Receive donations

There are five channels through which your church can receive donations in Ministrium. Use whichever fits your congregation.

1. Public donation page

URL: https://<your-tenant>.ministrium.com/donate

• Customizable: logo, colors, suggested funds (Tithe, Missions, Building).
• Supports one-time and recurring.
• Embeddable in your website via iframe or direct link.

2. Mobile app

Members with an account donate from the app:

• Donate → pick amount, fund, and method.
• Recurring is managed from their personal profile.

3. Kiosk or staff tablet

Useful for in-person donations with card:

1. Donations → Receive donation.
2. Associate the donor (CRM search).
3. Amount, fund, method.
4. Charge card (USB / NFC reader) or log cash / check.

4. SMS / text-to-give

Coming soon.

5. Bulk import

To log Sunday cash or check offering:

1. Donations → Import.
2. Upload CSV with: donor (email, phone, or “anonymous”), amount, date, method, fund.
3. Preview, confirm.

Recurring donations

The donor picks:

• Frequency: weekly, biweekly, monthly.
• Day of month (for monthly).
• Fixed amount or prorated annual pledge.

The charge is run by Stripe automatically. If the card fails:

• Stripe auto-retries up to 4 times.
• If all fail, notifies the donor and marks the subscription past_due.
• Donor gets an email to update card.
• If they don’t update in 30 days, the subscription is canceled.

Each of these events reaches Ministrium via webhook.

Donations designated to a fund

Configure funds in Donations → Settings → Funds:

The donor picks the fund per donation. Financial reports show totals per fund.

Anonymous donations

Supported:

• On the public page: donor leaves the “name” field blank.
• Logged as donor: anonymous.
• No receipt is issued (no one to send it to).
• Useful for cash offerings where the donor doesn’t identify themselves.

Refunds

Only org_admin and finance can refund:

1. Donations → [Donation] → Refund.
2. Full or partial refund.
3. Reason (logged in audit).
4. Stripe refunds the donor in 5-10 business days.
5. The tax receipt is adjusted automatically.