Best Donation Kiosks for Nonprofits in 2026

The board approved your lobby kiosk budget in January. It is June now, the line item is still unspent, and you (the operations lead who inherited the task) have learned why: searching for the best donation kiosk in 2026 returns vendor listicles that rank themselves first, scraped PDF spam, and pricing pages that route you to a demo call before showing a single number. Meanwhile the front desk keeps apologizing to walk-in donors who stopped carrying cash years ago.

Nine vendors currently sell working donation kiosks (or kiosk software) to US nonprofits. Every price below comes from the vendor's own public page, verified June 2026, with the full source list linked at the end. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the table says "not published" instead of guessing.

What does a donation kiosk actually cost in 2026?

Kiosk pricing splits into three numbers, and vendors tend to look cheap on one by being expensive on another:

1. Hardware, paid once. Published prices run from $129 for iChessed's entry device to $5,799 for SecureGive's largest kiosk.
2. Software, monthly and usually per device. From $0 to $299 per month. This is the quiet number: $149 per month is $5,364 over a three-year life, which can exceed the kiosk it runs on.
3. The per-gift cut. A platform fee (0% to 3% among these nine) stacked on card processing (roughly 2% to 3.32%). At meaningful volume this becomes the largest line on the invoice.

A worked example: a food bank putting $25,000 a year through one lobby kiosk. On Kind Kiosk's Community plan the fixed software cost is $588 a year, and the combined 5.7% card cut (3% platform plus Stripe's 2.7%) takes another $1,425. On SecureGive's Basic plan the software line jumps to $1,788 a year, but processing at 2% + $0.30 takes roughly $650 on five hundred $50 gifts. Total ongoing cost: about $2,013 versus $2,438. The vendor with hardware a quarter of the price is barely cheaper to run, and north of about $38,000 a year the percentages flip the ranking entirely.

If kiosks are new territory, start with what a donation kiosk is and run your own volume through the nonprofit fee calculator before trusting any vendor's framing, including ours.

How do the best donation kiosks of 2026 compare?

Competitor figures were verified June 2026 against each vendor's public page; every page is linked in the source list at the end. "Not published" means the vendor states no number publicly, and this post does not invent one.

Which donation kiosk is best for your organization?

Givebear: best for one-time pricing on Stripe Terminal

Disclosure first: Givebear is our product, so read this entry as the pitch it is and check every number on the kiosk product page.

Givebear sells two 21.5-inch touchscreen kiosks: a wall mount at $699 and a freestanding stand at $899 with a 4-hour battery for galas and overflow spaces. Both prices are paid once. There is no monthly kiosk software fee, and the platform plan underneath starts at $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. On kiosk gifts, the platform fee is 0% when the donor adds a tip and 4.9% when they decline, with Stripe's in-person processing passed through at cost (2.7% + $0.05). Kiosks arrive configured: mount it, connect Wi-Fi, take a test tap, and it is live in about five minutes. A tap gift takes around eight seconds end to end, so a 15-person post-event queue clears in roughly two minutes.

The structural difference is that the kiosk runs Stripe Terminal against your own Stripe account, and every tap lands on the same donor record as online and event gifts, so year-end receipts are one click instead of a spreadsheet merge (plan details).

Honest limits: there are only two form factors (no small countertop tap unit), the company is younger than SecureGive or MOHID, and Givebear is a fundraising platform rather than a church or masjid management suite. If you need attendance or education modules on the same bill, look at MOHID or SecureGive below.

Donorbox Live Kiosk: best if you already run Donorbox forms

Donorbox Live Kiosk turns a tablet and card reader into a giving station tied to your existing Donorbox campaigns. Software runs $80/mo first kiosk ($50/mo on Premium), $15/mo each additional (Donorbox Live Kiosk, verified Jun 2026). Per gift, Donorbox takes a 1.75% platform fee on kiosk gifts (Donorbox pricing, verified Jun 2026) on top of Stripe in-person 2.7% + $0.05 (4.45% + $0.05 combined) (Donorbox Live Kiosk, verified Jun 2026).

The catch is hardware: Donorbox publishes no bundle prices anywhere, so kiosk hardware is quote-gated behind a sales conversation and your budget request needs a call first. The reason to pick it anyway is consolidation. If your online forms, crowdfunding pages, and donor data already live in Donorbox, a kiosk that writes to the same records beats a cheaper device that creates a second system to reconcile. If you are not already a Donorbox customer, the math rarely favors starting here: the first kiosk alone runs $960 a year in software before any per-gift fees.

Kind Kiosk: best budget hardware and event rentals

Kind Kiosk publishes the lowest dedicated-kiosk hardware prices of the group at $299 to $599 per device (Kind Kiosk pricing, verified Jun 2026), and it is the only vendor here with a rental program ($149 to $299 per device per event, per the same pricing page), which solves the annual-gala problem without buying hardware that sits in a closet for eleven months. Software runs $49/mo Community ($19/mo extra devices) or $149/mo Growth (Kind Kiosk pricing, verified Jun 2026). The per-gift cut is the steepest in this roundup: a 3% Kind Kiosk platform fee (Kind Kiosk pricing, verified Jun 2026) stacked on Stripe 2.7% (5.7% combined on cards) (Kind Kiosk pricing, verified Jun 2026).

That combined rate is the trade you are making: cheap to acquire, expensive per gift. For a donation-box replacement collecting a few thousand dollars a year, the trade works. For a lobby kiosk doing $25,000 or more, the percentage quietly costs more than nicer hardware would have. Kind Kiosk also stepped in as the designated successor after DipJar shut down in February 2025 and has absorbed many of those stranded organizations.

SecureGive: best for multi-campus churches with a real giving budget

SecureGive has sold giving kiosks to large churches for nearly two decades, and its numbers reflect an enterprise posture. Per SecureGive's pricing page (verified June 2026): kiosks run $1,199 to $5,799, software is $149 per month Basic or $299 Premium, add-on modules run $49 to $300 per month on top, and kiosk card processing is 2% + $0.30, dropping to 1.5% on Premium. That processing rate is the lowest of the nine.

The fit is a church or campus network already spending five figures a year on its giving stack, where a consultative rollout, multiple hardware form factors, and a named success contact justify $1,788-plus a year in software before add-ons. For a single-site organization, the same money buys two or three competitors' entire setups. For congregation-specific placement and rollout advice, see the church donation kiosk guide.

MOHID: best for mosques that want one suite for everything

MOHID is masjid management software with kiosks attached: donations, membership, education classes, prayer times, and accounting in one system. Per MOHID's pricing page (verified June 2026), the kiosk runs $999 plus a $25 per month device fee that is waived under the donor-pay model; suite software is $99 per month Basic or $199 Professional on annual billing ($109 and $219 month to month); and donor-pay card processing is 3.32% + $0.32, passed to the donor by default. Smaller mTAP tap devices run $249 to $499 at intro pricing plus $0.50 per transaction and $15 per month.

If your masjid wants administration software anyway, bundling the kiosk is rational. If you only want a kiosk, you are paying suite prices for it: $99 a month minimum whether or not you use the membership and education modules. The mosque-specific options get a deeper comparison in our mosque donation kiosk roundup.

iChessed: best low-cost entry point for small organizations

iChessed builds giving hardware popular with synagogues and Jewish community nonprofits, with devices from $129 to $690 per device (iChessed site, verified Jun 2026) and software at $30 to $59.99/mo (iChessed site, verified Jun 2026). The $129 entry device is the cheapest piece of dedicated giving hardware in this roundup.

The gap to underwrite before buying: transaction fees are not published anywhere on the site, and the per-gift cut is usually the biggest cost over three years. Get the effective card rate in writing and run it against your expected volume before comparing iChessed with vendors that publish theirs.

tiptap: best for unattended tap-only collection points

tiptap is a different machine entirely: preset-amount tap devices rather than touchscreen kiosks. A donor taps a card on a unit showing a fixed amount and walks on. No fund menu, no receipt prompt, no queue. Software is $35/mo per device (tiptap pricing, verified Jun 2026), and the all-in per-gift cost approaches 5% with processing included (an approximation; tiptap publishes no nonprofit discount). It is a Canadian company, and it is also where Pushpay sends its own giving customers for tap hardware, since Pushpay Giving does not connect to physical card readers.

Best fit: museums, hospital lobbies, and high-footfall donation points where gifts are small, fast, and unattended. Wrong fit: a lobby where donors pick funds and amounts, leave an email for a receipt, or set up recurring gifts.

Donatefy: simplest flat pricing for a single dedicated kiosk

Donatefy publishes exactly two numbers and sticks to them: $1,199 per kiosk (Donatefy site, verified Jun 2026) and $49/mo (Donatefy site, verified Jun 2026). Transaction fees are unstated on the public site, so ask before signing. There is no suite, no rental program, and no ecosystem play: a purpose-built giving kiosk with a predictable invoice. For a finance committee that values knowing the bill twelve months out over squeezing the last dollar, that simplicity is the feature.

GivingFire: a church kiosk that publishes its hardware price

GivingFire sells a church giving kiosk at $1,499 per kiosk (GivingFire site, verified Jun 2026), and that is the only number on the public site: software and processing pricing require a conversation. The hardware price puts it in SecureGive's neighborhood rather than Kind Kiosk's, so bring three questions to that conversation: the monthly fee, the effective card rate, and what happens to the device if you leave. Treat it as a shortlist candidate when you want a church-focused vendor and SecureGive's suite is more than you need.

Which kiosk costs the least over three years?

Hardware headlines every comparison, but multiply the monthly fee by 36 and the ranking rearranges:

• Kind Kiosk Community: $299 to $599 hardware plus $1,764 in software ($49 x 36) lands at $2,063 to $2,363 fixed, before its 5.7% per-gift cut.
• Donorbox: $2,880 in software for the first kiosk ($80 x 36), before quote-gated hardware.
• Donatefy: $1,199 plus $1,764 in software: $2,963 flat.
• iChessed: $129 to $690 hardware plus $1,080 to roughly $2,160 in software: $1,209 to $2,850, with unpublished per-gift fees on top.
• tiptap: $1,260 in software; hardware not published.
• MOHID Basic: $999 hardware plus $3,564 in suite software, plus $900 in device fees unless donor-pay waives them: $4,563 to $5,463.
• SecureGive Basic: $5,364 in software alone, plus $1,199 to $5,799 hardware: $6,563 to $11,163 before add-on modules.
• Givebear: the hardware price is the entire fixed cost ($699 to $899, paid once, $0 monthly), and the per-gift cut is 0% platform when donors tip plus Stripe's 2.7% + $0.05 at cost.

Fixed costs are only half the model. A kiosk doing $40,000 a year cares far more about the percentage than the monthly fee, so add your expected volume per the worked example above, or let the donation kiosk cost calculator run the same math across vendors for you.

How do you actually choose?

• Already running Donorbox forms: pay for Live Kiosk and keep one donor database. Consolidation beats a cheaper second system you have to reconcile.
• Under $1,000 to spend, or kiosks mainly for an annual event: Kind Kiosk, and rent for the gala instead of buying.
• Multi-campus church with an existing giving-stack budget: SecureGive, and negotiate for the Premium processing rate.
• Mosque that needs membership, education, and accounting on the same bill: MOHID.
• Smallest possible first step into dedicated hardware: iChessed, after getting transaction fees in writing.
• Unattended fixed-amount collection points, especially in Canada: tiptap.
• One predictable invoice and nothing fancy: Donatefy.
• Church-focused shortlist alongside SecureGive: GivingFire, with pricing questions ready.
• Lowest lifetime cost on standard Stripe rails, with online giving and donor records included: Givebear. Book a demo and bring your current statement; the comparison takes about fifteen minutes.

One last piece of advice that applies to all nine: get the effective per-gift rate in writing, including processing, before you sign anything. Every vendor on this list quotes its fees in a different shape (platform plus processing, donor-pay, combined rates), and the only way to compare them honestly is to ask each one the same question: on a $50 card gift, how many dollars reach our bank account?