PEX vs Planning Center Headcounts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PEX
Manage business spending and streamline expense workflows with automated controls, receipt capture, and detailed reporting. Control employee spending limits, categorize transactions, and integrate with accounting software.
- Automated spend controls
- Receipt capture and annotation
- Transaction tagging and categorization
- On-demand virtual cards
- Quick fund transfers
- Enhanced reporting and export
- Integration with accounting software
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The PEX financial platform and corporate cards provide powerful capabilities to manage business spending and reconciliation. PEX automates and simplifies your spend and expense workflows, saving you time on issues meaningful to your bottom line. PEX reduces data entry, helps manage cash flow, captures and tracks receipts, streamlines reconciliation, and provides detailed reporting. Your employees, volunteers or contractors can spend (only) when and where you want them to using their PEX Prepaid Visa® or Mastercard®. PEX also provides on-demand virtual cards and a scalable API for custom needs. The PEX app is a free companion app for existing Administrators and Cardholders intended to complement the main PEX platform.* With the PEX platform, you can: • Control Spend. Modernize spending controls by automatically limiting what, where and how much an employee can purchase. In addition to daily, weekly, and monthly limits, employees can also be restricted to specific industries via the use of Merchant Category Codes (“MCCs”). • Capture Receipts. Seamlessly snap a photo of a receipt, add to a transaction, and annotate with custom notes. • Tag Transactions. Easily categorize and organize transactions by using PEX Tags. Append accounting or general ledger codes to transactions to speed up reconciliation. • Make Quick Transfers. Transfer funds from your organization’s bank account to your PEX account on an ad hoc basis, or schedule automatic transfers. Fund and de-fund employee cards instantly for granular control or allow cards to debit from a central shared account. • Request Funds. Allow employees to request funds from authorized administrators with an audit of the entire process. Push and email notifications keep everyone informed. • Enhanced Reporting. Quickly create a variety of reports on purchasing activity with detailed transaction data. Export via CSV or in custom formats. • Leverage Complimentary Systems. Easily integrate PEX with processes and tools you already use, including QuickBooks, Xero, Certify, and more. *When using a mobile device, standard text messaging and/or data rates from your wireless service provider may apply. *** Any questions? Email us at: sales@pexcard.com If you are interested in becoming a customer please visit: https://apply.pexcard.com *** The PEX Visa® Prepaid Card and the PEX Disburse Visa Prepaid Card are issued by Fifth Third Bank, N.A., Member FDIC, or The Bancorp Bank, N.A., Member FDIC, pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A Inc and may be used everywhere Visa Prepaid cards are accepted. The PEX Prepaid Mastercard® is issued by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. pursuant to license by Mastercard International Incorporated and may be used everywhere Debit Mastercard is accepted. Mastercard is a registered trademark, and the circles design is a trademark of Mastercard International Incorporated. Please see the back of your card for its issuing bank.
Planning Center Headcounts
This app simplifies attendance tracking for organizations using Planning Center Check-Ins. It allows users to quickly record total numbers for events, either by entering a final count or using a live counting tool. Data is instantly synced to your account for reporting.
- Track attendance without individual identification
- Enter final headcount or use live counting
- Instant data sync with Planning Center
- Supports multiple users on different devices simultaneously
- Simplified and accessible attendance taking
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You must already have a Planning Center account with Counter permissions and Planning Center Check-Ins enabled to use this app. ===== Planning Center Headcounts: ====== Planning Center Headcounts is an online mobile application that works with Planning Center Check-Ins to help keep track of any type of attendance, without needing to track specific individuals. Choose an existing event and a headcount type and start keeping track of your people. You can track them by entering the final number, or use the live counting tool. You won't need to write down your totals manually when you're done, since saving will instantly update your headcount total in Planning Center Check-Ins. Multiple people can even track headcounts on two different devices at the same time. Taking attendance is made simpler, more accessible, and your data is instantly saved to your account & can be included in your attendance reports.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PEX at fortnightly against Planning Center Headcounts's every 3 months. PEX also leads on ratings volume (3.8K vs 7). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for PEX against 4.7 for Planning Center Headcounts. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PEX has 3.8K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 41% of PEX's written reviews are positive against 40% of Planning Center Headcounts's.
PEX ships an update fortnightly, Planning Center Headcounts every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PEX | Planning Center Headcounts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.8K ratings) — better | 4.7 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PexCard | Ministry Centered Technologies |
Customer experience
PEX
Planning Center Headcounts
Bugs and requests
PEX
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes frequently
- Transactions not showing up
- Issues with adding funds to cards
- Receipt upload problems
- Login and password issues
Requested features
5 requests- Biometric login (Face ID, Fingerprint)
- Improved receipt management and search
- Better reporting and analytics
- Streamlined transaction flow
- Ability to upload digital receipts
Planning Center Headcounts
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PEX
No in-app purchases
Planning Center Headcounts
No in-app purchases
Questions
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