# The Harvest — From Conversion to Devotion > One app for churches, evangelistic organisations and ministries: community, courses, giving, AI and livestream. From $30/mo. ## Pages ### The Harvest — From Conversion to Devotion One app for churches, evangelistic organisations and ministries: community, courses, giving, AI and livestream. From $30/mo. URL: https://theharvest.site/ ### Resources — Harvest Writing from the Harvest team — product deep-dives, honest platform comparisons, and notes on ministry, discipleship and stewardship. URL: https://theharvest.site/blog ### Harvest vs. — Harvest Honest comparisons with the other platforms churches consider. URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/category/harvest-vs ### Inside Harvest — Harvest Feature spotlights, how-tos and release notes. URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/category/inside-harvest ### Rooted — Harvest Ministry, discipleship and stewardship. URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/category/rooted ### Teaching generosity without pressure — Harvest Money is the one subject a church can neither avoid nor afford to handle badly. On asking for it in a way that leaves people freer than it found them. URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/generosity-without-pressure ### How to keep track of church prayer requests — Harvest Prayer requests scatter across cards, late-night texts and group chats, then go stale. What a prayer wall has to do, a checklist, and where requests belong. URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/how-to-keep-track-of-church-prayer-requests ### Planning Center Alternative for Small Churches — Harvest Looking for a Planning Center alternative for small churches? Here is what your full church software stack really costs, and what one platform costs instead. URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/planning-center-alternative-small-churches ### The Real Cost of a Skool Alternative for Churches — Harvest Looking for a Skool alternative for churches? Here is what a Skool-plus-church-software stack really costs a month, and what one platform costs instead. URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/skool-alternative-for-churches ### Sunday attendance without a sign-in sheet — Harvest A paper sign-in sheet never becomes data. What a church check-in system actually has to do, a checklist for your welcome desk, and where the names should land. URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/track-sunday-attendance-without-a-sign-in-sheet ### Why the work has to outlive you — Harvest A ministry that only works when one particular person is in the room is a ministry with an expiry date. On sharing the load before it forces the question. URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/work-that-outlives-you ### What your year-end giving statements must include — Harvest The IRS rules a church giving statement has to satisfy, a checklist you can hold any statement against, and why assembling one from exports goes wrong. URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/year-end-giving-statements-what-to-include ### Contact — Harvest Questions, feedback or a partnership idea? Send the Harvest team a message and we'll get back to you. URL: https://theharvest.site/contact ### FAQ — Harvest Straight answers about Harvest's price, giving fees, data ownership and cancelling, for churches, evangelistic organisations and ministries. URL: https://theharvest.site/faq ### AI & Automation — Harvest An AI knowledge base trained on your teaching, a coming-soon AI assistant for the plan owner, and forms that feed your CRM. URL: https://theharvest.site/features/ai-automation ### Community & Engagement — Harvest Community feed, groups, prayer requests, locations, events, check-in, service planning and livestream in one app under your name. URL: https://theharvest.site/features/community-engagement ### Discipleship & Content — Harvest The full Bible, courses, blog publishing, AI-drafted SEO articles and shared docs — discipleship content that keeps working all week. URL: https://theharvest.site/features/discipleship-content ### Giving & Finance — Harvest A giving page carrying your own payment links, fundraising and pledge campaigns, a donor and member CRM and numbered PDF receipts — with 0% platform fee on every donation. URL: https://theharvest.site/features/giving-finance ### Social Scheduler — Harvest Write a post once and schedule it to Facebook, Instagram and Threads, with a month calendar and a queue. Included on the Ministry plan. URL: https://theharvest.site/features/harvest-scheduler ### Platform & Brand — Harvest A branded web app, installable mobile app, permissioned admin dashboard and evangelism analytics for your ministry. URL: https://theharvest.site/features/platform-brand ### Privacy Policy — Harvest How Harvest handles data: your church is the controller of its members' data and Harvest is the processor. What we store, where it lives, who else touches it, and how long we keep it. URL: https://theharvest.site/privacy ### Refund & Cancellation Policy — Harvest How to cancel a Harvest subscription, what happens to your workspace and data afterwards, and when Harvest refunds. Congregational gifts are refunded by your ministry from its own Stripe account. URL: https://theharvest.site/refunds ### Harvest for Churches Church software for members, giving, check-in, groups, livestream and service planning, in one app under your church's name. 0% fee on donations. URL: https://theharvest.site/solutions/churches ### Harvest for Evangelistic Organizations Know how many said yes, and in which city. Walk each one into discipleship, while your supporters see the fruit and fund what comes next. URL: https://theharvest.site/solutions/evangelistic-organizations ### Harvest for Missionaries Raise support with your own giving page, campaigns and pledges. Keep every supporter updated through your feed and blog. URL: https://theharvest.site/solutions/missionaries ### Terms of Service — Harvest The terms covering your use of Harvest: what the software includes, how plans are billed, and how congregational giving is processed separately through Stripe Connect. URL: https://theharvest.site/terms ### Join the Harvest waitlist Product news from Harvest when new features open. Never member email. URL: https://theharvest.site/waitlist ## Frequently asked questions ### Do you take a cut of our donations? No. Harvest charges a 0% platform fee on giving — a 0% Harvest fee on donations — and it is 0% on both paid plans, Church 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 Church.) Product sales are a different thing from donations, and not live yet. When paid product checkout launches, Harvest's fee on a product sale will be 5% on Church and 2% on Ministry — coming soon, and not charged today. Your payment processor’s own fees apply on top of Harvest’s. Harvest takes 0% of donations. 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 your giving records, onto the giver's own history and onto their year-end giving statement. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### What does Harvest cost, and what is in each plan? Harvest is sold on two paid plans, priced in US dollars, each payable monthly or annually. Church — $30 a month or $300 a year. Ministry — $90 a month or $900 a year. 2 months free when you pay for a year up front, against paying month by month. The annual term is one charge, not a smaller monthly one: a year of Church is a single payment of $300. Both plans include the web and mobile app, courses, the full Bible, the donor and member CRM with signups, your donation page and fundraising campaigns, a blog, docs and sermon notes, a link-in-bio page, locations, up to three products (paid product checkout is coming soon) Church has one community with a feed and chat. Ministry adds unlimited communities, community groups, event registration with QR check-in, the church map, social scheduler, livestream with live giving, service planning with volunteer rotas, custom forms that feed the CRM, giving records (statements and year-end giving receipts), automated SEO blog articles, the AI knowledge base, and your own branding. Discovery and a website builder are not built yet. Coming soon, and in the plans when it ships: livestream, chat and prayer requests in every community; all product types with a storefront; the newsletter; SMS and text-to-give; and an AI assistant for the plan owner, at 300 messages a month on Church and 5,000 messages a month on Ministry. 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. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### Is there a free trial? Yes — 10 days, on whichever plan you choose. The trial gives you that plan's features and that plan's limits in full, for 10 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. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### How many people and admin accounts do we get? People and admin accounts are the ladder between the two plans. Church — 500 people, 2 admin accounts. Ministry — 5,000 people, 5 admin accounts. A person is one record 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. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### 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 ministry'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. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### Can Harvest post to Facebook and Instagram? Yes. The social scheduler is included on the Ministry plan. Connect your Facebook, Instagram, Threads and TikTok accounts — as many as you run — write a post once, pick the channels and a time, and see everything on a month calendar and in a queue. Posts go out to Facebook, Instagram and Threads today. Image and video upload, and with them TikTok and YouTube posts, are coming soon. It isn't included on Forever Free or Church. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### Who is Harvest for? Churches, evangelistic organisations and ministries of any size that want their people, giving, discipleship and outreach in one app instead of a stack of tools. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### 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 (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. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### How is Harvest different from Planning Center, Skool, or other church tools? Most ministries 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 isn't built yet (SMS, newsletter, custom domains), we say that too — including on this FAQ. Source: https://theharvest.site/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. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### 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 not built yet. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### 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 Church and Forever Free 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. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### 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. SMS and newsletters are not built yet. To reach your people today you post to your feed, which notifies every member, or publish to your blog. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### 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 ministry rather than us: your ministry can act on it directly in its own workspace. The whole arrangement is written down in the Privacy Policy. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### 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. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### 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. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ### 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. Source: https://theharvest.site/faq ## Blog excerpts ### How to keep track of church prayer requests Prayer requests scatter across cards, late-night texts and group chats, then go stale. What a prayer wall has to do, a checklist, and where requests belong. It is Tuesday, and the church office is trying to reconstruct what was prayed for on Sunday. The requests came in through five doors. One on a card dropped in the offering basket. One as a text to the pastor's personal number at eleven at night. One as a comment under the announcement post, three replies deep. Two names in the margin of a service sheet now in a bag in the back of a car. And one said out loud in the meeting, remembered afterwards by four people in four different versions. None of that is neglect; it is what happens when a church collects something important without deciding… URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/how-to-keep-track-of-church-prayer-requests ### Sunday attendance without a sign-in sheet A paper sign-in sheet never becomes data. What a church check-in system actually has to do, a checklist for your welcome desk, and where the names should land. There is a clipboard by the door of a lot of small churches. It has a sheet on it with four columns — name, phone, email, first time? — and by the end of the service it has eleven rows, three of them illegible, one of them a child's name written by a child. Somebody carries it to the office. It goes in a drawer with the other ones. Nothing about that is anyone's fault. The welcome desk is staffed by a volunteer who also has to find the nursery, and the clipboard is genuinely the cheapest thing that works on a Sunday morning. The problem is what happens on Monday, which is nothing. The sheet… URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/track-sunday-attendance-without-a-sign-in-sheet ### The Real Cost of a Skool Alternative for Churches Looking for a Skool alternative for churches? Here is what a Skool-plus-church-software stack really costs a month, and what one platform costs instead. No church runs on one tool. It runs on a member database, a giving page, kids' check-in, a community space, courses, a blog and tax receipts in January. That is the real list, and it is why most churches searching for a Skool alternative are not unhappy with Skool. They are unhappy that Skool covers two rows of it and leaves the rest to be bought, wired together and paid for separately. Harvest is built the other way round: one subscription carrying the whole list, with one member record underneath it. So this is not a feature-by-feature scorecard. It is one platform against an assembled… URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/skool-alternative-for-churches ### What your year-end giving statements must include The IRS rules a church giving statement has to satisfy, a checklist you can hold any statement against, and why assembling one from exports goes wrong. It is the second week of January and someone has emailed the church office asking what they gave last year. They need the number for their return. It should be a two-minute answer. It is rarely a two-minute answer. The card gifts are in a payment processor. The gifts through the church's own payment links are in a bank statement. The person who gave under two email addresses appears twice. And the treasurer — usually a volunteer with a job — has to reconcile those lists well enough that a document going out under the church's name can be relied on by someone filing taxes. That reconciliation… URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/year-end-giving-statements-what-to-include ### Teaching generosity without pressure Money is the one subject a church can neither avoid nor afford to handle badly. On asking for it in a way that leaves people freer than it found them. Every church has to talk about money, and almost nobody enjoys it. The subject arrives with its own weather — a small change in the room, a shuffle, the sense that something is about to be asked. Leaders feel it before the congregation does, which is probably why it so often ends up in one of two ditches. Either it barely happens at all, or it happens with the volume turned up. Silence looks like the safer ditch. It is not. A church that never speaks about money has not avoided teaching about money; it has taught that the subject is faintly embarrassing and that faith and finance belong in… URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/generosity-without-pressure ### Why the work has to outlive you A ministry that only works when one particular person is in the room is a ministry with an expiry date. On sharing the load before it forces the question. Most ministries meet the same question eventually, and it almost never arrives as a question. It arrives as a Sunday when the one person who knows where the key is kept is ill. It arrives as a family in crisis who will only speak to the leader who happens to be away that week. Sometimes it arrives as a resignation, and a room of good people discovering they have no real idea how anything worked. None of that is a failure of effort. It is usually the opposite. It is what happens when a faithful person carries more than one person can carry, for long enough that the carrying becomes the… URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/work-that-outlives-you ### Planning Center Alternative for Small Churches Looking for a Planning Center alternative for small churches? Here is what your full church software stack really costs, and what one platform costs instead. No church runs on one tool. It runs on a website, a member database, online giving, kids' check-in, a community space, courses, a newsletter and tax receipts at the end of the year. That is the real list. And the reason most churches end up searching for a church management software alternative for small churches is not that Planning Center is bad at what it does — it is that it covers part of that list, and the rest arrives as three more subscriptions, three more logins, and three more member lists that quietly stop matching each other. This post is about what the whole list actually costs,… URL: https://theharvest.site/blog/planning-center-alternative-small-churches