Response To Giving Kiosk Inquiry

We just started using the kiosks last fall. So, we don’t even have a full year in yet. Our intent when we implemented the kiosks was to offer people who don’t carry cash or check the ability to give while they’re in the building and to cover the cost of the machines in the first year. I’d say that we’ve satisfied our intent.

Here’s what I can tell you regarding the kiosks. Success with the kiosks depends a lot on your church culture, how the kiosks are rolled out to your congregation, and where the kiosks are placed.

For the 4 months from September through December 2009, we had 63 new General Offering donors give on the kiosks. Their first donations totaled $9,600 with an average gift of $152. These 63 donors subsequently gave $22,000 by the end of the year. Overall we had 226 new donors to the General Offering during the September thru December period. Thus 28% of our new donors came through the kiosk during that period. We took in a total of $95,500 in General offerings on the kiosks in 4 months for an average of $23,900/mo.

This year we’ve had 17 new General Offering donors giving over $1,000 to date. Total new General Offering Donors to date is 143. So, 12% of our new General Offering donors this year came through the kiosk. We’ve taken in $133,880 in General Offerings on the kiosks which is around $30,000/mo.

Fees for the transactions are consistently around 3% of what was given.

For the Period September thru December 2009, the average General Offering donation on the kiosk was $76. For the current year the average is $85 per gift.

Fellowship Tech Dynamic Church 10

I'm at the DC 10 conference this week. I'm pretty excited about some
stuff they have coming over the next few years. Here are some of
the things I'm excited about:

1. Opening the Giving API which will lead to Remote Deposit Capture
and Mobile Giving.

2. New Report Writer. Got a sneak preview this morning. It's going
to be sweet. Ad Hoc reporting, graphs and charts, dashboards, and a
lot of user design capability.

3. Leann will like this. Mass update for Contributions.

Lots of good stuff on the way. It's really hard to be patient and
wait for it to come.

Jason Powell is a Rock Star

I''m glad to be part of the jpowell posse at DC 10. He's a rock star
here. This is a photo of him on the F1 Champion Panel. He was awesome.

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