Tap to Give on a Church WordPress Website

1. Find your WordPress giving page URL

Open your church's giving page on a phone and copy the address in the browser bar. That address is the only thing the plate needs. On WordPress that page is almost always a normal permalink, something like yourchurch.org/give or yourchurch.org/donate.

If your giving runs through a plugin, the page still has a public URL. A GiveWP donation form lives on whatever page you embedded it into, so use that page's permalink. An embedded Tithely, Pushpay, or Donorbox block sits inside a WordPress page too, and that page has its own address you can point the plate at.

Test the link the way a first-time guest would: open it in a private browser tab on your phone, confirm it loads fast, and confirm a visitor can give without logging in. The plate only matters if the page it opens is good on a phone.

2. Order your plates

Order one plate per seat, with a 100-plate minimum, and send us your logo plus the giving URL from step one. A vector logo (.ai, .svg, or a vector PDF) prints cleanest, but the fastest way to start is to design your plate on the interactive proof page: pick your colors, add your logo, type your giving URL, and see the plate render in real time.

Tap.Giving is hardware, not a payment processor. We do not touch the money or ask you to switch platforms. We print plates that open the giving page you already have. Delivery is typically 2-3 weeks from artwork approval, and rush service is available for a fee.

3. Mount them

Attach a plate within arm's reach of every seat. Use the adhesive backing on pew backs or the back of a chair, pre-drilled holes if you want to screw them down, or elastic bands for stacking chairs that have no flat back.

Most volunteer teams mount 200 plates in about an hour. Space them so a person seated normally can reach a plate without leaning, because a plate nobody can reach never gets tapped.

4. Announce it from stage

Demonstrate one tap from the front on the first Sunday. People will not use a plate they do not understand, and a 30-second live demo erases the hesitation in a single weekend.

Give the congregation a one-sentence script during the offering: hold your phone to the plate in front of you, and your giving page opens right up. Our launch kit at tap.giving/launch includes a slide, a script, and troubleshooting tips for guests with older phones.

5. Track results

Read the results in the giving platform you already use, because that is where every donation still lands. GiveWP shows new gifts in its Donations report inside WordPress. Tithely, Pushpay, and Donorbox each show new givers in their own dashboards.

Watch for first-time online givers in the weeks after launch, then thank them and invite them to set up recurring giving. The plate is the on-ramp; your platform's follow-up tools do the rest.

Things to know about WordPress

WordPress gives you more than one way to accept gifts, so the URL you point the plate at depends on how your giving is built. Here is how to find the right one for each common setup.

Whichever route you choose, the plate does not care that WordPress is behind the page. It reads one web address to a phone; your WordPress site keeps doing everything it already does.

What it costs

Plates are a one-time purchase with free shipping and no monthly fees from us. The more you order, the lower the per-plate price.

A 150-seat church: 150 plates x $4.50 = $675 one-time, free shipping. That is the whole cost. No second year, no renewal, no per-gift fee added on top of what your giving platform already charges. For the full table and larger quantities, see our pricing page.