GoodSeedGiving

Online giving for UK churches

Every gift for your church. One flat fee.

A giving page, QR codes, regular giving and Gift Aid, all for £9.99 a month — whatever your church receives. Gifts go straight to your church’s bank, and we never take a percentage.

  • No setup fee
  • No card needed to start
  • Cancel any time
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Made for churches in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

  • Gift Aid & GASDS
  • Charity Commission, OSCR & CCNI
  • Payments by Stripe

Keep what’s given

Generosity shouldn’t come with a percentage.

Some giving platforms take a cut of every gift, so the more your church receives, the more they take. GoodSeed is a flat £9.99 a month for every church, large or small. Your costs stay the same as your giving grows.

Card fees are charged by the payment provider whichever platform you use. With GoodSeed they’re Stripe’s standard rates, taken from each gift — and givers can choose to cover them, so your church receives the whole amount.

See the difference over a year

£4,000
Compared with a platform that takes

Your church keeps £840.12 more every year.

An illustration of platform fees only. Card fees apply either way and aren’t included.

How it works

Set up this afternoon. Ready for Sunday.

No contract, no developer, no new bank account.

  1. 1

    Sign up in two minutes

    Add your church’s name and your details. Your giving page is created straight away, with its own web address and QR code.

  2. 2

    Connect your bank with Stripe

    Stripe checks your church’s details and bank account, usually in about five minutes. Gifts are then paid into your church’s own account.

  3. 3

    Share it everywhere

    Your slides, social images, posters and QR codes are made for you in your colours. Put the slide up on Sunday, print a poster and add a Give button to your website.

What’s included

Everything a UK church needs to receive gifts online.

No add-ons and no premium tier. Every church gets all of it for £9.99 a month.

A giving page that looks like you

  • Your logo, photo and colours
  • One-off, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly gifts
  • Funds and appeals, with progress bars
  • Apple Pay, Google Pay, cards and Bacs Direct Debit
  • Givers can cover the card fees

Share it everywhere

  • Slides, social posts and newsletter banners, ready made in your colours
  • QR codes, posters, table cards and pew cards to print
  • A private link so your AV and newsletter volunteers can download it all
  • A Give button, giving form or appeal tracker for your website
  • Givers can add your page to their phone’s home screen

Gift Aid, done properly

  • HMRC model declarations, online, on paper or by phone
  • New declarations cover gifts from the last four years
  • Claim files ready for HMRC’s Charities Online
  • Refunds adjusted on your next claim
  • Small Donations Scheme (GASDS) log

Run it as a team

  • Every gift and giver in one dashboard
  • Cash and envelope gifts entered in batches
  • Annual giving statements, emailed or printed
  • Reports by fund, source and payment method
  • Unlimited team members, with roles

Regular giving that lasts

  • Givers change, pause or stop gifts themselves
  • Receipts sent automatically
  • A gentle reminder if a card payment fails
  • A weekly summary for your team

One tap for your givers

  • Free giver accounts, no password needed
  • Save a card once, then give to any GoodSeed church in one tap
  • All their giving in one place, year by year
  • Tax-year totals for Self Assessment
  • Card payments handled by Stripe. We never see card numbers.
  • Gifts are paid straight to your church. We never hold them.
  • Export your gifts and givers whenever you like.

Pricing

One price. Every church. Everything included.

GoodSeedFirst 30 days free

£9.99 a month
per church

Whether your church receives £100 or £100,000 a year. Never a percentage.

Start your free trial

No card needed to start · Cancel any time

  • Giving page, QR codes and posters
  • Regular giving, funds and appeals
  • Gift Aid claims and GASDS
  • Website buttons, forms and trackers
  • Statements, reports and exports
  • Unlimited team members
  • Free accounts and one-tap giving for your givers

What you won’t pay

  • No setup fee
  • No percentage of gifts
  • No charge per giver or per gift
  • Nothing extra for Gift Aid
  • No contract

Card fees

Stripe takes its standard fee from each gift — currently 1.5% + 20p for standard UK cards, with lower rates for Bacs Direct Debit. Givers can choose to cover it, so your church receives the whole gift. Registered charities can ask Stripe about discounted rates. See Stripe’s pricing.

25% of our profit goes to charity

Our promise

Here to serve the church, not to profit from generosity.

We believe what people give to their church should reach their church. So we charge a small flat fee instead of a slice of every gift, we never touch the money, and we give a quarter of our own profit to charity.

  • A flat fee, never a percentage. Your costs stay the same however generous your church is.
  • Gifts never pass through us. Stripe pays your church directly, so donated money is never held by GoodSeed.
  • 25% of our profit, given away. As more churches join GoodSeed, more goes to charity.

Questions

Good to know.

Can’t see your question? Email hello@goodseedgiving.com and a real person will reply.

Do you really take nothing from each gift?

Nothing at all. Our only charge is £9.99 a month. The only deduction from a gift is the card fee that Stripe, the payment provider, charges for processing it — and givers can choose to cover that.

Where does the money go?

Into your church’s own Stripe account, which pays out to your church’s bank account on Stripe’s regular schedule. GoodSeed never holds donated money. Your church can see every payment and payout in its own Stripe dashboard as well as in GoodSeed.

What do we need to sign up?

A bank account in your church’s name and the details of someone responsible for its finances, such as your treasurer. Stripe asks for these when you connect. To claim Gift Aid you’ll also need your church’s HMRC charities reference.

How does Gift Aid work?

Givers tick a box and confirm HMRC’s declaration as they give; you can also record paper and phone declarations. When you’re ready to claim, GoodSeed prepares your claim in the format HMRC’s Charities Online service expects, and you submit it as usual. HMRC pays the Gift Aid to your church.

Can we record cash and envelope gifts too?

Yes. Enter a Sunday’s envelopes in one go by envelope number. They appear in your reports and givers’ annual statements, and they’re included in Gift Aid claims where the giver has a declaration.

Do our givers need an account?

No — anyone can give in a few taps without one. A free account is there for those who want it: they can save a card for one-tap giving, see all their giving in one place and manage their regular gifts.

What happens after the free trial?

Start the £9.99 plan whenever you’re ready to keep receiving gifts online. Nothing is charged automatically: if you don’t start the plan, your giving page simply pauses until you do.

Can we leave if it’s not right for us?

Of course. There’s no contract, and you can cancel any time. You can download your gifts and givers as spreadsheets, and your Stripe account — including the history of every payment — stays with your church.

Ready when you are.

Set up your church’s giving page in a few minutes. It’s free for the first 30 days.

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