Donorbox Live Kiosk Pricing: The Real 3-Year Cost

You run operations at a food bank that has used a Donorbox form on its website for two years. It works: recurring gifts arrive, receipts go out, nobody complains. Now the board wants tap to donate in the lobby and at the spring fundraiser, and the obvious move is to stay with the vendor you already trust. Then you go looking for Donorbox Live Kiosk pricing and the picture scatters: the subscription is on one page, the transaction fees on another, and the hardware bundle has no price tag at all. Every number below was verified June 2026 against Donorbox's own pages, and the math is run over the period that actually matters: the three years the kiosk will sit by your front door.

The short version: the first kiosk costs $80 a month ($50 a month on the Premium plan), each additional kiosk adds $15 a month, every gift pays 1.75% to Donorbox plus 2.7% + $0.05 to Stripe, and the hardware bundle is quoted by sales with no published price. Three years of a single device comes to $2,880 in software subscriptions before a single per-gift fee or the hardware invoice.

How much does Donorbox Live Kiosk cost per month?

Donorbox prices the kiosk as a software subscription per device: $80/mo first kiosk ($50/mo on Premium), $15/mo each additional (Donorbox Live Kiosk, verified Jun 2026).

Two details matter more than the headline number. First, the $50 rate is not a discount you can simply select: it applies to organizations on Donorbox Premium, which is a separate paid subscription with its own pricing. If you are on the standard pay-as-you-go arrangement that most form users start with, your kiosk rate is $80. Second, the $15 per additional device sounds trivial until you map it onto real rooms. One unit at the main entrance, one at the side entrance, and one that travels to events puts you at $110 a month before anyone has donated a dollar.

Here is the software line alone, with no fees and no hardware, across a typical kiosk lifespan:

On Premium, the first device drops to $50 a month, which is $1,800 over 36 months. But you are then paying for Premium itself on top, so that rate only helps if you already wanted Premium for reasons unrelated to the kiosk.

What fees does Donorbox charge on each kiosk gift?

Two fees stack on every tap. Donorbox takes its platform cut: 1.75% platform fee on kiosk gifts (Donorbox pricing, verified Jun 2026). Card processing comes on top: Stripe in-person 2.7% + $0.05 (4.45% + $0.05 combined) (Donorbox Live Kiosk, verified Jun 2026).

The fixed nickel makes small gifts proportionally more expensive, which matters because kiosk gifts skew smaller than online gifts:

• A $10 tap pays about $0.50 in combined fees, an effective rate of 4.95%.
• A $25 tap pays about $1.16, or 4.65%.
• A $100 gift pays $4.50, or 4.50% even.

Translated into annual dollars: on $30,000 a year of kiosk volume at a $25 average gift, the combined rate sends about $1,395 a year to fees. Roughly $525 of that is Donorbox's platform fee and about $870 is Stripe processing, so even if you negotiated the platform fee to zero, most of the per-gift cost would remain.

For context, Donorbox's online forms carry platform fees from 1.75% up to 3.95% depending on which features you enable, per the Donorbox pricing page (verified June 2026). The kiosk's per-gift rate is not the outlier in this market; several kiosk vendors charge similar or worse. The problem is what that per-gift fee sits on top of.

What does the Donorbox kiosk hardware cost?

Nobody outside a Donorbox sales call knows, because the price is not published. The Live Kiosk page offers hardware bundles (tablet, card reader, stand) through a sales conversation, and no dollar figure for any bundle appears anywhere on donorbox.org as of June 2026. That is not automatically a red flag; plenty of vendors quote hardware privately. But it means you cannot finish your budget from the website, and it tilts vendor comparisons, because competitors do publish their hardware prices. Kind Kiosk sells devices at $299 to $599 per device (Kind Kiosk pricing, verified Jun 2026), and SecureGive kiosks run $1,199 to $5,799 per kiosk (SecureGive pricing, verified Jun 2026).

Quote-gating also slows down the approval itself. If your board votes on a written budget, you cannot put the kiosk on the agenda until sales has called you back, and a quote delivered verbally has a way of growing once a stand, a protective enclosure, or shipping appears on the invoice. Treat the written quote as the price, not the number mentioned on the call.

What does three years of Donorbox Live Kiosk actually cost?

A donation kiosk is not an impulse purchase. Once it is mounted, signed, and donors are used to it, it stays for years. So price the decision over 36 months, not one.

Take a single lobby kiosk that averages 100 taps a month at $25 each: $2,500 a month, $30,000 a year. Over three years:

Double the volume to 200 taps a month and the per-gift fees grow to $8,370, bringing the three-year total to $11,250 before hardware. The subscription stings most at the other end of the scale: a kiosk that only collects $500 a month still owes Donorbox the same $80, and on that volume the subscription alone consumes an extra 16% of everything the device collects, on top of the per-gift fees.

Your numbers will differ, so run them: the donation kiosk cost calculator models subscription, fees, and hardware over any time horizon, and the nonprofit fee calculator compares effective per-gift rates across platforms.

How does Donorbox Live Kiosk pricing compare to other kiosk vendors?

Every competitor figure above was verified June 2026 against the vendor's public pricing page; the source links are listed at the end of this post.

The pattern across the market: a recurring per-device software fee is the industry default, whether $49 or $299 a month, and Donorbox's $80 sits in the middle of that range. The reason to pause is not that Donorbox overcharges relative to its peers. It is that the subscription model itself bills you for the lobby kiosk every month whether it collected $300 or $30,000, and most organizations considering their first kiosk have no idea yet which of those months they will have.

Where Donorbox still wins

None of this makes Donorbox a bad platform. For online fundraising it remains one of the strongest options at its price point: the embedded form installs in an afternoon, the recurring-gift options are mature, and the 1.75% baseline platform fee on standard online donations is competitive with anyone.

If your fundraising is 90% online and the kiosk is a someday idea, staying put is a reasonable call. Our full Givebear vs Donorbox comparison walks through that broader decision.

The kiosk add-on itself can still pencil out in three situations: you are already on Premium, so the first device runs $50 instead of $80; you expect heavy in-person volume on a single device, where per-gift fees dwarf the subscription anyway; or single-vendor reconciliation matters more to your bookkeeper than the $2,880. Those are real cases. Just walk into the sales call already knowing your three-year number.

The alternative: buy the kiosk once

Givebear approached the same problem from the opposite direction: the kiosk is hardware you own, not software you rent.

The wall-mounted unit costs $699 and the floor-stand model costs $899, both one-time purchases with no monthly software subscription. The devices run on Stripe Terminal, take tap, chip, and digital wallets, and every gift lands in the same donor records as your online donations, so a lobby tap and a website gift from the same person roll up into one year-end statement.

Per-gift costs follow a tip-based model: $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 Plan details are on the pricing page.

Run the same three-year exercise on this model and the structure changes: software is $0 across all 36 months, the hardware price is printed on the donation kiosk product page rather than extracted from a sales call, and adding a second entrance or a third campus adds no recurring line at all.

Ownership also changes how seasonal fundraising works. A kiosk you own can spend the summer in a storage closet and reappear for the fall gala without costing anything in between; a subscription kiosk bills through every quiet month unless the vendor lets you pause, which is exactly why that question belongs in your sales call. For organizations whose in-person giving concentrates around a few peak weeks a year, the difference between twelve billed months and zero is often larger than any per-gift fee gap.

If you are weighing more than these two vendors, the Donorbox comparison page puts the platforms side by side, the Donorbox alternatives page covers the wider field, and the best Donorbox alternatives roundup looks at the online-forms angle too.

How to decide

• If online forms carry your fundraising and in-person giving is hypothetical, stay on Donorbox forms and revisit once a board member is asking for the kiosk by name.
• If you want exactly one kiosk and you already pay for Premium, get the hardware quote in writing, add $1,800 of three-year software, and compare honest totals.
• If you want one or more kiosks without a recurring bill, price a one-time-purchase kiosk next to your written Donorbox quote and let the 36-month numbers make the call.