Text-to-Give Software for Nonprofits and Churches
You publish a keyword and a short code, supporters text it, and the gift and the donor record are captured automatically. The three things organizations normally have to assemble separately — carrier registration, consent tracking, and the SMS confirmations and reminders that follow — are in the platform. The gift lands in the same ledger as your online, in-person, kiosk and point-of-sale activity, so there is no second donor list to merge. And there are no platform fees.
How text-to-give works
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Publish a keyword and a short code
On a slide, in a bulletin, from the stage, in a radio spot.
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A supporter texts the keyword
From the seat, the pew, or the car.
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The gift and the donor record are captured automatically
Not just a payment — a donor, in your database, at the same moment.
What happens next is the platform doing its normal job: the completed donation triggers an instant, branded receipt automatically.
10DLC carrier registration is handled for you
If you have never heard of 10DLC, here is the plain version: US mobile carriers require business texting programs to be registered before messages are trusted. Unregistered business texting is what causes messages to be silently filtered out — or a number to be shut off entirely. It is the invisible step that decides whether your text asks ever arrive.
With Cloud Donor Manager, 10DLC carrier registration and campaign onboarding are built in and handled for you — so you can text donors without getting your messages filtered or your number shut off. That is the purpose registration serves, and it is the hardest part of setting up a texting program.
Which is the buying argument in one sentence: a text-giving vendor that leaves carrier registration to you has handed you the hardest part of the setup.
Text is a channel, not just an ask
Text-to-give is one use of an SMS system that runs through the whole platform:
Notifications and reminders
Confirmations, shift reminders and pledge follow-ups reach donors, volunteers and event attendees by text.
Receipts at the terminal
An in-person gift’s receipt is texted to the donor’s phone at the moment of the gift.
Automations
SMS is an available action when automations fire on real events: a first gift, a failed recurring payment, a pledge coming due, an event registration.
Included marketing stack
Alongside the journey builder, segmentation, forms and direct mail, not a separate purchase.
The follow-up is where a text gift becomes a second gift — and that only works when the texting and the donor record are the same system.
Where text-to-give earns its keep
The pulpit appeal
Everyone is in the room, looking at the same slide — the canonical text-giving moment. Giving software built for congregations carries the rest of that argument.
The event ask
Pair the text ask with the card reader at the same gala: in-person giving is native here — readers, Tap to Phone, kiosks and POS — so the text gift and the tap settle into one ledger.
Radio and broadcast
The listener has no screen and no URL to type. This is the case text-to-give exists to solve.
The gift lands in the same ledger as everything else
Online, in person, by text — all in one ledger.
That is the real reason to buy text-to-give from your donor platform instead of a point vendor. Online, in-person, kiosk and POS activity land in one ledger, one reconciliation, one set of reports — and the text gift lands with them. The receipt is automatic and carries the required IRS "no goods or services were provided" disclosure; year-end giving summaries generate in bulk; and the donor captured by a text gift is a full donor record with giving history, not a phone number on a list.
One more consequence worth naming: the platform finds and merges duplicate records with a full audit trail — and a separate text-giving vendor is exactly how organizations end up needing that. Everything in the platform is on the full feature list .
What text-to-give costs
No platform fees — donors can be given the option to cover the processing fee at checkout with a single checkbox, or the organization absorbs it at a low, volume-based rate. The platform does not price your database by the record, so growing your contact list costs nothing — which matters more here than anywhere, because a text-giving program’s whole purpose is to add contacts.
Processing is quoted, not dictated: Cloud Donor Manager is built by Host Merchant Services, a payment processor, and the rate is underwritten to your actual volume and average gift size rather than set by a software vendor’s price sheet.
No platform fees
Software platform fee stays at zero.
No per-record pricing
Your contact list can grow without database-tier charges.
Quoted processing
Based on actual volume and average gift size.
For congregations
Text-to-give for churches
Text-to-give for churches
The pulpit appeal is the canonical text-to-give moment, and a text gift here becomes a full donor record — with households grouped so giving totals and year-end statements are accurate at the family level. For the general congregational giving argument — every channel a congregation gives through — see our church donation software . And recurring, tithe-and-offering giving is handled on its own page: tithing and recurring offerings .
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I have to register with the carriers myself?
No. 10DLC carrier registration and campaign onboarding are built in and handled for you — so your messages are not filtered and your number is not shut off. That registration step is the hardest part of setting up business texting, and here it is not your job.
How do supporters opt in, and how do they stop?
Through a documented SMS opt-in workflow with per-contact preferences and one-click opt-out. Texting preferences sit in the same preference and suppression machinery as email, so the consent record holds up and lives where your donor records live.
Does a text gift create a donor record?
Yes. The gift and the donor record are captured automatically, in the same database as your online and in-person giving — a full donor record with giving history, not a phone number on a separate list.
Do text donors get a receipt?
Yes. Every completed donation triggers an instant, branded receipt carrying the required IRS “no goods or services were provided” disclosure language — and year-end giving summaries can be generated in bulk.
Is text-to-give an add-on?
No — it ships with the platform, alongside events, auctions, peer-to-peer and volunteer management, modules that competitors commonly sell as separate add-ons. One platform, one donor database, one ledger.
One platform, one ledger — and the texting handled
One platform replacing five systems, and one team for your donor platform and merchant account.