Tithe.ly Reviews

Pros

The fact that it is clean and easy to use. The integration with QuickBooks was a massive plus.

Cons

Some of the integration issues need to be resolved. It does record exactly how I would. But it works. A kiosk version with tap and swipes would be awesome.

Alternatives Considered

Pushpay, ShelbyNext Financials and Breeze ChMS

Reasons for Choosing Tithe.ly

Name recognition, updated look and software, and the ease of use.

Switched From

GivingFuel

Reasons for Switching to Tithe.ly

Simpler and easier to use with minimal pay increase.

Pros

Tithely is working hard to be the one stop shop. They have many options at competitive pricing. I can't think of a more cost friendly product

Cons

They need to integrate their systems better. They have 2.5 ChMS that don't talk to each other fully. It's a bit of a headache to deal with the switching of 1.0 to 2.0 as it should have been a full 2.0 rollout. However, the cost and offerings are hard to beat

Pros

Very easy for end users to make donation and donor processors to do data entry. I also found customer support to be excellent.

Cons

As an end user, you cannot schedule your donation in advance as far as I can tell. As a donation processor, it gets clumsy if you have to change the donor's contact info sometime after their initial donation in the year.

Pros

It offers an easy to set up giving solution for non-profits with the ability to designate different accounts for giving and set up re-occurring giving without any up front costs.

Cons

Its integration within its own platform (user management, website, etc.) is messy at best. Giving fees are industry standard with no discounts or savings for non-profits.

Alternatives Considered

Planning Center and Subsplash

Reasons for Choosing Tithe.ly

Other product was being discontinued.

Reasons for Switching to Tithe.ly

Cost for the integrated platform, and feature set of the full platform

Pros

Tithe.ly is super easy to use and start from the ground up. Have little to no experience with starting a website and picked up with Tithe.ly with no troubles. On top of that, it has just about everything you need to starting a media presence for a great price.

Cons

Transferring the information from our old website was a little time consuming and the live stream is not recurring yet.

Alternatives Considered

FellowshipOne

Reasons for Choosing Tithe.ly

Wix was not geared towards churches, and we needed something the wasn't for ecommerce. The giving went through PayPal and we were having a lot of problems for the people that primarily use online giving.

Switched From

Wix

Reasons for Switching to Tithe.ly

The affordability and the number of products that are available for the price. It had everything we need.

Pros

I liked that it seemed noncommittal and well priced.

Cons

Website is time consuming to set up and the required format for merging contact lists made them completely incompatible for us. The data collected cannot be customized. Events cannot be created as a series so every event must be copied and pasted as many times as you provide it.

Alternatives Considered

Firespring

Reasons for Choosing Tithe.ly

We thought this would allow us to use one service instead of several for the different things we need.

Switched From

GoDaddy Website Builder

Reasons for Switching to Tithe.ly

Initially, we thought it would be easy to use and a cheaper option.

Pros

We had a web site we were building ourselves, but with Tithely we now have a better website that can be integrated into our app; a great app that can communicate with our members; a text number that can be used not only with 'text to give', but can be used as a digital visitor card, a book check-out, or to send information about an event or a ministry using keywords of my choice. Fundraising and online giving work great and are comparative with other online giving programs. We have also added child check-in to our church. Not only is it pretty easy to use (and has great help videos), but it uses a nice-looking design for all of its online uses.

Cons

There were some features we advertised to our members that are not being used by them. We have pushed those further back and focused on what is being offered and used instead. At times there is a miscommunication with our child check-in, but I believe that may be a local firewall issue and not a Tithely problem.

Alternatives Considered

Subsplash

Reasons for Switching to Tithe.ly

We were already using Tithely for online giving and it we liked the all-in-one offerings of Tithely for what fit our church. It seemed the competition was better for massive churches, and Tithe.ly worked better for us.

Pros

We are using Tithe.ly as a whole package because of a discount provided by our national church with Tithe.ly as a preferred provider. I love the church app and so do our members. Member management is important, but I also love the added giving options for our website, app, and texting.

Cons

Website editing platform is difficult to use and time consuming. There is a learning curve for the Elvanto ChMS, but once developed it is solid. I wish that Breeze were the default ChMS in the bundle.

Alternatives Considered

Church Windows and Breeze ChMS

Reasons for Choosing Tithe.ly

The price we were offered for all of the Tithe.ly tools made it a no-brainer to switch.

Switched From

Breeze ChMS

Reasons for Switching to Tithe.ly

Price.

Pros

Overall Onboarding was easy. I was able to create a church account quickly and easily registering for direct deposit into my Church's account. Web/Mobile giving is free.

Cons

I was under the impression we'd get basic text giving included in the free tier of the software. Turns out you need the Messaging add-on, currently $19/Mo. I couldn't fully use the service until I had a "Church Verification Call" with the Tythe.ly team. This was all fine except it took 2 weeks to get a scheduled call.

Alternatives Considered

PayPal, Givelify and easyTithe

Reasons for Switching to Tithe.ly

No setup fee. ACH/Bank supported. Lower overall transaction fees. Reasonable monthly fees for add-ons.

Pros

Easy to implement and functions mostly as you would expect.

Cons

Switching between modes to view different "campus" giving and reporting does not seem intuitive

Pros

I love the giving features and how they are always improving their products. I am so thankful that the website features are modern and grabs the attention of everyone that gets on our website.

Cons

It would help if they would have video tutorials with the many questions that arise when it comes to make your job easier. If you have a question you have to wait for a response by email and sometimes they are not very clear on the help you need.

Pros

Building the church app and website with them was such a smooth process!

Cons

I do feel like there are some glitches and didn't love that I had just learned all of the tithe.ly software and then had to learn the elvanto as well.

Pros

Quick customer service!
Gives the option for users to cover the fees incurred of their giving. Even though not every one opts in to this, it still is a major offset from those who do!
I also like that Tithe.ly breaks down what fees are associated to what giving.

Cons

I would prefer bulk payments to be processed after each service (twice a week). I only see the option of once a week. This is just a personal preference since I run the books twice a week.

Pros

We can schedule events using Tithe.ly events and have guests register at no additional cost. Tithe.ly media is a great resource for finding content to use in social media graphics, etc.

Cons

The giving flow for members is not the best. It can be very confusing to try and give, especially with Apple Pay or other digital wallets.

Pros

Once you're filled everything out all you can do is forget about it and not worried about giving your tide to the church they can sit back and relax

Cons

Not much everything seems to be OK with me

Pros

Tithe.ly makes giving for my church easy and even better for church staff!

Cons

No cons! Nothing compares to this application!

Pros

We use Elvanto a LOT, which is owned and integrated by Tithe.ly, much more than we actually use the Tithe.ly software. As Tithe.ly continues to build out it features, we use more and more of it. However, we are extremely happy with Elvanto and the integration between it and Tithe.ly.

Cons

No software can meet 100% of your needs because everyone's needs are so unique. However, Tithe.ly meets more of our needs and also has fabulous customer service that helps whenever needed. We don't plan to switch anytime in the near or distant future.

Alternatives Considered

SimpleChurch CRM Giving, Pushpay, easyTithe and Breeze ChMS

Reasons for Choosing Tithe.ly

Fellowship One was so expensive and extremely complicated. Our staff did not use it except as an address book because it was just far too complicated to use. We spent more time trying to learn how to access and utilize one function of the software than actually using the software. The reporting feature was the absolute WORST. I ended up calling F1 customer support every time I needed to pull a report and just had them walk me through all the filter to pull the right information. It was like trying to decorde a secret message and I wasted hours and hours trying to get Fellowship One to produce the data I needed. Tithe.ly is much more affordable and much more user friendly. I gave my staff two quick trainings on features they would need and they were able to use it from there. Every once in a while they come to me with questions about how to do something and I only have to show them once or send them one of Tithe.ly's many help articles and they are good to go. It's much more intuitive to use.

Reasons for Switching to Tithe.ly

Price, customer service, ease of use

Pros

Easy to access and very impressive to share ideas.

Cons

None now but when I found one I will let you know.

Pros

We use it for donation tracking and receipts, member management and communication mostly. We have used the software a lot to send reminder emails to various groups with web meeting links, taking attendance for worship and sending out bulletin emails. We have used the giving software Tithe.ly which is free and very effective. I would recommend every church use their giving software which is the original offering of the company and their best product.

Cons

We use the church management software Elvanto and they didn't include tax receipts in the software even though it is used to track donations. The customer support staff had to duct tape a receipt template for me to use last year. If you are using the free software, the tax receipts are automated but not for the paid software which doesn't make sense. Still they are very helpful and gave me something I could use.

Pros

Ease of use. Very user friendly. I appreciate being able to keep in communication with the congregation, archive sermons and worship music, as well as promoting items of special interest to our congregation and community.

Cons

Difficult to figure out how to make graphics clickable.

Pros

There are many different modules that Tithe.ly offers, from membership database to service reporting to worship scheduling and preparation to membership communication to mobile apps and websites to social media, and, oh, did i mention financial giving tracking and reporting? It does them all well. Tithe.ly is available modular or as a big, single product. I appreciated how easy it was to import data from various sources.

Cons

There's so much you can do it's almost overwhelming. That's a blessing and sometimes a curse. It all scales so well for churches of different sizes, but that also means I spent too much time using features that a small church of our size just didn't need or couldn't take advantage of. That's not on Tithe.ly, that's on me.

Pros

Membership management is a great feature as well as the mobile app and donor tracking

Cons

ChMS cones with an image library that is low quality

Pros

Elvanto is so easy to use and fully customisable, so we can develop it to suit our Church.

Cons

When we first started using Elvanto, there wasn't sufficient training or even online training available. I think this has now been rectified.

Pros

The member directory on the Elvanto side has a lot of options and works well. I think the volunteer management feature is a good inclusion. The online giving component is simple to set up and use.

Cons

There are a lot of features that are great inclusions but could be better. The Tithely Pay POS system is good but too simplistic; transactions aren't categorized on the back end, which makes it difficult for the accounting team. The volunteer management system feels overly complicated and difficult to manage. The language around the notifications and how they work is difficult for the staff to understand and has made it almost unusable for our church. The messaging feature has a lot of potential but seems to be missing some critical pieces, especially around the email blast features (couldn't embed a video link?) The sync between Elvanto and Tithely has been a gigantic headache.

Pros

Tithely gives new meaning to the term CMS...Tithely is a complete Church Management Software. Really is like having a church CEO and below in one platform.

Cons

Very little items we don't like... maybe Some of the integration features are lacking. even when importing database from their own sister companies.