Pushpay

Pushpay provides digital giving and church engagement software, sold as ChurchStaq for churches, ParishStaq for Catholic parishes and dioceses, Pushpay Giving as a standalone donation product, and Nurture for pastoral care drawn from existing church data. The vendor states that 7 of the 10 largest United States churches and 84 of the Outreach top 100 run on the platform.

Owning the payment infrastructure rather than reselling a processor is the claim the rest of the product rests on. It is what allows failed transaction recovery and automatic conversion of offline donors, because both require acting on the payment itself rather than only reporting on it. A recurring gift that fails on an expired card is the most common way churches lose donations, and recovering it is a payments problem, not a software one.

Speed of giving is quantified rather than asserted, at six seconds for the mobile experience. In a context where giving often happens during a service, in a few minutes, that number is the product.

The Catholic specific line is a real distinction. Parish and diocesan administration differs enough in structure and reporting that a general church product fits awkwardly, and building for it separately addresses a large market most competitors treat as an afterthought.