Sharefaith Giving for Churches: Cost, Fees, and Tap-to-Give (2026)

What Sharefaith Giving Is (and What It Is Not)

Sharefaith Giving is the donation module inside Sharefaith, a bundled church software subscription. There is no standalone giving plan: to use it a church pays for a Sharefaith membership, which runs about $25 to $95 a month in 2026 (roughly $1,500 to $5,700 over 5 years), and Sharefaith does not publish its per-gift transaction fee, so that card and ACH rate is the number to get in writing. Sharefaith does not sell tap-to-give hardware, so churches that want a tap at the offering pair the Sharefaith giving page with NFC tap plates like Tap.Giving.

Sharefaith is a bundled subscription product for churches. The company started as a Christian graphics library and has grown into a suite that packages a church website builder, live streaming tools, sermon graphics, presentation media, and a giving module (Sharefaith Giving) under one login. Churches pay a monthly fee to Sharefaith and get most of their web-facing stack from a single vendor.

What Sharefaith is not: it is not an NFC hardware provider. Sharefaith does not sell tap-to-give plates, tap-to-donate discs, or pew-mounted NFC tags. If a board has been talking about adding tap to give at the offering moment, Sharefaith on its own will not solve that. The Sharefaith giving page is the destination the plate opens; the plate is the physical piece that turns a bulletin insert or an announcement into a two-second tap.

Sharefaith's audience is small to mid-sized Protestant churches who want fewer vendors, not necessarily the cheapest stack. Our broader rundown of church donation technology lays out where bundle-first vendors fit and where they do not.

What Tap.Giving Is (and Why the Two Are Not Head-to-Head)

Tap.Giving sells NFC tap plates. Each plate is a small wood-look disc with a printed church logo on the front and an NFC chip inside programmed with the church's existing giving URL. When a member holds a phone within an inch of the plate, the giving page opens in the phone's browser and a donation completes in roughly 8 seconds with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or a card. No app on either side, no unlocking, no scanning. The full walkthrough is here.

Tap.Giving is hardware. Sharefaith is software. The two do not compete on the same shelf. A church can run Sharefaith and add plates. A church can drop Sharefaith and add plates. A church can also do neither. The honest question is: does the church actually need a bundled Sharefaith-class subscription, or would a simpler giving page plus NFC tap plates reach the same in-service outcome for less?

That outcome matters. In rooms with plates on the pew backs, in-service participation rises, because the gift happens in the moment rather than as homework for later, so a tap to donate is right there at the seat. NFC giving is the participation lever; the giving-page provider is a separate decision.

What Does Sharefaith Giving Cost in 2026?

Sharefaith does not sell Giving as a standalone plan. Sharefaith advertises Giving as included with a paid Sharefaith membership, so the real cost of Sharefaith Giving is the cost of the membership it rides along with. Sharefaith is a Ministry Brands product, and it does not print prices openly on the site, but current third-party listings put the 2026 membership tiers at roughly $25 a month for the entry Starter plan, around $85 a month for a mid bundle, and about $95 a month for the full Sharefaith Suite (website, streaming, media library, ChMS, and giving).

On top of that subscription, every gift still carries a per-transaction fee, and this is the number to press Sharefaith on: Sharefaith does not publish its giving card and ACH rates. It markets an "industry-low" transaction fee but does not print the card percentage, the ACH percentage, or the fixed per-gift fee. Get all three in writing before you sign, the same way you would with any processor.

Two notes on the table. First, because Sharefaith bundles Giving into a membership, a church cannot buy just the giving piece: it pays the full monthly membership whether or not it uses the website, streaming, and media tools. Second, the line the church fully controls is hardware: Tap.Giving's plate pricing is tiered by quantity (100 to 199 plates at $5.00, 200 to 399 at $4.00, 400+ at $3.50). Free shipping. No renewal. You can confirm Sharefaith's own current terms on its church giving software page.

The 5-Year Cost for a 200-Seat Church

Set the per-gift fees aside for a moment (they apply on either path, and Sharefaith does not publish its rate anyway) and isolate the piece a church can actually plan for: Sharefaith's monthly membership against Tap.Giving's one-time hardware. A 200-seat church usually orders 200 plates, one per seat, at $4.00 each on the mid-tier, so $800 once. The table brackets Sharefaith with its cheapest membership and its full Suite. At every tier, the subscription passes the plate hardware inside the first year or two, and then keeps charging.

The honest read: if a church genuinely wants everything in the Sharefaith Suite (website, streaming, sermon graphics, ChMS, and giving in one login), the membership buys far more than giving, so the comparison is not fee for fee. But if the church just wants to accept gifts and does not need the full bundle, it is paying a membership every month for tools it may not use, while the plates are $800 once. Either way, the offering-moment lift from adding plates is separate from the subscription math. Cheaper giving-page options are summarized here, and the cheapest church-plant giving setup for 2026 is here.

Feature Comparison: Sharefaith vs Tap.Giving

Side by side, with what each one is actually for. They cover different ground.

A church that is happy with a giving page it already has, whether that page lives on Sharefaith, Tithely, Pushpay, Donorbox, Givelify, Anedot, or Planning Center Giving, gets the offering-moment lift by adding NFC tap plates. Our tap-to-give platform comparison lays out how each pairs with plates.

How Sharefaith and Tap.Giving Work Together

A church already paying Sharefaith does not have to migrate to add plates. The four steps take roughly a month, with most of the time spent waiting on production and shipping.

1. Find your Sharefaith giving URL. Log into Sharefaith and open your published giving page. Load it on a phone and confirm it lets a guest give without an account.
2. Send the URL to Tap.Giving. When you place a plate order, include your Sharefaith giving URL and a vector logo file. We encode each plate's NFC chip with that URL and print your logo on the front.
3. Mount the plates. Adhesive backing for pew tops, pre-drilled holes for screws on wood pews. A volunteer team mounts 200 plates in 60 to 90 minutes.
4. Announce from the stage. A 30-second demo on Sunday morning is the single most useful thing a pastor can do the first week. The plates work the day they arrive.

Because the chip is a URL and nothing more, none of the Sharefaith configuration changes. Receipts, recurring gift schedules, and donor records stay in Sharefaith. Adding plates simply routes more givers into Sharefaith at the offering moment. More on why participation jumps when a tap replaces a QR code, and the mounting guide is here.

When to Pick Sharefaith Anyway

Sharefaith is a real, established product and the right answer is honest about where it fits. A few reasonable reasons a church would choose it:

• The church wants one vendor and one login for its website, streaming, sermon graphics, and giving, and considers vendor-consolidation worth the monthly cost.
• The church does not already have a website or streaming stack and is comparing Sharefaith against paying separately for each piece.
• The church values the Sharefaith stock media library (thousands of sermon graphics, motion backgrounds) and uses those assets weekly.

For churches that already have a functional website and are content with a low-cost giving page, the Sharefaith bundle is often more than they need. In that case, keeping the current giving stack and adding NFC tap plates covers the offering-moment gap for a fraction of the monthly subscription. According to Lifeway Research, digital-giving adoption keeps climbing across Protestant congregations, which puts more weight on getting the in-service tap right than on which bundle powers the underlying page.

FAQ: Sharefaith and Tap-to-Give Questions