Church Giving
Giving that knows who gave.
Online gifts, Sunday’s cash, and year-end statements in one ledger — attached to the same people your teams already serve alongside. 0.5% per online gift, no monthly fee, and never a cent for the cash and checks you type in yourself.
Giving in a separate app
Giving in Ministry Planner
The money goes to your church. Never through us.
Giving runs on a Stripe account in your church’s own name, opened in about ten minutes. Your church is the merchant of record, gifts settle straight into your bank, and Ministry Planner never holds a dollar of it.
Connected
Gifts are being accepted and paid out to your bank.
One address, on a poster, in the bulletin, on your site.
Your give page carries your church’s name and colors and lives at a short URL anyone can type. Print the QR poster from inside Ministry Planner, or add a Give button to your church website in one click.
Count Sunday’s cash the way you already count it.
Online giving never replaces the plate. Enter Sunday’s cash and checks as a batch, print a count sheet for your two counters to sign, and print the deposit slip that matches what goes to the bank.
Every gift is attached to a person, not a payment ID.
This is the whole reason giving belongs here rather than in a separate app. A gift lands on the giver’s record beside their serving history and their group — so when a faithful giver quietly stops, someone actually notices.
Rachel Kim
Kids Ministry · Tuesday Small Group
Year-end statements without the three-day scramble.
Run the year, review what it produced, and send. Statements carry your church’s legal name and EIN and the IRS wording every acknowledgment needs, and every gift on them — cash, check, or card — came from the same ledger.
What it costs
The whole fee, on one page.
Two lines, both of them visible. Your church pays Stripe directly at your own Stripe rate, and Ministry Planner takes 0.5% on top. Nobody hides their margin inside a blended “all-in” number here.
Card & digital wallet
- Stripe
- 2.2% + 30¢ (Stripe nonprofit rate)
- Ministry Planner
- 0.5%, uncapped
A $100 gift nets your church $97.00
Bank transfer (ACH)
Coming soon- Stripe
- 0.8%, capped at $5.00
- Ministry Planner
- 0.5%, capped at $25.00
A $25,000 transfer costs $30.00 all in
Cash & checks you enter
- Stripe
- Nothing — no card is involved
- Ministry Planner
- Free, always
We never meter your counting team
Because your church gets its own Stripe account through Ministry Planner, your 501(c)(3) qualifies you directly for Stripe’s nonprofit rate — dropping card processing from 2.9% + 30¢ to 2.2% + 30¢. That savings goes straight to your church, not to us. We’ll help you apply.
A card gift, all the way through
At Stripe’s nonprofit rate (2.2% + 30¢). Check it with a calculator — that is the point of printing it.
| Gift | Stripe | Ministry Planner | Your church receives |
|---|---|---|---|
| $25.00 | $0.85 | $0.13 | $24.02 |
| $100.00 | $2.50 | $0.50 | $97.00 |
| $500.00 | $11.30 | $2.50 | $486.20 |
| $1,000.00 | $22.30 | $5.00 | $972.70 |
Apply for Stripe’s nonprofit rate. It drops card processing from 2.9% + 30¢ to 2.2% + 30¢, and it is worth far more than our share is. You apply to Stripe for it and we will help you do it — it needs most of your Stripe volume to be tax-deductible giving, so a church also running bookstore sales through the same account can fall short.
Our 0.5% is not insurance. Because gifts are charged on your own Stripe account, your church carries its own chargebacks and disputes. Fraud tooling, instant bank verification and instant payouts are Stripe products billed to you if you turn them on. We would rather say so here than in a support ticket.
Planning Center meters its subscription by how many donations you take — including the cash and checks you type in yourself. A church with a faithful older congregation pays more for having one. We never will.
Bank transfers are capped at $25.00 because a $25,000 year-end gift should not cost a church $125 to receive. See how giving sits alongside your plan →
Handled carefully
Giving data is not like the rest of your church data.
Not everyone on staff sees giving
Giving access is granted person by person and is completely separate from the rest of Ministry Planner. Being an admin gets you nothing here. Someone who can open a person’s page cannot see what they gave — there is no padlock hinting at it either, because the absence is the point.
We never hold your money
Gifts are charged directly on your church’s own Stripe account and settle to your bank. There is no Ministry Planner balance in the middle, no payout we could delay, and nothing of yours to lose if we disappeared tomorrow.
Every dollar reconciles
Each payout is matched against the gifts that make it up, to the cent, and anything that does not line up is raised as an exception rather than quietly absorbed. Your bookkeeper gets a number they can tie to the bank statement.
Giving belongs beside the people who give.
Connect your bank, share one link, and count Sunday the way you always have.
No monthly fee for giving · Your own Stripe account · Cash and checks always free