What Happened to Qgiv? A Kiosk Replacement Guide

The tablets in your lobby still take donations, which is exactly what makes the situation hard to read. If you run operations for a nonprofit that has been collecting walk-up gifts on a Qgiv kiosk since before 2024, the past two years have happened around you in small renames: the standalone Qgiv Kiosk app stopped being the way in, the invoices started saying Bloomerang, and the pricing page you bookmarked at qgiv.com/pricing now lands on bloomerang.com. When a board member asks "did Qgiv shut down?", the honest answer is no, but the full answer takes a timeline. Something specific did happen in January 2025, it is documented in App Store version notes, and it changes how you should plan the next hardware cycle.

What happened to Qgiv?

Qgiv did not shut down. Bloomerang, the donor-management CRM company, announced its acquisition of Qgiv in January 2024, and the product line has been folding into the Bloomerang brand ever since. Qgiv spent two decades selling fundraising tools to nonprofits, schools, and faith-based organizations: donation forms, peer-to-peer campaigns, auctions, text giving, and in-person kiosks. Bloomerang wanted that giving stack to pair with its CRM, and the combined company now sells the former Qgiv products as Bloomerang Fundraising.

The renaming has been gradual rather than clean, which is why so many customers half-know the story:

• In September 2025, the Qgiv Virtual Terminal app became the Bloomerang Fundraising app, per the version 2.2.0 notes on its own App Store listing. The listing's subtitle still reads "Formerly Qgiv Virtual Terminal."
• qgiv.com still resolves and still hosts the blog, but commercial pages are migrating: qgiv.com/pricing 301-redirects to bloomerang.com/pricing (verified June 2026).
• The developer of record on both app stores is still Qgiv Inc, and the Android package id is still com.qgiv.androidvt.

If you lived through the DipJar shutdown in February 2025, note that this is the opposite case. DipJar ceased operations and its devices stopped processing overnight. Qgiv's rebrand changed names and URLs while every payment kept flowing. Nobody's kiosk went dark.

The kiosk story is more specific than the corporate one, though, and it is where search results get things wrong.

Did the Qgiv kiosk go away?

No. Qgiv retired one app, not the capability, and the distinction matters if you are deciding what to do with your hardware.

Until January 2025, kiosk giving ran through a dedicated tablet app called Qgiv Kiosk. On January 23, 2025, version 2.0.0 of Qgiv's other in-person app, then called the Virtual Terminal, shipped with this note in its App Store version history:

Eight months later, version 2.2.0 renamed the Virtual Terminal to Bloomerang Fundraising. So the current state, verified June 2026, is this:

• The standalone Qgiv Kiosk app is sunset.
• Kiosk functionality still exists, as one mode inside the Bloomerang Fundraising app, alongside event registration, auction tools, and staffed virtual-terminal payments.
• Your tablets did not stop working; they just run a different app with a different name than the one you trained volunteers on.

If you read a claim that kiosk giving was removed from the product entirely, that claim is false. What changed is the packaging: a dedicated kiosk app became one feature inside a multi-purpose event app. Whether that packaging change matters to you depends on the signals around it.

What do the redirects and help domains tell you?

A rebrand in progress leaks information through its infrastructure. Four signals, all checkable in a browser in five minutes, all verified June 2026:

1. The pricing redirect. qgiv.com/pricing 301-redirects to bloomerang.com/pricing. The destination prices Bloomerang's CRM, fundraising, and volunteer products; the word kiosk does not appear on the page.
2. Support split across two help domains. support.qgiv.com still hosts the legacy Qgiv help center, while help.bloomerang.com hosts Bloomerang's documentation. Kiosk setup answers can live on either side depending on when they were written, so troubleshooting starts with guessing which generation of docs you need.
3. No kiosk hardware marketing. Bloomerang's fundraising product page does not mention kiosks at all. The mode exists in the app; nothing on the marketing site sells a device, a stand, or an enclosure to run it on, and nothing pitches the capability to new buyers.
4. No public kiosk roadmap. Bloomerang publishes a changelog, but neither domain publishes a roadmap for in-person giving hardware. There is no public statement about where kiosks fit in the combined product.

None of this is a death notice. It is a priority signal. When a capability survives an acquisition as a mode inside another app, with no hardware line, no marketing, and no roadmap, its future depends on internal decisions you cannot see and will not get advance notice of. The giving-kiosk category has run this play before: GivingKiosk's domain now redirects to a Ministry Brands suite page with no published pricing, and aware3 dissolved into FACTS (Nelnet) on March 1, 2024, with its church customers migrated onto the FACTS stack. Both of those started as rebrands too.

Should you keep running kiosk mode in the Bloomerang Fundraising app?

It works today, and for some organizations staying is the right call. Staying makes sense if you are also a Bloomerang CRM customer and the integration between gifts and donor records is the reason you are there; if your contract runs well past this year and kiosk giving is a small line item; or if your tablets are deployed, your donors are trained, and nothing is broken.

Planning an exit makes sense if any of these describes you:

• Your walk-up giving is growing. A revenue line that is becoming material deserves purpose-built hardware from a vendor that markets, documents, and roadmaps kiosks as a product. A mode inside an events app is a thin foundation to scale on.
• Renewal is coming anyway. Migration takes the same effort whenever you do it; doing it at renewal means you never pay for two systems at once.
• You inherited the setup and cannot explain the costs. A rebrand is a natural audit point. Pull one quarter of statements and divide total fees by gross kiosk giving to get your effective rate, then hold that number against the replacement table below.

What are the best Qgiv kiosk replacements?

Replacement options split into two cost models: subscription kiosks, where the software meter runs monthly for as long as the device exists, and one-time hardware, where you buy the kiosk once. Bloomerang Fundraising itself is missing from the table because its kiosk-relevant pricing is not published anywhere public; your contract is the only source. Everything else comes from public pricing pages, verified June 2026.

The competitor figures come from kindkiosk.com/pricing, donorbox.org/live-kiosk, donorbox.org/pricing, and securegive.com/pricing, all verified June 2026. Three caveats before any sales call. Donorbox does not publish kiosk hardware bundle prices anywhere, so budgeting the device requires a sales conversation, and its 1.75% platform fee applies to kiosk gifts specifically while its online forms run 1.75% to 3.95% depending on features. SecureGive's $149/mo Basic plan is a floor, since add-on modules run $49 to $300/mo on top. And Kind Kiosk's 3% platform fee stacks on Stripe's 2.7% in-person rate, so a $100 card gift costs $5.70 before the subscription is counted.

A Givebear donation kiosk takes the one-time model: $699 for the wall mount or $899 for the floor stand, with no monthly software fee, running on Stripe Terminal inside your organization's own Stripe account so gifts settle directly to you. $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 full breakdown is on the pricing page.

For the wider field, the 2026 donation kiosk rankings cover options beyond these four. For the head-to-head, see the Givebear vs Qgiv comparison.

How does the trade-in math work?

Frame the swap as a trade-in rather than a write-off, because a Qgiv kiosk deployment has three assets that keep value through a migration:

1. The tablets. Your kiosk tablets are standard consumer hardware, not proprietary devices that brick when a backend dies. Redeploy them as event check-in screens for the Bloomerang Fundraising features you keep, hand them to staff, or resell them.
2. The data. Donor records and transaction history move with you as exports. The history is the asset; the software around it is replaceable.
3. The subscription line. Whatever you pay monthly for kiosk software today becomes the budget that retires one-time hardware.

To see how fast that last line moves, run a year of walk-up giving through the published numbers. Say one lobby kiosk collects $25,000 in card gifts at a $25 average (1,000 taps):

• Kind Kiosk, Community plan: 5.7% combined card fees take $1,425, software adds $588, and hardware is $299 to $599. Year one runs $2,312 to $2,612, then roughly $2,013 every year after.
• Donorbox Live Kiosk: the 1.75% platform fee takes $437.50, Stripe in-person processing takes about $725, and software adds $960. That is roughly $2,122 a year before the quote-gated hardware is priced.
• Givebear: one-time hardware, $0/mo software, Stripe in-person processing passed through at cost, and 0% platform fee when donors tip (4.9% when a donor declines).

The subscription lines are the trade-in: Donorbox's software alone is $960 every year, Kind Kiosk's is $588 plus the 3% platform fee, and both run for as long as the kiosk exists. One-time hardware ends that meter after purchase. Run your own volume and average gift through the donation kiosk cost calculator to see where the crossover lands for your numbers, and price year three, not just year one.

How do I switch from a Qgiv kiosk without losing walk-up giving?

1. Anchor the date to your renewal. Pull the contract, find the renewal and notice-period dates, and work backward. The cheapest migration never pays for two systems at once.
2. Export while everything works. Donor records, transaction history with fund designations, and recurring schedules. Keep the CSVs in your own storage, not only inside the next vendor's import tool.
3. Ask the recurring-donor question in week one. If recurring gifts are vaulted on the platform's merchant account, saved payment methods may not be portable, and moving those donors takes a re-consent campaign. The answer changes your timeline more than any hardware decision.
4. Recreate the donor experience, not just the device. Match the preset amounts and fund names your donors already know so the tap-to-donate flow feels unchanged on day one. A donor who gave $25 to the building fund last month should find the same button in the same place.
5. Bridge the gap with QR signage. Hardware ships on hardware timelines. Print QR code donation signs pointing at your online giving page so the lobby keeps collecting between teardown and first tap.
6. Make the new vendor carry the boxes. Givebear's switch concierge imports your exports, recreates funds and presets, and configures the kiosk before it ships, so your team is not rebuilding settings by hand.