SecureGive Pricing: What Churches Actually Pay in 2026

Your church finance committee has a SecureGive quote in the folder and a budget vote on the agenda. The one-pager looks clean: a giving kiosk for the lobby, a monthly plan, a card rate. What it usually does not show is the 36-month total. SecureGive pricing has four moving parts (hardware, the software subscription, add-on modules, and processing), and the recurring parts quietly pass the cost of the kiosk itself before the first year is out. Every number below comes from SecureGive's published pricing page, verified June 2026, so you can hold it against your own quote line by line.

How much does SecureGive cost in 2026?

The short version, verified against SecureGive's pricing page in June 2026:

None of these numbers is alarming on its own, and that is exactly why kiosk quotes sail through committee. The question that decides whether this is a good purchase is what the four lines add up to over the life of the hardware, and that math rarely appears on the proposal. So let's build it.

How much is the SecureGive kiosk hardware?

SecureGive lists kiosk hardware at $1,199 to $5,799 per kiosk (SecureGive pricing, verified Jun 2026), depending on the model and mounting option. The hardware itself is a one-time purchase, which is the right model: a lobby kiosk should be a capital expense the church owns, not a rental.

Two things deserve a closer look before the vote. First, the range is wide. The gap between the entry kiosk and the top model is $4,600, which is more than two and a half years of the Basic subscription. Ask which model is actually on your quote, what the cheaper mounts give up, and whether the congregation will notice the difference on a Sunday morning. Second, the kiosk only runs SecureGive's software. That makes the monthly plan part of the hardware's operating cost for as long as the device hangs on the wall, which is why the next section matters more than this one.

What do the monthly software plans and add-ons cost?

The Basic plan is $149 per month, which is $1,788 per year. Premium is $299 per month, or $3,588 per year. Put those next to the hardware and the crossover comes fast: on Basic, cumulative subscription payments pass the $1,199 entry kiosk's price tag in month nine. On Premium it happens in month five. From that point forward, the software is the product you are paying for and the kiosk is the cheap part.

Add-on modules run $49 to $300 per month on top of the plan. This is where quotes drift apart from invoices. A single $300 module costs more per year ($3,600) than the entry kiosk costs once. If your proposal includes modules, get each one itemized with its own monthly price, then decide module by module whether the workflow it covers is worth a permanent line in the budget. Many of them duplicate things your church management software may already do.

What are SecureGive's processing fees on kiosk gifts?

Kiosk card gifts process at 2% + $0.30 on Basic. Premium drops the percentage to 1.5% (we assume the $0.30 per-gift fee still applies, since the published difference is the rate). The fixed fee is the part committees overlook, and it bites hardest at typical church gift sizes:

• On a $40 gift, Basic costs $1.10 per gift, a 2.75% effective rate. Premium costs $0.90, or 2.25%.
• On a $25 gift, Basic's effective rate climbs to 3.2%.
• On a $100 gift, Basic comes down to 2.3% and Premium to 1.8%.

The Premium upgrade is often pitched on that rate difference, so run the break-even before agreeing to it. Premium costs $150 more per month and saves half a percentage point on card volume. $150 divided by 0.5% is $30,000 of kiosk card volume per month before the lower rate pays for the higher plan. That is $360,000 a year moving through the lobby kiosk, which very few congregations reach. If Premium belongs on your quote, it should be there because of features your team will actually use, not because of the rate.

What does the first year with SecureGive actually cost?

Here is a worked example you can adapt to your own numbers: one entry-level kiosk at $1,199, no add-on modules, and $60,000 a year in kiosk card giving at a $40 average gift (1,500 gifts).

Now stress the assumptions. Choose the $5,799 top-end kiosk and both columns rise by $4,600. Add one $49 module and the year gains $588. Add a $300 module and it gains $3,600. A loaded but realistic first year on Basic, with the top kiosk and a single $49 module, lands at $9,825 before a single dollar of giving is processed differently than it would be anywhere else.

What does three years of SecureGive cost?

Hold the same example steady for 36 months, the realistic working life over which a committee should evaluate any kiosk purchase:

Look at where the money went. On Basic, the subscription ($5,364) costs about four and a half times the kiosk it operates. On Premium, three years of software ($10,764) costs nearly double the most expensive kiosk SecureGive sells. And neither column includes add-ons: one $49 module over the same window is another $1,764, while a $300 module adds $10,800 and nearly doubles the Basic column on its own.

That is the structural thing to see in any per-device subscription model. The hardware anchors the conversation because it is the object in the room, but the software line is the actual purchase.

Is a monthly kiosk fee just how the industry works?

Mostly, yes. Donorbox prices its Live Kiosk software at $80/mo first kiosk ($50/mo on Premium), $15/mo each additional (Donorbox Live Kiosk, verified Jun 2026), and Kind Kiosk charges $49/mo Community ($19/mo extra devices) or $149/mo Growth (Kind Kiosk pricing, verified Jun 2026). Against that field, SecureGive's $149 to $299 sits at the high end, and the add-on model can stretch the gap further.

But the subscription is a business-model choice, not a law of physics. A giving kiosk is a screen, a card reader, and software that talks to a payment processor. Whether you pay for that software monthly per device or once with the hardware is a decision the vendor made, and at least one platform made the other choice.

What does the same kiosk look like without the subscription?

Givebear sells its donation kiosk as a one-time purchase: the wall-mounted unit is $699 and the floor-stand unit is $899, with no monthly software fee per device. Fund designations (general fund, missions, building), online giving pages, donor records, event ticketing, and year-end receipts come with the account instead of arriving as $49 to $300 modules. The kiosk runs Stripe Terminal, so a tap, insert, or swipe in the lobby lands in the same donor record as a gift made from the pew via the website.

Platform cost follows the donor-tip 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. On kiosk gifts where the donor declines to tip, the platform fee is 4.9% on the free plan, and paid plans bring it down (full details on the pricing page). Card processing passes through at Stripe's published in-person rate of 2.7% + $0.05 with no markup.

Side by side over the same three years and one kiosk:

To be fair to both columns: SecureGive's Basic card percentage is genuinely competitive. On a $40 gift, SecureGive Basic takes $1.10 while the Stripe pass-through rate takes $1.13. Per-gift processing is roughly a wash, and on gifts where a donor declines to tip, Givebear's platform fee applies on top. The three-year gap does not come from the card rate. It comes from $5,364 to $16,164 in subscription and module fees that one column carries and the other does not. A congregation with unusually heavy kiosk volume should model both honestly: the donation kiosk cost calculator runs the comparison with current rates, the church giving kiosk guide covers lobby placement and the Sunday workflow, and the full SecureGive comparison goes feature by feature.

Five questions to ask before you sign the quote

1. Which add-on modules are in this quote, and at what monthly price each? Modules run $49 to $300 per month, and a single one can out-cost the kiosk itself over a year.
2. Is the quoted card rate Basic's 2% + $0.30 or Premium's 1.5%? Then run the break-even: below roughly $30,000 a month in kiosk card volume, the $150/mo plan difference costs more than the rate saves.
3. What is the all-in 36-month total? Hardware, 36 months of the plan, every module, and processing on your real kiosk volume, as one number in writing.
4. What happens to the kiosk if we cancel or downgrade? A device that only runs the vendor's software is only as useful as the subscription behind it. Ask before, not after.
5. What changes when we add a second kiosk? Confirm whether a second device means more hardware only, or more monthly cost as well, and get the answer on the quote.

If the committee wants the alternative column filled in before the vote, the donation kiosks for churches guide covers how lobby giving actually behaves between services, and what is a donation kiosk is a useful primer for members who have never used one.