eGive Benefits
Churches
eGive provides Churches with a complete turnkey electronic solution for collecting offerings that is easy, efficient, cost effective and increases giving. In addition to increasing donations, the deposit preparation time and bookkeeping burden on your Church is reduced and the collection process efficiency is improved. eGive pays for itself, decreases the burden on your Church and increases, speeds up and evens out cash flow.
Signup online now and receive a proposal from eGive, or download the print version of our signup form in PDF format!
How eGive works
Once your Church signs up for eGive, a proposal will be be sent to you by email. Upon return of the signed agreement your church will be activated on the eGive system.
Several sizes of eGive button and code will be sent by email that may be placed on your church website. This code preselects your church as the receiving organization. A link to your church web site will also be placed on our partners page at http://www.egive-usa.com/partners/.
An eGive donation can be divided out into six different categories but one electronic payment (ACH checking withdrawal) will be posted to the donor's account and an Email informing the giver that their gift has been received is sent. One electronic deposit (ACH credit) will be posted to the Church's account weekly on Monday and your church may access reports detailing the gifts by signing into the receiver side of the eGive system. All reports are available as csv (comma separated value) files to further automate the process of posting gifts if your giving accounting software accepts data imports. We also have an API for those that want a custom interface between the eGive database and their software.
How your church benefits
eGive pays for itself by increasing giving. Typically contributions that are missed are not made up. This happens most often during the summer months when many people take vacations, during the winter when people travel to warmer climates and during inclement weather when Church services are cancelled or attendance is drastically reduced.
ACH (Electronic Checking Withdrawals) Pricing
20 cents per item for all churches plus
- no setup fee
- no percentage of giving
- $29 per month for churches that have 500 or fewer adults in weekly attendance or $49 per month for churches with more than 500 adults in weekly attendance
For example:
- A church with more than 500 adults in weekly attendance has
- Twenty people sign up for eGive and they each give an average of $50 per week.
They miss seven services per year.
Forty percent of those contributions missed are not made up.
The Church misses 20 x 50 x 7 x .40 or $2,800 per year - The cost for eGive is 20 cents per item for all churches plus $49 per month for churches with more than 500 adults in weekly attendance. Churches with 500 or less adults in weekly attendance should replace the $588 with $348 or $29 per month X 12 = $348 + $144 for a total annual cost of $492. If an eGiver has their contribution broken out six ways it only counts as one item because only one electronic payment (ACH debit) is sent to their account by eGive.
- In the above example the cost would be calculated as follows:
$49 per month x 12 = $588 in monthly fees for the whole year - If eGivers donate an average of 3 times per month 20 people x an average of 36 payments or 720 items at 20 cents each totaling $144 for the year.
- The total cost for the year in the above example is $732 for an increase in giving of over $2,800. Ten people signing up for eGive should increase giving $1,400.
- Sign up to receive a free no obligation proposal today!
Some churches experience a higher percentage of donations that are not made up. You may have to adjust the average giving per week but eGivers are typically above average because of their willingness to commit to a consistent amount. This analysis does not include the expense of giving envelopes; deposited check bank fees and time spent preparing deposits and posting giving records. eGivers will be encouraged to have their weekly contribution deducted on Friday so that it will be in the Church's account as available funds at 8:30 am Monday morning.
The eGive program will speed up cash flow because typically Sunday offerings are not available until the checks deposited clear. This could cause the funds not to be available for one to five days. With eGive the Church will receive immediately available credit so it can benefit from an earnings allowance on balances immediately. Cash flow for eGiving will be steady year round and the Church's burden is reduced because checks are not handled and deposited, accounts can be posted from the online reports and eGive is responsible for the complete process from beginning to end.
The time for eGiving is now so signup online and receive a proposal from eGive, or download the print version of our signup form in PDF format!
Credit Card Pricing (credit card giving is optional)
- no setup fee but you must have ACH giving to accept credit cards
- 40 cents per item
- 2.15% Discount Rate on Qualifying Visa and MasterCard gifts
- $20 in monthly fees
