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Church Digital vs OurChurch.com

OurChurch.com offers a broader stack — websites plus email, SEO add-ons, and other services — at a higher monthly tier than the focused Church Digital plans. If a church wants one vendor handling a wide bundle of digital work, that is a real argument in their favor. If the church only needs a strong website with routine content updates, the math tilts differently. This page sets both side by side.

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Side by side

Church Digital and OurChurch.com, line by line.

Pricing and terms are taken from each vendor’s publicly listed pages. If anything looks stale, point it out and we’ll update it.

 Church DigitalOurChurch.com
Monthly$120–$297/mo, published$159 / $259 / $359 per month (3 tiers)
Setup feeNoneNot separately disclosed; promos on first payment
ContractNo contract — cancel anytimeVaries by tier
Who builds itWe do — custom design, built for youPlatform build (template/custom mix)
Custom designCustomMixed
If you leaveCancel anytime; your domain and content stay yoursVendor-hosted — the site does not come with you
SupportA human replies within 1 business day — published SLAVendor support from their team

Positioning

Looking for a OurChurch.com alternative for your church website?

OurChurch.com has been operating since the late 1990s, which makes them one of the oldest church-website providers in the U.S. Their model has evolved into a tiered bundle: website plus hosted email accounts (on a church domain), plus SEO services on the higher tiers, plus some additional digital tools depending on the package. The pitch is breadth — one vendor billing one monthly, covering several pieces of the church digital stack.

Who they're built for: churches that genuinely want one place to handle web, email, and basic digital marketing, and that prefer a tiered pricing menu so they can pick the level of service that matches their budget. The lower tiers are economical for small churches; the higher tiers come with more design polish and more bundled services.

Who they're not really built for: churches that only need a strong website and are happy sourcing email and any marketing services elsewhere. The bundle math gets less favorable when you're not using the adjacent services, and the design tier you select matters a lot — lower tiers visibly look more dated than higher ones.

Cost

The actual cost math.

Numbers are current as of early 2026. Pricing moves — confirm rates with the vendor before you commit.

OurChurch.com publishes three custom-design tiers on ourchurch.com/web-design-prices as of 2026-05-12: Custom Express at $159/mo, Custom Pro at $259/mo, and Custom Premier at $359/mo. The primary differences across tiers are disk space (5GB / 15GB / 45GB) and the level of bundled storage; design, SEO services, ranking reports, and custom email on the domain are included in all three. Setup fees are not separately disclosed on the pricing page; there is a recurring 50%-off-first-payment promotion. Watch for those terms in your specific quote.

At the Express tier, year one is roughly $1,908 (or about half that with the first-month promo), year two is $1,908, for a two-year total near $3,816. At Pro, two-year cost is roughly $6,216. At Premier, roughly $8,616. If a setup fee applies on your specific scope, add it to year one.

Church Digital's flat monthly rate, with no setup fee, comes in well under even the OurChurch.com Express tier over two years — the gap only grows at the higher tiers. See our current pricing for the numbers to run your own math against your OurChurch.com quote. Whether that gap is worth it depends entirely on what's bundled into the OurChurch tier you're considering.

What is and isn't included: OurChurch tiers include hosting, domain-based email accounts, ongoing content updates, and SEO services across all three plans. Church Digital includes hosting, custom design, and ongoing content updates; email and any marketing services are sourced separately. If you're already paying $20-30/mo to Google Workspace for email and $0-100/mo for SEO help (or none), the bundle math probably doesn't favor OurChurch unless you actually use their full SEO and email stack.

Feature comparison

Feature comparison, with the tradeoffs.

Five places where the two providers actually differ — not a checklist of features, but how each one handles the work in practice.

Design and customization

OurChurch.com

OurChurch.com's design quality varies meaningfully by tier. Lower tiers use older theme structures and the visual style can read as dated; higher tiers get more modern, more customized treatments and the work looks closer to a typical custom agency build. The design tier you pick is one of the bigger predictors of the visible quality.

Church Digital

Church Digital builds custom for every church regardless of tier. Every plan uses the same custom design process; the difference between them is who handles ongoing updates afterward, not how the site looks.

Check the OurChurch portfolio at your specific tier rather than the company portfolio overall — the tier difference is the single biggest design variable.

Updates and content management

OurChurch.com

OurChurch.com handles content updates as part of all tiers. The included scope and turnaround time scales with the tier. Their team has handled churches at every size, so the typical request set is well-trodden.

Church Digital

Church Digital covers routine content updates as part of the flat monthly plan — sermons, events, photos, staff pages — with no per-update fee.

Both bundle routine updates into the monthly. The difference is scope definition — ask both what counts as an included update versus new custom work.

Performance and SEO basics

OurChurch.com

OurChurch.com offers managed SEO services as part of higher tiers, which is real value if your church wants ongoing search work without hiring a separate agency. The site-level performance varies by tier and template; expect baseline acceptable rather than industry-leading on Core Web Vitals.

Church Digital

Church Digital sites are built on a modern stack with Core Web Vitals, structured data, and indexability standards baked in. Active SEO content work (keyword research, ongoing content production) is not included; the site is built to support it well.

If you want ongoing managed SEO included, OurChurch's higher tiers have it. If you only want the technical baseline of the site to be strong, Church Digital delivers that without the bundled retainer.

Integrations (giving, ChMS, calendaring)

OurChurch.com

OurChurch.com integrates with the major church platforms — Planning Center, Tithe.ly, embedded media — as part of the build. They have a long history of these integrations and the patterns are familiar.

Church Digital

Church Digital embeds the same standard church-tool list — Planning Center, Tithe.ly, Pushpay, RightNow Media, sermon players. Whatever the church already uses, dropped into the custom design.

On standard integrations both are roughly equivalent. Ask either vendor about any unusual specific tool you depend on.

Support model and ownership

OurChurch.com

OurChurch.com is vendor-managed: site, email, and bundled services all live on their platform. Leaving means migrating content, domain, and email separately — the email migration in particular is more work than just a website switch. Support comes from their team via ticket and email.

Church Digital

Church Digital is fully managed with no contract — cancel anytime. Email is not part of the plan — most churches use Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 separately, which keeps email portable independent of the website.

The longer the bundle, the more involved the eventual migration. Think about how likely you are to switch in two-to-three years.

Common scenarios

Common scenarios, and how each one tends to land.

Concrete church profiles, the honest fit for each provider, and which way each one leans.

Church that currently has no email setup and no SEO help, wants one vendor for everything digital.

OurChurch.com

OurChurch.com is built for this. The tiered bundle covers website, email, and SEO in one bill — useful if the alternative is sourcing three vendors separately.

Church Digital

Church Digital handles the website cleanly but you'd still need to set up Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 for email and source SEO help separately if you want it.

Leans toward OurChurch.com

Church already on Google Workspace, with a part-time staff member who handles weekly updates.

OurChurch.com

OurChurch.com's bundle includes email and updates the church may already have covered. You'd be paying for services you don't use.

Church Digital

Church Digital fits this profile cleanly — custom design, hosting, and routine updates handled for you at a flat monthly, without paying for bundled email you already have.

Leans toward Church Digital

Larger church that wants a higher-end design and is willing to pay for the top OurChurch tier.

OurChurch.com

The top OurChurch tier produces design work that's closer to a typical custom agency build. If you value the integrated bundle alongside it, the higher monthly can be justified.

Church Digital

Church Digital builds custom at every tier at a lower monthly. If the design quality is the priority and the bundle is not, the math favors the focused option.

Either could fit

Church that thinks they might switch vendors in three years and wants portable assets when they do.

OurChurch.com

OurChurch.com's full bundle (website + email + SEO) makes the eventual migration meaningfully more involved than a website-only switch.

Church Digital

Church Digital runs month to month with no contract, and email lives separately on a portable provider. Leaving, if it ever happens, is a clean cutover rather than a term negotiation.

Leans toward Church Digital

Switching

Switching from OurChurch.com: what it actually involves.

Switching off OurChurch.com is more complex than switching off a website-only vendor because the bundle typically includes hosted email on the church domain. The website portion is the easy part: export content, rebuild in the new design, point DNS at the new host. The email portion requires more care — migrate to Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or another provider, move mailboxes (or recreate them cleanly), and update MX records carefully so mail does not drop during the cutover.

If OurChurch is also handling SEO for you, the third moving piece is whether to continue any campaigns, what to keep on the new vendor, and how to retain whatever ranking momentum has built up.

Most churches plan a multi-week cutover when leaving a full bundle like this. The advantage of moving to a focused website provider plus a separate email and (optional) SEO setup is that the next migration — if there ever is one — is much simpler because the pieces are unbundled. Watch for term length, auto-renewal language, and any cancellation fees in the OurChurch agreement before you start the conversation.

Honest fit

When each one is the right pick.

Pick OurChurch.com when

When OurChurch.com is the better fit

  • You want a single vendor for website, email, SEO, and a wider set of digital tools.
  • Higher monthly is acceptable in exchange for a broader bundled service.
  • You like the option of choosing between several pricing tiers.

Pick Church Digital when

When Church Digital is the better fit

  • You want a strong custom website at a lower flat monthly without paying for adjacent services you may not use.
  • You would rather buy SEO or ads from a specialist team if and when you need them.
  • You want no contract — flat monthly, cancel anytime.

Bottom line

The bottom line.

Choose OurChurch.com when you genuinely want one vendor for website, email, and managed SEO, and the higher monthly is justified by actually using all of those services. Choose Church Digital when you only need the website, want a custom design, and prefer to keep email and any marketing services on separate, portable providers. The price gap is real — at the top OurChurch tier it's roughly four-times the Church Digital monthly — so the bundle has to be doing real work to justify itself.

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What they don't tell you

VendorSetup fee
ReachRight$2,000 setup fee*
Clover Sites~$1,000 build fee
Church Plant Media$499 setup fee
Church Digital$0, ever

*waived only with a 12-month contract

the $29/month sites aren't $29/month

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