Continue To Give

What Continue To Give is

Continue To Give is a modular giving and church-administration platform aimed at small and medium organisations. The core is online giving across seven published methods - text, app, online, QR code, Facebook, kiosk and virtual terminal - with recurring gifts, unlimited projects and purposes, peer-to-peer fundraising, a donor portal with member login, customisable tax receipts, a Donor Pays Fees option and reporting.

Two paid modules extend it: an Advanced ChMS at $40/month plus $0.03 per contact, and Fund Accounting at $29/month. Those stack on the giving tier rather than replacing it, alongside a website builder and live streaming. The company states a target market of organisations raising under $500,000 a year, with separate pricing pages for churches, nonprofits and missionaries. A companion iOS app is listed as "Givers App."

Why small churches and missionaries choose Continue To Give

The origin story is the positioning. Jesse Wellhoefer built this in 2012 from an apartment with his sister, after failing to raise support for mission work in Tanzania on tools priced for institutions. The intended customer was "the small guy with limited resources," and the product still reflects that: a free tier that is not a trial, modules priced in $29 and $40 increments rather than as an enterprise bundle, and a separate published pricing page for individual missionaries - a segment most giving platforms do not acknowledge exists.

For a church of sixty people that shape is the whole argument. The realistic alternative is not a competing platform; it is a spreadsheet, a paper directory, a shoebox of receipts and a treasurer reconciling the year from bank statements. Against that baseline, $29 a month for fund accounting with a chart of accounts and a balance sheet is transformative rather than convenient. Judged against an enterprise platform it looks thin. Judged against what small organisations actually do, it is doing something larger vendors have priced themselves out of.

Seven giving methods, and two routes to a merchant account

The giving surface is wide and available on the free tier: text, app, online, QR-code, Facebook and kiosk giving, plus a virtual terminal for taking a card over the counter. Behind those sit recurring gifts, unlimited projects and purposes so gifts can be designated, peer-to-peer fundraising, a donor portal and tax receipts. The company also claims it has "teamed with Visa to bring you lower transaction rates."

More unusual is that there are two structurally different ways to buy. The bundled route puts Continue To Give in the payment chain and prices the software free, $15 or $29 a month by volume band. The software-only route lets you keep your own merchant account: $30/month under $5,000 raised, $50 to $19,999, $100 above $20,000. That matters to a church that has already negotiated rates through a bank or a denominational scheme, and few platforms here offer it - most insist on being the processor.

The fee picture: three published rate cards that do not agree

This has to be laid out in full, because it is the most important thing about the product. Homepage: "2.7% + $0.25 / transaction," labelled "Lowest Rates!" Pricing pages: Silver "3.2% + $0.45 per transaction," Gold "~2.5% + $0.25 per transaction interchange plus rates," ACH on both "0.5% + $0.35" and itself a "$5/Month" add-on. Rates page: merchant tiers at free with "3.0% + 30¢", $15/month with "1.99% + 30¢", or $29/month with a "Custom Rate." American Express is discussed but not priced.

The consequence is that you cannot forecast. Taken at face value, Silver costs $1.25 on a $25 gift - almost exactly 5% all-in - and $3.65 on a $100 gift. Gold's nominal rate would be $2.75 on that same gift, so its $29 fee only pays for itself north of $3,200 a month in card giving. But Gold is interchange-plus and the tilde is doing real work, so that break-even is an illustration rather than a promise. Silver's rate is the dearest published in this set, and the free tier is paid for gift by gift.

Advanced ChMS and fund accounting: an all-in-one, module by module

The two paid modules turn a giving page into an administration platform. Advanced ChMS is $40/month plus $0.03 per contact and covers a donor database, texting, newsletters, events, small groups, picture directory, member login, custom forms, child check-in and mail merge. Fund Accounting is $29/month and covers bank integration, fund tracking, a chart of accounts, journal entries, balance sheets and income statements. Per-contact pricing means 1,000 contacts is $70/month and 5,000 is $190.

The strategic point is that Continue To Give competes with a ChMS rather than integrating with one. No named third-party integrations are published anywhere we looked - no Planning Center, no Rock RMS, no QuickBooks - a real gap next to SecureGive, Overflow and Anedot, all of which name theirs. But it explains the appeal to the intended customer: a sixty-person church has no ChMS to integrate with. It wants one login, one bill, and a treasurer who can produce a balance sheet.

Pricing

Where Continue To Give falls behind

Three rate cards, one product. The homepage says 2.7% + $0.25 and calls it "Lowest Rates!"; the pricing pages say Silver 3.2% + $0.45 and Gold ~2.5% + $0.25 interchange-plus; the rates page says 3.0% + 30¢, 1.99% + 30¢ or custom by volume. These are not one product described badly - they are different numbers for the same transaction, all currently published.

"No monthly fee" is true of exactly one tier. That homepage claim sits on the same site as $29/mo Gold, $40/mo + $0.03/contact ChMS, $29/mo Fund Accounting, and a software-only route at $30 to $100 a month. So does "Lowest Rates!", when Silver's rate is the dearest published in this set. Nothing is an outright lie; the effect is that a careful reader stops trusting the copy.

The free tier is paid for by donors. At 3.2% + $0.45 a $25 gift costs roughly 5%, which is not what churches picture when they read "free." Donor Pays Fees is free on Silver and mitigates this if donors opt in, but nothing is published on how the added amount is calculated or whether it defaults on.

No named integrations, and per-contact pricing with no ceiling. There is no published Planning Center, Rock RMS or QuickBooks integration - a clear gap against SecureGive, Overflow and Anedot - so a church keeping a separate system moves data by hand. And ChMS at $40/month + $0.03 per contact means a 5,000-contact church pays $190/month for the database alone.

The published record thins out where trust is built. Payout timing is unpublished, as are chargeback handling, data export and cancellation mechanics - the FAQ page that should answer them renders as a shell. The companion iOS app is listed under a different name, carries a 17+ content rating for a giving app, and was last updated in January 2025.

Continue To Give vs. Tithe.ly vs. Zeffy

Three answers to one question at three levels of maturity. Tithe.ly is the mainstream all-in-one: giving, ChMS, app and website from one vendor, at much greater scale and with published integrations. Zeffy takes the most radical position on cost - no platform fees and no transaction fees, funded by an optional tip at checkout - cheapest on paper, hardest on donors. Continue To Give sits between them in ambition and below both in polish.

On cost, a precise comparison is impossible, and that is Continue To Give's fault rather than a limit of this review. Silver at $0/month with 3.2% + $0.45 is expensive per gift but free to hold. Gold at $29/month with an interchange-plus rate cannot be modelled in advance. Zeffy is straightforwardly cheaper for the organisation and shifts cost onto donor tips. For a church raising very little, Silver plus Donor Pays Fees costs the organisation nothing in subscription terms.

On store signal, none of these is a reason to choose or reject a platform. Continue To Give's companion app is listed as "Givers App" with just 8 ratings averaging 3.4 - single figures, statistically meaningless, which is why we publish an editorial 3.6 instead. Zeffy sits at 2.8 from 45 ratings, also thin. These are utilities most congregants touch once or twice a year, so scores here measure irritation more than quality. Judge on fee transparency and payout terms instead.

Alternatives to Continue To Give

ChMeetings★ 4.6The closest like-for-like: an all-in-one small-church platform covering members, events, giving and check-in, with a better-maintained mobile presence. Compare first if you want the modules without the fee confusion.→Tithe.ly★ 4.5The mainstream all-in-one - giving, ChMS, app and website from one vendor, at far greater scale and with published integrations. Dearer in subscription terms, considerably more predictable.→Aplos★ 4.1Purpose-built nonprofit fund accounting with giving attached. Worth pricing against Continue To Give's $29/month accounting module if the books, not the giving page, are the real problem.→Zeffy★ 4.0No platform fees and no transaction fees, funded by an optional donor tip at checkout. Cheapest for the organisation, at the cost of asking donors for something extra every time.→

More Church Giving & Donation Platforms

SecureGive★ 4.2Founded in 2004 by a pastor who put the first giving kiosk in an American church, and still selling to churches on a published rate card rather than a sales call - with a transaction cap on both priced tiers that decides whether it fits you.→Overflow★ 4.2The one giving platform built around the gifts most churches quietly turn away - appreciated stock, crypto and donor-advised funds - sold on an annual subscription whose real price is published nowhere.→Zeffy★ 4.0The only platform in this category that charges a church nothing whatsoever - no monthly fee, no transaction fee, no card fee - and pays for itself by asking your donors for a tip instead, which makes this a pastoral decision rather than a financial one.→Anedot★ 4.0The only platform here that processes its own payments rather than reselling somebody else's - no monthly fee, no contract, and a card rate that quietly pays for both.→Subsplash★ 5.0The all-in-one church platform megachurches keep choosing - fully custom-branded apps across phone, web, and TV that make a 5,000-member ministry feel like an Apple keynote.→Spoken Gospel★ 5.0A reading plan that gives you a 3-minute spoken-word video on every chapter of the Bible - the rare Bible companion that actually changes how the page reads.→