Resources by Chad Boyd

If your church or nonprofit has a Clover Donations account, and has been wishing you could add a text giving option, wish no more! You can use the same merchant account you have with your Clover Donations account to process credit card transactions with Txt2Give.

Here at Txt2Give, we like to use technology in a way that makes things easier for our customers and donors. We also enjoy being a little different.

Both of these features are related to using a bank account for funding donations, and have been highly requested by our customers, so we're excited to roll them out.

This announcement marks the biggest feature we've rolled out since I started Txt2Give over 3 years ago, which is an eternity in Internet years :)

Text giving is becoming an extremely popular giving option at churches these days, and for good reason.

If you're a child of the 80's like me, you'll probably remember the popular infomercials for the RoncoTM rotisserie ovens. The host and inventor of the oven, Ron Popeil, had a catch phrase that became so popular it transcended both infomercial-land and the RoncoTM oven.

Running a nonprofit is a lot of work. There’s a ton to do! Constant fundraising. Managing volunteers. Bookkeeping. Nurturing relationships with past donors. The list goes on and on. Each one of these tasks could easily warrant it’s own blog post with tips, best practices, etc. But I’m going to focus on one that I feel is extremely important, and show how you can save some real time with it.

For a while now, Txt2Give customers have been able to seamlessly integrate with two of the leading church management systems: Fellowship One and Church Community Builder.  These integrations allow donations made through the Txt2Give platform to flow automatically into these two church management systems, requiring no intervention from staff members.

If you live on planet Earth and have been paying attention over the last several years, I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “text to give”.  Organizations like the Red Cross have made this method of sending donations by text message a household concept through campaigns like the 2010 Haiti earthquake relief.  During this campaign, donors texted to a number to donate $5, which was charged to their cell phone bill.  These donations are called carrier-collected donations.

Text to give in Spanish or French. English is our first language here at Txt2Give, but we know there are many people out there for whom this isn’t true. We want text giving to be accessible for them, too.