Givebear vs Pushpay. Kiosks, fees and funds, side by side.

Compare Pushpay with Givebear for church donations, tap-to-give, recurring giving, events, receipts, and connected donor records. See the side-by-side comparison, where Pushpay still fits, and how to migrate to Givebear without breaking donation links.

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Side by side.

Capability	Givebear	Pushpay
Enterprise ChMS Integration	No	Yes
Simple Transparent Pricing	Yes	No
Hardware Donation Kiosks	Yes	Requires partner integrations
Hosted Donation Portals	Yes	Yes
Custom Church App	No	Yes

When Pushpay is the better fit

Pushpay fits larger churches that want a custom church app and ChMS integration and are prepared for a demo-led sale and a contract of a year or more.

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.

Pushpay homepage describing a church engagement platform, with a worship service photo — Pushpay's public homepage, captured August 2026, leading with engagement and demo-first sales rather than self-serve giving. 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

Pushpay is a church engagement platform with ChMS integration and a custom church app, sold through demos on contracts reported at one to three years. Pushpay Giving cannot connect to card readers itself, so in-person tap giving goes through its partner tiptap. Givebear sells its own lobby kiosk, publishes its pricing, and runs month to month. Larger churches that want the app and ChMS together may prefer Pushpay.

Key takeaways

Pushpay offers a custom church app; Givebear does not.
Both offer hosted donation pages.
Clarify contract terms, donor export, recurring gift migration, and giving URL redirects before switching.

Who this is for: Churches comparing larger giving platforms; Church treasurers, executive pastors, and finance volunteers who reconcile weekly offerings, building funds, and year-end giving statements, weighing Pushpay against Givebear

Pushpay is church giving and engagement software. In the comparison below, Pushpay has the edge on enterprise ChMS integration and custom church app, and the rest comes down to cost and how in-person giving is handled.

Where Pushpay is the better choice

Pushpay offers enterprise ChMS integration and custom church app, and Givebear does not. If staff use those every week, leaving Pushpay means replacing them with another tool or going without.

Where Givebear is different

Givebear fits small and mid-sized churches that want online giving, a lobby kiosk, events, and fund reports without adopting an engagement suite, on month-to-month plans.

Compared with Pushpay, Givebear's kiosk for the church foyer 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 fit for church size and operating model, donation kiosk and in-person giving workflows, recurring giving and donor self-service, event and campaign needs, and implementation speed and admin simplicity. Use last Easter or an ordinary Sunday 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 Pushpay.

How do you switch from Pushpay to Givebear?

Clarify contract terms, donor export paths, recurring gift migration, app dependencies, and public giving URL redirects before switching.

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

Practical use cases

Stay with Pushpay if your team depends on enterprise ChMS integration.
Stay with Pushpay if your team depends on custom church app.
Keep Pushpay for online giving and add a Givebear kiosk for walk-up gifts, then decide after a season of both.

Common questions

Does Pushpay support donation kiosks?

Partly. The comparison above lists Pushpay's kiosk support as "requires partner integrations". Compared with Pushpay, Givebear's kiosk for the church foyer 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 Pushpay alternative?

It depends on what Pushpay is not doing for you. If you need a walk-up donation kiosk, which Pushpay lacks, Givebear has it in the same account as online giving. If your team relies on enterprise ChMS integration and custom church app, pick an alternative that also has them, or keep Pushpay for that job.

Can I import my donors from Pushpay?

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

What does switching from Pushpay 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 Pushpay, 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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