Turn Easter Sunday's crowd into lasting generosity

Build an Easter giving campaign that captures first-time and visitor gifts with tap-to-pay kiosks, QR pew signs, a missions offering, and one report by fund.

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The goal

Give Easter visitors an easy way to give on the day and a reason to come back afterward.

Where Givebear fits

An Easter fund on the lobby kiosk, the pew-card QR code, and the website, with cash and checks logged against the same fund.

What it leaves to you

An easy way to give does not replace a clear purpose. Say in one sentence what the Easter offering will fund.

The plan, phase by phase.

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1
Holy Week prep
Two weeks before Easter
Funds and QR codes ready before Palm Sunday.
- Set up an Easter offering fund, and a missions fund if you run one.
- Print the QR code on the bulletin cover and pew cards, and add it to the pre-service slides.
- Turn the kiosk on from Palm Sunday so each Holy Week crowd sees it.
2
Easter Sunday
Easter morning
Help first-time givers in the moment.
- Station a greeter by the kiosk to help first-time users.
- Name the Easter offering's purpose once during the service.
- Log cash and checks into the Easter fund the same day.
3
After Easter
The following two weeks
Share the total and invite a next step.
- Reconcile the Easter fund and share the total with the congregation.
- Write to first-time givers with a welcome and one clear next step.
- Invite regular attenders who gave at Easter to set up a recurring gift.

Copy and adapt.

Replace the bracketed details with your own goal, fund and giving link.

Where to send it

Service announcement
Campaign page
QR signs
Lobby kiosk
Welcome follow-up

Launch email

Subject: Holy Week and Easter at [church] This Easter our offering will go to [purpose]. You can give in the lobby, by scanning the code on your bulletin, or here: [giving link] See you Sunday, [name], [church]

Thank-you message

Thank you for your Easter gift to [fund]. Together we raised [amount] for [purpose]. If you are new to [church], we would love to welcome you properly: [next step].

Why this plan works

Easter is the single highest-attendance Sunday of the church year. Lapsed members return, neighbors visit, and families who only come twice a year fill the back rows. An Easter giving campaign gives that once-a-year crowd a simple way to give, so generosity does not depend on whether someone brought cash or a checkbook.

The hardest gifts to capture are from first-time guests and visitors who have no envelope, no recurring plan, and no account with your church. A kiosk in the lobby and a QR code on every bulletin and pew card close that gap: a guest picks a fund, taps a card or phone, and is done before the recessional ends, with no app and no login.

Prep Holy Week before the crowd arrives

Set up your funds first. Create a dedicated Easter offering or missions fund alongside your general fund so every gift lands in the right place from the start. Restricted fund routing keeps designated gifts tracked separately, which matters when you report back to the congregation on what the Easter appeal actually raised.

Then print the access points everywhere a guest will look: a QR code on the bulletin cover, pew cards, and a slide in the pre-service loop, plus a kiosk staged in the lobby. Holy Week services from Palm Sunday through Good Friday and the Easter Vigil each draw different crowds, so leave the kiosk live across all of them rather than switching it on for one morning.

Make Easter morning giving easy for guests

A kiosk turns the short moment after the service into a gift: choose the Easter offering or the general fund, tap a card or phone, done, with no login or download. A visitor who feels moved during the service but has no cash and no envelope will otherwise usually give nothing.

Station a greeter near the kiosk to point first-time guests to it, and keep the QR signage in hand for the overflow and second service. Because the giving page and the kiosk both offer a monthly option in the same flow, a one-time Easter gift can become a monthly commitment without a separate conversation.

Reconcile and follow up without the Monday scramble

Kiosk and QR gifts are recorded with their fund as they happen, so the finance team sees what came in for the general fund and for the Easter offering without tallying by hand. Only the cash and checks still need counting, and they can be entered against the same funds.

Donors who enter an email, first-time guests included, get a receipt straight away, and their record is in the dashboard so your connections team can follow up that week. That follow-up is where an Easter giving campaign pays off long term: a thank-you and an invitation to give again turns a once-a-year visitor into an ongoing partner.

Practical use cases

A lobby kiosk that lets returning and first-time guests give without cash or an envelope
QR codes on bulletins, pew cards, and screen slides that route gifts to the right Easter fund
A focused Easter offering or missions appeal tracked as its own restricted fund
Converting one-time Easter givers into recurring monthly partners after the service

Common questions

How do we capture giving from first-time Easter visitors who have no envelope?

Stage a kiosk in the lobby and put a QR code on every bulletin and pew card. A guest picks a fund and taps a card or phone, or scans the code, with no app or account.

Can we track the Easter offering separately from the general fund?

Yes. Create a restricted Easter offering or missions fund, and gifts designated to it stay tracked separately from general fund giving across both the kiosk and the QR widget, so you can report exactly what the appeal raised.

Will one-time Easter givers be able to set up recurring gifts?

Donors can opt into recurring monthly giving in the same flow as their one-time Easter gift, on the kiosk or the giving page. That makes it easy to retain twice-a-year visitors as year-round partners without a separate sign-up.

How much does the giving kiosk cost, and what are the fees?

Givebear sells the kiosk once, at $999 to $1,099. 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. There are no per-campaign charges, so you can run Holy Week and Easter on the same setup.

Does this reduce the Monday reconciliation workload for our finance team?

Yes, for the share that comes in by card or phone: those gifts arrive already split by fund, with receipts sent to donors who gave an email. Cash and checks still need counting, but there are fewer of them and they go into the same fund reports.

See it with your own funds.

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Your funds, set up the way your treasurer reports them
Where a kiosk would go, and what it costs
The reports your board will actually see

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