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Tips, insights, and best practices for church donation management
Stay up to date with the latest tips, trends, and best practices for managing church finances and donor relationships.
Three New Flows to Help You Reach the Right Donor at the Right Moment
Two new GivFlow flows plus an updated Lapsed Donor flow with custom action links. What each one does and why it matters.
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New: Track Your Recurring Giving Growth — and the Opportunity You Haven't Tapped Yet
GivFlow now shows you the growth of your recurring donor base over time, plus how many consistent givers still don't have a recurring gift set up.
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Refreshed: Donor Distribution Now Makes It Easier to See Who Is Carrying Your Ministry
Donor Distribution in GivFlow now has clearer percentage breakdowns, date range and fund filters, and a custom percentage filter.
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The One Email You Should Send to Your Consistent Givers Today
Recurring donors give 30-60% more each year. How to find consistent givers in Planning Center and the email that invites them to give monthly.
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Introducing the Abandoned Gifts Automation: Don't Let Generosity Slip Through the Cracks
The new Abandoned Gifts flow reaches donors who tried to give but hit a missing or invalid payment method, so the gift isn't lost.
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Introducing Customizable Donor Tiers: See Your Giving Distribution Before You Change a Thing
We've added customizable donor tiers to GivFlow, complete with a preview feature so you can see your church's giving distribution before making any changes.
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Beyond the Dashboard: Why Tracking Donor Tiers Changes Everything
Discover how tracking donor tiers helps you move beyond static metrics to create meaningful, timely communication that builds lasting generosity.
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When a Donor Goes Silent: The Pastoral Opportunity You Might Be Missing
A lapsed donor is a person, not a line item. How to reach out with grace, not guilt, and why it matters.
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Why That Apple Pay Recurring Gift Just Failed (And What to Do About It)
Apple Pay works well for one-time gifts but fails more often on recurring ones. Three reasons why, and what your church can do.
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68% of Your Donors Want This. Here Are 5 Ways to Give It to Them.
Most donors want to know what their gift did. Five simple ways your church can share impact and deepen relationships with givers.
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77% of First-Time Donors Never Give Again. Here's How to Fix It.
Most first-time church donors never give a second gift. Why it happens, and how timely follow-up helps more of them give again.
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Stop letting failed donations quietly drain your giving.
When a recurring gift fails and nobody notices, you can lose months or years of giving. Here's how to catch it.
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How we calculate non-recurring donor automation impact.
How GivFlow measures the impact of inviting consistent, non-recurring givers to set up a recurring gift.
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How we calculate failed donation automation impact.
How GivFlow calculates the dollars its failed donation automation helps you recover, and what the impact chart is showing you.
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[NEW AUTOMATION] Recover Failed Donations - ACH & Debit - GivFlow
GivFlow now reaches out to all failed recurring donors automatically, including ACH and debit gifts, not just cards.
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Why your church wants more recurring donors.
Why recurring donors matter: they give 30-60% more each year and make giving steadier, so your church can plan ahead.
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Automations Workshop / Overview Playback
Missed the live GivFlow automations workshop? Watch the recording and click through the slides yourself.
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RSVP Workshop + GIVEAWAY!
Join our live GivFlow automations workshop for existing and prospective customers. RSVP to save your spot.
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Add "Last Gift Date" to Planning Center People!
A 3-minute video showing how to add a "Last Gift" date to your Planning Center People profiles.
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How GivFlow automations work: the triggers we handle for you, emails sent from your church's own domain, and what donors receive.
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Donor Cumulative / Compare
We updated the GivFlow donor comparison report to make it easier to read. Here's a quick look at what changed.
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Basic strategy to start growing your giving (w/ or w/ out GivFlow)
How to start growing your giving ministry, with or without GivFlow, and what to say to your donors along the way.
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Top 5 metrics to follow in GivFlow
Five GivFlow metrics that explain why your giving is what it is, and that are easy to understand and share with your team.
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1 List to Reach New Donors
One Planning Center list that helps you reach new donors at the end of the year, when people are already in the season of giving.
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Evan and Chris from PCOGuru talk giving!
Some quick highlights include;
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4 groups of donors to reach out to for EOY giving.
Most churches send one end-of-year giving letter to everyone. Here are four groups of donors worth a more specific note.
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2 EASY ways to increase giving TODAY.
Two easy things your church can do today to increase giving, so the people making disciples have what they need.
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Reduce the number of lapsed donors over the summer!
Giving dips in the summer. How to keep in-person givers from lapsing while they're traveling or taking weekends off.
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Challenge these people to give more this Christmas.
Which donors to invite to give a little more this Christmas, and what we learned tracking how gifts change over time.
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The 2 best Planning Center Lists You Can Implement w/ GivFlow Today.
GivFlow syncs its data back into Planning Center. Here are the two lists we'd set up first to put that data to work.
Read more →Let GivFlow do the follow-up. You keep the relationships.
See what your church's giving is telling you, and what GivFlow would follow up on first. Fifteen minutes, no pressure.