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

SecureGive fits large or multi-campus churches that want the 20-year incumbent in church giving kiosks: several kiosk models from $1,199 to $5,799, church-specific onboarding, and a budget already set aside for $149 to $299 a month in software.

Givebear fits churches that want the kiosk as a one-time hardware purchase with no kiosk software subscription, with online giving, events, receipts, and donor records on every plan instead of sold as modules, from a platform that also serves other faiths and nonprofits.

Compared with SecureGive, 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.

Score both platforms on three-year total cost of ownership per kiosk, hardware pricing model: one-time purchase vs device plus monthly plan, card processing rates at the kiosk, what the base plan includes versus paid add-on modules, and fit for organizations that are not christian churches. 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 SecureGive.

Confirm your SecureGive plan's renewal date before planning the cutover, export donor records and gift history, re-enroll recurring donors on the new processor, repoint giving links printed in bulletins and lobby signage, and decide what happens to the existing kiosk units once the subscription ends.

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

SecureGive's cheapest single-kiosk configuration costs $6,563 over three years: one $1,199 kiosk on the Basic plan, plus $5,364 in software across 36 months ($149 x 36), before kiosk card processing at 2% + $0.30 and before any add-on modules, which run $49 to $300/mo on top per the same page. SecureGive publishes exact numbers, which makes the comparison straightforward: per securegive.com/pricing, verified July 2026, kiosks run $1,199 to $5,799 per device and the software plans behind them cost $149/mo (Basic) or $299/mo (Premium). The subscription alone costs more than four times the kiosk's hardware price over those three years.

Givebear prices the same job the other way around: the kiosk is a one-time purchase of $999 to $1,099 (wall mount or floor stand) with no monthly kiosk software fee, and the platform behind it starts at 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. Over the same 36 months the hardware receipt is the whole hardware-and-software bill, and a second or third kiosk repeats the one-time price instead of stacking another per-month plan. A finance committee should put both numbers on the same line of the spreadsheet: $6,563 over three years on SecureGive's cheapest path, against a single one-time purchase.

SecureGive's published kiosk card rates are itemized by card type rather than by plan: credit runs 2% + $0.30, debit 1.5% + $0.30, and PIN debit 1% + $0.30, per securegive.com/pricing, verified July 2026, and the pricing page ties no processing discount to the Premium plan. Premium costs $150/mo more than Basic, or $1,800 a year, so the upgrade case rests on the features and modules it adds, not a better rate. SecureGive markets a blended effective rate of 2% or less; the itemized table is what that claim resolves to, so get the effective rate for your actual card mix in writing before comparing quotes.

The plan price is also a floor, not a ceiling: the same pricing page lists add-on modules at $49 to $300/mo on top of Basic or Premium, so a SecureGive quote should be priced as hardware plus 36 months of the plan plus 36 months of every module before it is compared with anything else. Givebear does not sell modules: donation pages, event registration, recurring gifts, automated receipts, kiosk software, and donor records come with every plan, and paid tiers add CRM contacts, email and text volume, email campaigns, and QuickBooks sync. The honest comparison is the full 36-month SecureGive configuration on one side and a one-time purchase of $999 to $1,099 on the other.