Givebear vs Kind Kiosk. Kiosks, fees and funds, side by side.

Kind Kiosk is the designated successor to DipJar, which ceased operations on February 11, 2025, so it fits organizations that want the closest like-for-like replacement for a fleet of grab-and-go tap devices. Its per-event rentals ($149 to $299 per device per event, per kindkiosk.com/pricing, verified June 2026) also suit teams that fundraise in person only a few times a year and would rather not own hardware at all.

Givebear fits organizations that want to own the kiosk outright with no per-device subscription, and want every in-person tap in the same donor records as the online giving page, campaigns, and event registrations instead of a separate device dashboard.

Compared with Kind Kiosk, 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.

Score both platforms on total first-year cost per device, monthly software fees as devices are added, combined per-donation rate (platform fee plus processing), hardware ownership versus per-event rental, and online giving, events, and donor records beyond the device. 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 Kind Kiosk.

Export donation history and donor contact data from the Kind Kiosk dashboard before canceling, note which devices are owned versus rented, time the subscription cancellation for after the final gifts settle, and repoint any signage or QR codes at the new giving page.

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

Hardware runs $299 to $599 per device as a one-time purchase, event rentals run $149 to $299 per device per event, and the software subscription is $49/mo on the Community plan ($19/mo for each additional device) or $149/mo on Growth. On top of that, every card donation pays a 3% Kind Kiosk platform fee plus Stripe's 2.7% in-person processing: a 5.7% combined rate on cards (all figures per kindkiosk.com/pricing, verified June 2026). Kind Kiosk publishes its full price list, which is rare in this category.

Run that combined rate against a device collecting $5,000 a month: 5.7% takes $285 in per-donation fees, and the $49 Community subscription brings the total to $334 for the month, or about $4,008 a year for a single device before the hardware purchase. Givebear prices the same job differently: the kiosk is a one-time purchase at $999 to $1,099 with no per-device subscription, and the platform side 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.

DipJar ceased all operations at 8:00am ET on February 11, 2025, per its own shutdown notice, leaving more than 3,500 organizations with devices that stopped taking donations; dashboards went dark on February 27. Kind Kiosk is the designated successor, and for organizations that built their event fundraising around DipJar devices it is the most direct path to restoring that exact workflow, including the rental option for one-off galas.

The shutdown is also a reminder that a donation device is only as useful as the company behind it, and that a recurring-fee model carries its own cost. An organization replacing three DipJars with three Kind Kiosk devices takes on $87 a month in software ($49 for the first device plus $19 for each of the other two) before any donation fees, per kindkiosk.com/pricing, verified June 2026. Buying hardware outright changes that math: Givebear kiosks run on Stripe Terminal, donations settle into the organization's own Stripe account, and there is no device subscription left to pay after year one.