See how MemberDrive
stacks up.
We charge 1%. No monthly fees. No donor tip prompts. No surprises. Compare us honestly against the platforms you're evaluating.
Most platforms make pricing complicated.
We make it simple.
Buried tip prompts, monthly subscription tiers, platform fees on top of processing fees. MemberDrive charges 1% of card and bank donations, plus Stripe's processing fee, and nothing on Bitcoin. Nothing else. Below, we compare MemberDrive to the platforms nonprofits, churches, and schools evaluate most often.
Keep more of every gift. Ask nothing extra of your donors.
Four reasons to choose MemberDrive.
The lowest platform fee, with no tip prompt
No tip request at your checkout, and the lowest platform fee of any platform here that charges the organization directly:
| MemberDrive | 1% + processing |
|---|---|
| Donorbox (Standard) | 2.95% + processing |
| Givebutter (tips off) | 3% + processing |
| Fundraise Up | 4% + processing |
| Funraise (Free) | 5% + processing |
| Bloomerang | ~$1,500/year before the first gift, then processing |
Zeffy and Givebutter (tips on) are free to you because they ask your donors for a tip instead. Church-focused processors (Tithe.ly, Anedot, Subsplash) build processing into one rate and cost about the same as MemberDrive all in.
Everything recurring giving needs, in one place
Other platforms offer a few of these, or sell them as add-ons. MemberDrive includes all of them in the same 1%, with no subscription:
- Recurring memberships
- Multi-year pledges
- Lead-donor matching gifts
- Donor self-service
- Non-custodial Bitcoin
- Gifts paid into your own Stripe account
Bitcoin to your own wallet. No contract.
MemberDrive is the only platform on this page that sends Bitcoin gifts straight to your organization's own wallet. Every other platform either has no crypto or holds it for you.
MemberDrive is an independent company. There is no contract to sign and no renewal to negotiate: if we stop being worth 1%, you stop paying us.
Built for organizations that run on recurring giving
Churches, schools, clubs, and membership organizations that want recurring giving to be the base of their budget: no monthly bill, no contract, and no tip request in front of their donors.
Pick a comparison
Zeffy is genuinely free for your org, but donors see a tip prompt at checkout. We charge 1% instead, with no ask made of your donors.
Givebutter is a full-featured platform with a pricing model that depends on whether your donors tip. We keep it simple: 1%, no tips, no monthly fees.
Donorbox charges a 2.95%–3.95% platform fee, or 1.75%–2% on its $150/month Pro plan, plus processing. MemberDrive charges 1% plus processing, with no monthly fee, and adds multi-year pledges.
Anedot is popular with churches and schools. So are we. All in, a card gift costs about the same on both; MemberDrive adds matching gifts, pledges, and Bitcoin.
Fundraise Up is the best AI-optimized donation form in the market. They charge 4% but claim 10–15% revenue lift. For organizations under $500K, MemberDrive's 1% platform fee is a quarter of theirs.
Funraise has genuine product depth — CRM, events, auctions — but its free tier has the highest platform fee in our set, 5%, with processing at 2.9% + $0.60. MemberDrive is 1% plus Stripe.
Bloomerang is a well-liked donor database, and its card rate matches ours exactly. The difference is the $1,500/year subscription underneath it — charged whether you raise anything or not.
Qgiv (now Bloomerang Fundraising) has gala-grade auctions and strong P2P, sold as add-on modules on top of a Bloomerang CRM bundle. MemberDrive includes peer-to-peer at 1%.
Subsplash is built for churches that need custom apps and multi-platform streaming. If your primary need is fundraising, the comparison looks different.
The Giving Block converts crypto to USD automatically. MemberDrive sends Bitcoin directly to your wallet — non-custodial, on-chain, with no platform fee.
Tithe.ly is the largest church-specific giving platform in the US. For standard church giving, they're genuinely competitive — but they don't offer matching gifts or Bitcoin.
Feature comparison
Every major feature, side by side. MemberDrive's column is highlighted.
| Feature | MemberDrive | Zeffy | Givebutter | Donorbox | Anedot | Fundraise Up | Funraise | Bloomerang | Qgiv | Subsplash | The Giving Block | Tithe.ly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||||||||||||
| Platform fee | 1% | 0% + donor tips | 0% (tips on) / 3% (tips off) | 2.95%–3.95% | 0% (built into 3.3% processing) | 4% | 5% / 0–3% | 0% (built into processing) | 0% (built into 3.95% processing) | 0% | Not published (crypto) | 0% |
| Monthly fee | None | None | None / $29+ (Plus) | $0–$150/mo | None | None | None / custom quote | $125+ (2-yr term) | $165+ (with Bloomerang CRM) | None / $300+ | Quote-based | None / $72+ |
| Donor tip prompt | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ◐ | ✗ |
| Fundraising Tools | ||||||||||||
| Recurring donations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | ✓ |
| Pledges | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ◐ |
| Sponsor matching (lead donor) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ◐ | ✗ |
| Peer-to-peer / leaderboards | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Event ticketing | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| In-person / Tap to Pay | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Donor Experience | ||||||||||||
| Donor self-service portal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | ✓ |
| Member CRM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Member content / posts | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Email newsletter (double opt-in) | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ✗ | ✗ | ◐ |
| Payments & Infrastructure | ||||||||||||
| Credit card payments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ACH/Bank payments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bitcoin (non-custodial) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ◐ | ✗ |
| Gifts go to your own Stripe account | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ◐ |
| No 501(c)(3) required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ◐ | ◐ |
Based on each platform's public website and help center. Pricing and the matching, pledge, self-service, in-person, and payout rows were last checked in October 2026; other rows date from April 2026. Spotted something out of date? Email help@memberdrive.org.
The simplest pricing in fundraising.
MemberDrive charges 1% of card and bank donations and nothing on Bitcoin — nothing until donations come in, no monthly fees, no surprises for your donors. If you're comparing platforms, we'd love to earn your trust.
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FAQ
How is MemberDrive free to start?+
Does MemberDrive hide fees like a donor tip?+
What does the 1% fee actually cover?+
What makes MemberDrive different from Zeffy or Givebutter?+
How is "cover the fees" different from a tip prompt?+
They sound similar but they're fundamentally different asks.
When MemberDrive offers donors the option to cover fees, the question is:"Would you like to cover the processing and platform costs so that 100% of your gift reaches [organization]?" The amount is exact and disclosed. The beneficiary is the cause. A donor who unchecks it pays exactly what they intended to give — nothing more. Either way, everything the donor pays goes to the organization, so the receipt shows the full amount and all of it is tax-deductible. A platform tip goes to a company, so it is not. (The checkbox starts checked by default; each organization can change that in its campaign settings.)
Zeffy's tip prompt asks donors to also support Zeffy — the software company — on top of their intended gift. The default tip is pre-filled as a percentage of the donation amount (15–17%, according to independent reviews). Opting out requires the donor to notice the prompt, open the dropdown, and set it to zero. Zeffy says about 60% of donors leave a tip, averaging about 4% of the gift — which is precisely how Zeffy generates revenue.
One is an offer to be generous toward the mission. The other is a charge toward the platform, dressed as optional. We think that's a meaningful difference, especially for organizations that care about the integrity of every donor interaction.
Subsplash vs. Zeffy: which is better for a church?+
They solve different problems. Subsplash is a church engagement platform: custom apps, live streaming, and giving, sold as a subscription (we estimate about $300–$1,200 a month) with card processing at about 2.99% + $0.30. Zeffy is a free giving tool: your church pays nothing, and Zeffy is funded by a tip it asks donors to add at checkout.
Choose Subsplash if you want the app and streaming. Choose Zeffy if you want free giving and are comfortable with the tip prompt. MemberDrive sits between them: no subscription, no tip prompt, 1% plus Stripe processing, with pledges and matching gifts for building campaigns.
MemberDrive vs. Subsplash · MemberDrive vs. Zeffy · Online giving for churches
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