
Nucleus
Nucleus combines a church website, communications tools, and congregation next steps in one web platform.
What Nucleus is
Nucleus combines a church website, communications tools, and congregation next steps in one web platform. Its Launcher keeps actions such as planning a visit, joining a group, registering for an event, requesting prayer, and giving accessible across a website. Flows guides people through forms using templates and conditional logic, with capacity or deadline limits, follow-up messages, and submission reports. Churches can keep prayer requests private or share them on a moderated Prayer Wall, controlling access through logins, connection types, and administrator permissions. Standard and Complete add Posts, Messages, and Mission Control for ministry updates, email campaigns, automated follow-up, and internal communication guidance. Complete also includes Nucleus Media, a library of more than 30,000 church-focused creative assets. Giving accepts one-time and recurring gifts and is available only to U.S. churches; the listed processing costs are 2.3% for cards and $0.25 for bank-account gifts, with no percentage fee charged to the church.
Good
- Launcher keeps congregation actions accessible across a website.
- Flows supports conditional logic, limits, and follow-up messages.
- Prayer access can be controlled by logins and permissions.
- Complete includes more than 30,000 church-focused creative assets.
- Unlimited users and pages are listed for all three plans.
Watch out
- Giving is available only to U.S. churches.
- The 15-day trial is limited in duration.
Who it suits
Nucleus suits churches that want a website alongside forms, communications, prayer, and congregation action tools. Churches considering its Giving feature should note that it is limited to U.S. churches.
Verdict
Nucleus brings church web presence, communication, and next-step tools together, with plan features ranging from forms and prayer to media and giving. Its entry price is $65 USD per month, and the Giving feature has a U.S.-church restriction.
Plans and prices
From Nucleus's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | $65 a month | Web · The Launcher · Prayer · Flows · People · unlimited users · unlimited pages · $65 USD/month |
| Standard | $99 a month | Everything in Essential · Sermons · Posts · Messages · 7 Building Blocks · Mission Control · unlimited users · unlimited pages · $99 USD/month |
| Complete | $199 a month | Everything in Essential and Standard · Giving · Media · Giving available to U.S. churches only · unlimited users · unlimited pages · $199 USD/month |
The facts
Each one read from Nucleus's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Communications
- Standard and Complete include Posts, Messages, and Mission Control for ministry updates, email campaigns, automated follow-up, and internal communication guidance.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Forms
- Flows provides guided forms with templates, conditional logic, capacity or deadline limits, follow-up messages, and submission reports.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Giving
- Nucleus Giving accepts one-time and recurring gifts, states that it does not mark up processing rates, and is available only to U.S. churches.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Giving fees
- The pricing page says card processing cost is shown as 2.3% and bank-account gifts cost $0.25 with no percentage fee charged to the church.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Flows and Posts support native Planning Center integrations, and Posts can connect to other ChMS or mailing systems through Zapier.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Media
- Complete includes Nucleus Media, a library of more than 30,000 church-focused creative assets that users can download as needed.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Next steps
- The Launcher puts actions such as visit planning, group joining, event registration, prayer, and giving in a menu accessible across a website.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Prayer
- Prayer requests can be kept private or shared on a moderated Prayer Wall, with access controlled by logins, connection types, and administrator permissions.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Product
- Nucleus combines a church website, communications tools, and congregation next steps in one platform.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Security and privacy
- Nucleus says customer churches retain rights to stored data, which it processes as a service provider or subprocessor, and says it does not sell customer data.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- Support includes step-by-step help documentation, live classes, and access to a real person; the homepage reports a 2-hour 3-minute average support response.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Website
- Web supports unlimited pages, customizable templates and layouts, custom domains, hosting, SSL, scheduled publishing, and page-level team access.checked 4 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- Nucleus describes itself as independently owned and bootstrapped, and identifies Brady Shearer as its founder.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2017checked 28 Sep 2026
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