Givebear vs Give Lively. Kiosks, fees and funds, side by side.

Compare Give Lively with Givebear for donation pages, donor records, receipts, events, kiosks, and connected fundraising operations. See the side-by-side comparison, where Give Lively still fits, and how to migrate to Givebear without breaking donation links.

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Side by side.

Capability	Givebear	Give Lively
Completely Free Platform	No	Yes
Hardware Donation Kiosks	Yes	No
Faith-Specific Workflows	Yes	No
Hosted Donation Portals	Yes	No
Automated donor receipts	Yes	Yes

When Give Lively is the better fit

Give Lively fits eligible nonprofits that want free online fundraising tools and simple campaign pages.

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

After the gift. Where each one lands.

Give Lively homepage with a campaign page mockup listing card, bank, wallet, and DAF payment methods — Give Lively's public homepage, captured August 2026, showing its free online campaign and payment tools. 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

Give Lively is free for eligible nonprofits and covers online campaign pages well. Givebear is not free of fees: its Free plan has no monthly charge but takes a 5.9% platform fee per gift. In exchange it adds a lobby donation kiosk, hosted donation portals, and fund routing for faith communities. If you only need online pages and qualify for Give Lively, it costs less; if you take gifts in person, Givebear covers that.

Key takeaways

Check Give Lively's eligibility rules before assuming the free option applies to your organization.
Givebear offers kiosks, hosted portals, and faith fund workflows, none of which Give Lively has.
Compare donor data exports, event workflows, and receipt requirements before choosing.

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

Give Lively is a free nonprofit fundraising tools. In the comparison below, Give Lively has the edge on completely free platform, and Givebear includes faith-specific workflows and hosted donation portals, which Give Lively does not.

Where Give Lively is the better choice

Give Lively offers completely free platform, and Givebear does not. If staff use that every week, leaving Give Lively means replacing it with another tool or going without.

Where Givebear is different

Givebear fits organizations that need a donation kiosk, hosted portals, event registration, and faith fund workflows, and accept a per-gift platform fee in exchange.

Compared with Give Lively, 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 eligibility and free-tool fit, donation kiosk support, event registration and campaigns, donor records and receipts, and long-term operational needs. 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 Give Lively.

How do you switch from Give Lively to Givebear?

Compare eligibility, total operating needs, donor data exports, event workflows, kiosk needs, and receipt requirements before choosing.

Givebear imports contacts and past gifts from a CSV, so the Give Lively export is the first step. Create your funds in Givebear before importing the Give Lively file, since fund names in it do not create funds on their own. Saved cards move only if Give Lively 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 Give Lively: website buttons, email footers, printed QR codes, and event pages. Repoint the ones you control; a printed code that sends donors to Give Lively keeps working only as long as Give Lively keeps that page up.

Practical use cases

Choose Givebear if you need hardware donation kiosks, which Give Lively does not offer.
Choose Givebear if you need faith-specific workflows, which Give Lively does not offer.
Stay with Give Lively if your team depends on completely free platform.
Keep Give Lively for online giving and add a Givebear kiosk for walk-up gifts, then decide after a season of both.

Common questions

Does Give Lively support donation kiosks?

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

It depends on what Give Lively is not doing for you. If you need a walk-up donation kiosk, faith-specific workflows, or hosted donation portals, which Give Lively lacks, Givebear has those in the same account as online giving. If your team relies on completely free platform, pick an alternative that also has it, or keep Give Lively for that job.

Can I import my donors from Give Lively?

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

What does switching from Give Lively 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 Give Lively, 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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