Nearly 1 Million gifts processed each year by 39,000 churches in 55 countries

What is an online giving platform?

An online giving platform allows donors to make financial contributions to an organization, such as a church, on devices like mobile phones or laptops. These platforms make it secure, convenient, and efficient to give from anywhere, at any time.

Online giving platforms can include features such as recurring donations, one-time gifts, and options to designate funds for specific purposes. They also provide tools for organizations to track donations, generate reports, and engage with donors.

How to Set Up Online Giving for Your Church

1. Choose an online giving provider

Research different online giving platforms to find one that is scalable to your church size and needs. Consider factors such as ease of use, fees, integration with your existing church management software, and the types of giving options offered (e.g., mobile giving, text to give, kiosks).

Here are features to look for in an online giving provider:

  • Secure transaction processing and encrypted data protection, which secure online transactions against fraud and help process donations efficiently and securely
  • Mobile-responsive design and a user-friendly interface, which optimize the giving process for mobile users
  • Customizable donation forms, efficient payment integration, and automated receipt generation, improving the overall process
  • Reliable donor management, which can help you manage donor information and giving records
  • Flexible giving options, so you can accept various forms of payment (credit card, PayPal, etc.)
  • Transparent reporting features, which can make it easy to monitor transactions and giving trends
  • Easy navigation and usability, which streamlines the donation process for ease of use
  • Excellent customer support, so you can support donors with troubleshooting and assistance

2. Prepare to sign up

Gather all necessary information before starting the sign-up process, including your church’s legal name, address, tax identification number, and banking details.

3. Sign up for an account

To establish an online giving platform for the church, you’ll need to sign up. Signing up typically involves filling out an online form with your church's information and setting up administrative access. 

4. Build your donation page

Once your account is set up, you can begin building your church’s online donation page. Customize the page to reflect your church's branding by adding your logo, colors, and specific donation categories or funds.

Finally, don’t forget to launch the online giving system on the church website and promote online giving through social media and email. These are great ways to get the word out!

How does online giving impact church finances?

Digital giving helps churches and other faith-based organizations increase generosity. Making it easy for your congregation to give means that they give more of their financial resources. Giving online through debit/credit card payments or ACH transactions is a critical part of fundraising for churches.

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online giving software

Built for churches and ministries, the Tithe.ly online giving platform enables your church to receive donations and contributions securely from anywhere, at any time. Allow members to pay tithing online, accept donations or event registration, support missions or camp signup, and much more through your church website.

Add your church online giving form anywhere your donors are: your website, partner or ministry sites, and beyond. The result? Donors and parishioners give more! As a tithing software for churches, Tithe.ly will even help you set up online giving for your church so you can start accepting online church donations right away.

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Brand your church donation form

Built for churches and ministries, the Tithe.ly online giving platform enables your church to receive donations and contributions securely from anywhere, at any time. Allow members to pay tithing online, accept donations or event registration, support missions or camp signup, and much more through your church website.

Add your church online giving form anywhere your donors are: your website, partner or ministry sites, and beyond. The result? Donors and parishioners give more! As a tithing software for churches, Tithe.ly will even help you set up online giving for your church so you can start accepting online church donations right away.

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Track bank deposits, reconcile giving, and easily integrate accounting tools

Accounting and bank reconciliation should be simple for your church staff, but all too often church giving platforms make it hard. In order to change that, we’ve gone to great lengths to learn exactly what churches, ministries, and non-profits need to effectively and efficiently manage their finances and gain the insights needed to grow.

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Giving Forms

Do even more with Giving Forms

We’ve designed our Giving Form to be incredibly easy to customize and use, so you don’t waste any time in your day. Giving Forms makes generosity–and church fundraising–easy.

Save time with a live editor

Our live editor allows you to see the styling changes you make on your Giving Form as they happen. That way, you can build your form faster because you never have to leave the page while you design.

Create custom links

Easily choose an amount or fund to generate a custom link that will always default to your settings. For instance, you can create a custom link that defaults to your building fund for $50 and share it on your website, in emails, and on social media.

Choose from a range of styling options

When you begin styling your Giving Form, you’ll notice options on the interface to customize Button Shapes, the Font used throughout the Form, and the Primary and Secondary colors used within the Form.

Quickly access a link and embed area

Your link and embed area is front and center, so you don’t miss a beat when sharing the link in emails and on social media or embedding your Giving Form on your website. You can copy and paste your link and embed code or simply click on the clipboard icon.

Conveniently select a language

Using the language picker, you can choose from the different languages you want your church’s giving form to appear in. If you don’t see your language listed, simply reach out and we’ll be more than happy to add it for you.

Manage multiple campuses

When managing more than one campus, you can select the location from settings and jump between the Giving Forms for different campuses. Change the styles, custom links, and more based on the location.

Integrate with Tithely People

The Giving Form also integrates with People which provides givers the choice to access and update their People profiles. This means that when you have your Giving Form embedded on your website, you’re creating a place where members of your church can now easily edit contact information and profile pictures.

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Save time with a live editor

Our live editor allows you to see the styling changes you make on your Giving Form as they happen. That way, you can build your form faster because you never have to leave the page while you design.

Create custom links

Easily choose an amount or fund to generate a custom link that will always default to your settings. For instance, you can create a custom link that defaults to your building fund for $50 and share it on your website, in emails, and on social media.

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Choose from a range of styling options

When you begin styling your Giving Form, you’ll notice options on the interface to customize Button Shapes, the Font used throughout the Form, and the Primary and Secondary colors used within the Form.

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Quickly access a link and embed area

Your link and embed area is front and center, so you don’t miss a beat when sharing the link in emails and on social media or embedding your Giving Form on your website. You can copy and paste your link and embed code or simply click on the clipboard icon.

Conveniently select a language

Using the language picker, you can choose from the different languages you want your church’s giving form to appear in. If you don’t see your language listed, simply reach out and we’ll be more than happy to add it for you.

Manage multiple campuses

When managing more than one campus, you can select the location from settings and jump between the Giving Forms for different campuses. Change the styles, custom links, and more based on the location.

Integrate with Tithely People

The Giving Form also integrates with People which provides givers the choice to access and update their People profiles. This means that when you have your Giving Form embedded on your website, you’re creating a place where members of your church can now easily edit contact information and profile pictures.

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Everything you need, nothing you don’t

Tithely Giving has all the tools you need to make giving (and receiving) fast and easy. All our tools are also mobile-accessible so that you can manage donations on the go. 

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Powerful Giving Insights & Ministry Health Dashboard

Track generosity trends like number of givers, average gift size, and percentage of recurring givers.

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Gift and deposit reporting

Tithe.ly admin reporting tools make it easy for you and your staff to see each and every gift, registration, or payment, as well as detailed deposit reporting for every deposit we make into your bank account.  

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Weekly / monthly summary reporting

Tithe.ly admin tools make it simple for you to produce giving summary reports that can be easily shared. Giving summary reports are great for tracking giving against weekly budget or fundraising toward building funds, capitol campaigns, and any other fundraising effort.

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Tax receipting

Easily create monthly, quarterly, or yearly tax receipts that your members can use when filing their taxes. Simply select the date range you want and the system will produce an individual receipt for each donor showing their consolidated giving information.

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Seamless Quickbooks Integration

QuickBooks is a household name for churches who use it for financial reporting and bookkeeping. Tithe.ly church donation software allows you to easily sync your giving information with QuickBooks Online. This will save you time transferring information, and ensure your church’s financial records are precise.

Packed with the church giving features you need.

Tithe.ly was born mobile first. From text-to-give to the Tithe.ly mobile giving app, everything has been built for the mobile generation.
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Customized emails

Donors instantly receive an email receipt with each gift. You can customize your gift emails with your own branding and messaging.

Daily deposits

Pledge campaigns

Accept and manage pledges from your donors, so you can better plan for building campaigns and other fundraisers.

In-depth reports

Custom Designations

Customize funds to meet your needs. Members can give to multiple funds in one transaction.

Cash/check recording

Instant ACH™

Login using your online banking credentials! No more account and routing numbers.

Auto recurring giving

ChMS integrations

Connect with the most popular church mgmt. systems like Elvanto, Breeze, Shelby, ROCK RMS, and more.

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Lifetime gift tracking

Give donors access to their giving history for easy accounting and year end tax reporting.

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Weekly giving reminders

iPhone users get weekly giving reminders. Great for holiday and weather-affected weekends.

QuickGive™

No account needed

Allow giving without creating an account. Great for one-time gifts in your church's lobby or for use in small group settings.

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Admin gift entry

Easily enter credit, debit, and ACH gifts to be processed or record cash and check donations.

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Powerful integrations

Tithely integrates with major ChMS solutions, and accounting software like QuickBooks Online.

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Multi-campus configuration

Add as many campuses as you need and have funds deposited into different accounts.

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Custom statement descriptors

Make sure donors know their gift went to you by customizing what they see on their statements.

Our mission is to grow giving and engagement in the local church

Watch these success stories from churches who have grown giving and engagement by using Tithe.ly products.

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Giving to your church should be meaningful, simple and fast. That’s why Tithely built a complete set of digital giving tools for your church. Download our product guide to see all the many ways we can help!

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FAQ

Questions about
Online Giving

For more questions, visit our FAQ page

What are the ways people can give?

Cash & Check – Chances are, a good chunk of your donations still come in via cash and check from passing the plate at church. With Tithe.ly church giving, you can easily record all offline giving along side the other forms of giving so you have a complete view in one system! ACH bank transfer (aka eCheck) – Bank transfer donations are supported by Tithe.ly church giving. Donors can set it up and manage their connected accounts themselves, or you can help them get it configured on the admin side of giving. Credit & Debit Card – Donors can give using they VISA, MasterCard, Discover, or AMEX. Donors can set it up and manage their connected accounts themselves, or you can help them get it configured on the admin side of giving.

Does Tithe.ly work outside the U.S.A?

Yes! Tithe.ly supports churches in the the United States (US), Canada, Australia, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom (UK), and New Zealand. And we’ve got more coming your way soon!

Does Tithe.ly work with my general ledger?

Tithe.ly allows you to export a CSV file that should be importable by your general ledger. We also provide bank deposit reporting that includes the full deposit amount as well as the break out by fund. We’d advise against keeping every individual donation in your general ledger. Instead, we’d recommend using a journaled entry strategy where individual gift details are stored in Tithe.ly and only the deposits totals and fund details are entered into your general ledger.

Is Tithe.ly better than EasyTithe?

Tithe.ly has been built by pastors, church leaders, and kingdom minded people to meet the needs of Church. You get 5 ways to give in one solution – a native mobile app for iOS and Android phones, true in text-to-give, online giving, kiosk giving, and administrative giving. No contracts required, no up front / setup fees, no monthly fees, or any other hidden fees. Find more info here to consider when looking at easyTithe for your church.

Is Tithe.ly better than Pushpay?

Tithe.ly has been built by ministry minded individuals and pastors to meet the specific needs of the Church. Tithe.ly gives you 5 ways to give in one solution – a native mobile app, true in text giving, web giving, kiosk giving, and administrative giving. You won’t be required to sign a long term contract, incur any up front fees, get stuck with large monthly fees, or find any hidden or surprising fees in your processing statements. Here are a few more things to consider when looking at Pushpay for your church.

Can I issue donor tax statements?

Yes! It’s easy to generate elegant donor statements for any date range. You can save some money and deliver them by email or print them for mailing.

Can I integrate with my church's mobile app?

Yes! Tithe.ly integrates nicely into your church’s existing mobile app (eg. Bulletin Plus Church App, The Church App by Subsplash, PocketPew, ApolloApp, Custom Church Apps, etc).

Does Tithe.ly support fund accounting?

Yes. Every dollar taken in through Tithe.ly (whether it’s online, or via a physical batch of checks and cash) is allocated to a fund so that you can easily do fund accounting. We even produce bank deposit reports that include fund level detail and aggregate information for easy reconciliation.

Is Tithe.ly better than PayPal?

PayPal is fantastic, but not built to meet the specific needs of the Church. With Tithe.ly you get a mobile app, text giving, web giving, kiosk giving, and administrative tools. Plus, all the data syncs directly with your church management platform. All things that you don’t get with PayPal. Plus, Tithe.ly provides a much better giver experience! Here are a few more things to consider when looking at PayPal for your church.

How do I get members using Tithe.ly?

So you’ve just started using Tithe.ly at your church and need help educating your congregation about the new ways to give? First, we’re here to help! You will receive a full launch resource kit packed with slides, videos, and more. You’ll also have one-on-one time with our custom happiness team. For quick ideas on the best ways to roll out Tithe.ly read this launch plan. Some other ideas include: – Send and email. – Put a note in your weekly bulletin. – Create a page on your website. – Send a personal letter to your biggest givers. The better your members are educated to use Tithe.ly the more opportunity you have to increase giving. Churches that fully implement and effectively roll out Tithe.ly typically see a 10% – 20% increase in giving, but we’ve seen over 50% as well.

Can I integrate with my church mgmt system?

Tithe.ly currently integrates with Elvanto Church Management Software, Planning Center Giving, Ministry Platform, Shelby v5, Shelby Arena, Church Community Builder (CCB), Breeze, Rock RMS, F1 and Faith Teams. We are continually adding and improving integrations. Additionally, we offer a very simple way to export your data in a format that easily imports into most ChMS platforms that we don’t have a have direct integration with.

Do I need a new merchant account?

Nope! Tithe.ly provides an end-to-end solution. All gifts are tracked through the Tithe.ly dashboard and deposits go directly into your bank account.

Can we track giving across church campuses?

Yes. With Tithe.ly you can easily track giving for multiple campuses within a single account. Tithe.ly will also support multi-campus setup in popular ChMS platforms like Church Community Builder, Breeze, Elvanto, and other church software.

What are the Tithe.ly fees for?

These fees help us cover the cost of processing each electronic transaction, maintaining a secure and safe environment for your transactions, and improving the platform so your church continues to benefit from the giving innovation we deliver.

Can I easily issue refunds?

Yes, with a simple click of a button from your admin panel.

What if someone loses their phone?

If a phone is lost, even if someone is logged into Tithe.ly, no transactions can be made without the user's secret passcode. This is an extra layer of security that ensures that no one but the owner can access their Tithe.ly account for malicious reasons.

Do people get a receipt?

Absolutely! As soon as someone gives via Tithe.ly they instantly receive an email with the details of their transaction. All giving history for each member is also tracked and available within the mobile app, giving your members instant access to check their records. Note: Confirmation emails sent by Tithe.ly, should only be used for tax purposes if the email meets the tax requirements of the country your church resides in.

Is Tithe.ly Secure?

All financial information is encrypted and stored by our banking partner to PCI DSS Level 1 compliant standards. PCI DSS Level 1 compliance is a set of rules stated by credit card companies and audited by an independent third party. It is the highest possible rating one can get in the electronic payment processing industry. Additionally, Tithe.ly forces HTTPS for all transaction services using TLS.

Does Tithe.ly support designated giving / funds?

Yes. With Tithe.ly you can create as many funds / designations as you need (e.g. missions, building fund, weekly contribution, etc.). These appear to your members when they use our platform, making it very simple for them to be sure their generosity goes to the place they are most passionate about.

How long does it take to launch

Five to ten minutes max! It’s a very simple process to set up your account and begin receiving your first gifts!

How often are funds deposited

The short / simple answer is that we deposit funds directly into your bank account every day with a two day lag. Meaning, funds raised on Sunday hit your bank account on Tuesday. To learn more, check out our knowledge-base article on deposits.