EasyTithe Tap vs Tap.Giving: NFC in the Vanco Stack

What EasyTithe Tap Actually Is Inside the Vanco Stack

EasyTithe started as a standalone giving platform for churches and is now part of Vanco, the long-running church and nonprofit payments group. That history matters here because EasyTithe Tap, the brand's NFC giving option, is one piece of a wider Vanco product family that also includes Vanco Online (the main giving platform), Vanco Mobile (an app), and the Vanco payments backbone. EasyTithe Tap is not sold as standalone hardware; it is a feature inside an active EasyTithe and Vanco subscription.

The mechanics are identical to any other NFC giving setup. A small NFC tag stores a web address, your EasyTithe giving page URL. A member holds their phone near the tag, the phone reads the chip, a banner appears, and the EasyTithe giving form opens in the phone's browser. The giver chooses an amount, pays with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or a card, and the gift flows into EasyTithe's normal records. That is also exactly how Tap.Giving plates work, the difference is who sells the hardware and what happens if you ever leave the platform.

If you are new to the category, our how it works page covers the basic mechanics of tap to give without the platform politics, and our tap to give walkthrough for churches shows the eight-second giver experience step by step.

EasyTithe Pricing in 2026: What a Church Actually Pays

EasyTithe publishes a low entry-level monthly fee that draws churches in: roughly $10 to $20 per month for the platform from public 2026 pricing, with per-transaction processing on top. The processing rate sits in a familiar range for the industry, about 2.75% + $0.45 for credit and debit gifts, with a smaller ACH or eCheck rate when a member chooses to give from a bank account. Hardware add-ons like EasyTithe Tap are typically scoped inside the subscription, not sold as a one-time piece you can take with you.

Layered with the broader Vanco product family, the math gets less tidy. A church that signs up for Vanco Online, Vanco Mobile, and EasyTithe Tap together is often quoted a higher bundled monthly rate that depends on member count and feature set. We are not going to put numbers on the bundle because Vanco moves those quietly; check the current EasyTithe and Vanco pricing pages before budgeting. The shape, though, is clear enough. EasyTithe is a small recurring line item on its own and a meaningful one when you add the rest of the Vanco stack.

For a wider look at where these monthly numbers quietly add up, our breakdown of the hidden costs of church giving platforms walks through the same trap on several other platforms, and our standalone EasyTithe vs Tap.Giving comparison covers the platform side of the trade.

Where the Vanco Ecosystem Locks the Hardware In

Here is the question no Vanco sales call answers cleanly: what happens to your tap hardware the day you move to a different giving platform? In an ecosystem-bundled product like EasyTithe Tap, the answer is usually not much good. If the plates or tags are programmed against an EasyTithe URL and the subscription lapses, the page they open either redirects to a marketing landing or simply stops accepting gifts. The tap to give hardware becomes a souvenir of the platform.

Tap.Giving plates side-step that by design. The chip stores a URL you choose. If you stay on EasyTithe, the plates open your EasyTithe page. If you migrate to Tithely, Pushpay, Subsplash, Donorbox, Givelify, Anedot, Planning Center Giving, or Nucleus Giving later, the plates get re-encoded with the new URL and keep working. The hardware is a one-time purchase you actually own, not a per-platform consumable. Our comparison with the much larger competitor on the same shelf, Pushpay vs Tap.Giving, makes the same point from the opposite end of the price ladder.

Numbers help the case. Roughly 60% of churchgoers say they are willing to give digitally, while only about 24% actually do, and the gap is friction. Churches that put a tap option in every seat report in-service participation as high as 81%, and NFC tap plates drive about 42x more engagement than a QR code printed in the bulletin. About 53% of first-time givers on NFC plates are people who had never given to the church before. The friction-removal works regardless of whether the URL on the chip is EasyTithe, Vanco Online, Tithely, or anything else. The hardware should not care.

EasyTithe Tap vs Tap.Giving: 5-Year Cost

Here is a five-year view for a 200-seat church. The EasyTithe column uses a conservative blended platform fee of $20 per month (low end of public 2026 pricing for the giving subscription alone, excluding broader Vanco bundle pricing). The Tap.Giving column uses 200 NFC tap plates at $4.00 each. Per-transaction processing is excluded because both paths run gifts through the same kind of processor (2.75% to 2.9% + $0.30 to $0.45). The point of the table is the shape of the cost, not the line items either side could quibble with.

The honest read: EasyTithe's $1,200 over five years is not the most expensive line on a church's budget, and the platform does real giving-page work for that money. But the in-pew tap to give piece of it does not need to be a recurring expense. Tap.Giving plates ($800 once for 200 seats) cover the same job permanently, and on a Vanco bundle that is higher than the giving-only tier, the recurring side climbs further. Our Tithely Tap three-year math shows the same trade on a different platform, and our SecureGive pricing breakdown covers a third.

Feature Comparison at a Glance

EasyTithe Tap and Tap.Giving are solving the same in-pew problem with very different business models. The table is less about better and worse and more about whether the tap-to-give layer is bundled with software you rent or owned outright as hardware you bought once.

For more side-by-sides in the same family of decisions, see our Tithely vs Tap.Giving, Subsplash Tap vs Tap.Giving, and Pushpay VisitorTap hidden-cost breakdown for 200 plates.

How Tap.Giving Works With EasyTithe (If You Keep It)

The simplest setup, if you already pay for EasyTithe and like the page, is to keep it and point Tap.Giving plates at your existing EasyTithe giving form. The plate becomes the physical front door to the page you already maintain, and every gift lands in EasyTithe and Vanco's records with the same donor profile, fund designation, receipts, and reporting you have today. Nothing about your back office changes.

Because the chip is just a programmed web address, this approach works the same way on every modern giving platform. Tap to donate and tap to give are the same idea under different names; church NFC tags, tap tags for churches, contactless giving, and tap technology for churches are the same category labels different vendors use. For the deeper technical version, our NFC giving explained guide covers chip standards, locking, and phone compatibility.

For independent context on giving trends and donor behavior, the Lifeway Research archive is a useful neutral read. Their data on first-time-giver patterns has tracked the same friction story that NFC tap plates are designed to remove.

When EasyTithe Tap Is the Right Call

We sell hardware, so this is easy to say plainly: if you already love EasyTithe, are committed to Vanco for the long haul, and want the simplest possible procurement experience, EasyTithe Tap as part of the bundle is a defensible choice. One vendor, one invoice, one support phone number. For some pastors and church administrators, that operational simplicity is worth the recurring cost and the implicit lock-in.

Add Tap.Giving plates instead (or alongside) when any of these are true: you want hardware you actually own, you might switch giving platforms in the next few years, you are running a denominational mix (some campuses on Vanco, others on a different stack), or the monthly fee for a feature you only need in the pew is hard to justify. A 150-seat church can test the idea for 150 plates x $4.50 = $675 one-time, free shipping, and you can keep EasyTithe untouched while you do. Our contactless church collection plate guide walks through how the moment plays out on Sunday morning.

If you are still mapping the wider field, our best church donation technology guide for 2026 and church giving technology guide cover the wider landscape. The NFC FAQ answers the device questions most boards ask, and our about page covers why a pastor built this for churches in the first place. When you are ready for a quote, /order.html is one form away.

FAQ: EasyTithe Tap and Tap-to-Give