Clearstream vs Text In Church
On the surface, Clearstream and Text In Church are pretty similar. You can send mass texts to your church and create automated workflows for following up with guests. As you dig deeper, you'll quickly see what sets Clearstream apart from Text In Church. Along with the product, our customer support and pricing are unmatched.
Features Compared
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Unlimited Keywords |
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Templates |
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Automated Workflows |
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Plan My Visit |
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Notes - Think Google Doc via Text |
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Personalized Messaging |
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Picture Messaging |
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Send URLs |
Built-in link shortener |
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Two-Way Texting |
Short codes and long codes |
Long codes only |
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Multiple Users |
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Beta |
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In-depth |
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Talk to Text |
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Unlimited Lists |
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Pricing Compared
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1,500 credits |
$35/mo |
$67/mo (+91%) |
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2,500 credits |
$49/mo |
$97/mo (+98%) |
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10,000 credits |
$165/mo |
$197/mo (+19%) |
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17,500 credits |
$275/mo |
$337/mo (+22%) |
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25,000 credits |
$369/mo |
$447/mo (+21%) |
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100,000 credits |
$1349/mo |
$1547/mo (+14%) |
Customer Review
"I've used two other texting platforms, and Clearstream is hands down the best in every category. Usability, useful updates, clean and modern look, functionality, 3rd party integrations, pricing, tech support."
Features
Our product roadmap is built on the feedback we hear from customers. And our team is always pushing new updates. Here are a few features unique to Clearstream:
Subaccounts - Separate texting accounts underneath your main account, complete with its own inbox, users, integrations, keywords, etc. A subaccount is useful for ministries or departments that do a lot of texting on their own - i.e. youth, kids, and prayer.
Video Texting - Record and send videos in Clearstream.
Text Menus - Let people text a keyword or enter a workflow and receive a list of options to choose from. Once they respond, they're sent a unique set of texts.
Notes - Make it possible to share long-form content in your text. Think of a Google Doc but with your own subdomain URL.
Guest Follow-Up
With our recent launch of email, you can tackle guest follow-up with texting and email. Use a digital connect card and automated workflows with conditional branches. Filter and sort guests with tags, and create new profiles in your ChMS.
Integrations
We have deep, two-way integrations with Planning Center, Rock RMS, and CCB/Pushpay. We sweat the details and are painstakingly thorough in our testing. The setup is simple, we prevent duplicate profiles, and things work like you’d think they would. For a full list of integrations and what they can do, go here.
Pricing
Our pricing is easy to understand and more affordable than almost all of our competitors. We have never raised our prices, and we’ve even decreased them!
Support
Our team is extremely knowledgeable and insanely fast. Live chat, email, phone calls, and Zoom calls are included in every plan. We’re available 7 days a week, year-round, and during normal business hours our response time is usually less than 3 minutes. Hit the live chat to try it out.
Short Codes
Clearstream is a vetted Premiere Partner with the Short Code Registry, the registrar for all U.S. short codes. Short codes are the single-best option for mass texting, and ours average around 300 messages per second. If you need a short code, Clearstream is a no-brainer.
Registered A2P Number
We're experts in the ever-shifting nature of the texting industry. All your Clearstream numbers are A2P-registered at no cost to you, and your number is registered at the highest vetting possible. This significantly increases your message throughput and deliverability and helps mitigate carrier filtering.
Metrics
View real-time, filterable, transparent metrics. See how fast your messages are sending, replies, opt outs, and we even show you message failures (yes failures happen, and we don’t hide that data). Get a weekly report every Monday morning and pull custom reports at any time to view granular data in a CSV file.
