Busic Digital vs OurChurch.com

OurChurch.com has been operating since the late 1990s, which makes them one of the oldest church-website providers in the U.S. Their model has evolved into a tiered bundle: website plus hosted email accounts (on a church domain), plus SEO services on the higher tiers, plus some additional digital tools depending on the package. The pitch is breadth — one vendor billing one monthly, covering several pieces of the church digital stack.

Who they're built for: churches that genuinely want one place to handle web, email, and basic digital marketing, and that prefer a tiered pricing menu so they can pick the level of service that matches their budget. The lower tiers are economical for small churches; the higher tiers come with more design polish and more bundled services.

Who they're not really built for: churches that only need a strong website and are happy sourcing email and any marketing services elsewhere. The bundle math gets less favorable when you're not using the adjacent services, and the design tier you select matters a lot — lower tiers visibly look more dated than higher ones.

Switching off OurChurch.com is more complex than switching off a website-only vendor because the bundle typically includes hosted email on the church domain. The website portion is the easy part: export content, rebuild in the new design, point DNS at the new host. The email portion requires more care — migrate to Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or another provider, move mailboxes (or recreate them cleanly), and update MX records carefully so mail does not drop during the cutover.

If OurChurch is also handling SEO for you, the third moving piece is whether to continue any campaigns, what to keep on the new vendor, and how to retain whatever ranking momentum has built up.

Most churches plan a multi-week cutover when leaving a full bundle like this. The advantage of moving to a focused website provider plus a separate email and (optional) SEO setup is that the next migration — if there ever is one — is much simpler because the pieces are unbundled. Watch for term length, auto-renewal language, and any cancellation fees in the OurChurch agreement before you start the conversation.