithe.ly | $119/month | July 2026, get.tithe.ly |
Competitor figures are list prices from each vendor’s own pricing page on the date shown. They change, so check the source before you decide.
Start a Plus trial with the code SWITCHPC and your first three months are free. Import your people, connect your phone number, and your first automated Sunday follow-up goes out that week.
Keeping Breeze or Planning Center? Companion runs alongside it
The Passport app for iOS and Android comes with every plan, for your staff and your congregation.
Contracts, texting charges, card declines and what each plan includes. Rather see it working first?
Open the live demo in one clickMonthly plans have no annual contract. Cancel any time, effective at the end of the billing period. Your data stays accessible and exportable after you cancel. Yearly plans are paid for the year up front and cost less than twelve monthly payments.
Passport has four flat-rate plans: GoReach at $9.95/month for outreach, Companion at $49/month for guest follow-up alongside Breeze or Planning Center, Plus at $69/month to run your whole church in Passport, and Pro at $99/month for AI attendance and more than one campus. Texting and email are billed by the message and typically come to $2–$10/month. Your first 30 days are free, with no charge today.
Yes, and it is small and visible. Your plan covers the software, and messages are billed one at a time: $0.006 per 160-character text sent, $0.005 per text received and $0.001 per email. Most churches spend $2–$10 a month. Your running total is always visible in Settings under Messaging & Usage, and nothing is charged until you send.
By segment. A standard text fits 160 characters in one segment. Longer texts are split, and each part is billed. Emoji and curly quotes pasted from Word or Google Docs switch a message to a format that fits only 70 characters per segment, so one emoji can turn a single text into three. The message composer shows the segment count as you type.
No. Every plan includes Passport’s shared number at no cost, and most churches never need anything else. If you want your own local number it is $4/month, which also covers the A2P 10DLC brand and campaign registration carriers require. Twilio bills those separately at $4/month plus $10/month per campaign.
We email your admins straight away, and nothing stops for seven days. After that, outgoing texts and bulk email pause until the payment goes through. Replies still reach you, giving statements and class confirmations still send, and login codes and password resets always work. Nothing is deleted, and messaging resumes within minutes of payment.
Most churches are live in under 30 minutes. Import your people from Breeze or Planning Center, connect a phone number for automated texts, and you’re done. Your first automated Sunday follow-up goes out that same week.
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 is the plan built for that.
Breeze: Import your people, tags, events and attendance history from Breeze. While the connection is set to keep Breeze updated, each new guest Passport captures is added to Breeze, matched to anyone already there so nobody is entered twice. If you take attendance in Breeze, Passport reads it from the Breeze events you match to your services, so it knows when a guest comes back. Planning Center: Import your people, households, groups, events, check-ins and services from Planning Center. 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 is designed to run on its own once it is set up. It sends follow-up texts on Sunday evening, has your Monday dashboard ready before you log in, and keeps track of every visitor. The daily work is checking that dashboard and making the calls it assigns.
Your data stays in Passport, and nothing is deleted. If you cancel during the trial, nothing is charged, your automated follow-ups pause and your dashboard locks. Every visitor record you have built stays accessible, so you can pick up where you left off.
Passport is built for churches that already get visitors and need help with the quiet week after a first visit. That is usually 40 to 1,000 weekly attendees, one or two paid staff, and volunteers at the door. It suits growing churches that need a structured way to follow up with visitors.
Outreach teams meeting people in the community before they visit. GoReach includes: GoReach map with territory planning and coverage; Door-knocking with nearby prospects on your phone; Prospect cards and prospect follow-up; iOS and Android app; CSV export of your own data; 5 staff seats, 1 campus.
Guest follow-up for churches that keep Breeze or Planning Center. Companion includes everything in GoReach, plus: Guests hub and Visit page; Guest Journeys with automatic texts; Connection card and QR welcome card; Guest inbox your follow-up team can answer; Follow-up tasks with a named owner; Retention reports; Connects to Breeze and Planning Center, including attendance; Unlimited staff seats.
Churches running everything in Passport. Plus includes everything in Companion, plus: People directory, groups, classes and ministries; Check-in, including kids check-in; Online giving; Service planning; Pastoral care and attendance alerts; Custom forms, workflows and campaigns.
Churches with more than one campus, or that want check-in by face recognition. Pro includes everything in Plus, plus: AI attendance (opt-in face-recognition check-in); Up to 5 campuses; Analytics exports.
Set it up this week, and the guests who visit on Sunday get a welcome text that afternoon and a named person to follow up.
