The gala
Readers at check-in, POS for bar and merchandise, and Tap to Phone for the appeal — alongside door check-in and live-bidding auctions.
In-Person Donations
In-Person Donation Software: Card Readers, Kiosks and POS in One Platform
A donor is standing in front of a volunteer with a card in their hand — and the donor platform has no answer. That is the moment this page is about.
With Cloud Donor Manager , card readers, Tap to Phone, donation kiosks, point of sale, offline capture and SMS receipts are part of the platform — not a second vendor bolted on. Built for galas, festivals, lobby kiosks, church narthexes and mobile clinics.
Where most donor CRMs stop
Most donor platforms were built as databases with giving bolted on afterward. When a donor wants to tap a card at an event, the shortlist quietly becomes a shortlist plus a terminal vendor, kiosk vendor and auction platform.
The second vendor brings a separate login, merchant account, deposit and donor list that must be matched back into the CRM. Here, card readers, Tap to Phone, kiosks, point of sale, offline capture and SMS receipts are one platform.
Card readers and Tap to Phone: pick by the room, not the brochure
Countertop and mobile card readers
Take card gifts at events, in the lobby or in the field with real payment terminals and tap tokenization for contactless gifts.
Tap to Phone
Turn a staff or volunteer phone into a contactless giving device — no extra hardware to buy, ship or lose.
Donation kiosks and giving displays
Stand up a giving kiosk with a customer-facing display and preset amount buttons for places where no volunteer is staffing a table — lobbies, galas and festivals.
In church narthexes, the kiosk by the door and the plate can land in the same record. Our church donation software page covers congregation giving end to end.
Point of sale: merch, meals and add-ons on the same deposit
The gala guest who buys a raffle ticket, a drink and then makes a gift is currently three systems and three reconciliations. Here, merchandise, meals and event add-ons sell alongside gifts — on the same account and the same deposit.
One deposit means the Monday-morning books match the room, which is where this page ends up: one ledger.
Keep taking gifts when the venue Wi-Fi dies. Transactions batch locally and settle when you reconnect.
Every experienced event operator raises this unprompted, because they have lived it: the hotel ballroom during the paddle raise, the field site, the church basement. Offline batch capture is the answer as the platform actually implements it — giving keeps working through the outage, and the transactions settle once the connection returns.
The receipt goes out before the donor leaves the table
Text the receipt to the donor’s phone at the moment of the gift.
Every completed donation triggers an instant, professional receipt automatically, including the required “no goods or services were provided” IRS disclosure language. Annual giving summaries generate in bulk at year end.
Text-to-Give bridges the room and the phone: publish a keyword and short code, supporters text to give, and the gift and donor record are captured automatically. Our Text-to-Give page covers carrier registration and consent tracking.
One ledger, one reconciliation
Online, in-person, kiosk and POS activity land in one ledger, one reconciliation and one set of reports.
Batch reporting matches deposits, the general ledger view keeps gift data aligned with the books, and the donor record already contains the in-person gift instead of a Monday CSV merge. Households and duplicate-record merging keep totals accurate.
The platform and merchant account come from the same team, so there is no finger-pointing when a batch does not settle. Explore the full feature set.
Docents, ushers and front-of-house on a real schedule
Volunteer management ships with the platform instead of living in a spreadsheet, group text or separate add-on.
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| Capability | Cloud Donor Manager | Bloomerang | DonorPerfect | Little Green Light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-person terminals / Tap to Phone / kiosk | Included | Not core | Limited | Not offered |
| Auctions with live bidding | Included | Add-on | Third party | Not offered |
Cloud Donor Manager
In-person terminals / Tap to Phone / kioskIncluded
Auctions with live biddingIncluded
Bloomerang
In-person terminals / Tap to Phone / kioskNot core
Auctions with live biddingAdd-on
DonorPerfect
In-person terminals / Tap to Phone / kioskLimited
Auctions with live biddingThird party
Little Green Light
In-person terminals / Tap to Phone / kioskNot offered
Auctions with live biddingNot offered
The in-person row looks different because Cloud Donor Manager is built by Host Merchant Services, a payment processor — so the rate is underwritten to actual volume and average gift size rather than set by a software company’s price sheet.
Questions event operators ask
What happens if the venue Wi-Fi goes down?
Giving keeps working. Transactions batch locally on the device and settle when you reconnect — built for the ballroom, field site and church basement.
Do I need a separate vendor for card readers?
No. Countertop and mobile readers, Tap to Phone, donation kiosks and offline batch capture are part of the platform.
Can I sell merchandise and take donations on the same account?
Yes. Point of sale sells merchandise, meals and event add-ons alongside gifts on the same account and deposit, with all activity in one ledger.
Do donors get a receipt at the event?
Yes. A receipt can be texted at the moment of the gift, and every completed donation triggers an instant professional receipt automatically.
Bring the physical room and the donor record together.
Getting started is not a rebuild: guided CSV migration brings gift history across, and QuickBooks, Xero, Salesforce, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Slack, Google Calendar and Dropbox connect out of the box.