givingkiosk.com now 301s to a pricing-free Ministry Brands Amplify suite page; the GivingKiosk and Kindrid brands no longer publish prices or sell standalone kiosk hardware.
Givebear is worth putting on the replacement shortlist when the need involves in-person giving, donation kiosks, event registration, fund-level routing, or managing online and physical gifts under the same donor record. This page covers what happened, what to preserve from the old system, and how to test replacements without wasting weeks on demos that don't match the real workflow.
Feature Comparison
| Capability | Givebear | GivingKiosk (Ministry Brands) |
|---|---|---|
| Brand Status | Active | Retired into Ministry Brands Amplify |
| Standalone Kiosk Hardware | No longer sold | |
| Published Pricing | None on the Amplify page | |
| Monthly Kiosk Software Fee | None | Unpublished |
| Hardware Replacement Path | Buy once, Stripe Terminal | No published successor device |
Who this is for
- A church finance director whose GivingKiosk vendor brand quietly disappeared into the Ministry Brands Amplify suite and who needs a replacement device before the existing unit fails who have hit a specific workflow ceiling with their current setup.
- Teams whose biggest post-campaign cost is reconciling data from separate donation, event, receipt, and reporting systems.
- Organizations that want to reduce platform sprawl without losing donor trust or disrupting active recurring gifts and donation links.
What happened to GivingKiosk (Ministry Brands)
givingkiosk.com now 301s to a pricing-free Ministry Brands Amplify suite page; the GivingKiosk and Kindrid brands no longer publish prices or sell standalone kiosk hardware.
When a giving platform shuts down, the urgent work is preservation: export donor records and giving history while the dashboard is still reachable, write down every active recurring gift (donor, amount, fund, billing day), and inventory the public giving links and QR codes that will go dark so each one gets a destination on the replacement platform.
Where Givebear fits in the shortlist
Givebear restores what the redirect took away: a kiosk a finance committee can actually price, buy, and replace. The hardware is a one-time purchase with no monthly software fee, it runs Stripe Terminal on the church's own Stripe account, and every lobby gift produces a receipt and a donor record in the same system as online giving.
Givebear belongs on the shortlist when the team wants donation pages, lobby kiosks, event registration, fund routing, and donor records to share the same data. That matters most for community organizations where donors may give online, at an event, through a kiosk, and later through a recurring gift, and the treasurer expects one clean view of each donor's history.
If you're still running GivingKiosk (Ministry Brands) today
Nobody can buy a GivingKiosk today: givingkiosk.com redirects to a Ministry Brands Amplify suite page that publishes no prices and sells no standalone kiosk hardware. While the brand operated, GivingKiosk fit churches that wanted a lobby giving kiosk from the same vendor family as their church management and giving software, with one company to call for everything.
Hardware from a discontinued vendor keeps working only as long as the payment backend behind it does, and support, security patches, and replacement parts are already gone. Treat the replacement as time-sensitive: every week of delay is in-person giving collected on equipment nobody stands behind.
How to evaluate alternatives without wasting weeks
Pick one complete donor workflow and run it through each platform you're seriously considering. A useful test scenario: a donor gives to a specific restricted fund at a live event using a card, receives an instant receipt, comes back later to set up a monthly gift, and attends a registration event where the platform should recognize them as an existing donor.
Running this scenario in two or three systems takes a day and reveals where each platform creates friction. Comparing feature lists and marketing pages takes weeks and reveals nothing about how the system handles your actual data.
What to preserve when you migrate
There is no overnight deadline here: if your unit still processes gifts through the Ministry Brands stack, plan the move around your contract renewal and the year-end statement cycle rather than in a panic. Export donor records and gift history while dashboard access still works, document fund mappings (tithes, missions, building fund), and replace the hardware before it fails, because there is no like-for-like GivingKiosk successor left to order.
Also inventory every location where donors find your giving links: website navigation, email footers, social media bios, printed flyers, QR codes at your location, and partner websites. Each link is a donor touchpoint that needs a redirect plan before the new platform goes live.
What happened to GivingKiosk?
A church finance committee chair who types givingkiosk.com into a browser today does not land on a kiosk product page: the domain 301-redirects to a Ministry Brands Amplify suite page that publishes no prices, verified June 2026. The GivingKiosk brand, along with its sibling giving brand Kindrid, no longer publishes prices or sells standalone kiosk hardware anywhere; both were folded into Amplify, Ministry Brands' consolidated giving suite. There was no shutdown notice and no published date when devices stopped working, which makes this a quieter ending than DipJar's, where the company ceased all operations on February 11, 2025 and stranded 3,500+ organizations overnight. The urgency is lower, but the destination is the same: a brand your church bought hardware from no longer exists as something you can buy from again.
The practical consequence is a missing replacement path. When a lobby unit's screen dies or its card reader stops accepting taps, there is no GivingKiosk order form, no published successor device, and no price list to budget against: the redirect lands on a quote-gated suite sale. That also means the product can no longer be evaluated against the market, since every active kiosk vendor publishes at least hardware pricing while the Amplify page publishes none. Treat the next hardware failure or contract renewal as the decision point, and do the data work early: export donor and gift history while your dashboard login still works, because the lesson of every absorbed giving brand is that access outlives the brand by an unannounced amount of time.
What does it cost to replace a GivingKiosk?
The active church-kiosk market splits into two cost shapes, both with the meter running. SecureGive sells kiosks at $1,199 to $5,799 per device with software at $149/mo Basic or $299/mo Premium, and add-on modules run $49 to $300/mo on top, per securegive.com/pricing, verified June 2026: the cheapest unit on Basic costs $2,987 in its first year, and the top kiosk $7,587. Kind Kiosk runs $299 to $599 per device with software at $49/mo on Community ($19/mo for each extra device) or $149/mo on Growth, plus a 3% Kind Kiosk platform fee and Stripe's 2.7% in-person rate, 5.7% combined on cards, per kindkiosk.com/pricing, verified June 2026: a single Community device is $887 to $1,187 in year one before per-gift fees. Both bills repeat every year the kiosk stays on the wall.
Givebear's kiosk takes the shape GivingKiosk owners originally bought: hardware you purchase once and own. The wall mount and floor stand run $699 to $899 one time, with no monthly software fee, and the plan is $0/month with a 0% platform fee when donors tip (4.9% when a donor declines, one flat rate online, at kiosks, and on memberships), plus Stripe card processing at cost. The kiosk runs Stripe Terminal on the church's own Stripe account, so the processing relationship belongs to the church rather than to a vendor that could be acquired and folded into someone else's suite. Each tap produces a receipt, the receipt captures a donor record, and lobby gifts land next to online gifts in one set of donor records, which is what makes the follow-up ask (moving a weekly $20 tapper to a monthly plan) possible at all.
Practical use cases
Replace GivingKiosk (Ministry Brands) hardware and workflows with a platform that is actively maintained and supported.
Consolidate donation portals, campaign pages, event registrations, kiosk gifts, and receipts into one system.
Recover what you can from the old system (donor exports, recurring gift lists, giving history) before access disappears entirely.
Common questions
What is the best GivingKiosk (Ministry Brands) alternative?
The best alternative depends on which workflow is breaking. Givebear is worth evaluating when you need donation kiosks, fund routing, event registration, and donor records connected in one system. If the problem is purely online donation conversion and you don't need in-person giving, other platforms may fit better. Start by naming the specific operational gap before comparing options.
How long does it take to switch from GivingKiosk (Ministry Brands) to Givebear?
The technical setup for Givebear can be completed in hours. The migration work, including exporting donor records, mapping fund names, transitioning recurring gifts, and redirecting active donation links, typically takes one to three weeks depending on data volume and the number of active campaigns.
Will my donors lose their giving history when I switch from GivingKiosk (Ministry Brands)?
Donor giving history can be imported from a GivingKiosk (Ministry Brands) CSV export. Recurring gift setups need careful handling: donors should be notified before their existing recurring charges stop and the new platform takes over. The Givebear team can advise on the migration sequence to minimize disruption.
Is GivingKiosk still available?
No. givingkiosk.com now 301-redirects to a Ministry Brands Amplify suite page that publishes no pricing, verified June 2026, and the GivingKiosk and Kindrid brands no longer publish prices or sell standalone kiosk hardware. Existing units were not bricked by a shutdown notice the way DipJar devices were in February 2025, but there is no published way to buy or replace a GivingKiosk today.
What should churches use instead of GivingKiosk?
Among active kiosk vendors with published prices: SecureGive kiosks run $1,199 to $5,799 plus $149/mo Basic or $299/mo Premium software, per securegive.com/pricing, verified June 2026, and Kind Kiosk devices run $299 to $599 plus $49/mo Community or $149/mo Growth software and a 3% platform fee, per kindkiosk.com/pricing, verified June 2026. Givebear's tap-to-donate kiosk is a one-time $699 to $899 purchase with no monthly software fee, and the plan is $0/month with a 0% platform fee when donors tip (4.9% when a donor declines, one flat rate online, at kiosks, and on memberships), plus Stripe card processing at cost.