VolunteerHub is a real volunteer management system, and it is built for programs a lot bigger than the ones we serve. Food banks, hospital volunteer departments, organizations moving thousands of people a year through a volunteer database with waitlists, branded landing pages, hour tracking, and kiosk check-in. If that is the job, stay on it. VolunteerReminder is not that and is not trying to be.
Plus starts at $143/mo and Pro at $288/mo, both "billed annually + set up fee." Enterprise is contact-us. That is on their pricing page, fetched August 18, 2026. The setup fee amount is not published anywhere on that page, so get it in writing before signing. Annual billing plus an unquoted one-time fee is the part that makes a budget conversation awkward six weeks later.
Automated Text Reminders are listed on all three tiers. Their wording is that VolunteerHub lets you "text your volunteers to communicate important messages such as event reminders and manage them in real time." They do not publish a per-message rate and they do not publish a cap. Texts come with the plan. That is as far as their page goes, and guessing past it would not be honest.
Plus vs Pro
Every tier includes the volunteer database, waitlists, branded landing pages, volunteer self-scheduling, volunteer hour tracking, automated emails, standard and custom reporting, workflows, and Zapier. There is also a mobile app on iOS and Android where volunteers see their daily schedule and check in and out of events.
On Plus, advanced liability waivers, the OnSite and kiosk interface, and advanced security permissions are optional. Pro includes all three. Group and team manager, data import/export, configurable forms, the multi-event editor, volunteer recognition, and volunteer fundraising are optional on both Plus and Pro, and included on Enterprise.
Background check integrations (Sterling Volunteers, PeopleFacts) and CRM integrations (Raiser's Edge, Blackbaud CRM, Luminate, Altru, eTapestry, Salesforce) are marked Optional on every tier, Enterprise included. Anyone shopping VolunteerHub specifically for screening or a CRM sync should have those quoted rather than assumed.
Plans carry a volunteer user limit. Once twelve months pass with no event signup, that person is marked inactive and stops counting against the limit. The actual per-plan volunteer numbers are not on the pricing page — that is a sales conversation, and it is the number to pin down first.
Deluxe and Pro
Deluxe is $9 a month (pricing). Up to 60 volunteers, scheduled shift reminders, two texts per shift. It is not a bulk-text plan and not a per-message credit pack. It reminds people about shifts that are already on the schedule. That is the whole product.
Pro is $19, up to 150 volunteers, and adds a third reminder plus a substitute finder: when someone drops out it texts a bench batch (default 8–10, configurable), first YES wins, then the next batch, not the whole roster. YES/NO confirm is optional. Basic is $3 for email and calendar reminders to 40 volunteers.
Volunteers install nothing. No app, no account, no password — a text and an email, that is it. Which is a feature in some rooms and a hole in others, so here is the hole: no hour tracking, no background checks, no kiosk, no CRM sync, no waitlists, no landing pages. Every one of those is on VolunteerHub's list and none of them is on ours.
So the split is not subtle. A food bank, a hospital volunteer program, or anyone who reports volunteer hours for grants, screens people before they serve, or needs signups landing in Salesforce or Raiser's Edge should stay on VolunteerHub, and $143 a month is a reasonable price for that much system. A church, a pantry, or a rescue running the same weekly rotation with the same twenty people, where the only broken part is that somebody forgets Saturday, is buying an enterprise platform to get one feature. That one feature is what we sell.
Start a free trial — 30 days, no card — or email info@volunteerreminder.com and we will say plainly whether this fits.