Kantivo's Church edition takes the Sunday count, the designated funds, the online gifts and the January statement run off the treasurer's shoulders — and keeps all of it on one set of audit-ready, double-entry books.
Try It Free for 30 DaysGiving lives in one program, the books in another, and the bridge between them is a volunteer typing numbers twice. Come January, the donor totals and the bank balance tell different stories and nobody can explain the gap.
Gifts designated for a purpose get deposited with everything else. Months later, when a member or an auditor asks whether it was spent as promised, the honest answer is that the books were never able to tell.
Two counters enter the envelopes once. That single record becomes the deposit in the bank register, the balance in each fund, and the line on every household's giving statement — three things that used to be typed separately and can no longer drift apart.
A screen made for the counting table: find a household by name or envelope number, pick the fund, mark cash or check, and see currency, check and per-fund totals build as you go.
Building, Missions and Benevolence funds come ready to use and carry genuine donor restrictions, so restricted gifts sit in their own column of the Statement of Activities until they're spent on their purpose.
A giving page and QR code of your own, for card and bank gifts, one-time or monthly. It runs on your church's own Stripe account: we take nothing per gift, and each one posts to its fund and to the giver's record on its own.
Annual statements for every household, each listing gifts by date and fund with the substantiation language the IRS requires of churches — including intangible religious benefits.
Pledges track themselves against gifts to the chosen fund, showing the campaign total raised and flagging which commitments have fallen behind the calendar.
Record the board's designation and Kantivo prints the resolution for the minutes and the year-end statement for the minister, with the excludable amount worked out under the §107 three-way test.
Only the financial half. Giving, funds, statements and the books live in Kantivo; attendance, groups, rotas and check-in stay in your ChMS. Most churches find the giving records were the part their ChMS handled worst anyway.
They carry what IRC §170(f)(8) requires: your name and EIN, every cash gift dated and itemised, non-cash gifts described but not valued, and the declaration about goods or services, worded for churches. Where a giver received something of value, the statement shows it and the deductible remainder.
Kantivo collects completed gifts from Stripe every half hour while it's running, and on demand whenever you ask. The giving page itself is hosted for you, so it stays up whether or not the church office computer is switched on.
No. The Church edition arrives with the Nonprofit plan — from $599/year for one church — and online gifts carry only Stripe's own processing rates, paid by you directly to Stripe. Nothing scales with your membership or your giving.
Because a church is a nonprofit in accounting terms: the same FASB ASC 958 standard, the same restricted-fund reporting an auditor or a denomination asks for. Splitting them would mean selling you half the reporting you need. The Nonprofit plan carries both — the ASC 958 statements and the church workflows on top of them. See the Church plan.
The Preschool & Childcare edition handles tuition billing, subsidies and parent tax statements, in the same company file or a separate one.
30-day free trial with everything on. Then $599/year on the Nonprofit plan.