Give on a schedule

A recurring gift repeats on its own: weekly, every two weeks, monthly, quarterly or yearly. The first gift is made the day you set it up, and each one after that gets its own receipt. You can change, pause or stop it whenever you like.

Setting up a monthly gift, then finding it in your profile

Set one up

Tip

Sign in before you give. The gift then appears in your profile, where you manage it. If you give without signing in, create an account later with the same email and the gift appears there too.

Choose an amount and how often

On your church's giving page, choose Give Now and pick an amount. Under How often?, choose anything other than Once. The form confirms that your first gift is today.

Decide about the fee

Tick I'll cover the processing fee if you want the church to receive your full amount. The fee is added to every gift, not just the first.

Pick a fund and check your details

Choose where the gift goes, such as General Fund or Missions. If you are signed in, your name and email are already filled in. Receipts go to that email.

Enter your card or bank account

A card gift is charged right away. A bank account gift takes 3–5 business days to clear the first time, and the form asks you to allow the church to debit your account on the schedule you chose.

Review and complete

The Review step shows the total and how often it is charged, for example $51.75 every month. Choose Complete Donation.

Note

A gift made from an event's page is always a one-time gift. To give on a schedule, use the church's main giving page.

Change, pause or stop it

Sign in, open your profile and choose the Giving tab. Your recurring gifts are at the top, with the amount, fund, the card you are using and the date of the next gift.

Change gift sets a new amount, schedule or fund. Your next gift stays on the date it was already due.
Update card switches the gift to a different card.
Pause skips every gift until you choose Resume. Nothing is charged while it is paused, and skipped gifts are not made up later.
Stop gift ends it for good. Your past gifts and receipts stay in your history. To start again, set up a new gift.

If a payment doesn't go through

If your card is declined or has expired, you get an email titled Your recurring gift to [your church] didn't go through, with a link to your profile. The gift shows Payment failed and the reason the bank gave.

Stripe tries again over the next few days. To fix it now, choose Update card and enter a card that works. The missed gift is charged straight away, and the next one follows on schedule.

Receipts and history

Every gift in the schedule appears in your giving history with its own receipt, the same as a one-time gift. See Find your giving history and receipt.