Givebear vs Subsplash Giving. Kiosks, fees and funds, side by side.

Subsplash Giving offers church app and media suite, and Givebear does not. If staff use that every week, leaving Subsplash Giving means replacing it with another tool or going without.

Givebear covers the part of giving Subsplash does not: the lobby. Subsplash sells no kiosk or card-reader hardware anywhere in its product line, so a church that wants walk-up tap to donate can add a Givebear kiosk (a one-time purchase with no per-device subscription) and keep Subsplash running as it is. Churches starting fresh, or consolidating later, also get online giving pages, events, receipts, and donor records in the same system as the kiosk.

Compared with Subsplash Giving, 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 in-person and kiosk giving hardware, card and ACH processing terms, whether the two platforms can run side by side, church app, media, and engagement tools, and donor records across online and lobby gifts. 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 Subsplash Giving.

For most Subsplash churches this is an addition, not a migration: keep the app, online giving, and recurring gifts where they are, and put the kiosk in the lobby. Name kiosk funds identically to your Subsplash funds so monthly reconciliation is a merge rather than a translation, and plan for year-end statements to come from two systems unless online giving moves too. A later full switch means exporting donor records and re-enrolling recurring donors on the new processor.

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

On its published terms, Subsplash Giving is competitive for digital giving: the platform costs $0/mo, cards start at 2.99% + $0.30 with GrowCurve walking the rate down toward 1.9% as giving volume grows, and ACH runs 1% to 0.5%, per equip.subsplash.com/giving, verified June 2026. What the product line does not contain, anywhere, is hardware: no kiosk, no card reader, no tap-to-donate device. In-person giving on Subsplash means a member pulling out a phone, opening the app or scanning a QR code, and completing the gift on their own screen. Regulars with the app installed manage fine. Visitors, holiday crowds, and the member whose phone is in the car do not, and the lobby moment passes.

A walk-up kiosk closes that gap without touching the Subsplash stack. Givebear's kiosk is a wall mount or floor stand at $999 to $1,099 one-time with no per-device subscription. It runs Stripe Terminal for tap to donate and stands unattended in the lobby: a visitor picks a fund, taps a card or phone, and leaves with an emailed receipt if they want one. Nothing about it requires an app install or an account anywhere. For the church's biggest in-person moment, the ten minutes after the service ends, the kiosk turns "download our app" into a tap on the way out.

Nothing on the Subsplash side has to change. Giving links in the app, recurring gifts, and the church's media stay exactly where they are; the kiosk processes its own gifts through Stripe Terminal and records them in Givebear's donor records, where 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. The one setup decision that matters is fund naming: create the kiosk's funds (general, missions, building) with exactly the names the bookkeeper uses in Subsplash, so the monthly close becomes two exports merged on fund name instead of a mapping exercise. Receipts for kiosk gifts go out automatically when the donor enters an email at the kiosk, and in-person totals export cleanly alongside the Subsplash year-end statement run.

The budget conversation is shorter than with any church kiosk incumbent because there is no recurring line to defend. The incumbents price the lobby as a subscription: SecureGive's kiosks run $1,199 to $5,799 per device plus $149/mo or $299/mo in software, per securegive.com/pricing, verified June 2026, and Kind Kiosk pairs $299 to $599 hardware with a $49/mo Community plan, per kindkiosk.com/pricing, verified June 2026. A Givebear kiosk is the hardware receipt and nothing else: $999 to $1,099 one-time with no per-device monthly fee, so the finance committee weighs a single purchase against expected lobby giving instead of adding a new monthly line to the budget.