Congregate
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Congregate, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Congregate's own pricing page, checked 21 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Virtual Library | $10 a month | 135+ books and study resources · unlimited membership users · monthly |
| Sermon Transcriptions | $15 a month | 7 hours/month · AI transcription · downloadable text files · monthly |
| Economy | $20 a month | 5 GB storage · 15 email accounts · public website and mobile app · all Congregate features · monthly |
| Members Only | $20 a month | No public website · no email accounts · member-management tools · members mobile app · monthly |
| Voice Messaging | $25 a month | 1,000 minutes/month · US phone numbers · text-to-speech messaging · monthly |
| Text Messaging | $25 a month | 2,000 messages/month · US mobile numbers · MMS available as add-on · monthly |
| Classic | $45 a month | 10 GB storage · 15 email accounts · public website and mobile app · all Congregate features · monthly |
| Unlimited | $55 a month | Unlimited storage · 15 email accounts · public website and mobile app · all Congregate features · monthly |
| Self-Hosted WordPress | $55 a month | WordPress hosting excluded · no email accounts · unlimited storage · WordPress themes and plugins · all Congregate features · monthly |
| Congregate-Hosted WordPress | $70 a month | WordPress hosting included · unlimited storage · 15 email accounts · WordPress themes and plugins · all Congregate features · monthly |
The facts
Each one read from Congregate's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API and SDKs
- Official documentation mentions a Congregate API for the WordPress integration, but no separate public SDK catalog is presented.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Attendance tracking
- Attendance can be recorded overall, per member, and for visitors with reporting tools and mobile entry.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Availability limitation
- Terms say the platform may become inaccessible because of maintenance, equipment faults, network failures, attacks, or other causes and is provided without an uptime guarantee.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Bible class tracking
- Administrators can record Bible and Sunday-school classes, teachers, materials, topics, and grade levels.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Calendars and events
- Multiple calendars serve public users, members, and leaders and can be viewed in the app or personal calendar programs.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Communications
- The platform supports email messaging, premium SMS messaging, and premium text-to-speech voice messages.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- Support provides quick-start guides, feature documentation, tutorial videos, FAQs, launch instructions, and ticket support.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Finance tracking
- Finance tools record contributions, budgets, and expenses and export data in a QuickBooks-compatible format.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Google Play privacy declaration
- The Android listing says the developer reports no data sharing, no data collection, and encryption in transit.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Google Play update
- The Android listing records a May 4, 2026 update that added Visitor Tracker as a native module.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Included modules
- The company says over 30 feature modules are included in all service plans.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Independent adoption
- Ellisville church of Christ publicly identifies its website as powered by Congregate.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Congregate supports embedded or linked live-stream and online-giving providers and offers Google Analytics and Google Maps API settings.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Congregate describes its service as built for local churches and their visitors, members, and leaders.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Licence
- Terms assign Congregate platform intellectual-property rights to Congregate and its licensors and prohibit copying, reverse engineering, and derivative works.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Member directory
- The directory stores member contact details, photos, family relationships, groups, and custom fields.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Member management
- Features include a member directory, attendance tracking, visitor registration and follow-up, and a leadership CRM.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Messaging
- The message center supports email, text, and voice communication to members, groups, and mailing lists.checked 21 Oct 2026
Money
- Billing limitation
- Billing policies state that monthly invoices or email receipts are not sent and that manual monthly credit-card payments are not accepted.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Free access
- The site offers a free test drive, but does not state a trial duration on the pages reviewed.checked 4 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- The Congregate service was launched in 2009.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Maker
- Congregate is a product and service provided by DP Media Group, LLC.checked 21 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Limit: app feature gaps
- An Apple-app reviewer said the dashboard lacked useful at-a-glance information and that several functions still required the website.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: app reliability
- Apple-app reviewers reported launch failures, blank white screens, and login problems after updates.checked 21 Oct 2026
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