Recover failed gifts. Grow recurring giving. Fulfill more pledges.
GivFlow identifies who needs attention, follows up automatically, and tracks the outcome. Recover more failed gifts, grow recurring giving, and improve pledge commitments and fulfillment without adding work for your staff.
- Recover failed gifts
- Thank second-time givers
- Check in on lapsed donors
- Keep pledges on pace
See where giving is slipping.
Connect your giving platform (Planning Center today). We read your last 3 months of gifts and show, in dollars, what slipped: failed recurring gifts, pledges behind pace, and card fees you could cut.
Get your free Giving AuditEvery donor is somewhere between gifts.
GivFlow tracks where each person is, fund by fund. It sends the follow-up that fits and reports what happened.
Every stage of giving gets the right note, from your church.
- GivFlow does the follow-up
- Your team approves the wording once. GivFlow sends each note from your church's email address. No lists to build, no sequences to write.
- One flow per moment
- New, second gift, active, failed gift, lapsed, recovered and dormant. When a donor acts, the flow stops.
- Budgets by campus and fund
- Each campus and fund group tracks its own status, so a family can be Recovered in General and Dormant in Kingdom Builders, and each gets the right note.
- 1New donor thank-you · First giftA personal welcome to this budget, within the week.
- 2Thank-you + recurring invite · Second giftRecognizes they came back and offers a monthly gift.
- 3Active → Recurring invite · ActiveConsistent giver, no recurring gift yet: one easy link.
- 4Failed gift recovery · Gift failedQuiet card-update note and a gentle reminder.
- 5Pastoral check-in · LapsedNot an ask. Replies go to the pastor you choose.
- 6Thank-you + recurring ask · RecoveredGlad you're back, and a small invite to give monthly.
- 7Keep-in-the-loop update · Dormant 12 monthsWhat the church has been up to. Low pressure.
- Inactive donors are excluded. Every reply reaches a person.
Illustration with a sample household. Each budget is a campus + fund group with its own status and follow-up.
A second gift is when a visitor starts becoming a giver.
- Sent the same week
- GivFlow spots the second gift and sends the thank-you. Nobody on staff has to watch for it.
- About the fund they gave to
- A second gift to Kingdom Builders gets a note about Kingdom Builders, not a receipt.
- You see if it stuck
- The note invites them to give monthly in Church Center. If they do, GivFlow shows it.
Illustration with sample donors.
Your giving platform sends a notice when a gift fails. After that, it's on you. GivFlow keeps following up.
- Kind, not awkward
- GivFlow sends a short note with one link to fix the payment, then follows up if needed. Your staff doesn't chase it.
- Card and ACH
- Expired cards, declines and returned bank payments.
- You see the dollars come back
- When the gift is made up, GivFlow marks the donation recovered and counts the dollars.
Real church data from the GivFlow app. Totals exact; weekly bars approximate.
A lapsed giver is often a person who needs a call.
- GivFlow notices
- When a regular giver goes quiet, GivFlow marks them Lapsed. Sometimes it's a job loss, an illness or a hard season, not a lost donor.
- A check-in, not an ask
- GivFlow sends a note in your pastor's name, in words you choose. Most churches ask how someone is doing, not for a gift.
- A person on the other end
- Replies go straight to the person you choose, like Pastor Dave. The conversation that follows is yours.
Hi Marcus,
You came to mind this week and I wanted to check in. No ask here. I hope you and the kids are doing okay.
If there's anything we can pray for, just reply. I'd love to hear from you.
Dave
Illustration with sample donors.
See what was sent and what it did.
Every send is counted and every success is tracked, for each budget. You can also see what's scheduled next.
See how dashboards works
The "Convert Active Non-Recurring Donor to Recurring" flow invites active one-time givers to set up a monthly gift. At this church, recurring donors grew from 445 to 535 in a year. Recurring donors give 4X the number of gifts and 30–60% more dollars a year.
See how the recurring flow worksWhat churches see after they turn GivFlow on.
We'd rather they tell you. Here's what changed for three churches.
"GivFlow has given us metrics to measure giving health that we couldn't find anywhere else."
"We are tracking new data and standard data at a rate we couldn't before. Also, within a month of running flows with GivFlow, our recurring giving metrics improved by almost 10% and it's climbing consistently."
"GivFlow helped us grow our recurring donation base to the strongest it's ever been in less than six months."
"After transitioning to a new donor platform, we lost a significant amount of recurring gifts. GivFlow not only helped us recover many of these gifts within a few months, but also helped us grow our recurring donation base to the strongest it's ever been in less than six months."
"That one donor covered our entire GivFlow cost."
In week one, a donor whose recurring gift had failed updated their card, then gave again to make up the missed gift.
Pastor John KippCFO, Bayside Community ChurchAnd trusted by those who take stewardship seriously.
From growing single-campus churches to large multi-campus teams.
What follow-up did for Bayside.
Bayside Community Church, Florida. Failed gifts recovered, with and without follow-up.
Pastor John KippCFO, Bayside Community ChurchFailed gifts that came back
Read the case study →Out of every 100 failed gifts, 24 came back on their own. With GivFlow following up, 64 to 67 did.
Most missed gifts aren't a change of heart.
Cards expire. Banks decline. Pledges slip in a busy season. Someone has to notice and follow up kindly, and it shouldn't take your pastor's Monday. GivFlow does it and tells you how it went.
- Giving history
- Monthly for 6 years
- Budget
- General
- Pledge pace
- Kingdom Builders, on pace
- Gift status
- $150 failed · card expired
- Life-cycle status
- Active
- Last gift
- Sep 9
Card expired.
No ask and no guilt. One link to fix the card, from your church's address.
- 1Quiet card-update noteOct 9Short and kind. One link.
- 2Gentle reminderOct 14Only if the gift is still missing.
- DMHanded to Pastor DaveOct 21Still not fixed? A person takes it from here.
Inactive donors are left out automatically.
GivFlow sends the email. Your people keep the relationship.
GivFlow handles the noticing and the sending. It doesn't replace your pastor. Every note comes from someone at your church, and replies go straight to the person you choose.
- From names donors know
- Emails go out from your domain, not ours. Add as many senders as you like, each with their own name and signature.
- Replies reach a person
- Replies go straight to the person you choose. When someone opens up, your pastor takes it from there.
- Easy to opt out
- Any donor can stop a flow's emails at any time.
Pastor Dave, thanks for this. Honestly it's been a hard summer. I lost my job in May and we've kind of pulled back from everything.
Would you have time for coffee next week?
Marcus
Marcus, I'm so glad you wrote back. Tuesday at 10, the usual place? I'll be praying for you this week.
More pledges. More fulfillment.
Ask people to pledge after they give. Once they pledge, invite a recurring gift that gets them to fulfillment. Remind anyone who falls behind. GivFlow does all of it, so your team isn't chasing anyone.
TO GROW
We invite you to make a pledge toward Room to Grow.
One-fund pledge form. Sample church and values.
This email campaign has driven a 60% action rate.
Real campaign numbers from one email send, Sep 22 to Oct 14. Rebuilt from the app; fund name changed.
Extra giving on top of what people already give, all into your general fund.
Pledges to a dedicated campaign fund, tracked to fulfillment.
Another church: one mid-campaign email to 55 donor units who were giving but hadn't pledged.
GivFlow follows up at every step of a pledge
Your team doesn't track or chase any of it.- Giving, no pledge
GivFlow invites them into the campaign.
- Pledged
Shows the suggested monthly gift and invites a recurring gift.
- First gift
No recurring gift yet? A simple invitation to set one up.
- On pace
GivFlow tracks what has been given and what remains.
- Behind
A personal progress reminder with an easy way to catch up.
- Fulfilled
Counted as fulfilled on your campaign tracker.
Every pledge is measured against where it should be today, so reminders go to the people who are behind.
| Name | Pledges | Pledged | Donated | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pledge Progress Compared to Pledge Completion (48.03%) | ||||
| Behind | 321 (39.43%) | $9,805,078.50 | $1,096,885.78 | -$8,708,192.72 |
| Tracking | 236 (28.99%) | $4,751,175.14 | $2,222,806.56 | -$2,528,368.58 |
| Ahead | 257 (31.57%) | $3,932,198.84 | $3,268,573.52 | -$663,625.32 |
A baseline GivFlow experience.
*Recurring donors give 4X the number of gifts and 30–60% more dollars a year.
Each fund has its own donors, statuses and follow-up.
In GivFlow, a budget is a group of funds, like General or Kingdom Builders. Each one tracks its own donors, so every note fits the fund they gave to.
Your giving base is growing and well-stewarded.
Real church data from the GivFlow app, rebuilt. Budget name removed.
One family, two statuses
Givers to General since 2021. Last Sunday, their first gift to Kingdom Builders. GivFlow sends the Kingdom Builders welcome. They don't get the "new to our church" email.
Family: sample.
Each budget also tracks donor tiers over time, so you can see who's giving more and who's giving less. See donor tiers →
Works with Planning Center Giving
Built on Planning Center Giving.
Nothing to switch.
Keep taking gifts the way you do now. GivFlow works on top of the data you already have.
- Gifts, funds and campuses
- Recurring schedules and pledges
- Church Center for your donors
- Statuses for each budget
- Follow-ups sent in words you approve
- Every result reported back to you
- Sent from your church's address
- Written about the fund they gave to
- Replies to the person you choose
Start with the
free Giving Audit.
Connect your giving platform (Planning Center today) and see, in dollars, what slipped in the last 3 months. Free and read-only. Disconnect once your report is ready.
- Failed recurring gifts that never came back
- Pledges behind pace with no follow-up
- What you'd save if card givers moved to bank payments
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Giving AuditDonor names skipped
Illustration. Your report shows your church's real numbers.
Every plan includes every pledge campaign.
One Fund and Traditional campaigns are part of every plan, with every flow. Price follows donation volume, not features.
Up to 250 donations a month. Price grows with donation volume, not features.
- All pledge campaigns
- Every automation flow
- Up to 3 tracked budgets
- Giving dashboard
- Report emails
- Personal onboarding
- No contract
Find out what slipped through last quarter.
The audit takes one login to your giving platform (Planning Center today). If you'd rather just talk, grab 15 minutes and we'll walk you through GivFlow.