Pricing and Features
The Websites Plan costs $50 a month ($41 a month for annual subscription), and includes one domain. 3 subdomains, access to their pre-made templates and media library which contains around 80,000 files, worship presentation software, donations platform, and lifetime phone support. Meanwhile, the Complete Plan costs $80 a month ($71 a month annually) and adds scheduler, kids and website membership, a full mobile app, and free website migration if you have your website hosted in another service.
The Kids Membership program is a Sunday school curriculum which offer lessons and training- similar to a vacation bible school setup. You get over 100 lessons, bible videos and activities, curriculum, and printouts, and a mobile app which can be used both for preparation and presentation. This one usually costs $29 a month, but is included for free in the Complete Plan.
Give It a Try
If you want to have a glimpse of what ShareFaith can offer, you can sign up for their free trial, which lasts for 14-days. You will be prompted to choose one design from a dozen templates before entering your details. You then need to fill in your church’s name, your full name, email address, and phone number, and you’re all set!
Ease of Use
Once you’re done filling up the necessary information, you will be directed to the editor which will show your website’s home page. The template’s elements are already present in the layout. Of course, you can add new elements anytime, including church-focused features like sermon players, photo galleries, and blogs. You can simply click on elements to edit their texts, and drag and drop elements around the page to re-position them. The edit button lets you change the settings of certain elements, like replace the background with another image from their library or from your uploads. You can also adjust the spacing, change the font, font size, font color, and others details.
Under the Content Tab, you can check and setup the other pages of the site like the Ministries, Sermons, Calendar, Blog, Live Events, and Contact, and About page. You can also add other pages and specialized sections like Kids’ Corner, Men’s Ministry, Women’s Ministry, Young Adult, Wordship, and the like. Meanwhile, the Design tab lets you tweak the overall style of the site- you can change the theme, home page and single banners, and site fonts.
Lastly, the App tab lets you fine tune the details of your mobile app- you can set its name, icon title, related keywords, and write a short description. You can also place and reorder sections and send push notification messages once your app is up and running. You can even choose the sample device between a smartphone and tablet, to give you a more accurate view of the app’s layout in each device.
Sharing is Caring
ShareFaith makes it even easier to accept tithes and donations with their in-house platform. It can be integrated into your website, app, and even your social media pages with a simple URL, a QR code, or a donate button. This service is fully PCI Compliant, so every single transaction is safe and secured. It can also accept all major credit cards. You can even open mobile text giving just by selecting a phone number and sharing it to the congregation- and you’re all set to receive donations. Plus, you can monitor the funds and view your donors in real-time. This service costs an extra $10 a month, which is quite reasonable for the convenience that you’re getting.
Customer Service
ShareFaith has an extensive support section where you can find articles about their services- specifically website and hosting, mobile church apps, ShareFaithKids, worship media, worship presenter, donations and tithing, and account and billing. You can also create a support ticket or schedule an appointment for a call. If you are enrolled in a paid plan, you are entitled to premium phone support and you can expect shorter waiting times when contacting their team. Their operating hours are from Monday to Friday, 6AM to 5PM PST. All emails are guaranteed to be responded to within 24 hours. You can also like and follow their Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest page, or subscribe to their Youtube account for the latest news.
What's the Verdict on ShareFaith?
ShareFaith Review 2020 – Conclusion
ShareFaith is quite an impressive church website builder with all of its features. With a user-friendly builder tool, features that can boost and highlight church activities and events, eye-catching yet customizable templates, and a mobile app to boot, they really have everything that you need to create and run a lively church website. They do have some quirks here and there- there are some lagging issues in the editor, and their storage allowance can still improve, but overall, ShareFaith is definitely one of the best website builders you can find for your church.
One Comment
I recommend avoiding Sharefaith. They promise a full migration of your current site (at the cost of committing with them for one year). So we did this, but they never completely migrated our site. So we were left trying to make their template work for our site on our own (because their support basically tells you how to do it on your own. No problem if you know how to build websites and navigate their crazy sytem. We were st one point instructed how to update custom CSS. How many churches know how to do that much less have the time? We also had a lot of trouble with making our site live. For one it took over four days to get it to work at all. Then once it worked, it only partially worked. So we were then instructed to some kind of IP traces or something else only to be told they couldn’t fix the issue. During the process our site was down for about 5 days OVER A WEEKEND! The app they offer is also horrible. You cannot put unique content and the process is very difficult. In addition, there is no way to post a feed of sermons you ought have hosted elsewhere. So after more supper calls, we somehow figured out (on our own) how to embed a feed. So when we finally decided that after all of this effort and the site wasn’t even fully up and working on some networks that Sharefaith was not for us, they still demanded we pay for a full year of fees (over $700). So save yourself the trouble and avoid Sharefaith.