A Planning Center alternative built only for Catholic parishes

One system instead of modules to assemble

Bellringer ships as a single application. Parishioner records, communication, ministries, events, giving, bulletins, and sacrament history are one database with one set of screens, so a parishioner's sacrament dates sit next to their household, their ministries, and their giving record without anything being connected together first.

For a parish office of one or two people, the setup cost of assembling and maintaining a modular platform is often the reason the project stalls. There is nothing to assemble here.

The Catholic-specific parts are not add-ons

• • Sacrament records with the sacraments a parish actually tracks
• • Mass intention requests, with a public form and a staff-managed queue
• • Parish census and household records, with an opt-in family directory
• • The weekly bulletin, composed and published in the same tool
• • Ministry rosters with roles, plus RCIA and religious-ed attendance

Priced for a parish, not a campus

There is a free plan for small parishes, and paid tiers that add unlimited parishioners, SMS, giving records, automation, and kiosk check-in. Pricing is listed publicly on the home page — no call required to find out what it costs.

Who this is a bad fit for

If your parish runs a large volunteer services operation with complex rotations, multi-site scheduling, and a worship team that needs song-level planning, a specialist platform will do that part better than Bellringer does. We are honest about that: the depth here is in the parish record, not in service production.

If what you actually need is one reliable place for who is in the parish, how to reach them, what sacraments they have received, and what they give — with a bulletin and Mass intentions attached — that is the thing this was built for.