Connected Services
The fastest way to connect B1 to another church-tech tool is usually a Zapier or Make recipe — you don't need new B1 infrastructure, and the third party hosts the workflow. This page is a curated list of services we've confirmed are wireable today, with a short, copy-paste setup guide for each.
At a Glance
| Service | Category | Bridge | What you can wire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailchimp | Zapier or Make | Sync new B1 people / givers into a Mailchimp audience | |
| Donorbox | Donations | Zapier | Push Donorbox donations and donors back into B1 |
| Subsplash | App / Donations | Zapier | Pull Subsplash giving and people into B1 |
| VOMO | Volunteering | Zapier | Sync volunteer signups between B1 groups and VOMO projects |
| Clearstream | SMS | Zapier | Trigger a Clearstream text from B1 events; ingest replies as B1 records |
| Text In Church | SMS / Workflows | Zapier | Trigger Text In Church workflows from B1; receive Connect Card data |
| Mobile Message | SMS (AU) | Webhooks by Zapier or Make | Send SMS from any B1 event |
| Checkr | Background checks | Make | Kick off a background check when someone joins a serving team |
What All Of These Have In Common
- B1 side of the wiring is identical — create an API key with the right scopes in B1Admin → Settings → Developer → API Keys, then either let the bridge register a webhook for the trigger (Zapier / Make do this automatically, requires
settings:write) or call B1's REST endpoints from a downstream action. - The bridge bills you, not us. ChurchApps is free; Zapier and Make both have free tiers that cover a handful of recipes.
- You can test the wiring without going live. Both bridges have a "Test step" button that fires the trigger once against B1 and shows you the data shape before you turn the recipe on.
Picking a Bridge
- Zapier is friendlier and has the larger app catalogue — use it as your default unless cost is an issue.
- Make is cheaper at scale and has more flexible routing/filter logic — use it when a single workflow has fan-out, conditionals, or many steps.
- Webhooks by Zapier (used for the Mobile Message doc) is a generic adapter that lets you POST to any HTTP endpoint from a Zap when the destination isn't a first-class Zapier app.
If you want something not on this list, B1's REST API and webhooks are open — you can build a one-off bridge with the @churchapps/integration-sdk in a few hours.
What's Not Here (and Why)
Several popular church-tech tools — Tithe.ly, Pushpay, Vanco, PastorsLine, Gloo, Notebird, KidCheck, MinistrySafe — don't have a published Zapier app or Make module today. They have their own APIs but wiring them up to B1 is a custom-code job, not a recipe, so they don't fit this list. If a vendor adds a Zapier app or Make module, we'll add the doc.
We've also deliberately skipped Planning Center-Services-specific tools (music, presentation), competing ChMS products, migration consultants, and tools that only clean up PCO-specific data — none of them have a useful wiring path into B1.
See Also
- Zapier (overview) — the B1 side of every Zapier recipe is identical; this doc covers it once
- Make (overview) — same for Make scenarios
- Slack & Discord — chat notifications without any bridge
- Google Sheets — on-demand exports
- Webhooks (developer reference) — the event catalog every recipe relies on