Is Subsplash a good product?

Yes. Subsplash is genuinely excellent at what it does, custom church apps, websites, livestreaming, sermon publishing, child check-in, service planning, and Sunday-morning operations for 20,000+ churches and ministries. The comparison here is honest. If your need is church-engagement software (apps, websites, media, ChMS), Subsplash is the right answer and HYS does not compete in that category. If your need is a donor / sponsor CRM with sponsorship programs, mission trips, AI-translated sponsor-recipient messaging, or AI wealth intelligence, HYS is the right answer and Subsplash does not ship those.

Should I run both Subsplash and HelpYouSponsor?

Conditionally. If your operation genuinely depends on Subsplash's church-engagement strengths, custom church apps, livestreaming, child check-in, ChMS, websites, keep Subsplash for that layer and run HYS for the giving and donor record. But the trend is consolidation: as HelpYouServe ships more modules (sponsorship, trips, AI Insights, journeys, AI Development Director), fewer organizations want their giving fragmented across two stacks. We see most faith-based nonprofits move giving onto HYS within 12 months and keep Subsplash narrowly for the engagement features they actually use.

Can I migrate my Subsplash giving data to HYS?

Yes. Free migration support for donor records, giving history, recurring schedules, and custom fields. Most migrations finish in 1–2 weeks. We keep receipts flowing on day one. If you keep Subsplash for church engagement, the giving data lives in HYS as the system of record and you continue using Subsplash for ChMS / app / livestream.

Does HYS have a church mobile app or livestreaming?

No, and we won't pretend to. HYS has a native mobile app for donors and sponsors, different category. We don't ship custom-branded church apps, livestreaming, or sermon publishing. If you need those, run Subsplash for that operation and HYS for the donor record.

Does HYS cost less than Subsplash?

Subsplash Giving is $0/mo subscription with 2.3% + 30¢ card fees (and lower at scale). Subsplash One bundle and Enterprise are quote-based. HYS is published pay-per-commitment with preferred nonprofit Stripe rates. The two are not always directly comparable because Subsplash One includes apps, websites, and ChMS while HYS does not. For pure giving + donor CRM scope, HYS is materially less. We'll run the math on your actual volume.

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HelpYouSponsor vs Subsplash

Subsplash Giving works. HelpYouServe replaces it, plus your sponsorship workaround, mission trip tool, and AI cultivation gap, with one platform.

Subsplash is a strong, well-loved church-engagement platform, custom mobile apps, websites, livestreaming, media hosting, child check-in, service planning, and Subsplash Giving, used by 20,000+ churches and ministries. Subsplash One bundles the suite at quote-based pricing; Subsplash Giving is $0/mo with standard commercial card and ACH rates. HelpYouSponsor, the flagship product within HelpYouServe, the AI-native nonprofit operating system, is a purpose-built donor CRM with sponsorship programs, fundraising, mission trips, AI-translated sponsor-recipient messaging, journeys automation, and AI wealth intelligence. As HelpYouServe ships more modules, the case for keeping giving fragmented across Subsplash Giving plus a separate sponsorship workaround plus a separate trip tool gets thinner. Run Subsplash only for the church-engagement layer that genuinely needs it (custom apps, livestream, ChMS); consolidate the donor and giving record onto HYS.

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Feature comparison

Feature	HelpYouSponsor	Subsplash
Entry price	Published usage-based pricing. Current plan details live on /pricing.	Subsplash Giving $0/mo. Subsplash One bundle is quote-based; Enterprise tier is custom-quoted.
Pricing transparency	Published pay-per-commitment pricing with no contract required.	Subsplash One and Enterprise are quote-based. Only Subsplash Giving has public rates.
Stripe / payment processing for nonprofits	Lowest available nonprofit Stripe rate, negotiated on your behalf.	2.3% + 30¢ on cards, 1% on ACH (Subsplash Giving). GrowCurve drops to 1.9% / 0.5% at scale.
Full donor CRM (records, households, major gifts, segmentation)	Full CRM on every plan. Households, giving history, major-donor tracking, moves management, custom fields, segmentation, activity log.	Giving-side donor management, donor list, giving activity, recurring gifts. No household relationships, moves management, or major-donor tracking surfaced. People management lives inside the church-management product, not as a fundraising-grade CRM.
Sponsorship programs (1:1, community, pooled, hybrid)	Purpose-built. Matching, transfers, lifecycle, multi-program, hybrid models.	Not available. Subsplash supports campaigns, funds, and pledging, no sponsor-to-recipient program type.
Sponsor-recipient messaging with AI translation	Moderated 1:1 messaging with automatic translation in 50+ languages.	Not available. Groups & Messaging is church-internal community, not sponsor-to-recipient cross-language communication.
Mission trip management	HYS Trips. Registration, individual fundraising pages, Checkr background checks, e-signatures.	Generic Events product handles registration. No background checks, no individual trip-fundraising pages, no e-signature workflow as a bundled trip program.
AI donor intelligence (wealth capacity, ask calculator)	HYS Insights. AI wealth capacity scoring, optimal-ask calculators, major-gift prospecting. Built in.	Trends AI for giving analytics. No wealth capacity scoring or optimal-ask calculators.
Fundraising campaigns (targets, match pools, recurring conversion)	HYS Fundraising. Campaign pages with donation targets, match pools, honor gifts, one-click recurring conversion on checkout.	Campaigns and funds inside Subsplash Giving. No native match-pool product.
Peer-to-peer fundraising	First-class program type. Sponsors, participants, and ambassadors each get a branded fundraising page tied to the donor record.	Not a first-class product type. Possible to construct via custom forms.
Journeys (automation & workflow builder)	Journeys. Multi-step automations across email, SMS, tasks, and portal events. Visual workflow editor.	Workflows (newer module). Strong for church-engagement triggers (new visitor, child check-in, etc.), narrower for fundraising lifecycle automation.
Email, newsletters, and print mailings	Appeals, newsletters, auto emails, and print mailings (tax summaries, year-end letters, labels) from one composer.	Email + SMS for church communication. Tax statements available. No dedicated print-mailings composer.
Text-to-Give	Available on every plan via the Sendblue integration.	SMS giving (text-to-give) included.
Native mobile app	Included mobile app for donors and sponsors on every plan.	Custom-branded church apps (iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, CarPlay), a category Subsplash genuinely owns.
Live streaming and media hosting	Not in scope. HYS is a donor CRM, not a media platform.	Live streaming, sermon hosting, podcast distribution, Pulpit AI for sermon repurposing. Core Subsplash strength.
Church management (child check-in, service planning, volunteers)	Not in scope. HYS is a donor CRM, not a ChMS.	Child check-in, service planning, volunteer scheduling, groups & messaging. Designed for Sunday-morning operations.
Websites	Not in scope. HYS provides Smart Embed for donor experiences on your existing site.	Drag-and-drop website builder. Core Subsplash product.
In-person tap-to-give	Available via the Stripe Reader integration.	Subsplash Tap. Native in-person giving terminal.
Bulk check scanning	Manual check entry with batch tools.	Bulk check scanning (100+ checks per scan). Native.
Embeddable donor experiences	Smart Embed. Six embed types with auto-resizing, brand matching, three lines of code.	Embeddable giving links and forms.
Payment recovery	Built in. Smart retry on failed recurring gifts, abandoned-checkout recovery, automatic card updates via Stripe's Account Updater.	Recurring gift retries.
API, webhooks, MCP server for AI agents	Full REST API, webhooks, Zapier, and an MCP server. Every plan.	API integrations available; custom API integrations are Enterprise tier only.
Time to go-live	Self-service setup. Most organizations live in 1–2 weeks.	Subsplash One implementation guided by onboarding team. Typically 2–8 weeks depending on the modules deployed.

Why switch to HelpYouSponsor

HelpYouServe is consolidating the giving stack

Many faith-based nonprofits started running both, Subsplash for Sunday-morning ops, HYS for the donor record. As HelpYouServe ships more modules (sponsorship programs, mission trips, AI Insights, journeys automation, AI Development Director), the case for keeping giving fragmented across Subsplash Giving plus a separate sponsorship workaround plus a separate trip tool gets thinner. The giving and donor record belongs in one place, and HYS is the AI-native nonprofit operating system designed to be that place. Subsplash stays useful for the church-engagement layer (custom apps, livestream, ChMS) where it genuinely competes; for the giving operation, HYS replaces it.

Sponsorship, trips, and AI-translated messaging are categories Subsplash does not ship

Subsplash Giving handles tithing, campaigns, funds, and pledging beautifully. It does not handle 1:1 child or family sponsorship, sponsor-to-recipient messaging across languages, or mission trip programs with background checks and individual fundraising pages. If your operation includes any of those, you need a sponsor CRM.

A real fundraising-grade donor record

Subsplash's donor management is giving-side: who gave, when, to which fund. HYS is a fundraising-grade CRM, households, moves management, major-gift cultivation, retention cohorts, segmentation, AI wealth scoring, optimal-ask calculators. Different category of tool.

Stripe nonprofit pricing on cards

HYS applies the lowest available nonprofit Stripe rate. Subsplash Giving runs 2.3% + 30¢ on cards (down to 1.9% via GrowCurve at high volume). Across a year of giving volume, especially for low-to-mid-volume programs, the delta is real money returned to mission.

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