Contactless donation units, online giving and giving by text message.
Online Giving
As we connect with more people online than ever before, don’t miss the opportunity to enable people to give financially to your church.
Parish resources has a dedicated page for information about different online giving providers and what to look out for.
They also have a page on digital giving: providing useful guidance on a range of ways to receive donations digitally; such as text giving, crowd funding, church management apps and card payments.
You can now also add a ‘Donate Now’ button to your ‘A Church Near You’ page. This short video shows just how easy it is to add a donate button to your ‘A Church Near You’ homepage. There is also a handy PDF guide here to help you.
We also have a dedicated donations page where people can select and donate to their local church. You can also access this by searching for your church on our website and clicking the donations link on your individual church page – this method will automatically select the church for you.
Contactless donation units
Goodbox offer cost-effective donation units which are tailored to charities to help them to accept contactless donations.
This new technology allows churches to accept donations from both regular and occasional visitors who carry little to no cash, for example, at weddings or baptisms.
These units can be used offline, with transactions being processed once the unit has either a wi-fi or 3G signal at a later point. Due to the increase in the minimum donation required under the gift aid small donations scheme (GASDS) to £30 per donation from April 2019, it is also possible for parishes to claim GASDS on these donations, uplifting them by a further 25%. For example, a donation of £5 with GASDS claimed would result in the parish receive a net donation of £6.12 (Goodbox charge a flat fee of 2.5% per transaction, in this case 13p).
Giving by text message
Unfortunately, JustGiving, the text giving service offered by Vodafone ceased on the 31 March 2019.
Contactless giving for mobile phone users
Giving by QR codes has been setup by the national church, and more information can be found on the Parish Buying website at this link.