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Guides & product

Set up and run Givebear: the dashboard, donation kiosks, events, embeddable widgets, and donor help.

These guides are for organization admins and staff running Givebear. They are organized around the questions people ask while operating the system, not around every route in the dashboard.

Web dashboard

Set up the organization, finish Stripe and plan setup, manage funds, finance, people, roles, and billing.

Donation kiosks

Pair a device, route kiosk gifts, use remote actions, understand offline limits, and troubleshoot field issues.

Events

Create an event, set ticket types, collect registration answers, check people in, and reconcile payments.

Embeddable widgets

Add donation, calendar, event, and prayer-time widgets to an existing website without custom checkout code.

Help & support

Find receipts, manage recurring gifts, prepare support details, and explain what donors can do from the portal.

Common paths

To accept the first online donation, complete onboarding, connect Stripe, choose a plan, create a fund, test the public giving page, then share the organization or fund link.

To run an event, create the event shell first, then decide ticket types, registration questions, refund policy, check-in staffing, and post-event reporting.

To put Givebear on a website, use widgets when a copied embed is enough. Use the SDK when a developer needs to control rendering, analytics, or configuration in code. To run the giving page on your own address instead, connect a custom domain.

To protect the accounts that run all this, have every owner and admin add a passkey or turn on two-factor authentication. See secure your account.

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Web dashboard

Understand the Givebear dashboard: how its areas map to fundraising, money, people, events, kiosks, and admin work.

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Common paths