Sharefaith Giving vs Tap.Giving: 5-Year Cost Compared (2026)

What Sharefaith Giving Is (and What It Is Not)

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 runs around 81%, compared with a baseline of roughly 24% willing-but-not-giving before tap to donate was on offer. NFC has been shown to drive about 42x the engagement of a QR code because the tap needs zero focus, no camera app, no aim. NFC giving is the participation lever; the giving-page provider is a separate decision.

Sharefaith Giving Pricing in 2026

Sharefaith sells tiers rather than a flat rate. Publicly advertised pricing as of 2026 lands around $29 per month for a giving-only plan, with the fuller Sharefaith Church Complete bundle (giving plus website, streaming, and media library) commonly running $59 to $99 per month, depending on the plan tier and any promotional pricing. Per-transaction processor fees of roughly 2.9% plus $0.30 still apply on the giving side, because Sharefaith Giving ultimately routes to a card processor.

Two notes on the table. First, the per-transaction rate is comparable on either path because both ultimately hand off to a processor. Second, the line the church actually controls is hardware: Tap.Giving's plate pricing is tiered by quantity (100 to 199 plates at $4.50, 200 to 399 at $4.00, 400+ at $3.50). Free shipping. No renewal.

The 5-Year Cost for a 200-Seat Church

Hold processor fees equal (they apply on either path) and isolate the difference: Sharefaith's monthly subscription 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. Even at Sharefaith's cheapest giving-only plan, the 5-year subscription cost tops the plate hardware. At the Church Complete bundle, the gap widens to roughly $3,940.

If the church has already committed to Sharefaith for streaming and site tools, the giving-only line is close to a wash on cost alone, but the offering-moment lift from adding plates is separate from any subscription math. If the church is picking a stack fresh, a lower-cost giving page plus contactless giving hardware usually beats the bundle. 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, or elastic bands for stackable chairs. 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