Build
Do your needs fit the platform model, or require a workflow designed around your ministry?
Church platform comparison
Rehost vs Subsplash. One team stays after launch.
Subsplash brings many common church tools into one platform. Rehost builds and runs a custom customer or community experience around the workflows your organization actually needs.
Responsibility ledger
Rehost
Reviewed 2026-08-14
Connect
Which system must remain the trusted record for people, gifts, groups, and content?
Run
Should ministry staff administer another platform or send the request to a team?
What Rehost is opinionated about
The church platform and the member experience can be different things.
The useful question is not which one has the longer feature list. Decide which system should hold giving, people, media, and ministry records, then decide who should own the experience members use around those records.
Start with the real job
A long feature list can hide the decision. Begin with the work customers and staff need completed every week.
Keep useful systems
A booking, giving, CRM, or builder account does not need to disappear simply because the customer experience needs work.
Name every owner
Builds, connections, releases, support, data, and vendor failures need a named owner before anything goes live.
Price the whole relationship
Compare subscriptions, outside help, staff time, upkeep, releases, and the work that waits when nobody owns it.
The short answer
Choose Subsplash when its church platform, giving, media, messaging, and management model fit your ministry. Choose Rehost when the experience or workflow needs to be shaped around your organization and operated by a team. The two can coexist when supported access makes that responsible.
Side by side
Rehost vs Subsplash, responsibility by responsibility.
Feature counts are useful only when they explain who does the work. This table combines the product facts with the Build, Connect, and Run responsibilities that appear after launch.
| Decision | | |
|---|---|---|
| Build: Do your needs fit the platform model, or require a workflow designed around your ministry? | Builds the approved branded experience and custom workflows around the community's priorities. | Subsplash provides configurable church app, web, media, giving, messaging, and management products. |
| Connect: Which system must remain the trusted record for people, gifts, groups, and content? | Plans supported connections while keeping a useful church system in place when appropriate. | Your team uses the platform's current capabilities and supported ecosystem. |
| Run: Should ministry staff administer another platform or send the request to a team? | Operates the approved customer-facing system and ongoing software changes. | Your staff administers the platform, content, ministry workflows, and vendor relationship. |
| Primary product | A managed custom app, website, and connected customer experience. | Subsplash One combines mobile and TV apps, websites, giving, media, church management, messaging, and groups in one church platform.Sources 1, 2 |
| Published pricing model | A managed monthly service with the approved scope and outside costs confirmed in writing. | Subsplash says Subsplash One pricing depends on church size and usage and asks organizations to speak with its team. Its giving page publishes a $0 monthly giving option with stated processing rates.Sources 1 |
| Standard church workflows | Can create approved custom workflows and experiences across systems. | Provides a broad set of church-specific capabilities in one established product family.Sources 2 |
| Use together | Can operate a custom member layer while an approved platform keeps designated records, subject to access and scope. | Can remain the church platform or system of record rather than becoming an automatic replacement target. |
By the numbers
Three numbers that define the Rehost model.
They describe the commercial shape of the relationship. The written scope still controls the exact work, systems, access, and outside costs.
14 days
Published launch target
For an approved standard scope with access and decisions ready, Rehost targets a two-week path from conversation to live software.$0
Standard upfront build fee
The published model begins with a monthly operating relationship rather than a separate five-figure build invoice.1 team
App, website, connections, and changes
The useful outcome is one accountable relationship instead of a customer-facing stack your staff has to coordinate.Best fit
Choose the model that matches your real team.
Neither side wins every decision. The right choice depends on the responsibility your organization wants to keep.
Choose Subsplash if
- You want an established all-in-one church platform.
- Its current app, web, media, giving, messaging, and management workflows fit the ministry.
- Your staff can administer the platform and its content.
Choose Rehost if
- You need a custom experience around the way your community actually engages.
- You want one team to own the app, website, connections, releases, and ongoing changes.
- You want to keep a useful church system without making every member interaction look like the platform.
The practical switch
Keep Subsplash if it still works.
Rehost does not begin with a replacement assumption. Giving, people, media, or group records may stay in Subsplash while Rehost operates an approved experience around them. Access, data direction, consent, failure handling, and staff responsibilities must be clear first.
- 01
Map what exists
Name the records that must stay authoritative.
- 02
Verify the boundary
Confirm supported access and data direction before promising an integration.
- 03
Assign the operation
Test giving, identity, content, and communication paths with real ministry owners.
Evidence
See what this comparison is based on.
Subsplash product and pricing-model facts come from official Subsplash pages, reviewed on August 14, 2026. Product bundles, processing rates, and quotes can change.
- 01Official source
Subsplash pricing
Official giving rates and explanation of how Subsplash One pricing is determined.
- 02Official source
Subsplash One
Official overview of apps, websites, giving, media, church management, messaging, groups, and the central dashboard.
Reviewed 2026-08-14. Prices, promotions, capabilities, and terms can change. A current written quote and signed agreement control over this page.
Questions people ask before changing anything.
Cost, ownership, rebuilds, access, and who keeps the work—answered plainly.
Does Rehost replace Subsplash?
Not automatically. Subsplash can remain the system for approved church workflows. Rehost can build and run a custom member experience when access, data, and responsibility are clear.
Does Subsplash publish one flat price?
Its official pricing page says Subsplash One pricing depends on church size and usage and directs organizations to its team. Compare the written quote, processing costs, add-ons, and staff administration with the full Rehost scope.
Can Rehost connect to church giving or management data?
Only when the provider's supported access, security, consent, data rules, and the written scope make the connection responsible. Rehost does not promise an integration before checking those conditions.
Who owns our content, data, accounts, and code?
Customers retain the content and customer data they provide. Software, code, designs, accounts, licenses, exports, transition, and end-of-service terms follow the signed agreement.
What happens first?
We look at the system you have, the work people do around it, and the part that is causing trouble. Then we say what should stay, what needs work, and what Rehost would own.
Does every Rehost project start with a rebuild?
No. A rebuild is expensive and disruptive. We recommend one only when the current foundation cannot support the next responsible step.
Can our current Subsplash specialist stay involved?
Yes. Good people and useful vendors do not need to disappear. The written plan needs to say who decides, who changes what, and who handles a failure.
How should we compare the cost?
Compare the full job. Include subscriptions, outside help, staff time, release work, support, and the cost of work that waits because nobody owns it.
What access does Rehost need before giving an answer?
Enough to verify the problem. That may include a working demo, account settings, error details, store access, vendor notes, or a current bill. Access follows a written scope and appropriate safeguards.
Bring the real setup.
Show us the app, the quote, the systems that must stay, and the work landing on staff. We will map the responsible next step.