# GivJoy features

- Canonical page: https://givjoy.io/features
- This file: https://givjoy.io/features.md
- Last updated: November 12, 2026
- Public status: In development. Nothing here is usable yet. Planned pricing; final details at launch.

GivJoy is a donation platform for US nonprofits, in development, expected January 2027.

Free 0%, Starter 1%, Pro 2% of online gifts, plus Stripe processing, no monthly fee.

Gifts go straight to the nonprofit's own Stripe account.

GivJoy takes gifts and ticket sales, keeps one record for each supporter and helps you follow up. Each feature shows the plans that will include it. "Every plan" below means Free, Starter and Pro.

## Setup and moving in

Every plan: Guided Welcome confirms organization facts and can make a private main giving-page draft. Get started covers organization basics, Stripe, test payments, plan confirmation and publishing the first test campaign. A move from another system is optional. Move to GivJoy accepts CSV, Excel, PDF and zip exports from any system or spreadsheet, with an import plan to review. Settings > Imports holds import history and Undo under the 30-day rules. [See a move to GivJoy, step by step](https://givjoy.io/move-to-givjoy). You can connect a Stripe account you already have, or create one.

Monthly donors move on their own page: check the donor list, review the restart emails and choose when they send, then add call tasks if you want them. Your move plan shows which donors can move as they are and which would need to restart from a personal link, keeping or changing their amount.

## Take gifts

| Feature | What it does | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Donation pages | A branded giving page for each campaign, with suggested amounts, a custom amount and stories about what a gift does. Closing a campaign stops new gifts. Its monthly donors keep giving. | Every plan. Free runs one live campaign at a time, with no time limit; Starter and Pro have no limit. |
| Website embeds | The same giving form inside the nonprofit's own website, so donors never leave it. | Every plan |
| Monthly giving | Donors start a monthly gift, then change the amount, update their card, pause or stop it themselves. When a card fails, GivJoy retries it 3, 7 and 14 days later. If the donor updates it, you see: "Hannah updated her card. $25.00 collected Oct 8." Recurring gifts are monthly. Quarterly and yearly aren't offered at opening. | Every plan |
| Bank debit | Donors can give straight from a US bank account. Tickets take cards and wallets only. | Every plan |
| Apple Pay and Google Pay | Donors pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay, for gifts and tickets. | Every plan |
| Fee coverage, line by line | Donors can cover the fees. Checkout shows the gift, the added amount, the total and what the nonprofit receives before anyone pays, and the option is easy to remove. | Every plan |
| Receipts and tribute notices | A receipt goes out for every gift made through GivJoy once the payment is confirmed. A donor giving in honor or memory of someone can ask for a notice to be sent to the person they name. Year-end giving statements are planned too. | Every plan |
| No GivJoy fee on cash and checks | Record a cash or check gift by hand. GivJoy charges no fee on it. | Every plan |
| Your account | Supporters can sign in to Your account for gifts, events, receipts and preferences, and manage their monthly gifts. Donors don't need an account to give. | Every plan |
| Sign in with an emailed code | Supporters sign in with a code emailed to them, never a password. | Every plan |
| All your giving | A donor who gives to two or more nonprofits on GivJoy sees it all in one sign-in: the year's total by nonprofit and every receipt. | Every plan |

## Run campaigns and events

| Feature | What it does | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Build a campaign with Bryn | Tell Bryn about the campaign in your own words. She builds a private draft page beside the chat, never invents dates, prices or what money buys, and nothing goes public until a person reviews and publishes it. | Every plan |
| Share your campaign | A link and a QR code for every campaign, and Bryn writes sharing posts and makes images after you publish. | Every plan |
| Event pages and tickets | Free or paid tickets, named guests, your own questions and ticket codes for discounts. A fundraising event can take a gift alongside the tickets. | Every plan. On Free, your one live campaign can be an event. |
| Cash and check registrations | Record tickets someone paid for at the office or the door. No GivJoy fee on cash or check. | Every plan |
| Guest list and check-in | A searchable guest list and check-in from a phone at the door, with a link you can hand to a volunteer. | Every plan |
| Email your guests | Reminders and know-before-you-go emails Bryn drafts from the event's details when you ask. You review the draft and recipients before confirming. | Every plan |
| Guest changes and cancellations | Buyers fix guest names or cancel before the event starts. Online refunds start on their own. GivJoy and Stripe keep their fees, so a refund costs you those. | Every plan |

## Know your supporters

| Feature | What it does | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Contacts | One contact record per person, with gifts, tickets, notes, calls and households. Move to GivJoy brings history from any system or spreadsheet, on every plan. | Every plan |
| Businesses and foundations | A business or foundation can give, with its own record and receipt. | Every plan |
| Unlimited staff, Finance included | Add as many staff as you need. The Finance role is for treasurers and bookkeepers. | Every plan |
| Notes, calls and tasks | Log calls and notes on each contact, and give tasks to your team with due dates. | Every plan |
| What to know | A short summary at the top of each contact page, written by Bryn, of what you'd want to know before you call. | Starter and Pro |
| Supporter choices | Supporters choose whether they get optional email. Staff can't override what a supporter chose. | Every plan |
| Duplicates and data quality | One page lists possible duplicate records, bounced emails and records to check. Merge two records, undo a merge or move a single gift to the right person, with every effect spelled out before you confirm. | Every plan. On Pro, Bryn also explains possible matches. |

## Follow up

| Feature | What it does | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic thank-you email | Every campaign sends a thank-you you wrote, with the receipt kept separate. | Every plan |
| Thank you for coming email | Goes to guests automatically the morning after the event, from a template you write once. You can turn it off for any event. | Every plan |
| Bryn, when you ask | Ask a question, get a draft email, or have her build a report. Nothing reaches a supporter until a person sends it. | Every plan |
| Email from your own domain | Thank-yous and personal email come from the organization's own address. Receipts keep coming from GivJoy with the nonprofit's name on them. | Starter and Pro |
| Bryn's nine jobs | On Pro, Bryn doesn't wait to be asked. She welcomes first-time donors, follows up failed monthly payments, marks milestones, thanks ticket buyers who have never given, makes four kinds of gentle gift requests and gives staff a weekly list of who to call. Details: https://givjoy.io/bryn.md | Pro |
| You decide what sends | Every job starts Off.<br>Once on, each email waits for your OK.<br>Bryn asks any one person for money at most once every 90 days.<br>Immediate sends have ten-second Undo; scheduled emails can be stopped until they go.<br>An administrator can let a job send without asking.<br>Anyone on your team can pause every job with one switch. | Pro |

## Report to your board

| Feature | What it does | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Seven standard reports | Giving, payouts, a one-page board summary, campaigns, monthly giving, events and data quality. | Every plan |
| Ask for a report in plain English | Describe the report you want. Bryn builds it from GivJoy's own definitions, you refine it until it's right, then save it. | Every plan |
| Team dashboard | One team dashboard. Administrators can change it with Bryn; permissions still apply. | Every plan |
| Your year in giving | Each January, a short set of cards about the year to share with the board. On Pro, it ends with Bryn's year. | Every plan |
| Explanations and next steps | On Pro, ask Bryn about a report and she explains what changed and suggests next steps. | Pro |

## Connect your tools

| Feature | What it does | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Zapier | Sends new gifts, donors, monthly-giving changes, refunds, registrations and check-ins to your other apps, such as Google Sheets, Slack and Mailchimp. Zapier only receives; it can't change anything in GivJoy. | Starter and Pro |
| AI assistants | Connect an AI assistant, such as Claude, to ask about giving or draft a campaign. It can do only what the person's role allows, and it never emails supporters, changes contact records or publishes anything. Details: https://givjoy.io/agents.md#connect-an-ai-assistant | Every plan |
| Download all your data | Everything in one download, with a guide to every column and ready-made Excel and Power BI files. Report exports and a file for your accountant, too. | Every plan |

## Coming later

| Feature | Where it stands | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Texting | Gift and event texts, mass texts and replies, with each supporter's separate permission. Later, as a paid add-on with a prepaid monthly bundle of texts. Not on Free. | In development |
| Newsletters and mass email | Styled templates first, then a template builder. | Exploring |
| Peer-to-peer fundraising | Supporters raising money on their own page for your campaign. | Exploring |

Also not in the first release: auctions, raffles, assigned seating, a public developer API, general webhooks, Zapier actions or searches, and Salesforce and QuickBooks connections.

## What the status labels mean

| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Exploring | We are looking into the problem. It may never be built. |
| In development | We are working on it. Not usable yet. |
| Early access | A few invited nonprofits can use it, in test mode where that applies. |
| Live | Available to the stated audience. |
| Not pursuing | Dropped or paused, with a short reason and a date. |

## Related

- Plans and fees: https://givjoy.io/pricing.md
- Meet Bryn: https://givjoy.io/bryn.md
- Privacy: https://givjoy.io/privacy.md
- Overview for AI agents: https://givjoy.io/agents.md