Mosque Donation Platforms Compared (2026): MOHID, Masjidal, Donorbox, and Givebear

Your masjid board has given the finance committee a deadline: in-person and online giving must be modern, tested, and familiar to the congregation before Ramadan 2027, which is expected to begin around February 17. Choosing the best donation platform for mosques is the decision that anchors everything else, and in a board meeting it is decided on a budget line, not a feature tour. So the numbers boards actually vote on come first: published pricing for MOHID, Masjidal, Donorbox, DeenFund, LaunchGood, MadinaApps, and Givebear, with every figure verified June 2026 against the vendor's own pages, plus year-1 totals for the most common first deployment (one kiosk in the lobby and an online giving page).

Two patterns show up immediately. First, only some vendors publish pricing at all: MOHID, Donorbox, DeenFund, and LaunchGood do, while Masjidal and MadinaApps make you call. Second, the structural choice that drives your five-year cost is whether you rent kiosk software by the month or buy the hardware once.

What should a masjid board compare before picking a platform?

Five criteria separate these platforms more than any demo will:

1. Zakat and sadaqah separation. A pass/fail filter, covered next.
2. Year-1 total cost. Software, hardware, and per-gift fees added together. A $99/mo plan with a $999 kiosk costs more in year 1 than most boards expect.
3. Kiosk economics. Monthly device fees compound across devices and years; one-time hardware does not.
4. Who owns the donor relationship. Crowdfunding platforms keep the donor account; infrastructure platforms give you the database and the exports.
5. Ramadan readiness. Whether the system can clear a post-Taraweeh queue, run last-ten-nights recurring gifts, and keep accepting cards when the lobby Wi-Fi saturates.

Can the platform keep zakat and sadaqah separate?

Zakat is a restricted fund in the strictest sense: most scholars hold it may only reach the eight categories of recipients named in the Quran (9:60), which generally excludes the masjid's own electricity bill or minaret renovation. Sadaqah is discretionary. If the platform cannot keep the two apart from the moment of donation through the year-end ledger, your treasurer ends up reconstructing donor intent from payment memos, and that is an audit finding waiting to happen.

Make separation a pass/fail test with four concrete checks: the donor must choose a fund before paying (on the kiosk and online), each fund must have its own ledger and export, receipts must name the fund, and an administrator must be able to see zakat collected versus zakat distributed on one screen. A zakat kiosk configured with named fund buttons passes all four. Pair it with a zakat calculator on your website so donors arrive at the payment step already knowing their amount; our guide on how to accept zakat online walks through that full flow.

MOHID and Masjidal both advertise designated funds, and Donorbox supports fund selection on its forms. The differences appear at the kiosk: ask each vendor to demo a donor choosing Zakat al-Mal on the kiosk screen, then show you exactly where that gift lands in the export. If the answer involves a spreadsheet step, score it as a fail.

What does each mosque donation platform cost in 2026?

Every figure below was verified June 2026 against the public page listed in the sources below. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the table says so. Treat that as a finding, not a gap: a vendor that hides pricing is asking your board to negotiate blind.

MOHID: the incumbent masjid suite

MOHID is the closest thing this market has to a masjid ERP: donations, membership, school and hifz class management, and event tools under one login. Its software is $99/mo Basic or $199/mo Professional (annual; $109/$219 monthly) (MOHID pricing, verified Jun 2026). The donation kiosk is $999 one time plus $25/mo per device, and MOHID waives that device fee when donor-pay is enabled; donor-pay card gifts then run 3.32% + $0.32, added on top of the gift (MOHID pricing, verified June 2026). MOHID also sells mTAP tap-to-donate devices at $249 to $499 introductory pricing plus $0.50 per transaction and $15/mo per device, per the same page.

Masjidal: displays first, giving attached

Masjidal built its name on athan clocks and prayer-time displays, and its donation tools ride along in the same ecosystem. We could not verify current public pricing for its giving products against a vendor page as of June 2026, so treat any number a salesperson quotes as negotiable and get the year-1 total in writing: software, per-device fees, processing rate, and any display bundle discount. If Masjidal screens are already on your walls and the quote comes back competitive, it has earned a place on the shortlist; just compare the written quote line by line against the other vendors' published numbers.

Donorbox: a generalist with a real kiosk

Donorbox is nonprofit-generic rather than mosque-specific, and it publishes most of its numbers. The Live Kiosk subscription is $80/mo first kiosk ($50/mo on Premium), $15/mo each additional (Donorbox Live Kiosk, verified Jun 2026). Donorbox applies a 1.75% platform fee on kiosk gifts (Donorbox pricing, verified Jun 2026), plus Stripe in-person 2.7% + $0.05 (4.45% + $0.05 combined) (Donorbox Live Kiosk, verified Jun 2026). Online forms run 1.75% to 3.95% in platform fees depending on which features you enable (Donorbox pricing, verified June 2026). The one number Donorbox does not publish is kiosk hardware: bundles are quote-gated, so get a written figure from sales before you compare totals.

For a masjid, the gaps are workflow gaps: no prayer-time integration, no membership or madrasa modules, and fund separation lives in form dropdowns rather than mosque-ready templates. We compare the two platforms feature by feature in Givebear vs Donorbox.

DeenFund: a published fee, on a legacy page

DeenFund pitches donation pages and kiosks built for masjids. Its published per-gift cost is a 1.75% platform fee + Stripe 2.9% + $0.30 (DeenFund legacy about page, verified Jun 2026). One transparency note: that figure appears only on DeenFund's legacy subdomain (mail.deenfund.com), because the main site renders entirely in the browser and publishes no crawlable pricing. Software and hardware costs are not published either, so a written quote is mandatory here too.

LaunchGood: crowdfunding, not infrastructure

LaunchGood is the largest Muslim crowdfunding platform and is excellent at what it actually is: time-boxed campaigns with global reach. Its fee model is 0% platform fee plus donor tips; cards 2.9% + $0.30 (LaunchGood support: fees (updated Nov 2024), verified Jun 2026), and over 70% of supporters add a tip, per the same support page (updated November 2024). Use it for the capital campaign or the emergency appeal. Do not mistake it for giving infrastructure: there is no kiosk hardware, no lobby presence, and donor accounts live on LaunchGood rather than in a database you own. A masjid that runs its operating budget through a crowdfunding platform is renting access to its own donor list.

MadinaApps: quote-only

MadinaApps sells a mosque app and donation suite but publishes no pricing anywhere on its site as of June 2026. That does not make it expensive; it makes it impossible to compare until a written quote arrives. Ask for the same line items as everyone else: software per month, hardware per device, platform fee, processing rate, and contract length.

Givebear: one-time hardware, no software rent

Givebear approaches the cost structure from the other direction: the donation kiosk is a one-time hardware purchase ($699 for the wall mount, $899 for the floor stand) with no monthly software fee, and platform pricing 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, the online giving page, events, and the donor database share one record system, so a congregant who taps the kiosk at Jumuah and gives online during Ramadan shows up as one donor with one year-end statement. Zakat, sadaqah, building fund, and any custom fund are named buttons on the kiosk screen with separate ledgers behind them. The full masjid workflow, including Ramadan campaign scheduling, is on the mosque solutions page.

What does year 1 actually cost with one kiosk?

Assume one kiosk in the lobby plus online giving. Fixed costs only here (per-gift costs are next), computed from each vendor's published pricing, verified June 2026:

Two rows need footnotes. MOHID's totals assume donor-pay is on; turn it off and add $300 per device per year. The Masjid App is included because it shows how far mosque-specific pricing stretches: $350/mo (The Masjid App, verified Jun 2026) for software plus a $995 kiosk (The Masjid App, verified Jun 2026). Masjid Solutions, another mosque-focused vendor, lists a $1,095.95 kiosk (Masjid Solutions, verified Jun 2026) with no published software price. Masjidal, MadinaApps, and DeenFund cannot appear in this table honestly because they publish no totals; when their quotes arrive, drop the numbers into the donation kiosk cost calculator next to these.

By year three the gap widens mechanically: subscription software bills every month whether Ramadan went well or not, while purchased hardware has no recurring line at all.

How much of each $100 gift reaches the masjid?

Fixed costs are half the math. Per-gift costs are the other half, and they scale with your congregation's generosity. On a $100 gift:

• MOHID (donor-pay): the donor pays about $103.64 (3.32% + $0.32 added on top) and the masjid books the full $100.
• Donorbox kiosk: combined fees are 4.45% + $0.05 (1.75% platform plus Stripe in-person 2.7% + $0.05), so the masjid nets $95.50 unless the donor opts to cover fees.
• DeenFund online: 1.75% platform plus Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30 totals $4.95, netting $95.05.
• LaunchGood: processing of 2.9% + $0.30 nets $96.80; the platform's cut comes from optional tips donors add on top.
• Givebear kiosk: when the donor leaves a tip, the platform fee drops to 0%, and Stripe's in-person processing (2.7% + $0.05) is passed through at cost, netting $97.25.

Multiply by volume before you shrug at single percentage points. On $100,000 of annual digital giving, the spread between netting $95.50 and $97.25 per $100 is $1,750 a year, before any software subscription is counted. Run your own volumes through the nonprofit fee calculator with your actual average gift size, because fixed per-transaction fees punish the $10 gift far harder than the $500 one.

Will it be ready before Ramadan 2027?

Ramadan 2027 is expected to begin around February 17. Work the calendar backward:

• By October 2026: shortlist, demos, and written quotes from every quote-gated vendor. Insist on the zakat separation demo at the kiosk, not just on the web form.
• By December 2026: hardware ordered, mounted, and live. A kiosk that appears in the lobby months before Ramadan is familiar furniture by the first Taraweeh; one installed the week before is an obstacle people walk past.
• January 2027: migrate recurring donors and announce the change at Jumuah, twice. Export everything from the old system first: donor list, recurring schedules, and fund histories.
• Early February 2027: train volunteers, test offline behavior, and load the Ramadan campaigns (last ten nights, zakat al-fitr, iftar sponsorship).

Three Ramadan-specific stress tests matter more than any feature list. Queue speed: at tap-to-donate speed, a 20-person post-Taraweeh queue clears in about two minutes, while a kiosk that asks for name and address on screen loses most of that line. Offline resilience: lobby Wi-Fi saturates when 800 phones arrive at once, and kiosks built on Stripe Terminal can queue card payments offline and sync when the network recovers. Scheduled giving: donors who want every one of the last ten nights covered now schedule an automatic nightly gift, and a platform that cannot do that leaves the highest-intent giving of the year to memory. More tactics are in our Ramadan fundraising guide.

Which donation platform should your masjid choose?

• Choose MOHID if the board wants one suite for everything (donations, membership, education) and accepts subscription pricing. Its pricing transparency is genuinely better than most of this market.
• Choose Masjidal if its prayer displays already hang on your walls and the written quote for giving comes back competitive with the tables above.
• Choose Donorbox if proven online forms are the priority and the written kiosk hardware quote keeps the year-1 total sensible.
• Use LaunchGood for campaigns (a renovation, an emergency appeal) alongside your own infrastructure, never instead of it.
• Demand written quotes before shortlisting DeenFund or MadinaApps; neither publishes enough to compare honestly.
• Choose Givebear if you want lobby kiosks the masjid owns outright, zakat and sadaqah ledgers that never mix, and in-person and online gifts landing in one donor database. Start with the kiosk buying guide for mosques if hardware is your first purchase.