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Planning Center, for an Orthodox parish.

Planning Center is powerful, polished, and deservedly popular, especially for service planning and volunteer teams. It's also modular: you assemble and pay for each product. Symphonia is a single Orthodox-native system, where the typikon, the register, the books and your website already know one another.

Credit where it's due

Planning Center is excellent software. Its Services product is the best in the business at planning a worship set and scheduling volunteers, Check-Ins and Registrations are first-rate, and Church Center gives members a tidy app. Two honest differences: it's priced per product, so a full stack adds up; and it's built for a broadly Protestant church, so there's no Orthodox liturgical calendar, no sacramental register, and its Giving is donation tracking rather than double-entry parish books. Symphonia trades some of that service-planning depth for being Orthodox to the core and all-in-one.

Symphonia Planning Center
Member directory & households check check
Online giving & pledges check check
Registrations, check-in & groups check check
One subscription vs. per-product pricing check Per product
Orthodox liturgical calendar, feasts, saints & tones check
Sacramental register (Baptism, Chrismation, Marriage, Burial) check
Catechumen progress (Inquirer → Illumined) check
Name-day tracking from the saint calendar check
Priest-only pastoral notes, sealed by design check Shared
Real double-entry books with reconciliation Add-on
Public parish website on your own domain check Church Center
Branded member app under your parish name check Shared
Cemetery management, linked to the directory check

Comparison reflects each product's standard, generally-available offering as understood in 2026. Where a product offers something through custom configuration or a separate purchase, we mark it accordingly rather than as a check. Corrections welcome, tell us.

One system, not seven subscriptions.

Moving over is an import, not a project. See the full comparison or estimate your price.