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Most churches rely on tithes and offerings to invest in sharing the gospel, building disciples, and having a positive impact on their local communities. Yet the unpredictability of incoming donations and seasonal giving fluctuations often make it difficult to plan ahead or balance church budgets.
In a financially mature organization, predictability is not a luxury—it's a requirement for strategic growth. For your community, the most powerful tool for ensuring faithful, consistent support is recurring giving. This feature, offered by top online giving platforms like Subsplash Giving, allows donors to pre-schedule their contributions, transforming spontaneous generosity into an integrated, disciplined habit.
Let’s shift the focus from the church’s operational need to the real-life benefits and strategic value this brings directly to the donor. What defines strategic recurring giving?
Recurring giving gives online donors the option to automate their financial commitment on a chosen, regular interval (e.g., weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly). Whether a donor aligns their schedule with their paychecks or their church's worship gatherings, the gift automatically processes on the selected dates.
This digital discipline eliminates the need for donors to remember to write a check or manually log in weekly, while providing full control to easily edit or pause their gifts at any time.
Here are six strategic benefits that demonstrate why recurring giving is the modern standard for faithful financial stewardship.
Now that we have an understanding of how recurring giving works, let’s look at six major benefits that it offers to church members and leadership.
Faithful, disciplined giving is inherently more impactful than occasional contributions. Data confirms this: Donors who utilize the recurring giving feature donate an average of 42% more each year than one-time givers!
Enabling recurring giving helps your donors plan ahead, add giving to their regular budgets, and realize that greater generosity is possible. Churches that don’t offer recurring giving lose out on an opportunity to engage their most faithful donors.
Consistency is key to cultivating spiritual habits. By automating their tithes, donors make faithfulness non-negotiable.
Church members using recurring giving are also 80% more likely to continue giving than one-time givers! By making it convenient for them to schedule their donations on your church’s website and custom mobile app, your donors are going to stay around longer and continue giving on a long-term basis.
A church’s ability to plan its outreach, staffing, and facility needs is directly tied to the predictability of its revenue.
A church’s ability to plan its outreach, staffing, and facility needs is directly tied to the predictability of its revenue. Your finance team will also love the convenience and security that come with recurring giving.
By ensuring the church's finance team can see scheduled contributions in advance, your support allows the ministry to move from reactive budgeting to proactive, long-term strategic planning..
Today’s donors expect a smooth online giving experience and appreciate having a recurring giving option. In fact, 45% of Christian donors are already enrolled in a monthly giving program! Your regular tithers will love the option to give conveniently and consistently with recurring gifts. Being able to schedule online tithes in advance ensures they never miss an opportunity to faithfully give to your church.
Donors simply choose the option to make their gift repeat on a regular time interval, such as on a weekly or monthly basis. With this added flexibility, your community can give anytime, anywhere with the frequency that suits them.
While it used to be the case that some older church members were intimidated by technology, those days are over. Studies show that 79% of seniors prefer to use auto-payments, more than any other age demographic! Also, over half of today’s seniors are already using their smartphones for making online payments.
For all generations, especially those focused on retirement and budget security, recurring giving offers a reliable, secure method that removes the friction and worry associated with checks or in-person offerings
When you choose a platform like Subsplash Giving, the benefit is two-fold: the church receives powerful, best-in-class online giving tools with no monthly costs, and features like recurring giving are provided for free. This ensures that the maximum amount of your automated gift is directed toward the mission—sharing the gospel and investing in your community—which is what matters most.
Every church can benefit from making online giving as convenient as possible while also delighting their donors with the best online donation experience. Recurring giving is a free feature included for all churches using Subsplash Giving!
Activating recurring giving provides wonderful benefits for your users by enabling them to plan their gifts in advance and allowing them to be more generous. Your staff will also love the convenience of being able to see upcoming donations for planning your church budget.
Don’t miss out on these powerful benefits. Try out Subsplash Giving for free today!
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