After DipJar. What to move, and where.

DipJar ceased all operations at 8:00am ET on February 11, 2025, per its own shutdown notice, stranding 3,500+ organizations. Dashboards went dark on February 27, taking any unexported giving history with them. The notice named Kind Kiosk as the designated successor.

Givebear replaces the DipJar with a kiosk bought once, with no per-device subscription, running on Stripe Terminal and the organization's own Stripe account. Every in-person gift gets a receipt and a donor record, so a regular tapper can be invited to give monthly.

Compared with DipJar, Givebear's kiosk for a lobby or event entrance is a 21.5-inch touchscreen with a built-in Stripe card reader, sold once at $999 to $1,099 (wall mount or battery floor stand) with no per-kiosk software subscription.

There is no DipJar export left to run: dashboards went dark on February 27, 2025, so reconstruct in-person giving volume from bank deposits and accounting records. Decommission the dead jars, choose the replacement kiosk, and place it in the same physical spot donors already walk up to.

Before cutover, list every place a donor can reach DipJar: website buttons, email footers, printed QR codes, and event pages. Repoint the ones you control; a printed code that sends donors to DipJar keeps working only as long as DipJar keeps that page up.

Unplug the unit and send it through an electronics recycling program. DipJar devices were never standalone card readers: every dip routed through DipJar's servers, so when the company ceased all operations at 8:00am ET on February 11, 2025, the jars sitting on counters at 3,500+ organizations stopped accepting cards that same morning. There is no published way to point the hardware at another payment processor, and Kind Kiosk, the successor DipJar's shutdown notice directed customers to, sells its own devices rather than reviving old jars. The counter spot it occupied is the real asset: donors already walk up to that exact place expecting to give, so the replacement device should go exactly there.

The replacement math, using each vendor's own published pricing: Kind Kiosk devices run $299 to $599 per device, software costs $49/mo on Community ($19/mo for each extra device) or $149/mo on Growth, and each card gift carries a 3% Kind Kiosk platform fee plus Stripe's 2.7% in-person rate, 5.7% combined on cards, per kindkiosk.com/pricing, verified June 2026. A single Community device therefore costs $887 to $1,187 in its first year before per-gift fees, and the meter keeps running every year after. Givebear's kiosk is a one-time purchase at $999 to $1,099 (wall mount or floor stand) with no recurring software charge; the plan itself is a flat platform fee from 1.9% to 5.9% depending on plan (one rate online, at kiosks, and on memberships), plus Stripe card processing at cost, with no setup fee and no monthly minimum.

With dashboards dark since February 27, 2025, any giving history that was not exported is gone, so rebuild from what remains. A dip was always a one-time gift at one preset amount, which made DipJar good at catching impulse generosity and bad at building donor relationships: most organizations never learned who their repeat dippers were. Bank deposit records show the volume and cadence of in-person giving, and the busiest locations and times tell you where a replacement kiosk earns its keep first. The pattern worth hunting for is the habitual small giver: someone tapping $10 every week is roughly $520 a year, and that person is the easiest recurring convert you have because the habit already exists.

Make recurring the default ask at the new device rather than an afterthought. A kiosk that emails a receipt turns an anonymous tap into a contact record, and a follow-up message can then invite that donor to move the same gift to monthly. On Givebear, the kiosk runs Stripe Terminal, the receipt captures the donor's email, and the gift lands in the same donor records as online giving, so you can see exactly who gives in person repeatedly and invite those specific people to a monthly plan on your donation page. Pair the kiosk with a QR sign pointing at your online giving page so donors who prefer their phones end up in the same system instead of a separate silo.