Electronic giving is an increasingly popular method for giving among church congregations. If you’re looking to encourage church eGiving, you’re not alone.
There are many perks to church eGiving, and most online church-giving platforms, including Church360°, offer some form of eGiving integration to make it easy for your church and its members! Here’s how you can encourage eGiving among your church congregation.
How to Encourage Church eGiving
Encouraging church eGiving doesn’t have to be complicated—in fact, it’s probably much easier than you think! As with any messaging surrounding giving, you’ll want to keep in mind sensitivities people have about finances and giving to the church.
Advertise It
It may seem simple, but the best way to encourage church eGiving is to simply let people know it’s available to them! There are many people who might not know you offer it because they’re in a routine of giving with cash or a check.
Drop a short blurb about electronic giving in your bulletin or your email newsletter, providing a QR code or link for members to sign up. You can also announce it during your service before the offering is collected and direct people to a QR code in their bulletin or on the screen.
Make It Easy and Secure
In order to encourage church eGiving, you need to maximize your tools to ensure eGiving is both easy and secure. To make it easy, you want the sign-up process to be seamless and simple. Any additional click or step serves as a barrier to giving and could deter people from finishing the sign-up process. To make it secure, you need to ensure that your eGiving provider—for example, Vanco— processes payment data securely to protect your members’ sensitive financial information.
Ask Directly
Lastly, you can encourage church eGiving by simply asking individual members directly. If you have members who regularly give online anyway, you can ask them if they’d be interested in switching to eGiving. Be sure to share the benefits for both them and your church congregation!
Why You Should Encourage Church eGiving
Easy for Members
Church eGiving can be much easier than giving cash or a check. For many younger people, giving online is more convenient, as they may not have cash or checks on them at any given time. And, with some education, it can be easy for anyone!
Boosts Recurring Giving
When you encourage church eGiving, you also boost recurring giving among your members. This, of course, can result in increased giving overall for your church. Online giving allows your members to give while they’re on vacation or can’t make it to church.
Accurately Forecasts Budgeting
Electronic giving also more accurately helps you forecast your church budget! Because you’ll have more members setting up recurring giving within your eGiving platform, you’ll be able to estimate exactly how much money will be coming in each month.
If you’re looking to encourage church eGiving in your congregation, consider implementing Church360° and Vanco into your financial back end! It’s secure and easy for both you and your members.
