Comparison
What to look for in a giving platform
The questions we'd want answered before putting any platform in front of a mosque committee — and how BarakahPay answers them next to the typical donation-kiosk offer.
| BarakahPay | Typical kiosk providers | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | Public pricing page, always. Free tier, flat monthly plans, fees shown before you sign up | Sales-led and demo-gated — pricing usually requires a call back before you see a number |
| How you're billed | Per mosque. One flat subscription covers unlimited devices, campaigns and team members | Per device — each kiosk or tablet adds its own monthly subscription |
| Card processing | Stripe, from 1.2% + 20p at the registered-charity rate; funds settle directly to your mosque's account | Consumer card readers from ~1.69%, on an account your mosque must open and manage separately |
| Gift Aid | Declarations captured at every channel, returning donors recognised, HMRC-format claim schedules generated in one click | Declaration capture with a spreadsheet export for manual filing |
| GASDS (small donations top-up) | Cash collection logger, automatic eligibility tagging, per-building caps, deadline alerts and an “unclaimed £X” dashboard | Rarely offered — the small donations scheme is usually left for the treasurer to work out alone |
| Online giving | A full hosted giving page for your mosque — campaigns, thermometers, Apple & Google Pay, Arabic/Urdu/Bengali | Embeddable widgets that assume your mosque already has a website |
| Kiosk hardware | Any tablet you already own becomes a kiosk — pair it in minutes; no proprietary hardware to buy | Proprietary devices purchased from the vendor, paired to a separate card reader |
| Your data | Contractually yours: full CSV export of donors, donations and Gift Aid records at any time | Data portability is often not guaranteed in the terms — check yours carefully before you sign |
| Leaving | Genuinely no minimum term. Cancel in the dashboard; your export works after you leave | “No contract” marketing sometimes sits alongside terms reserving minimum periods and auto-renewal |
| Ramadan automation | Donors schedule the last ten nights once — equal, odd-night or 27th-weighted — charged between Maghrib and Fajr | Not offered |
“Typical kiosk providers” describes common patterns we see across the UK donation-hardware market generally, not any single company. Every provider differs — whoever you choose, ask for their pricing in writing, their Gift Aid and GASDS support, and their data-export terms before you sign.
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Moving from another platform? Send us your donor and Gift Aid exports and we'll import them for you — declarations, giving history, the lot — at no charge.