Simplify Donations with Vanco’s Text Giving for Nonprofits

Text giving is an incredibly powerful tool to help drive vital support and help your nonprofit meet its fundraising goals. Vanco offers simple, secure text giving that allows donors to support your organization wherever they are. This increased convenience drives more support because donors need only a moment to give and that support empowers your organization with the resources it needs to continue doing good for those you serve.

Powerful Solutions for Smarter Giving

Vanco’s text-to-give option provides a wealth of benefits for both you and your donors, making it an ideal option for donations.

Secure Donations

Our text giving process is PCI Compliant, meaning it meets or exceeds the highest standards for security and privacy as set by the major credit card companies. This gives donors confidence that their personal financial information is secure, making them more likely to give to your nonprofit.

Reliable Recurring Donations

Not only do recurring donors give more than non-recurring donors, but recurring gifts give your nonprofit the confidence of reliable, consistent support. When you know you’ll have specific funds coming in at a specific time, you have added security and confidence in your planning process.

Instant Access for Donors

Donors can give anytime, anywhere they have a connection on their phone or mobile device. Increasing convenience significantly increases donors’ willingness to give and given that so many of us are regularly on our phones, this instant access is a game-changer for driving valuable support for your nonprofit.

Tailored to Your Nonprofit

Our text giving is engineered specifically for nonprofit organizations like yours and you can further customize the process by personalizing the email receipt that donors receive after receiving a text donation. By tailoring the receipt to your brand, you can seamlessly integrate it into your existing communications.

Flexible Giving Options

With Vanco’s text giving, supporters can set up donations quickly and easily right from their phone. Whether it’s a one-time donation, recurring giving or an annual donation, our tools simplify the process.

Higher Donation Conversion Rates

Our text giving option allows your supporters to connect with your donation platform quickly and easily, simplifying the donation process in a way that fits current giving trends. This can lead to increased giving and donation conversions in the form of successfully completed gifts.

Scalable for Growth

Text giving is easy to scale to fit your organization's needs. Whether you have a small nonprofit or a large supporter base, text giving can help them connect in a streamlined way to grow your nonprofit services quickly while helping your budget go further.

Comprehensive Reporting Tools

Your nonprofit needs accurate, real-time donation data to make important decisions. Our text-to-give provides comprehensive reporting that delivers the data you need regardless of how individuals give so you don’t have to spend time and effort compiling it yourself.

Donations Made Easy: How it Works

We have a simple donation process for nonprofits, allowing donors to give directly in just minutes from their phone or mobile device by sending a text like they normally would when communicating with friends and family. Here’s how it works:

Type in the church’s dedicated text-to-give phone number.
Type the dollar amount you wish to give into the message field.
First-time text givers will receive a secure registration link.
Follow the link to securely enter contact and payment information.
Tap the “Process” button when done.
Receive a text reply that your gift has been received and an emailed receipt.

You can also text “repeat” to make your gift recurring or “refund” to cancel the donation process.

Seamless Integration with Your Nonprofit’s Tools

Like all of Vanco’s online giving and fundraising tools, our text giving is built to work seamlessly with your current systems to help you manage donations without any technical complications. This easy integration helps save you time in the donation reconciliation process and because it’s user-friendly, it’s also among the easiest text giving options for your staff to learn.

Why Nonprofits Trust Vanco for Their Text-Giving Needs

Thousands of organizations, churches and schools nationwide trust Vanco as their partner to raise funds and drive support, including these organizations.

30+ years helping nonprofits

Currently serving 40,000 organizations across the country

PCI Level 1 3.2-compliant service provider

Text Giving Simplified: See How Vanco Powers Nonprofit Donations

FAQs

Getting started with Vanco’s text giving is incredibly simple. First, you’ll fill out an application, then receive your dedicated text number and have the opportunity to work with our client services team to set up keywords if you’d like … and that’s it. At that point, you’re ready to share your text number with their members as part of your fundraising process and fundraising campaigns. To make it even easier, sharing is made simple with our proven, premade marketing materials.

Our text giving process is PCI compliant and we place a high value on being a secure payment processor. PCI compliance is the highest standard established by credit card companies like Visa, Mastercard, Discover, etc. We place the highest possible value on keeping personal and financial information secure and are vigilant about adhering to PCI standards in each step of our work.

Yes, they can set up recurring donations. A recurring donation to a nonprofit is an ongoing donation that a person sets up to occur on specified dates, i.e. weekly, monthly or semi-annually. These donations are made automatically, helping monthly donors, annual donors and others give more easily, powering nonprofit fundraising and allowing organizations to plan from a more secure financial foundation. Vanco allows supporters to choose a giving frequency that meets their needs.

For text giving, Vanco accepts all major credit and debit cards including Mastercard, Visa, Discover and American Express.

Yes. As you set up your text giving experience with help from our experienced support team, you’ll be able to customize the email receipt that donors receive after receiving a text donation. This allows you to tailor the receipt to your brand so it fits well with your existing marketing and communication materials.

Tracking and managing text giving donations is a simple process:

Administrators can view donor text contributions from within their Vanco admin portal using the reporting we offer. This allows them to view donations either by source (text) or fund.
All text donations default to what the administrator sets up as the default fund unless the donation is accompanied by a keyword. As an example, a text of “$20” without a keyword would go to the general fund, but a text of “$20 missions” would go to the missions fund.