Parable pricing for Planning Center churches

How billing works

What counts as a profile?

Every person record in your Planning Center account, counted once — not per product. Someone who appears in People, gives through Giving and serves on a Services team is one profile, not three. Archived and inactive profiles count too: the people who have drifted are exactly who a care ministry needs to find, so your whole roster syncs, not just your Sunday count.

What happens if we outgrow our tier?

Nothing stops working and no data is withheld. The caps are soft and generous on purpose: crossing your tier gives you time to move up rather than a wall, and we tell you before the plan changes, not after. A church growing past 2,500 profiles is doing the thing Parable exists to help with — that is worth celebrating, not being locked out of the reports showing it.

Do you charge per user or per campus?

Neither. Every plan includes unlimited staff accounts, because a reporting tool only pays for itself when the people who need the answer can get it themselves. Multi-campus support is a feature of Growth and above, not a per-campus charge.

Is there a free trial, and do you need a card?

You can sign up, connect Planning Center and explore your own data before paying, with no card required. The initial sync runs in the background and can take a few hours depending on the size of your church.

Can we pay monthly instead of yearly?

Yes. The prices above default to the yearly rate; the toggle shows the monthly rate, which is higher per month with no commitment. Yearly billing is one invoice, which is usually the easier line item for a church budget.

How much does paying yearly actually save?

On Starter it is $240 over twelve months — $948 a year against $1,188 paid monthly, about 20% off. Growth saves $600 a year (25%) and Scale saves $600 (13%). Monthly billing exists because some churches genuinely cannot commit a year ahead, and we would rather have you on the monthly rate than not at all.

Which plan should we start on?

Count the people in your Planning Center account, not your Sunday attendance — archived and inactive profiles count too, and for most churches the roster is a good deal larger than the room. Up to 2,500 profiles start on Starter. Move to Growth when you need multi-campus support, which is usually the real trigger rather than the profile ceiling. Take Scale when someone on staff wants the raw data. If you get it wrong, the caps are soft and we will tell you before anything changes.

How many AI questions do we get?

Fifty a month on Starter, two hundred on Growth, five hundred on Scale, and unlimited on Enterprise. The allowance resets each month. This is the one number on the page worth checking against how your team actually works before you choose a tier — dashboards, reports and the nightly sync are not metered, so the allowance only covers questions typed in plain English.

Can we move between plans later?

Yes, in either direction, and moving up is the expected path — a church growing past its tier is doing the thing Parable exists to help with. The caps are soft, so crossing one gives you time to decide rather than cutting anything off, and we tell you before your plan changes rather than after.

What happens to our data if we cancel?

Parable never alters or deletes the Planning Center data it reads — it reads your records rather than replacing them, and your Planning Center administrator can revoke the connection at any time without asking us. If you switched on the optional engagement fields or notes, those are written onto People profiles, and whatever Parable already wrote stays there for you to keep or remove in Planning Center; cancelling stops any further writing. The copy Parable syncs is kept for ninety days after you cancel, so you can reactivate without starting over, and is then permanently deleted, apart from anonymised data already folded into aggregate figures. If you would rather not wait, ask us to delete it outright and we will, within fourteen calendar days or ten business days, whichever is longer.

Retention, deletion and what we do and don't do with your data are set out in full in the privacy policy, which is the authoritative version of the answer above.

Still deciding? Compare Parable against what you use today — spreadsheets, Planning Center's own reports, and every third-party tool, including where each one wins. Or book a demo and we'll price it with you against your actual profile count.