I love that the software is always updating and it has the ability to link people together so you can show their relationships (parents/adult children, aunts/nieces, etc). I also am a huge fan of the community and the slack channel for help when needed.

Rock's fast pace of development and great underlying database architecture make it a pleasure to use and develop for. The database architecture allows us to get almost any type of data you could want into, and out of Rock ease. We've been able to customize groups, contributions, event registration, and communications tools to meet our needs. The best part of Rock is it's open source and it's community supported. Instead of being owned by a venture capital firm, Rock's development is spearheaded by a non-profit and support is provided through the community and an ecosystem of vendors. So you can hire (and fire) your support without leaving Rock! Even without a support vendor we're able to rely on the community to get questions answered on the forums or in the Slack. The other churches using Rock are what make the product truly shine. Best practices and product features aren't dictated by a vendor from on high... they're from people actually doing ministry and working with Rock every day.

Rock is open source and is absolutely free to use. With the right person on your team, you can get Rock to do absolutely anything you would like a software like this to do. It covers contribution management, has a built in email/text service, offers child check-in, and much more. Would you like a badge on a person's profile clearly indicating that they are in a small group? No problem. How about a series of automated emails to someone new to your ministry? Done. It really is quite impressive.