Donation software built for gurdwaras and the sangat

Gurdwara donation software for golak-replacement tap-to-pay kiosks, recurring dasvandh, and seva, langar, and building fund routing. Give your sangat a dignified, cashless way to offer dasvandh online and in the darbar hall.

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Last updated July 2026 by Fatih

Quick answer

Yes. Givebear gives a gurdwara a donation kiosk at the darbar hall or langar hall entrance, online giving on its website, and funds for langar, seva, building, and the general golak. Members can set up dasvandh as a weekly or monthly recurring offering, and receipts go out automatically. Kiosk and online offerings appear in the same dashboard.

Key takeaways

  • Members give at the kiosk without an app or an account.
  • Fund totals show the committee how much went to langar and how much to the building fund.
  • The floor-stand kiosk runs on battery for langar events and nagar kirtan.

Who this is for

  • Management committees and treasurers who reconcile golak, langar, and building fund offerings
  • Sevadars coordinating langar di seva, Akhand Path sponsorships, and gurpurab programs
  • Gurdwaras raising for an expansion or a new building

A modern golak for the darbar and langar hall

Givebear summary card: money raised this week with a 30-day trend, and one bar showing how gifts split across funds

A paper golak count leaves the treasurer guessing how much was for langar and how much for the building fund. A kiosk at the hall entrance records the fund with every offering.

Members need no app or login. Wall-mount it near the entrance or use the battery floor stand for langar events and nagar kirtan. The kiosk is bought once, at $999 to $1,099.

The sangat still bows before Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and offers to the golak, but more offerings now come by card or phone, and committees need to track them by purpose. Givebear records each offering against a fund (langar, seva, building, or general) and sends receipts, so the granthi, sevadars, and treasurer work from one record instead of a cash count.

A kiosk at the darbar hall entrance or in the langar hall sits beside the golak for members who carry no cash. The same funds appear on the giving form on the gurdwara website, so dasvandh given at home and at the hall land in the same dashboard.

Recurring dasvandh, properly tracked

Dasvandh is meant to be steady, a tenth of earnings given through the year, not a single gift on Vaisakhi. Members can set a weekly or monthly offering tied to seva, langar, or the building fund.

If a monthly charge fails, Stripe retries it and the member is emailed a link to update their card. Each payment gets a receipt.

One platform for kiosk and online giving

The funds you set up for the kiosk also power the giving form on your website, so offerings at home and at the hall share one ledger.

Payments run on Stripe and settle to the gurdwara's own account. 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.

Kiosk placement and a dashboard the committee can read

Mount a kiosk near the shoe area or in the langar hall beside the golak, and point one at the building fund during an expansion. For an Akhand Path or special diwan, open a fund for that occasion so its offerings are reported on their own.

The committee sees totals by fund, so the weekly question changes from how much was in the golak to a breakdown the treasurer can report at the AGM. Many gurdwaras keep the traditional golak for cash alongside the kiosk.

Practical use cases

  • A kiosk beside the golak at the darbar hall entrance.
  • Separate seva, langar, building, and general funds.
  • Monthly dasvandh from members of the sangat.
  • A fund for an Akhand Path or gurpurab program.

Key features

  • Kiosk for the hall or a battery floor stand for langar events and nagar kirtan
  • Separate seva, langar, building, and general funds
  • Weekly or monthly recurring dasvandh
  • Giving form for the gurdwara website
  • Email receipts and donor records
A man scans a donation QR code card on a table while people talk in a hall

The kiosk. From $999, paid once.

A 21.5" touchscreen with a tap-to-pay reader, on a wall mount or a battery floor stand. Gifts on it carry your plan's platform fee and land in the same funds as online giving.

See the kiosk

The Givebear kiosk: a touchscreen showing the donation screen, with the tap-to-pay card reader mounted below

Common questions

Can the kiosk really replace our golak?
Most gurdwaras keep the golak and add the kiosk beside it for members who carry no cash. Offerings on the kiosk are recorded against the fund chosen.
Can we route offerings to separate seva, langar, and building funds?
Yes. Create as many funds as you need, and each offering is tagged to its fund at the kiosk and online. Building fund offerings are reported separately.
Can the kiosk display Punjabi?
Not yet. The kiosk's own screens come in English, Spanish, Arabic, and Turkish, but fund names are typed by you, so langar, seva, and building can be written as the sangat knows them.
Does Givebear support recurring dasvandh?
Yes. Members can set a weekly or monthly offering tied to a fund, and manage or cancel it themselves in the donor portal.

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