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Tap to Give on a Church Squarespace Website

You built your church site on Squarespace and you already take gifts through it. You do not have to rebuild any of that to add tap-to-give. The plates point a phone at the giving page you already have.

June 4, 2026
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An NFC tap-to-give plate that opens a church's Squarespace donation page on a phone

A Squarespace church keeps its existing giving setup, whether that is a Squarespace donation or payment block, a Squarespace Commerce checkout, or an embedded Tithely, Givelify, or Donorbox page. Tap.Giving plates point a phone tap at that giving page's web URL, so nothing on Squarespace changes. A member taps a plate, their phone opens your donation page, and the gift is collected exactly as it is today.

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1. Find your Squarespace giving page URL

Open your live site on your phone and go to the page where people give. Copy the address in the browser bar. That web address is the only thing a plate needs.

On Squarespace, your giving page has a clean slug you chose in the page settings, so the URL usually reads like yourchurch.org/give or yourchurch.squarespace.com/donate. If a giver has to hunt through a menu to reach it, make the giving page a top-level link first so the plate lands people in one step.

Test the page like a first-time guest would. Open it on a phone, confirm it loads fast, and confirm someone can give without making an account. The plate only matters if the page it opens is easy.

2. Order your plates

Order one plate per seat within arm's reach, then send your logo as a vector file and the giving URL you copied in step one. Tap.Giving is hardware, not a payment processor, so we build and ship the plates and your Squarespace page keeps collecting the money.

What plates cost

  • 100-199 plates: $4.50 each
  • 200-399 plates: $4.00 each
  • 400 or more: $3.50 each
  • Free shipping, no setup fees, no monthly fees, no transaction fees from us

Here is the whole spend for a 150-seat church: 150 plates x $4.50 = $675 one-time, free shipping. There is no second year and no renewal. Your Squarespace plan and its normal processing fee do not change.

Delivery typically takes 2-3 weeks from artwork approval, and rush service is available for a fee. The 10% first-order offer expires 14 days from first contact. You can preview your Squarespace church's plate instantly and see live pricing for your quantity.

3. Mount them

Attach a plate everywhere a giver already looks: pew backs, chair backs, or seat-back pockets. Choose the mount that fits your room. Adhesive backing works on most pews and chair frames, and pre-drilled holes let you screw plates onto wood or metal for a permanent install.

Most volunteer teams mount 200 plates in about 60-90 minutes. Nothing here touches Squarespace, because the plate is a physical sign-post pointing at the URL you already run.

4. Announce it from stage

Do a 30-second live demo on a Sunday morning. Hold your phone to a plate, let the room watch your giving page open on the screen, and give a one-sentence script for the offering. People will not use a plate they have not seen work once.

A simple line works: "If you would like to give, tap your phone to the plate in front of you, and our giving page opens right up." We ship a launch kit with a slide, a script, and a few troubleshooting notes at tap.giving/launch.

5. Track results

Watch the same reports you already use. Because gifts still land in your Squarespace donation records or your embedded platform's dashboard, your giving numbers, receipts, and donor data stay in one place.

Look at first-time givers in the four weeks after launch. Thank each new giver and invite them to set up recurring giving inside your existing platform. The plate opens the door; your giving page does the rest. If you want the full tap-to-give flow spelled out, see how it works.

Things to know about Squarespace

Squarespace churches collect gifts in a few different ways, and a plate works with all of them because it only cares about the page's web address.

Your public giving page has a URL you can point a plate at

In Squarespace, every page carries a URL slug you set in the page settings. Whatever the slug is, the public giving page lives at a fixed address like yourchurch.org/give. Copy that address and encode it on the plates.

A Donation Block or an embedded platform still lives on a page with a URL

If you use a Squarespace Donation Block, a Squarespace Commerce checkout, or an embedded Tithely, Givelify, or Donorbox page, that block still sits on a normal Squarespace page. Point the plate at that page's URL and the tap opens the same donation experience your online givers see.

You can point the plate straight at a hosted third-party checkout

If the money is actually collected on a hosted page like donorbox.org/your-campaign and you only link to it from Squarespace, point the plate directly at that hosted checkout. One fewer hop means the giver reaches the amount field faster.

A go.tap.giving smart link lets you change the destination later

If you might move your giving page, switch platforms, or restructure your Squarespace navigation, ask for a re-pointable go.tap.giving smart link on your plates. You update where it points from a dashboard, so a URL change never means reprinting hardware. It is included free on orders of 400 or more plates and is a $50-per-year add-on below that.

That is the whole point of the model. The plate is hardware that complements your Squarespace site; it never asks you to leave the tools you already run. For the platforms we see most on Squarespace sites, see our integrations page.

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One-time hardware cost. No monthly fees. Works with the giving page you already run on Squarespace. Delivery is typically 2-3 weeks from artwork approval.

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