Understand the costs and benefits associate with changing your MinistryPlatform edition.

Churches may change editions for for a variety of reasons.

Self-hosted churches may switch to a cloud edition to:

• Eliminate IT infrastructure on the premises.
• Simplify IT responsibilities over backups, bandwidth, firewalls, and more.

Shared cloud churches may switch to a dedicated cloud edition to:

• Gain direct access to their data through the API for custom development.
• Gain direct access to their data through SQL Server for business analytics tools like Microsoft PowerBI.
• Save money if their number of full-fare, secured users has exceeded 150.

Dedicated cloud churches may switch to a shared cloud edition to:

• Save money if their number of secured users under 100.
• They are not planning to access their data directly.
• To engage in custom development directly or with a third party.