StewaraThe Planning Center alternative that's one flat price, books included.
Planning Center bills each app on its own, and each one climbs as your church grows, while the books still live somewhere else. Stewara is one login and $99 a month for the whole church: people, giving, worship, check-in, events, two-way texting, your site and app, and real fund accounting. And we take $0 of your giving.
No credit card to start · 30-day trial of the full suite · Flock is free forever. · See pricing
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Stewara is $99/mo for the whole church, accounting included, or $990 a year.
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Stewara vs. Planning Center
Planning Center pricing verified September 8, 2026 from planningcenter.com/pricing, Planning Center chord-chart help, Planning Center CCLI help. Prices change; if you spot something out of date, tell us and we'll correct it.
Planning Center is mature, well-built software with a fifteen-year head start, and most churches on it are content. We would rather you switched for the right reasons than found these out afterwards.
Chord charts and SongSelect
Services has a mature chart editor with number and numeral charts and licensed SongSelect and PraiseCharts imports. Stewara transposes live with capo shapes, but it does not import licensed charts.
Automatic CCLI reporting
Services reports to CCLI for you. Stewara closes out what you actually sang and hands you an auditable worksheet; automatic submission waits on CCLI's partner program.
A bigger integration ecosystem
Fifteen years of third-party tools talk to Planning Center's API. If there is one your church cannot live without, ask us before you switch, and we will say plainly whether it works here.
Sunday's giving, posted to real double-entry books with the fund and the gift it came from. Planning Center has no accounting product.
What you actually get for $99/mo
Accounting's already in the room
A real double-entry ledger — funds, budgets, bank reconciliation — included in Stewara, or $30/mo on its own. Planning Center has no accounting product at all.
See the ledgerOne price, not a stack of apps
Their bill grows with every app you add and every tier you cross. Ours has no per-module line and no tiers: $99/mo, flat, for the whole church, accounting included.
See flat pricingTwo-way texting, built in
Text your people and let them reply, in the same system. No separate texting product to buy or bolt on.
See CommsFlock is free, forever
Your people, families and care follow-ups: no plan required, no trial clock, unlimited members.
See FlockWhat moves, and what we'll tell you about first.
Send me your Planning Center export. I'll tell you what moves.
I'm David. I pastor Abounding Fellowship in Abilene, Texas, run its sound board on Sundays, and built Stewara after years of counting the offering and retyping it into accounting software that didn't know what a fund was. If you send your export, or just your questions, I'll go through it with you and tell you plainly whether Stewara fits your church, and what it would take to move.
Bring your Planning Center export with you.
Export your people as a CSV, upload it, and look at the mapping and duplicate review before a single record is written. Your 30-day trial is every module in the suite except Stewara Assistant, no card required. And Flock stays free whatever you decide.