Pushpay vs. Tithe.ly: Which Giving Platform Actually Fits Your Congregation?
The $85/mo gap between Pushpay and Tithe.ly looks like the whole decision. It isn't — kiosk giving, pledge tracking, and which ChMS each one natively syncs with all move the real answer more than the sticker price does.
Tithe.ly $65/mo vs. Pushpay $150/mo — the extra $85 buys kiosk giving, pledge tracking, and a different ChMS pairing
Kiosk giving and pledge tracking are named directly in Pushpay's product description; Tithe.ly's covers online, text-to-give, and giving reports.
The natural comparison here isn't features versus features — it's what kind of giving your congregation actually collects. A church running an every-Sunday offering plate and an occasional building-fund pledge drive needs different tooling than one that wants a lobby kiosk for walk-up giving during a capital campaign. That's the real fork between Pushpay and Tithe.ly, and it matters more than the $85/mo gap between them.
Monthly price comparison
What the extra $85/mo actually buys
The price gap tracks two specific features, not general platform polish.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Pushpay | Tithe.ly |
|---|---|---|
| Online giving | ||
| Text-to-give | ||
| Kiosk-based giving | ||
| Pledge tracking | ||
| Giving statements | ||
| Employee range | 1-100 | 1-60 |
| Natively pairs with | Planning Center | Breeze ChMS |
Tithe.ly ($65/mo) covers online giving, text-to-give, and giving reports — everything a smaller congregation needs to move off cash-and-check-only collection. Pushpay ($150/mo) adds kiosk-based giving for lobby stations and formal pledge tracking for building-fund or mission-trip campaigns. If your congregation has never run a pledge campaign and doesn't need a walk-up kiosk, that extra $85/mo is paying for capability that sits unused.
Signing Pushpay for its kiosk feature and then never installing a kiosk is a real and recurring pattern — it's easy to buy the bigger platform during a capital-campaign planning phase and keep paying for it long after the campaign ends.
The ChMS pairing most comparisons skip
Your giving platform's real cost includes whether it plugs into the ChMS you already run.
Per the current integration map, Pushpay connects directly to Planning Center; Tithe.ly connects directly to Breeze ChMS. Both also connect directly to QuickBooks Online, so your accounting reconciliation works either way — but the ChMS-side sync (giving history showing up automatically against a member's profile) only happens with the matched pair. Run Planning Center with Tithe.ly, or Breeze with Pushpay, and someone on staff is manually reconciling giving history against member records that should have synced on their own.
The actual decision rule
Which one actually fits
- Already on Breeze, no pledge campaign or kiosk plans: Tithe.ly is the cheaper, natively-paired choice.
- Already on Planning Center, or planning a capital campaign that needs pledge tracking: Pushpay is the natural pairing even at the higher price.
- Considering a lobby giving kiosk for the first time: confirm you'll actually install and staff it before paying $85/mo more for the feature.
- Congregation approaching Tithe.ly's 60-employee range: Pushpay's 100-employee range gives more runway before you have to revisit the decision.
Under Breeze with no pledge-campaign plans, Tithe.ly saves $1,020/yr with no functional loss. Once a capital campaign or lobby kiosk enters the picture, Pushpay's extra $85/mo buys features Tithe.ly doesn't have — that's a fit decision, not an overspend.
Run the free audit with your real headcount and giving-platform needs to see which one — plus the rest of your stack — actually fits.