Comparison

bindro vs Tithe.ly for churches and congregations

Reviewed: 2026-08-09

bindro vs Tithe.ly for churches and congregations: the short answer

Tithe.ly is built around church giving — online and in-app donations, recurring gifts, a church app and website tools, with events alongside them. Bindro does not do giving at all: it takes sign-ups for events, and a gift can be added on top of one. If your main question is how the congregation gives week by week, that is their product, not ours.

Where is Tithe.ly stronger?

Giving, and everything that hangs off it. Recurring gifts, a giving app your congregation already has on their phones, giving statements, and church websites and messaging in the same account. That is a category bindro deliberately does not enter — recurring giving is not attached to an event, and bindro settles money per delivered event, so it would be the wrong shape for it.

Where does bindro fit instead?

Alongside, for the events themselves. A retreat with household places and a group rate, a holiday club needing guardian countersign per child before anyone is admitted, a supper with a pay-what-you-can band, a concert with an offline door in a hall with no signal. Gifts given during a sign-up carry no platform fee and generate a receipt quoting your charity number, so taking sign-ups here does not mean giving up receipting for what people add on the way through.

How do they compare line by line?

For a church	bindro	Tithe.ly
Primary job	Event sign-ups for congregations	Church giving, with an app, websites and events around it
Recurring giving	Not offered, on purpose — payouts settle per delivered event	Core to the product
Annual giving statements	Not offered. Per-order receipts for gifts given during a sign-up	Part of their giving tooling
Household registration	One order, one place per person, names fillable later by the household or by each person	Check their current event registration for household handling
Pay-what-you-can	A published floor and ceiling with a suggested amount, enforced when the money moves	Suggested and free-amount giving is their home ground; for ticketed events check their current options
Guardian countersign	Guardian signs from their own email; an unsigned child is refused at the door	Check their current event forms for how minors are handled
Offline check-in	Required for this vertical: name list, no signal needed, conflicts reviewed after	Check the current capability of their check-in tooling
Payouts	T+2 after the event finishes, no reserve, never before delivery	Varies by product and processor — check their current terms
Cost model	2.5% + $0.99 per paid place; free events cost nothing	Plan and processing fees vary by product — check their current pricing

What are we not certain about?

Everything on our side of the table is something the platform declares and the gates check. Everything on theirs is either publicly uncontroversial or listed here.

Tithe.ly sells several products and the fee depends on which you use and how you process payments. We quote no number for them: check their current pricing.
We have deliberately not compared giving features, because bindro has none. A church choosing between the two for giving is not really choosing between the two.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Nothing stops a church taking regular giving in one place and event sign-ups in another; that is how most churches using bindro for events would arrive.

Reviewed: 2026-08-09

What does bindro NOT do for a church?

Published rather than discovered later. A capability this vertical does not declare is refused by the engine, not quietly missing.

Running background checks on volunteers. Bindro collects the safeguarding declaration before checkout and records who is rostered to which shift; it does not run DBS, police or reference checks, and it does not refuse a rota entry because a check is missing. That part stays with your safeguarding lead.
Regular worship services. They are not ticketed, and this vertical deliberately excludes them — bindro has nothing useful to say about a Sunday morning.
Recurring giving, standing orders and annual giving statements. Subscriptions are not resolved for congregations, and payouts settle per delivered event, so money taken outside an event would have nothing to settle against. It is off on purpose.
Being a church management system. There is no membership database, no pastoral records, no worship-service planning and no Sunday attendance tracking. Bindro handles the event and hands you the data.
Waitlists. When an event is fully booked it is fully booked — there is no queue that promotes people automatically when someone drops out.
Membership-verified pricing. Member and non-member prices exist as a pricing model, but checking someone against a membership roster is not enabled for congregations, so a member price here is a published price rather than a verified entitlement.
Multi-day retreat agendas where each person picks their own sessions, class packs, document upload, add-on merchandise, invoicing a partner organisation, gift cards, season passes and sales tax. All configured as optional for congregations and none currently turned on — a direct call to any of them is refused, not quietly ignored.

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Nothing to pay until you sell. 2.5% + $0.99 per paid place; free events cost nothing.

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bindro vs Tithe.ly for churches and congregations