We don’t take a cut of your church’s generosity.
Giving flows straight through your church’s own Stripe account, and Scout never adds a fee. You pay only Stripe to process the gift, a rate that drops for nonprofits, and drops further on bank transfers. Online, recurring, and offline donations on one ledger, with the year’s gift records ready to export at tax time.
3 new givers this month. First gifts from familiar faces. Scout suggests a thank-you for each.
2 recurring givers paused this month. Both are longtime members. Scout added them to your follow-up list with the story attached.
How giving works in Scout.
No cut of your church’s generosity
Scout takes nothing on top of the gift.
Giving flows through Stripe Connect straight into your church’s own Stripe account, and Scout never adds a percentage or a per-transaction fee. You pay only Stripe’s processing rate: 2.9% + 30¢ on cards as standard, or 2.2% once you’re approved for Stripe’s nonprofit rate. Bank transfers (ACH) skip the card rate entirely and cost only a small fraction, so not every gift carries the percentage.
Online, recurring, and offline: one ledger
Every donation lands in the same place, however it came in.
Members give online by card or bank transfer, and they can set up a recurring gift weekly, biweekly, or monthly. Staff enter cash and check gifts by hand. It all lands in one donor history, one report, and one export at year end.
Funds, history, and the donor relationship
Funds, a full history for every giver, and the year in one file.
Designate gifts to any fund you create, and export the year's giving to a spreadsheet when statements are due. Donor history reads as one narrative: what they gave, when, to what, and how that compares to their own trend. Offline gifts recorded without a donor stay anonymous in the ledger.
How giving feeds what Scout notices
Where this crosses with the rest of Scout
Giving sits on the same record as serving, participation, and groups. That’s why Scout can see when a regular giver stops, and tell the difference between a pause caused by a life event and a pullback caused by disengagement.
We’d be glad to handle your giving, and we’ll never take a cut.
- Stripe Connect
- Scout takes no cut
- Nonprofit rate eligible
- Lower ACH rate