Does Breeze do fund accounting?

Not natively. Breeze tracks giving by campaign and fund for the purpose of donor reporting, but it does not do full fund accounting (balance sheets, journal entries, reconciliation). Most Breeze churches use QuickBooks or Aplos alongside it.

Can Breeze categorize expenses with AI?

No. Breeze is a people/giving platform, not an accounting platform, so expenses live in your separate accounting tool. Altarflow has AI expense categorization and OCR receipt scanning built in.

Is Breeze cheaper than Altarflow?

Breeze alone is $72/mo vs Altarflow's $99/mo. But most churches using Breeze also pay for QuickBooks or Aplos, which adds $19 – $80/mo. Once stacked, Altarflow is usually cheaper and eliminates data reconciliation.

Is Breeze available in Spanish?

No. Breeze is English-only. Altarflow is bilingual EN / ES across admin, donor portal, receipts, and reports.

Can I import my Breeze data into Altarflow?

Yes. We import members, donors, giving history, custom fields, and tags from a Breeze CSV export. Typical migrations are under a week.

Who should stick with Breeze?

Churches where volunteer scheduling and check-in are the core use cases, finance is already handled elsewhere, and adding Spanish isn't a priority. Breeze is still one of the best pure ChMS tools.

Last updated: April 20, 2026

COMPARISON

Altarflow vs Breeze ChMS: A financial OS with a CRM, not a CRM with giving bolted on.

Breeze (now a Tithely product) is a loved, simple ChMS at $72/mo flat. It's built for people management. Altarflow is the opposite: an AI-native financial operating system with a member CRM included. Different tool, different problem.

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What is Altarflow?

Altarflow is the financial operating system for churches. Donations, expenses, reporting, and digital giving in one platform — not five. AI agents categorize transactions, match Zelle and Venmo gifts to donors, and scan receipts in English and Spanish. From $99/month, replacing the giving-platform-plus-QuickBooks-plus-receipt-tool stack most churches patch together.

The short answer

Breeze is a CRM with giving attached. Altarflow is a financial OS with a CRM attached. Different tools, different problems.

Who should pick what

Pick Breeze if your main need is tracking people, volunteers, and events — and you already have QuickBooks or a treasurer handling finance elsewhere. Pick Altarflow if finance is what's actually slowing you down.

Bottom line

Most Breeze churches also pay $19–$80/mo for QuickBooks or Aplos plus a receipt tool — a $120–180/mo stack. Altarflow replaces all three for $99/mo flat.

Altarflow vs Breeze

Breeze vs Altarflow, feature by feature

Based on Breeze's published pricing and docs (breezechms.com / get.tithe.ly) as of 2026.

	Altarflow	Breeze
AI expense categorization
Built-in fund accountingBreeze: relies on external accounting (QuickBooks, Aplos).
OCR receipt scanning
AI Zelle / Venmo matching
Board-ready financial reports
Bilingual (EN / ES)
Daily Stripe payouts
People management & directories
Volunteer scheduling
Event check-in & name tags
Online & text giving
Unlimited admin users
Starting price	$99/mo	$72/mo

Pricing

Pricing: what's actually in the box

Breeze's $72/mo flat rate is clean, but most churches still pay a separate accounting tool. Altarflow includes fund accounting and AI at a single price.

Altarflow

$99/mo

Finance + CRM + AI in one.

Fund accounting built in
AI receipt scanning
AI Zelle / Venmo matching
Unlimited donations, members, admins
Daily Stripe payouts
Bilingual EN / ES
Member CRM + custom forms
Board-ready reports

Breeze

$72/mo

ChMS only. Flat rate, unlimited users.

Unlimited people & admins
Volunteer scheduling
Check-in & name tags
Email + text messaging (250/mo free)
Online & text giving
Fund accounting
AI categorization
OCR receipts
Bilingual donor UX

Many Breeze churches pair it with QuickBooks or Aplos ($19 – $80/mo) and a separate receipt-tracking tool. Total stack cost easily reaches $120 – $180/mo versus Altarflow's $99/mo flat.

Where they win

Breeze has a genuine moat: simplicity and beloved UX.

Arguably the easiest ChMS interface on the market
Flat $72/mo no matter the church size
Unlimited people, admins, and events
Best-in-class volunteer scheduling workflows
Strong for churches where finance runs elsewhere and people is the priority

Why switch

Why churches switch to Altarflow

Six reasons churches consolidate from Breeze + QuickBooks into a single financial OS.

— 01

One stack, not three

Stop paying for Breeze + QuickBooks + a tax-receipt tool. Altarflow replaces all three at roughly the same cost.

— 02

AI that actually reduces work

Transactions categorize themselves. Receipts read themselves. Zelle gifts match themselves.

— 03

Native Spanish

If even 10% of your congregation prefers Spanish, your donor receipts and reports should reflect that. Breeze doesn't.

— 04

Daily Stripe payouts

Funds hit your account within 24 hours, not batched weekly or monthly.

— 05

Reports boards actually read

Income, fund balances, burn rate, donor trends — in seconds, in one place, export to PDF.

— 06

One login

Your treasurer, pastor, and bookkeeper all work in the same tool. No data reconciliation across systems.

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