Tap to Give with Rock RMS: Church Setup

1. Find your Rock RMS giving page URL

Start with the public web address of the online giving page you already run on Rock. That single URL is the only thing a plate needs.

Rock RMS is an open-source church management system, and most Rock churches self-host it, so your giving page lives on your own domain rather than a vendor's. Open your church website on a phone and follow the same Give link a member would, then copy the address from the browser bar. It will look something like yourchurch.org/give or a page route on your Rock domain such as rock.yourchurch.org/Transactions.

Test the URL on a phone before you send it to us. Confirm the page loads fast, looks right on mobile, and lets a first-time guest give without logging in. If a Rock short link or a clean page route points to the same giving page, use that: a shorter address is easier on the eye and encodes into a denser, more scannable QR fallback.

2. Order your plates

Order one plate per seat you want within arm's reach, with a minimum order of 100. Send your logo as a vector file and the Rock giving URL you want encoded, and you get an editable proof of your plate right away.

Pricing is a one-time hardware cost with no monthly fee from us: $4.50 each for 100-199 plates, $4.00 each for 200-399, and $3.50 each for 400 or more. Shipping is free, and there is no maximum quantity.

Preview your Rock RMS church's plate instantly with your name and giving URL, then confirm your quantity. The 10% first-order offer expires 14 days from first contact.

3. Mount them

Attach each plate where a giver can reach it during the offering. You have three mounting options depending on your seating.

• Adhesive backing for pew backs or flat chair backs. Peel and press.
• Pre-drilled holes for a screw mount on wooden pews (screws not included).
• Elastic bands for stacking chairs that have no flat back.

Most volunteer teams can mount a few hundred plates in an hour or two. Place them at eye level or on the seat-back in front of each row so nobody has to reach.

4. Announce it from stage

Demonstrate one tap from the platform on the first Sunday. People will not use a plate they have not seen work, and a 30-second demo removes the hesitation in a single weekend.

Hold your phone to a plate, let the giving page open on the screen behind you, and say one plain sentence: "During the offering, hold your phone to the plate on the seat in front of you, and it opens our giving page." That is the whole script.

We ship a launch kit with a slide, a demo script, and a few troubleshooting notes for guests on older phones at tap.giving/launch.

5. Track results

Watch new giving inside Rock, because that is where every tap lands. The plate opens your Rock giving page, so each gift shows up in your normal Rock financial transactions and reports with no new dashboard to learn.

Look for first-time givers in the weeks after launch, then thank them and invite them to set up a recurring gift in Rock. Because the plate is just a pointer, your funds, receipts, statements, and gateway settings behave exactly as they did before you added the hardware.

Things to know about Rock RMS

Rock RMS differs from a hosted platform in one way that matters for plates: you usually control the URL yourself. That is mostly an advantage, and it is worth planning for one edge case.

For a fuller compatibility picture across platforms, see our integrations overview. The plate does not care which system is on the other end of the URL, so anything with a mobile-friendly giving page works, Rock included.