Classentra is not a full church management system. We don't handle giving, donations, member directories, or kids'-ministry check-in. We run the teaching side — discipleship classes, leader training, small-group curriculum, certificate programs — and pair with the ChMS you already use (Planning Center, Tithe.ly, Faithlife, Breeze, Church Community Builder).
Classentra is an LMS with community features — not a full ChMS
We do not handle giving, donations, attendance for worship services, member directories, or check-in for kids' ministry. Classentra runs the teaching side — discipleship classes, leader training, small-group curriculum, online courses for your congregation. Pair Classentra with your existing church management system (Planning Center, Tithe.ly, Faithlife, Breeze, Church Community Builder) for the rest.
When churches search for 'church management software' the dominant results — Planning Center, Tithe.ly, Faithlife, Breeze, ChMS, Church Community Builder — are oriented around the four things a parish administrator actually does daily: tracking members, scheduling volunteers, processing giving, and running attendance for worship services. They are good at that. They are not built to run a discipleship class, an elder-training course, or a 6-week small-group curriculum with assignments and a certificate at the end.
Churches that try to run teaching inside their ChMS end up with PDF handouts in Dropbox, attendance in a paper sign-in sheet, and the small-group leader chasing assignments over text. Churches that try to run teaching inside a generic LMS lose the connection to membership and to the rest of the church's operating rhythm.
Classentra is the explicit teaching-side complement: a real LMS — live + blended classes, gradebook, attendance, certificates of completion, a course library, learner messaging — that pairs with the ChMS the church already uses. You don't replace Planning Center. You give your discipleship pastor and your small-group director the LMS half of the workflow.
Every feature below ships today. We focus on the LMS surface — courses, classes, cohorts, certificates. Giving, donations, member directory, service attendance, and kids'-ministry check-in remain on your existing ChMS.
Run a 6-week small-group curriculum, an elder-training program, a leadership-pipeline cohort, or a marriage-prep class as a real class — with a schedule, attendance, readings, assignments, and a certificate of completion at the end.
Native Daily / LiveKit live video for the in-person/online hybrid sessions; self-paced lessons + readings + reflection prompts for between sessions. Recordings land in the course library so people who miss a session can catch up before the next one.
Add co-leaders and assistants to a cohort. Each leader sees their own cohorts; each learner sees one schedule. Free for a single leader running a few cohorts; Team tier for a multi-leader teaching program; Company tier for a multi-campus church or a denominational training body.
Build a course once — the foundations class, the volunteer onboarding, the membership class — and re-run it every quarter without rebuilding. Curriculum is yours; export to PDF or CSV any time. We do not own your curriculum.
Open a course to the wider congregation as a free or paid offering — apologetics, marriage prep, financial discipleship, parenting. Stripe Connect handles payments if you charge; the course storefront sits under your own subdomain (Company tier) or under classentra.com (Free / Team).
Classentra does not replace Planning Center, Tithe.ly, Faithlife, Breeze, or Church Community Builder. We don't take giving, we don't run service attendance, we don't manage kids'-ministry check-in. We run the teaching side; your ChMS keeps doing the rest.
How we compare
| Capability | Classentra | Planning Center | Tithe.ly Church Apps | Faithlife Equip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live + blended class sessions with recordings | ✅ | ⚠️ (Groups + Zoom embed) | ⚠️ (Zoom embed) | ✅ (limited) |
| Real gradebook + assignments | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ⚠️ |
| Auto-attendance from live sessions | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ⚠️ |
| Certificates of completion | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Course library + reusable cohorts | ✅ | ⚠️ (Groups) | ⚠️ | ✅ |
| Giving / donations | ❌ (not our scope) | ✅ | ✅ | ⚠️ |
| Member directory + service attendance | ❌ (not our scope) | ✅ | ✅ | ⚠️ |
| Kids'-ministry check-in | ❌ (not our scope) | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Free for solo leaders. Team tier for multi-leader teaching programs. Company tier for multi-campus churches and denominational training bodies.
Discipleship + leader training · Live + blended · Pairs with your ChMS · No multi-year contract.
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