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3 self-hosted Planning Center alternatives

Planning Center is a church management SaaS for organizing people, services, events, donations, registrations, and volunteer scheduling. It provides modular apps for membership, service planning, event registration, giving, calendars and reporting.

Alternatives to Planning Center

Open-source web application for complex organization hierarchies: members, events, courses, mailings and payments. Plugin-based, Rails-backed, community-driven.

Hitobito screenshot

476 stars135 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source PHP membership and user management system for clubs, associations and organizations with roles, events, media, documents and exports.

Admidio screenshot

472 stars167 forksGPL-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source tool for grassroots groups to schedule activities, share offers, and coordinate locally with maps, chats, and participatory governance.

Karrot screenshot

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What replacing Planning Center actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 3 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, GPL-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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