Givebutter Fees & Pricing: How is Givebutter Free? | Givebutter (2024)

Donation forms

Embeddable forms & donate buttons

Custom branding

Custom donation amounts & labels

Custom fields

Donation dedications

Fund designations

Matching gifts

Giving hub

Fundraising pages

Personalized pages

Public donor messages

Peer-to-peer fundraising

Team fundraising

Leaderboards

Goal bar

Countdown

Fundraising events

Virtual, in-person, & hybrid events

Unlimited ticket types & quantities

Ticket scanning & check-in

Card reader for in-person payments

Livestream

Live display

Automatic event reminders

Auctions

Mobile bidding

Automated bidding

Bid notifications

QR codes for auction items

Self-service registration & checkout

Auto-charge winners

Payment requests & reminders

Donor management & CRM

Unlimited contacts

Detailed contact profiles

Donor activity tracking & history

Custom donor segments & filters

Self-service importing & migration

Reports & analytics

End-of-year reports

Nonprofit marketing & engagement

Automatic receipts

Outbound email blasts

Outbound text blasts

Merge fields

Custom domains for emails

Peer-to-peer texting

Text-to-donate

Scan-to-donate

Message analytics & ROI

Social sharing

Payment processing

Major debit/credit card donations

Venmo donations

PayPal donations

Apple Pay & Google Pay donations

Donor-advised fund donations

ACH donations

Optional mail a check

Recurring donations

Record offline donations

Import transactions

Automated payouts

Payout reconciliation reports

Support

Live chat support

Email support

Help center

Live workshops & product training

Live fundraising webinars

Price

Platform fee

Payment processor fee

Can donors cover fees?

Users

0%

2.9% + 30¢

Unlimited

Paid plans only
Pricing not listed publicly

Paid plans only
Pricing not listed publicly

Paid plans only
Pricing depends on number of annual donors

$0

Additional fees apply for international donations

Givebutter's all-in-one fundraising platform is completely free to use—forever! We do not charge subscriptions, hide any fees, or require contracts of any kind to use every feature with award-winning live support.

Instead, Givebutter is funded by giving donors the option to make a contribution (we call it a "tip") to the platform during the payment process. Tips are completely optional and can be turned on or off at any time by any account admin, for any campaign.

If you prefer to disable tips, a small platform fee of 1–5% applies instead based on the campaign type.

The only other Givebutter fee you will see is from our secure payment processor of 2.9% + 30¢ for all payment methods (reduced to 1.9% for ACH), which most donors cover.

Max Friedman

Co-founder, CEO

You can choose to hide, show, or require donors to cover payment processing fees in the donation flow. Over 95% of donors across all campaigns on Givebutter choose to cover the entire fee associated with their donation, leading to an average overall processing fee of just 0.5%.

In the rare event that a donor decides not to cover their fee, it is deducted from the full donation amount, so your organization never has to pay anything out of pocket.

Mark Rummel

VP of Customer Experience

Givebutter’s award-winning support, like our product, is always free. Our Customer Support team is ready to provide you with personalized support via live chat or email.

You can also explore our help center, watch a free demo, or even butter—join our Customer Success Team for daily Office Hours! These live product workshops are designed to help Givebutter users make the most of the platform’s features and take their campaigns to the next level.

Sunny Ellis

Customer Support

Givebutter has partnered with Stripe and PayPal to offer the widest selection of modern payment methods available, including all major credit/debit cards, ACH, donor-advised funds, PayPal, and popular digital wallets like Venmo, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. The best part? You don't need to sign up for any extra merchant accounts (like Venmo) to accept donations from these platforms.

Additionally, Givebutter offers free QR codes and text-to-donate tools for mobile giving, simplifies offline donations (cash, check), and supports in-person payments through the free Givebutter mobile app.

With Givebutter, you can easily view, manage, and import historical donation data all in one place. When you request a payout, funds from all payment methods are withdrawn together.

Claudia Segura

Customer Success

We know how important it is for you to get the funds you raise quickly and securely, which is why we don't impose any limits or fees on payouts and provide several options for you to do so, including:

• Direct deposit via bank account (2-3 business days)
• Direct deposit via debit card (2-3 business days)
• Send to beneficiary
• Automated deposits (available to verified nonprofits)

Tiffany Escandon

Customer Support