Migration Guide
Switch from Realm to CHOS
Move Available People and Services from Realm, then evaluate Volunteers Beta, Check-ins Beta, Rehearsals Beta, Notifications Beta, and AI Assistant Beta while Realm remains active.
What to verify before moving from Realm
- Confirm Realm's current pricing, onboarding, support, and contract terms directly with the vendor
- Compare the exact People and Services workflows your staff uses today
- Keep Realm or another financial system active because CHOS financial management is unavailable
- Evaluate the CHOS trial without assuming a setup-time or migration-completion guarantee
- Need to evaluate AI Assistant Beta without building reports
Migration summary
How to evaluate Realm alongside CHOS
CHOS is church management software for a focused first pilot with Available People and Services plus Beta Volunteers, Check-ins, Rehearsals, Notifications, and AI Assistant. Keep Realm active for Preview and Unavailable workflows.
Switch selected workflows only if your church fits the one-campus, under-300 first-pilot boundary.
Keep Realm active until Available People and Services reproduce the selected workflow with your own data.
Switch selected workflows if AI Assistant Beta can answer your permission-scoped active-module questions without manual reports.
Do not move Preview, Unavailable, or unproven Beta workflows out of the incumbent system.
Move from
Realm
This is a partial-workflow migration guide. Keep the current platform active for capabilities CHOS has not released.
Move to
Connected church operating system for weekly ministry workflows
People and Services are Available. Volunteers, Check-ins, Rehearsals, Notifications, and AI Assistant are Beta.
Starting price
$39.99/month
Flat pricing for every feature in the current release, with no per-member fees or module upsells
Best for
One-campus churches under 300 people with one weekly service pattern and a trusted small staff team
Verify the incumbent product and the selected replacement workflow with current vendor information and your own data.
What you get with CHOS
River City Church / Overview
Sunday operations
247 people · Central Campus
Sunday Worship
Sun, Jul 26 · 9:00 & 11:00 AM
Next action
Resolve 2 overdue follow-ups.
Ready to confirm
15
Unfilled positions
6
Plan drafts
0
Plans this week
2
Church pulse
218 averageThis week
Sunday Worship
Sun, Jul 26 · 9:00 & 11:00 AM · Central Campus
Next action · Volunteers
Resolve 2 overdue follow-ups; 15 assignments still await a reply.
Ready to confirm
15
Assignments awaiting reply
Unfilled positions
6
Open slots · next plan
Plan drafts
0
All upcoming plans published
Plans this week
2
Services on the calendar
Church pulse
218 averageAverage weekly attendance, last six weeks.
Follow-up
Staff signal
Sunday is published. 6 positions still need someone; 7 prayer requests remain active.
218 average weekly attendance · 5 prayers answered
How to switch in 9 steps
- 01
Start your free 14-day CHOS trial at thechos.app
- 02
Export your people data from Realm and retain your financial records in your accounting or giving system
- 03
Add your congregation manually, or use the CSV tool to preview and map your spreadsheet columns; a dedicated bulk Realm import is not released
- 04
Set up Available service types, then test Volunteers Beta under staff supervision
- 05
Evaluate AI Assistant Beta with permission-scoped active-module questions
- 06
Invite staff and set permissions
- 07
Run parallel during your Realm contract wind-down
- 08
Keep Realm active for volunteer, notification, rehearsal, and AI-dependent workflows until the supervised CHOS Betas prove the required behavior
- 09
Complete the operational switch while keeping a separate financial system; financial management is not part of the current CHOS release
Learn more
Ready to make the switch?
Start your 14-day free trial. No credit card required. You can run CHOS alongside Realm during the transition.
$39.99/month after trial for the current first-pilot offer. Verify billing and cancellation terms at checkout.