Do you take a cut of our donations?
No. Harvest charges a 0% platform fee on giving, and it is 0% on every paid plan — Individual, Small Team and Ministry alike. It is not an introductory rate, and there is no tier of Harvest that takes a percentage of a gift. (Forever Free has no donation page at all, so there is no giving on it to take a cut of; giving starts on Individual.)
Card giving inside the app is off, and giving does not run through Harvest at all. Your ministry publishes its own payment links — PayPal, Cash App, Venmo, Zelle, Revolut and Wise — on one giving page, and a member taps the one they already use. The gift goes from them to your account without passing through anything Harvest operates, so there is nothing for us to hold, forward, or take a share of.
What each of those providers charges is a matter between your ministry and that provider, under your agreement with them. What you pay Harvest is the subscription, and nothing else.
A gift you record in the CRM counts everywhere a gift should: it posts to your dashboard, into accounting, onto the giver's own history and onto their year-end giving statement.
What does Harvest cost, and what is in each plan?
Harvest is sold on three plans, priced in US dollars, each payable monthly, quarterly or annually. Individual — $20 a month, $54 every three months, or $190 a year. Small Team — $40 a month, $108 every three months, or $380 a year. Ministry — $80 a month, $216 every three months, or $752 a year.
Save 10% by paying every three months, and save 20% by paying for a year up front, against paying month by month. The longer terms are one charge, not a smaller monthly one: a year of Individual is a single payment of $190.
Every plan includes the web and mobile app, your news feed, the full Bible, courses, the donor and member CRM, and your donation page and fundraising. Small Team adds docs and sermon notes, livestream with live giving, QR check-in and the church map. Ministry adds your own branding, community groups and events, service planning with volunteer rotas, custom forms that feed the CRM, tax receipts and giving statements, automated SEO blog articles, and the accounting receipt ledger.
The full plan-by-plan comparison is on the pricing page. What is on that page is what you are buying — there is nothing else to add at checkout.
Is there a free trial?
Yes — 14 days, on whichever plan you choose. The trial gives you that plan's features and that plan's limits in full, for 14 days, at no charge.
Cancel before the trial ends and you are not charged at all. If you do not cancel, the subscription continues on the plan you picked and the first payment falls due when the trial ends.
There is no sales call to sit through first, and no demo you have to book to see the product.
How many contacts and admin accounts do we get?
Contacts and admin accounts are the ladder between the three plans. Individual — 500 contacts, 2 admin accounts, 2 courses. Small Team — 2,000 contacts, 5 admin accounts, 5 courses. Ministry — 4,000 contacts, 15 admin accounts, 15 courses.
A contact is one person in your CRM, whether they signed up in the app themselves or you added them by hand — app members and manual contacts are merged into a single record, deduplicated by email, rather than counted twice.
An admin account is someone who can sign in to the dashboard. Each one carries its own permissions across content, money, broadcasting and administration, so the volunteer running check-in never sees donation records and the treasurer never sees prayer requests.
Is Harvest church management software (ChMS)?
Yes. Harvest is church management software built for ministries that want membership, online giving, check-in, events, community and discipleship courses in one subscription — not a stack of logins. Service planning with volunteer rotas ships on the Ministry plan.
Harvest charges a 0% platform fee on giving on every paid plan. Gifts go through your church's own payment links (PayPal, Cash App, Venmo, Zelle, Revolut and Wise); Harvest never sits in the money path.
See how it fits a church on the Churches page, or compare plans on pricing.
Is Harvest built for small churches?
Yes. Harvest is church software for small churches and growing congregations that are tired of paying for a tool stack just to run Sunday.
Small Team covers the day-to-day ops most plants need — including QR check-in, livestream and the church map — at $40/month (or less when billed quarterly or annually). Ministry adds service planning with volunteer rotas, groups and events, custom forms, tax receipts and branding.
One member record follows giving, attendance, groups and courses, so you are not reconciling three spreadsheets after every service.
Does Harvest include church membership software and volunteer scheduling?
Church membership software and church CRM live in the same record: anyone who gives, registers, checks in or fills a form becomes a contact, deduplicated by email.
Church check-in is QR self check-in — no app required — and attendance lands in the CRM (Small Team and Ministry).
Volunteer scheduling for Sunday sits inside Service Planning on the Ministry plan: build the order of service, assign people, flag double-bookings, and invite volunteers by email with one link to accept or decline.
Details: CRM, Check-In, Service Planning.
How is Harvest different from Planning Center, Skool, or other church tools?
Most churches do not stop at a member database — they also need community, courses, giving and a public presence. Harvest puts those in one subscription and one member record.
For a stack-cost walkthrough, read Planning Center alternative for small churches and Skool alternative for churches.
We do not claim feature-for-feature parity with every Planning Center product. Where Harvest ships Service Planning, we say so; where something is still Coming Soon (SMS, newsletter, custom domains), we say that too — including on this FAQ.
How do our contacts get into Harvest?
Mostly on their own. Someone who gives, registers for an event, checks in, fills in one of your forms or signs up in the app becomes a contact in the CRM automatically, with their history attached to the same record. You can also add a person by hand at any time.
A list you already keep somewhere else is entered by hand: Harvest has no bulk tool for loading an existing contact list today. We would rather tell you that here than let you discover it after you have paid.
Data going the other way is a different story — everything in Harvest exports, and it always will. See below.
Can we use our own domain?
Not yet. You cannot point a domain you own at Harvest today, and we would rather say so here than let you find out after you have paid.
What every workspace does get, on every plan, is its own address on theharvest.app — your-church.theharvest.app — so you have a public home from the first day. It is yours alone and it does not change.
Branding is a separate thing and it does ship on the Ministry plan: your ministry name, your logo, a square app icon and one brand colour. Your colour is applied before first paint, so members never see a flash of Harvest gold before yours loads, and your branding carries onto the artifacts people keep — donation receipts, PDF certificates, public forms and check-in pages.
One thing to be clear about: there is no page builder in Harvest. Your public presence is the Harvest app itself, wearing your name rather than ours. Pointing your own domain at it is on our Coming Soon page with everything else we are not shipping yet.
Is Harvest a phone app?
It is an installable web app. Members open it in any browser and add it to their home screen on iPhone and Android alike, where it launches standalone like any other app. There is no App Store review to wait for, no update cycle to manage, and nothing for your members to approve. Push notifications work on every plan.
On Ministry the installed app carries your name, your icon and your colour right down to the install manifest, so it is your app on the home screen. On every other plan — Forever Free included — it installs with Harvest branding.
The same app is a real desktop layout in a browser, not a stretched phone view, and public pages — a post, an event, a giving page, a form — open for anyone with no account at all.
Does Harvest send email and text messages?
Email, yes. Text messages, not yet — so here is the exact shape of what does send.
The email Harvest sends is the email a person is owed one at a time — sign-in links, notifications, donation receipts, check-in and event registration confirmations, and an invitation when you put someone on a serving rota. It goes through our own provider and is included in your subscription.
What Harvest does not send is anything to everybody at once. Harvest does not send SMS: there is no broadcast composer and no keyword a member can text you. Nor does it send a newsletter. To reach the whole church today you post to your feed, which notifies every member, or publish to your blog. Both are on our Coming Soon page with everything else we are not shipping yet.
Who owns our member data — us or Harvest?
Your ministry does. For the data you hold about your members — contacts, donors, attendance, course progress, giving history — your ministry is the data controller and Harvest is the data processor. You decide what to collect, why, who may see it and when it should go; we store and process it on your instructions, to run the service you are paying for, and for nothing else.
We do not sell it, we do not rent it, we do not use it to build advertising profiles, and we do not use one ministry's member data to serve another. Subscribing to Harvest does not transfer your content to us and does not give us a claim over it.
That split is why a member who wants their record corrected or removed should ask their church rather than us: your ministry can act on it directly in its own workspace. The whole arrangement is written down in the Privacy Policy.
Can we get our data out?
Yes, and export is never gated behind a payment — not on any plan, and not after you cancel. That is a commitment in the Terms of Service and in the Refund & Cancellation Policy, not a preference we could quietly change.
Contacts and donor records, giving history, event and check-in attendee lists, form submissions and your analytics all export to CSV. Documents and sermon notes export to PDF, DOCX or Markdown. Every donation receipt is a numbered PDF.
Your ministry's records are not leverage. We would rather you stayed because Harvest is worth paying for.
What happens to our data if we cancel?
Cancelling stops the next renewal. It does not close your workspace and it does not lock you out. Paid features stay available to the end of the period you have already paid for; after that the workspace is downgraded rather than shut down, so you can still sign in, still see what is there, and still export.
Your data is kept for 12 months from cancellation and is then deleted. We do not spring that on you: we email a notice at 11 months and a second at 11.5 months before anything is removed. Subscribe again inside that window and the paid features come back on the data that is still there. If you would rather we deleted the workspace sooner, tell us and we will.
There is no cancellation fee, no notice period and no phone call to sit through. You can cancel from the billing screen, or by sending one message through the contact form on this site.
Who is behind Harvest?
A small team, building a young product. That shapes what you will find on this site: we would rather say what is true than what sounds impressive, which is why the Terms promise no uptime figure we cannot stand behind, and why this page leaves out anything we cannot show you today.
There is no sales team, no gatekeeper and no demo you have to book. The contact form on this site goes straight to the Harvest team, and we answer every message — including the awkward ones about what the product does not do yet.
