# GivJoy pricing

- Canonical page: https://givjoy.io/pricing
- This file: https://givjoy.io/pricing.md
- Last updated: November 12, 2026
- Public status: In development. These are planned prices; final details at launch. GivJoy isn't taking real gifts yet.

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.

## Who GivJoy is for

GivJoy is a donation platform with an AI assistant, Bryn, for US nonprofits of every size, especially small and medium teams. It charges a share of each online gift instead of a monthly subscription. Bryn helps whenever you ask. On Pro, she doesn't wait to be asked.

## The three plans

- Free: one live campaign at a time, a Donation Page or an Event, with no time limit; unlimited staff in every role.
- Starter: unlimited campaigns, What to know summaries, Zapier and your own email domain, on top of the giving and events every plan has.
- Pro: Bryn does the follow-up without being asked. She runs the nine jobs you turn on, and each email waits for your OK unless an administrator says otherwise.

| | Free | Starter | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| GivJoy fee on online gifts and ticket payments | 0% | 1% | 2% |
| Card processing (Stripe) | Applies | Applies | Applies |
| Monthly subscription | None | None | None |
| Fee coverage | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Campaigns (each a donation page or an event) | One live at a time, no time limit | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Staff in every role (Super Admin, Administrator, Team Member, Finance) | No limit | No limit | No limit |
| Supporter records | No limit | No limit | No limit |
| GivJoy fees per $1,000.00 collected online | $0.00 | $10.00 | $20.00 |


### Every plan includes

- One-time and monthly giving, website embeds for donation pages and events, the campaign link, tagged links and QR codes.
- Your account for supporters: giving history, receipt downloads and monthly-gift controls.
- Receipts, tribute notices, and the Thank you for coming email after an event.
- Campaign email: emailing a campaign's donors or an event's guests, and invitations to contacts.
- Share your results, the first suggested email after a campaign closes.
- Events, tickets and ticket codes, a guest list and check-in.
- Contacts, households, notes, calls, tasks, duplicate finding and merging, CSV import and export, and Move to GivJoy with Bryn.
- GivJoy's reports, reports built by asking Bryn, the team dashboard, exports, a file for your accountant and a download of all your data.
- Bryn when asked: answering questions, drafting campaigns and emails, building reports.
- Bryn's sharing posts and share images on each campaign's Share tab.
- Connecting your own AI assistant, such as Claude, over MCP (Model Context Protocol, the standard way an AI assistant uses another service).

### Starter adds

- Unlimited campaigns and events.
- A What to know summary at the top of each contact page.
- Zapier, to send gifts, donors and registrations to your other apps.
- Email from your nonprofit's own domain for personal mail.

### Pro adds

- Bryn's nine jobs, which she runs without being asked. Every job starts Off and, once turned on, on "Ask first", so a person approves each email unless an administrator chooses "Send without asking". Details: https://givjoy.io/bryn.md
- Bryn's second opinion on possible duplicate records.
- Explanations of what changed in reports, with suggested next steps, a Donor care section on the board summary, and Bryn's year in the yearly giving cards.
- A setting for how many of Bryn's emails one person can get in 30 days (four by default, adjustable from two to six).

## What the GivJoy fee applies to

- On a gift: the amount the donor chose, not counting any fees the donor covers.
- On tickets: the ticket price after any ticket code, plus any gift added at checkout.
- Never on: fee coverage, cash or check gifts and payments staff record, imported gift history, or failed payments.
- Each monthly charge is its own payment with its own fee. The future value of a monthly gift is never charged up front.
- GivJoy keeps its fee when a payment is refunded, in full or in part, and when a dispute is lost. Stripe's processing fee is never returned. The supporter still receives the full refund promised.

## In dollars

- On a $50 gift on Starter, GivJoy's fee is 50 cents.
- Raise $3,000 online in a month on Starter and GivJoy's fee is $30.
- A month with no online gifts costs $0.

## A year of GivJoy fees

| Raised online in a year | Free | Starter | Pro |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| $50,000.00 | $0.00 | $500.00 | $1,000.00 |
| $250,000.00 | $0.00 | $2,500.00 | $5,000.00 |

GivJoy fees only. Card processing is separate and the same on every plan. Planned pricing; final details at launch.

At $250,000 a year, Pro's fee is $5,000. A flat monthly tool can cost less at that size. If you don't want Bryn's jobs, Starter or Free may fit better, and you can switch any day.

For the full cost of $50,000.00 raised online, processing included, see https://givjoy.io/fees.md#a-year-at-5000000-raised-online

## Card processing

- Stripe charges processing on the nonprofit's own Stripe account, on every plan, Free included. GivJoy doesn't add to it or keep any of it.
- Without a discounted rate, the examples on this site use Stripe's standard rates: 2.9% plus 30 cents for cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and 0.8% capped at $5.00 for US bank debit. These are illustrative. A nonprofit that reports a discounted Stripe rate, such as Stripe's nonprofit discount, gets its own rate in every quote.
- At checkout, Help cover fees starts ticked. The donor sees the added amount, the total and what the nonprofit receives before paying, and one tap removes it. When a donor covers the fees, the extra is worked out from your usual card rate. A card that costs more to process can leave you a few cents short.
- Fee math, rounding and worked examples: https://givjoy.io/fees.md

## Changing plans

- An administrator changes the plan from Settings > Plan, any day, after a preview of exactly what changes. No long-term commitment and no required call.
- Nothing already given is repriced. Refunds use the fee the gift was made with.
- No donor's monthly charge goes up because of a plan change. If the fee rises, the nonprofit absorbs the difference.
- Moving down keeps everything supporters rely on: giving, website embeds, Your account, receipts, history, monthly-gift controls and refunds. Leaving Pro turns Bryn's jobs off, and messages still waiting don't send.
- Moving to Free keeps one live campaign, which the nonprofit chooses. Free runs one live campaign at a time, with no time limit.

## The Plan page in GivJoy

Every staff role can read the plan and comparison. Only administrators can confirm changes. "See what Bryn does" shows a made-up donor's year with Bryn, her nine jobs, your controls and the trial. Pro shows this month's fee beside counts of Bryn's work, without claiming a value or return.

## Trying Pro

Planned: Free and Starter nonprofits can try Pro once for 30 days. You keep paying your current fee (0% or 1%), not Pro's 2%. Your administrators start it. Jobs start Off, then "Ask first" when turned on. No choice to stay means a return to the previous plan. A trial never raises the fee without explicit confirmation. A return to Free with several campaigns asks staff to choose the one to keep.

## Coming later

- Texting, as a paid add-on with a prepaid monthly bundle of texts, not on Free.
- A public developer API.
- Salesforce and QuickBooks connections.
- Being explored: newsletters, and peer-to-peer fundraising.

## Questions about pricing

### The fee

- **What counts as an online gift?** Successful online gifts and ticket payments. Those are what the GivJoy fee applies to. On a gift, the fee is a share of the amount the donor chose, never of the fees they cover. On tickets, it's the ticket price after any ticket code, plus any gift added at checkout. Each monthly payment is its own gift, with its own fee once it's paid.
- **Do you charge on cash, checks or imported gifts?** No. There's no GivJoy fee on cash, checks or imported gift history. Failed payments carry no GivJoy fee either.
- **What does card processing cost, and why?** Every card payment has a processing fee, charged by Stripe on your nonprofit's own account. On a standard US card it's about 2.9% plus 30 cents. US bank debit is about 0.8% capped at $5.00, plus $1.50 for each successful instant bank check. GivJoy doesn't add to it or keep any of it, and you see it on every gift, on every plan. If your nonprofit has a discounted Stripe rate, your fee coverage uses it.
- **Can donors cover the fees?** Yes. At checkout, Help cover fees starts checked and shows the amount it adds. The donor sees the gift, the extra and the total before paying, and one tap removes it. When a donor covers the fees, the extra is worked out from your usual card rate. A card that costs more to process can leave you a few cents short.
- **Do donors ever see a tip?** Never. GivJoy never asks donors for a tip. Donors see the gift, the fees and the total before they pay. See https://givjoy.io/where-does-your-gift-go.md
- **Why a percentage instead of a subscription?** You pay as online gifts come in, with no monthly bill. In a month with no online gifts, there's no GivJoy fee. At larger volumes, a flat monthly tool can cost less. The fee box above shows the math.
- **Is there a catch?** GivJoy keeps its fee when you refund a gift. Above a certain size, a flat monthly tool costs less. Free runs one live campaign at a time.

### Plans

- **Is Free really free?** 0% GivJoy platform fee. Stripe's card processing fees apply. Free runs one live campaign at a time, with no time limit, and unlimited staff in every role. Planned; final details at launch.
- **Can I switch plans?** Any day, from Settings > Plan, after a preview of exactly what changes. Past gifts keep the fees they were made with. No donor's monthly charge goes up. Leaving Pro turns Bryn's jobs off, and her waiting emails don't send. Moving to Free asks you to choose the one campaign that stays live.
- **Is there a limit on supporter records?** No limit on supporter records, on any plan.
- **Can I try Pro?** See Trying Pro above.
- **Do you discount for small nonprofits?** The percentage already scales with you. On Starter, raising $5,000.00 online a year costs $50.00 in GivJoy fees. Raising $50,000.00 costs $500.00. And Free has no GivJoy fee at all.
- **When does GivJoy open?** GivJoy expects to open in January 2027. That's our plan, not a promise. The launch list isn't open yet. Please check back soon.

### Your money and your data

- **When does the money reach us?** Gifts are charged on your nonprofit's own Stripe account. They're paid out on your own Stripe schedule. GivJoy never holds supporters' money.
- **How does GivJoy get paid?** GivJoy's fee comes out of each gift through Stripe. There is no invoice.
- **What happens to the fees when a gift is refunded?** The donor gets back the full refund they were promised. GivJoy keeps its fee, and Stripe doesn't return its processing fee. Refunding a $50 gift on Starter costs you about $2.25, when the donor doesn't cover fees. A partial refund returns the same share of the gift and of any fees the donor covered.
- **What happens to my data if I leave?** No long-term commitment: change plans or leave any time. Your administrators can download all your data, on every plan. The download holds CSV files, a data guide, an Excel workbook and a Power BI template.

### Giving and help

- **Do donors need an account?** Donors don't need an account to give.
- **Can we use the Stripe account we already have?** You can connect a Stripe account you already have, or create one.
- **Can recurring gifts be quarterly or yearly?** Recurring gifts are monthly. Quarterly and yearly aren't offered at opening.
- **What happens when a campaign closes?** Closing a campaign stops new gifts. Its monthly donors keep giving.
- **Can a business or foundation give?** A business or foundation can give, with its own record and receipt.
- **How do we get help?** Help is by email. We aim to reply within one business day.

## Related

- Fees and the fee calculator: https://givjoy.io/fees.md
- Every feature and its status: https://givjoy.io/features.md
- Meet Bryn: https://givjoy.io/bryn.md
- Overview for AI agents: https://givjoy.io/agents.md
- Where does your gift go?: https://givjoy.io/where-does-your-gift-go.md
- Launch list: https://givjoy.io/launch-list.md