Givebear vs Fundraise Up. Kiosks, fees and funds, side by side.

Compare Fundraise Up with Givebear for donation conversion, public giving pages, kiosks, receipts, events, and donor operations. See the side-by-side comparison, where Fundraise Up still fits, and how to migrate to Givebear without breaking donation links.

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Side by side.

Capability	Givebear	Fundraise Up
AI Suggested Donation Amounts	No	Yes
Hardware Donation Kiosks	Yes	No
Event Registration & Ticketing	Yes	No
Faith-Specific Workflows	Yes	No
Recurring Gifts Management	Yes	Yes

When Fundraise Up is the better fit

Fundraise Up fits organizations that raise mostly online and want to tune checkout conversion, including AI-suggested gift amounts.

Run your own numbers

The kiosk cost calculator and the platform fee calculator work from your device count and giving volume.

After the gift. Where each one lands.

Fundraise Up homepage with a donation checkout and fundraising analytics dashboards — Fundraise Up's public homepage, captured August 2026, focused on AI-optimized online donation checkout. View the public source

Givebear transactions: each gift with its donor, fund, amount and source, kiosk or web — The Givebear ledger: kiosk and online gifts in one list, each with its donor and fund.

The full comparison.

Last updated June 2026

Fundraise Up concentrates on online checkout conversion, including AI-suggested donation amounts, and for in-person giving it sends you to buy Kind Kiosk devices through its marketplace. Givebear sells its own lobby kiosk and adds event registration and ticketing, with gifts from every channel in one donor list. Organizations that raise almost entirely online and care most about form conversion may prefer Fundraise Up.

Key takeaways

Fundraise Up suggests gift amounts with AI; on Givebear you set the preset amounts yourself.
Givebear includes event registration and ticketing, which Fundraise Up does not.
Both platforms manage recurring gifts.
Before switching, audit active embeds, analytics events, and recurring gifts.

Who this is for: Nonprofits comparing donation conversion tools; Development directors and finance leads who answer to a board for every restricted gift and every receipt, weighing Fundraise Up against Givebear

Fundraise Up is a donation conversion platform. In the comparison below, Fundraise Up has the edge on AI suggested donation amounts, and Givebear includes event registration & ticketing and faith-specific workflows, which Fundraise Up does not.

Where Fundraise Up is the better choice

Fundraise Up offers AI suggested donation amounts, and Givebear does not. If staff use that every week, leaving Fundraise Up means replacing it with another tool or going without.

Where Givebear is different

Givebear fits organizations that also take gifts in person or at events: its own lobby kiosk, event registration and ticketing, and fund setups for faith communities, with every channel in one donor list.

Compared with Fundraise Up, 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.

What to test before you decide

Score both platforms on online conversion optimization, kiosk and offline giving support, event registration needs, faith and community campaign workflows, and reporting across all giving channels. Use your last year-end appeal as the test case: set up the same funds and receipt wording in a free Givebear account and check whether it produces the report your board asked for from Fundraise Up.

How do you switch from Fundraise Up to Givebear?

Audit current donation conversion data, active embeds, analytics events, recurring gifts, and public campaign pages before changing platforms.

Givebear imports contacts and past gifts from a CSV, so the Fundraise Up export is the first step. Create your funds in Givebear before importing the Fundraise Up file, since fund names in it do not create funds on their own. Saved cards move only if Fundraise Up and Stripe support a transfer; otherwise recurring donors restart their gift on your new page, so announce the change a few weeks ahead.

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

Practical use cases

Choose Givebear if you need hardware donation kiosks, which Fundraise Up does not offer.
Choose Givebear if you need event registration & ticketing, which Fundraise Up does not offer.
Stay with Fundraise Up if your team depends on AI suggested donation amounts.
Keep Fundraise Up for online giving and add a Givebear kiosk for walk-up gifts, then decide after a season of both.

Common questions

Does Fundraise Up support donation kiosks?

No. Fundraise Up does not sell a donation kiosk, so walk-up gifts need a separate device and usually land in a separate report. Compared with Fundraise Up, 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.

What is the best Fundraise Up alternative?

It depends on what Fundraise Up is not doing for you. If you need a walk-up donation kiosk, event registration & ticketing, or faith-specific workflows, which Fundraise Up lacks, Givebear has those in the same account as online giving. If your team relies on AI suggested donation amounts, pick an alternative that also has it, or keep Fundraise Up for that job.

Can I import my donors from Fundraise Up?

Yes. Export contacts and gift history from Fundraise Up as a CSV and import both into Givebear. Recurring gifts are separate: saved payment methods transfer only when Fundraise Up and Stripe support it, so check that before you set a cutover date.

What does switching from Fundraise Up to Givebear cost?

Givebear charges 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. To compare with Fundraise Up, run last year's gifts through both fee schedules and add any per-device or add-on fees each side charges; a Givebear kiosk is optional and only needed for walk-up giving.

Givebear covers donation portal, donation kiosks, campaign pages, event registration, automated receipts, donor records.

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