Port is the tool. Threefold Solutions is the team that built it — and they will run your Planning Center migration for you: backup, mapping, cleaning, transfer, and training your staff on the other side.
Two ways to do this
We would rather tell you which one you are than sell you the wrong thing. Here is the honest split.
Run it yourself
The self-serve tool. Guided, validated, and built so a capable volunteer can finish it. This is the right call when:
Have it run for you
A managed migration, scoped after a discovery call. Worth the conversation when:
Threefold Solutions is a Planning Center consulting team working under a fairly plain thesis: healthy churches run on healthy systems. They have a community of 400+ church leaders around getting more out of Planning Center, and migrations are one part of a broader practice that also covers coaching and training, ongoing support, custom development, and data and analytics.
Port exists because of that practice. It began as the internal tooling Threefold built to stop doing the same fund-matching and duplicate-reconciliation work by hand on every engagement, and only later became something churches could buy directly. If you hire them, you are getting the people who wrote the software — which is a different thing from hiring a generalist who will learn your system on your budget.
The service is scoped per project after a discovery call, but the core of it is consistent: back up, map, clean, and transfer your profile and giving data, managing the process start to finish and verifying that everything mapped correctly rather than handing you a success message and moving on.
Two things are worth knowing before you call. First, delivery is primarily remote over Zoom, with on-site available — almost no church needs anyone in the building. Second, their stated approach is to walk alongside your team and equip them rather than simply do the work and leave. If what you want is a vendor who does it silently and disappears, say so up front; that is a legitimate ask but it is not their default.
Threefold publishes three tiers rather than a single number, because the range between a single-campus church with tidy exports and a two-church merge with fifteen years of duplicates is genuinely enormous. They will build custom arrangements, and they say plainly that if the published pricing does not fit your budget it is still worth asking.
Port's own pricing is not like that — it is flat, published, and unlimited per data type. If you are weighing the two, the pricing page gives you one side of the comparison in full, and a discovery call gives you the other.
Start with the tool. Port includes unlimited imports for the length of your access window, so you can upload your exports, run the fund mapping, and import a small test batch before committing to anything. If that goes smoothly, you have your answer and you have spent nothing extra. If it surfaces a problem you did not know you had, that is exactly the information a discovery call needs.
The migration FAQ covers what most churches ask first, and theimport tool comparison covers when you may not need Port at all.
Yes. Port is the self-serve tool; Threefold Solutions — the consulting team that built Port — runs migrations as a managed service. They back up, map, clean, and transfer your profile and giving data, and manage the process end to end rather than handing you software and wishing you luck.
Threefold publishes three tiers rather than a single figure, because scope varies enormously between a single-campus church with clean data and a multi-site merge. They will also build a custom arrangement, and say plainly that if the pricing does not fit your budget it is worth asking anyway. Pricing for the self-serve Port tool is published in full on our pricing page.
Primarily remote over Zoom, with on-site options available. Most churches never need anyone in the building.
Their stated approach is to walk alongside your team and equip them, not simply do the work and leave. That matters more than it sounds — the migration is one week of your life, and Planning Center is the next several years of it.
Talk to them first. The engagement is scoped as a whole, and it is a different conversation from buying the self-serve tool. Start with the discovery call rather than a purchase.
Yes. Port is the platform Threefold uses on paid client migrations — it was internal tooling before it was a product. The difference is who is at the keyboard and how much of the thinking is yours.
A discovery call costs nothing and usually shortens the migration, because the awkward questions surface before you have committed to an approach.
Supported systems
Port ships a purpose-built parser for each of these, so your export is understood on upload instead of reshaped by hand. Coming from something else? Open Import handles any system that produces a CSV.
