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Check what you need to accept gifts

To appear on /give and receive gifts, your church, ministry or nonprofit must be verified, have a qualifying paid plan (or be grandfathered), have a ready US Stripe account and have Accept gifts switched on.

Donors can give to your organization on /give only when all of the requirements below are met. If any one is missing, you don't appear on /give and gifts can't be taken.

The requirements

  1. You're a church, ministry or nonprofit. Other organization types can't accept gifts (see /help/admins/organization-types).
  2. You're verified. Apply at /verification (see /help/admins/get-verified). Your listing must also be live.
  3. You have a qualifying paid plan, one of:

- Organizations & Payments (see /help/admins/organization-plans), - a paid ChurchBox tier: Church Starter, Growth, Pro or Enterprise (see /help/admins/churchbox-plans), - an active NetworkOS partner plan, including one waived by your partner team or covered by your parent network (see /help/admins/networkos-partnership).

Organizations that were on Christian.com before the paid-plan rule are grandfathered and don't need a plan.

  1. Your Stripe account is ready. You've connected a Stripe Express payout account for a US organization, and Stripe shows both Payments enabled and Payouts enabled (see /help/admins/connect-stripe).
  2. "Accept gifts" is on. On /manage/payouts, under Giving, switch on Accept gifts on /give.

Check where you stand

  • /manage/payouts shows your Stripe status, Membership: (required, active or grandfathered) and the Accept gifts switch. If gifts are on but something is missing, the Giving card says what, for example Finish Stripe onboarding above before gifts can be taken.
  • The Giving setup tab on /manage/church has a checklist with Go there links, and lists what's Still to do before your giving QR code appears.
  • Each organization card on /dashboard has an Accept payments checklist.

Good to know

  • Setting up funds, your "where your gift goes" statement and your EIN is recommended but not required to take gifts (see /help/admins/set-up-giving-funds).
  • Giving has no platform fee. See /help/admins/giving-fees.
  • If your verification is revoked or your plan ends, you stop appearing on /give until it's fixed.

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