This resource is designed to help give you a clear picture of our approach to setting you up for success and how we differ from other technology solutions so that you can make an educated and great decision for your church/organization.
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"ServiceReef is the best platform that I have used (and I've used 3 different software platforms for short-term trips). The customer service and flexibility within the product is what sets ServiceReef apart from the rest. The platform is visually helpful and user friendly."
Robin T.
Global Missions Manager, The Austin Stone Community Church
Donations are at the heart of managing any short term trip and essential to the success of equipping a team. All of the mission trip platforms allow for online donation management along with some sort of tool for manually adding donations. A few of the tools you will find in ServiceReef are:
Exclusive ServiceReef Features
Common Features of Most Platforms
Managed Missions offers the ability to have donors pay the processing fee and Focus Missions integrates with additional payment gateways.
Many of our clients have very large applications, some nearly 100 questions in length. You need a tool that allows you the ability to create your own application just as you need it to function while also making it simple on your applicants. We have taken the approach of giving you two separate applications (a master application and a trip application) that present a single experience for your applicants.
Exclusive ServiceReef Features
Common Features of Most Platforms
No known features that ServiceReef doesn't have.
It’s important that your trip page looks elegant for those looking to serve with you. Our team works to continually design and tweak the event page to have a fresh and modern approach while elegantly guiding your participants to the information they need. We recognize that this page is part of your marketing and represents your brand. That’s important to us and we want to make sure all of this makes you look great! Your event page includes items such as:
Exclusive ServiceReef Features
Common Features of Most Platforms
No known features that ServiceReef doesn't have.
Participant management is at the heart of managing any short term team. This is where you need to quickly access the data and progress for each team member. We believe this data should be easy to access and easy to understand. This is why we’ve spent so much time designing the personal dashboards (intuitively know if you are a trip participant, team leader, or master admin) and the event dashboard. These features are all designed to help you quickly access the information that’s most important to you. Here are a few participant management features you will find in ServiceReef:
Exclusive ServiceReef Features
Common Features of Most Platforms
No known features that ServiceReef doesn't have.
Did you know that the average short term trip has around 100 tasks associated with it to bring it to life? So let’s just assume we have a team size of 12 and that of those 100 tasks, 50% of them are tasks that every team member needs to complete. Don’t worry, we’ll do the math for you - that’s 650 single task items when splitting out per person. Wow! That can easily consume you. We are in the business of helping you reduce the time and stress of managing short term trips which naturally guided us to create a task management tool. This tool is designed to help you manage all of your trip tasks (internally or for participants) in a single place. Here are just a few of the tools you will find in ServiceReef:
Exclusive ServiceReef Features
Task management is a unique tool to ServiceReef.
At ServiceReef, we believe every short term trip is simply a stepping stone for engagement. A trip should never be an end in itself but rather a step to what’s next. But keeping people engaged after a short term trip takes both a plan and intentionality. Thankfully, ServiceReef automates a number of things for you to help keep your participants engaged after their trip and more so, engaged with your organization. You are their guide, we simply want to help make you great success. Here are a few ways we work to engage your participants once they get home from a trip:
Exclusive ServiceReef Features
Post-trip engagement is a unique tool to ServiceReef.
Did we miss something? Our goal here is to be as accurate as possible in respect of all organizations. If we've missed something please let us know.
It might seem simple, but comparing pricing can get very confusing between platforms. Each platform takes a slightly unique approach from the others. We want to break this down for you to help you compare “apples to apples”. At ServiceReef, we charge based on active trips (trips that are published and accessible for people to view, register, and manage participants). We have no restrictions on features for each trip or team size. You can manage your own account to scale up or down as needed. Take a look at the table below to compare how each approaches pricing.
In the section below, we have broken down how each platform approaches pricing based on some assumptions about the number of trips most organizations run in any given year.
(assuming 10 annual active events published for 9 months)
ServiceReef
$49/month
or $588/year
Managed Missions
$40/month
or $480/year
NOTE: This is reflecting Managed Missions Premium
Go Method
$150/month (average)
or $1800/year
(10 active trips x 9 months x $20/trip)
$20/trip/month for up to 20 participants
Minimum monthly of $20 for active accounts
$1/signed form
ServiceReef
Some additional features available for higher tiers.
Managed Missions
Online donations, custom domain, and API access available in Premium (reflected in pricing above)
Go Method
Additional cost per trip if there are over 20 people on the trip. Digital signatures cost per document.
ServiceReef
No contract, cancel anytime
Managed Missions
No contract, cancel anytime
Go Method
No contract, cancel anytime
ServiceReef
STRIPE
Subscription accounts
2.2% + .30 per transaction base rate (Stripe discounted nonprofit rate).
No additional fees.
Transaction only accounts
3% ServiceReef management fee.
No monthly subscription fees.
NOTE: You choose which type of account to have on ServiceReef.
PUSHPAY
Contact PushPay for current rates.
Managed Missions
2.2% + .30 per transaction
Go Method
Unknown
(most likely depends on the payment processor)
ServiceReef
Stripe
PushPay
Managed Missions
Stripe
PushPay
Vanco
Go Method
PushPay
Tithe.ly
Vision 2
My Well
Stripe
Our entire professional careers have been deeply engaged in mission leadership and building tools to better mobilize people into mission. Our team has worked directly in over 50 countries around the world bringing these perspectives into this single resource.
Our leadership team also serves in key leadership and board roles of various organization and mission initiatives giving us a unique perspective and voice into today’s global missions movement.
This might be an overused word today, but there’s still value in its intent. We are constantly innovating here at ServiceReef to create a better tool for you so that you can decrease stress and increase impact.
Did you know that ServiceReef wasn’t cooked up in some laboratory by a group of coders? This entire system was built in partnership with some of the largest churches and organizations. That’s how we know it works - it was built specifically by people just like you!