QGiv vs Tap.Giving: 5-Year Cost for Churches (2026)

The Short Answer (Read This First)

QGiv and Tap.Giving sit at different layers of the church giving technology stack. QGiv is a recurring SaaS subscription that powers online donation pages, peer-to-peer fundraisers, event registration, and online auctions. Tap.Giving is passive hardware: a printed disc with an NFC chip the size of a grain of rice, one per seat, no battery, no monthly fee, no platform of its own.

For a 200-seat church in 2026, the QGiv Impact plan totals about $5,940 over five years in subscription alone, before the roughly 2.95 percent plus $0.30 processor charge on every gift. Tap.Giving plates for the same room total $800 once at $4.00 per plate, with free shipping and no recurring cost. Both can power tap to give, tap to donate, and NFC giving in your service, but the price profile is the opposite shape. Most churches do not have to choose; they keep their fundraising platform and add NFC tap plates at every seat. For a wider look at the field, see our tap to give platform comparison.

What QGiv Is (and Who Uses It)

QGiv has been around since 2007 and is based in Lakeland, Florida. The platform grew up serving nonprofits broadly, then layered in features that churches sometimes need: hosted donation pages, recurring giving, text giving, peer-to-peer fundraisers, online auctions, and event registration. A modern church running a 5K, an annual gala, or a mission-trip funding campaign can hand the whole project to QGiv and run it from one dashboard.

The churches that pick QGiv typically share one trait: they run a lot of campaigns and events, not just a Sunday offering. A church that mostly needs a clean recurring-giving page and a way to take donations in the room often pays for features it never uses. A church that runs three peer-to-peer events a year and a fall auction tends to get its money's worth.

That is the reason NFC tap plates and QGiv are complementary, not competitive. The plate hands a giver's phone a URL and then steps out of the way. That URL can be your QGiv donation page, your QGiv peer-to-peer campaign, your Tithely, Pushpay, Subsplash, Donorbox, Givelify, Anedot, Planning Center Giving, or Nucleus Giving page. The chip does not care. For a plain-English walkthrough of the underlying technology, read how tap to give works for churches and our church NFC tags guide.

QGiv Pricing in 2026

QGiv publishes monthly pricing on a public page, which is a useful signal. The numbers below are approximate list pricing as of 2026, and QGiv runs promotional discounts and annual-billing options that trim the headline a little. Confirm current numbers on qgiv.com before signing.

Source: QGiv public pricing page and current standard processor rates as of 2026. Optional features (a dedicated cover-fees toggle, auction add-ons, premium integrations) can move the effective rate up or down a little. Annual billing typically discounts the monthly headline.

The pattern is the same as every SaaS giving platform: the monthly fee is for the software, and you keep paying it whether one person gives this month or 200 people give. There is no hardware in the box, so the in-pew giving experience is whatever the giver chooses to do with the link on their phone. That is where NFC tap plates fit, and where the math changes shape. For more context on recurring-fee giving stacks, see our look at the Tithely fees breakdown and the hidden costs of church giving platforms.

Tap.Giving Plate Pricing for Churches

Our pricing has one shape: per plate, one time, free shipping. No monthly fee, no setup fee, no transaction fee from us. The plate ships with adhesive backing, pre-drilled screw holes for permanent mounts, and a QR code printed on the front as a fallback for any phone that cannot read NFC.

Promo code WELCOME10 takes 10% off your first order. Free shipping, 2-3 week delivery, no contract. Full tier detail and quantity breaks up to 1,000+ plates are on our pricing page, or you can start an order directly. For a sanity check on quantity, our how many plates does a church need guide walks through the seats-per-plate math.

5-Year Total Cost: A 200-Seat Church

Here is the math for a 200-seat church running roughly $150,000 a year through its giving platform. Column one assumes the church pays for QGiv Impact at about $99 per month, the most common landing spot for a church that wants peer-to-peer campaigns on top of basic online giving. Column two assumes the church keeps whatever giving platform it already uses (Tithely, Pushpay, Subsplash, Donorbox, Givelify, Anedot, or another) and adds 200 Tap.Giving NFC tap plates at every seat. Processing fees apply on both sides because they live with the processor, not the hardware.

QGiv is not overpriced for what it does. A peer-to-peer campaign engine, an event registration tool, and an auction module under one login is reasonable value if you actually run those things. The point is that the $99 a month is buying campaigns and events, not the in-pew Sunday giving moment. Adding NFC tap plates does not require leaving QGiv and does not add a second monthly bill. Plates and QGiv solve different problems on different timelines.

The lift side of the math is the part churches under-budget for. Congregations using NFC tap plates have reported in-service donation lifts of 300 percent or more, with 81 percent of attendees willing to give in service when a tap option is available compared to only 24 percent who actually do without one. Tap to give is roughly 42 times more engaging than a printed QR code, and 53 percent of NFC givers in church studies are first-time givers. The full numbers are in our NFC giving ROI post. For independent context on donor trends, the ECFA publishes useful annual data worth reading before any platform decision.

Feature Comparison

QGiv and Tap.Giving live at different layers of the church giving technology stack, so this is less a head-to-head chart and more a "what does each one actually do" reference. Treat the chart below as a way to decide which line items you are paying for, and which ones you still need.

For a wider side-by-side that includes contactless giving options across the category, see our contactless church collection plate guide, and for SaaS-bundled alternatives in the same lane as QGiv, our roundup of the best church donation technology of 2026 is the right starting point. The Givebutter comparison covers the closest spiritual cousin to QGiv in our existing posts.

When to Pick QGiv Anyway

Honest carve-out: situations where QGiv earns its monthly fee and is the right call even if you also want tap-and-give hardware in the room.

• Your church runs two or more peer-to-peer fundraisers a year (mission trips, capital campaigns, ministry sponsorships) and you want personalized donor pages for participants.
• You host an annual gala or banquet with an online auction and want bidding, registration, and giving to share one donor record.
• You run event registration for a conference, a women's retreat, or a youth camp and want ticket sales and donations under one roof.
• You have an in-house finance staffer who will actually use the reporting, the cover-fees toggle, and the campaign analytics QGiv builds for.

Even when QGiv is the right campaign engine, the in-room experience still benefits from physical tap tags for churches at every seat. The plate hands the phone the QGiv donation URL, the giver pays in about eight seconds, and QGiv books the gift like any other web donation. Many of our customers run exactly that stack: QGiv (or another campaign platform) for the events, NFC tap plates for the Sunday offering. To think through whether the combination fits, walk through how it works, then grab a plate quantity that matches your seats. If you want a 4-week rollout plan, our deployment playbook walks the timeline.

FAQ: QGiv and Tap.Giving Questions