Church Community Builder vs. Realm

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Church Community Builder
Score 6.9 out of 10
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Church Community Builder in Colorado Springs offers their church management applications designed to manage church involvement, schedule events and register attendees, and manage giving.N/A
Realm
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Realm is a church management system from ACS Technologies, designed to create real ministry opportunities by making it easier for your church family to connect with each other throughout the week.N/A
Pricing
Church Community BuilderRealm
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Church Community BuilderRealm
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Likelihood to Renew
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User Testimonials
Church Community BuilderRealm
Likelihood to Recommend
Church Community Builder is ideal if you are seeking to connect your church members to your pastoral staff and to one another in an effective way. If you are looking to plan major events (like our church's 25th Anniversary Service, for example; or our annual Marriage Conference), then Church Community Builder will be incredibly helpful to you! Church Community Builder is also helpful for distributing items like membership applications and mass emails.
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Realm is a user-friendly, intuitive web-based database manager, great for church membership and financial information. Transitioning was easy--even our 90-year old attendance volunteer made the switch with ease. The customer service staff at Realm is fantastic. As I mentioned before, my one big complaint is the inability to pull a report with children outputted on the same row in excel as their parents.
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Pros
  • Helps church members connect with one another.
  • Provides church leaders with church members contact info readily and efficiently.
  • Helps register attendance at retreats and other church events and functions.
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  • Tracking attendance
  • Running reports, both financial and membership-related
  • Nursery check-in
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Cons
  • "Processes" option can sometimes be a bit confusing
  • Mass communication process (via email) is a bit confusing
  • Mass communication process (via text message) seems to be lacking
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  • As it has all type of necessary feature which should have any Data base.
  • If we can save full structure in Realm easily then i think it will be good for developer.
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Support Rating
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Our transition to Realm was fantastic. We had a rep do two days of training with staff. She also provided us with a step-by-step plan for our rollout to the congregation. In addition to the fabulous customer service team, the "help" section of the Realm website is useful--it includes written answers and also video tutorials/webinars. The search function in the help section is built effectively.
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Alternatives Considered
Far and away, Church Community Builder is an incredibly superior product to PowerChurch. PowerChurch did not nearly feature all of the useful tools that Church Community Builder offers. Church Community Builder's greatest advantage over PowerChurch would be its accompanying Lead App, which allows me as a Pastor to easily pull up the contact information of any church member simply from my iPhone - PowerChurch didn't offer anything even remotely that useful. Choosing Church Community Builder was a clear no brainer.
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From my experience Realm is fatter than SQLite. Realm has less Query and is easy to understand. even new developers also can use it In his/her project. It has a good document so a new developer can read and understand and apply it to the project. SQLite is old and not so easy to understand. we need to add a third-party library to easily use SQLite.
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Return on Investment
  • We have seen increased connection between pastoral staff and church members
  • We have been able to more effectively put on excellent church-wide events
  • We have been able to systematize our membership application process (and also keep a better paper trail)
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  • Because of Realm our app is very fast and light weight.
  • It has all types of features that should have any Data base, because of that we actives all required features of the app.
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