Churches Can Now Take the Offering by Phone Tap, With No Additional Fees

HOUSTON, Texas — September 13, 2026 — Tap.Giving, a hardware company founded by a Houston-area pastor, says churches can add tap-to-give to the offering without taking on a new recurring cost of any kind. The company’s NFC plates work with whatever giving platform a church already uses, and the only charge is the one-time price of the plates themselves.

Nearly every church already has a giving platform. What it does not have is a way to take part in the offering when the basket comes down the row and nobody is carrying cash or a checkbook. The plate still passes. Most hands are empty.

A Tap.Giving plate is a small disc that mounts to a pew back or chair arm, or passes down a row the way an offering plate always has. Holding a phone near it opens one page: the church’s existing giving page. There is no app to download and no QR code to line up in a camera.

A church also designs the plate itself before ordering. Tap.Giving’s site lets a church pick a layout and color, add its own logo, and preview the finished plate on screen, so what ships matches the church rather than a generic template.

Where a plate sends a phone is not fixed once it ships, either. Tap.Giving’s redirect dashboard, go.tap.giving, lets a church update a plate’s destination on its own, a new giving page, a different campaign, a different platform, without reordering or replacing any hardware.

Installation is built to be simple for the church too: a plate mounts to the back of a pew or chair with no wiring and no technician, the same simplicity a member sees when they tap it.

“We exist to help pastors increase generosity and donations at their church,” said Ryan, founder of Tap.Giving. “If we help them do that, we win.”

Plates are a one-time purchase: $5.00 each for 100 to 199 plates, $4.00 each from 200, and $3.50 each at 400 or more, with a 100-plate minimum. Shipping is free, delivery typically runs two to three weeks from artwork approval, and orders carry a 30-day money-back guarantee. Tap.Giving is not a payment processor: there are no setup fees, no monthly fees, and no transaction fees from Tap.Giving, and the donation itself runs through whatever platform the church already uses.

The company is also direct about what the hardware does not do. Plates do not fix a generosity problem in a congregation that has one, and they are an addition to the offering, not a replacement. Churches that keep the basket for members who still write checks are doing the right thing.

Churches can see pricing, order plates, and preview their own logo on a plate at tap.giving.