Continue To Give vs Tap.Giving: 5-Year Cost (2026)

The Short Answer (Read This First)

Continue To Give and Tap.Giving solve different parts of the same problem. Continue To Give is a church giving platform: it hosts the giving page, runs recurring schedules, sends receipts, and processes the gift at 2.95% plus $0.45 per credit card transaction (1% plus $0.45 on ACH) with optional monthly plans from about $19 to $49. Tap.Giving is hardware: NFC tap plates that sit at every seat and open whatever giving page you already use, for $3.50 to $4.50 each, one time. For a 200-seat church doing about $150,000 a year in digital giving, Continue To Give Plus over five years runs roughly $28,000 to $32,000 in fees, while adding 200 NFC tap plates to that stack costs $800 once.

The right framing is not "Continue To Give or Tap.Giving," it is "Continue To Give for the online giving form and NFC tap plates for the in-service tap moment." Most churches we talk to want the recurring schedules and contribution statements a giving platform provides, plus the unattended tap to give at every chair that only hardware can deliver. Each tool covers a gap the other cannot.

What Continue To Give Actually Is

Continue To Give is a hosted online giving platform aimed at small and mid-size churches and nonprofits. The core product is a mobile-friendly giving page tied to a donor account, recurring schedules, designated funds, and a contribution-statement workflow. They also offer text-to-give, a giving kiosk app, peer-to-peer fundraising pages, and a donor mobile app. It is closer to a Tithely, Donorbox, or Anedot than to enterprise tools like Pushpay or Subsplash.

The platform handles the back office well. The treasurer gets year-end contribution statements without manual reconciliation, donors get a self-service portal to update cards, and pastors can pull a clean weekly giving report. None of that lives in NFC hardware, and none of it goes away if you bolt tap plates onto the stack.

The gap, the same gap every online-only platform has, is the in-service offering. A Continue To Give page is great when a member is sitting at home on a laptop. It is less great when 200 people are in the room, the offering is announced, and the bulletin asks them to remember a URL or scan a QR code. That is the gap NFC tap plates fill. For a fuller side-by-side of every major giving platform on this front, see our 2026 best online giving platforms guide.

Continue To Give Pricing in 2026

Continue To Give publishes a tiered pricing model: a free tier, a mid tier with text-to-give and kiosk features, and a top tier with reporting and integrations. Processing fees are roughly the same across tiers; the monthly plan price is the lever. Numbers below come from the public Continue To Give pricing page as of 2026 and should be confirmed before signing because the platform has refreshed rates more than once.

Source: Continue To Give public pricing page, 2026. For neighboring rate sheets, see our Tithely pricing breakdown, our Subsplash pricing explainer, and our best church donation technology guide.

The hidden line item, on Continue To Give and every comparable platform, is the annual statement labor and the in-service participation gap. The first is small and predictable. The second is large and almost invisible. A church bringing in $150,000 a year in digital giving that is leaving 50% of in-room givers on the table loses far more than the monthly plan costs. Our hidden costs of church giving platforms post walks through the math.

Tap.Giving Pricing in 2026

Our pricing has one shape: per plate, one time, free shipping. No setup fee, no monthly fee, no transaction fee from us. Quantity drives the price.

Promo code WELCOME10 takes 10% off the first order. Plates ship with adhesive backing, pre-drilled screw holes, and a QR code printed on the front for any phone that cannot read NFC. Lead time is 2-3 weeks. Full breakdown lives on our pricing page, and the order flow is on our order page.

5-Year Cost: A 200-Seat Church

Here is the dollar math for a 200-seat church bringing in about $150,000 a year in digital giving, with an average gift of $50. Scenario A runs the entire year on Continue To Give Plus alone with no in-service tap technology for churches. Scenario B runs Continue To Give Plus and adds 200 NFC tap plates at the seats. Numbers are conservative and rounded.

The headline is not the $800 line, it is the lift row. Pew Research and Lifeway both report that the in-service moment is where most U.S. churchgoers make the decision to give; Lifeway Research has tracked the gap between intent and follow-through for years. Tap plates close that gap with a tap to donate prompt at every seat. Adding plates costs about 2.7% more over five years and routinely produces a 15% to 30% lift in total giving. That is not a fee comparison; it is a participation comparison.

For deeper math, see our NFC giving ROI numbers post, our 7 ways NFC plates pay for themselves, and our faster in-service giving with NFC plates breakdown.

Feature Comparison

Continue To Give and Tap.Giving sit at different layers of the church stack. Continue To Give is the giving page; Tap.Giving is the doorway into that page from every seat. The row that matters most is unattended in-service tap to give.

For a broader side-by-side, our tap-to-give platform comparison covers eight common stacks, and our church NFC tags complete guide explains how tap tags for churches differ from full plates.

Where Each One Wins

The clean way to think about this is by moment, not by vendor. A worship service has a few different transactional moments and they each want a different tool.

• The offering itself. Everyone is seated, the window is two to three minutes, and the friction has to be near zero. NFC tap plates and tap tags for churches own this moment.
• Online giving from home. A member opens the church website on Tuesday and sets up a recurring gift. Continue To Give owns this moment.
• Text-to-give for first-time guests. A guest hears the announcement, wants to give but cannot remember a URL. Continue To Give's text-to-give is one path, NFC giving on a printed bulletin card is another, and tap plates are the cleanest in-room path.
• Kiosk in the lobby. Continue To Give has a kiosk app on iPad. A single NFC tap plate on the welcome counter does the same job for $4. Pick the one that fits your space.

For more on how contactless giving fits inside the service, see our contactless church collection plate guide, our QR codes vs NFC church giving comparison, and our replace giving kiosk with NFC plates playbook.

When Continue To Give Is the Right Pick

Honest carve-out, because it matters: situations where Continue To Give is the clear platform choice on its own merits.

• You want a single tool for online giving, text-to-give, kiosk, and fundraising events instead of stitching three together.
• You are running peer-to-peer campaigns (think mission trips, GoFundMe-style fundraisers) and want them inside your church's giving system instead of a separate site.
• You are under 200 members and the $19 a month Plus plan is meaningfully cheaper than what you are paying today.
• You want the donor mobile app, which a few platforms in this category do not offer at the lower tier.

Even then, Continue To Give is the giving page, not the in-service tap moment. Run your tithes and recurring schedules through Continue To Give, then add NFC tap plates at the chairs for the moment of giving in the room. That is the stack pattern that holds up. For new plants weighing their first stack, see our cheapest church plant giving setup post and our NFC giving for small churches guide.

FAQ: Continue To Give and Tap.Giving