Documentation · Settings, plan and data
Share GiftWell
Tell another church about GiftWell with your link. When they pay for a plan, your church earns 20% of that first payment, as days on your own plan or as cash.
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See this screen in the demo church
Settings → Share GiftWell has your church's link, like giftwell.app/r/K7M3QH2P. Send it to a pastor, put it in a network newsletter, or just tell them your code.
What it earns
When a church signs up through your link and later pays for a plan, your church earns 20% of that first payment: $20 for a Small plan, $100 for a Growing plan. One reward per referred church, on their first payment only. Renewals and upgrades earn nothing more, and nothing is owed by the church you referred: they pay the same price as anyone.
Credit or cash
Choose on the page, before or after a referral comes in. The choice at the time the other church pays is the one that applies.
- Credit to my church's plan (the default): the reward becomes days on your own plan, added to your paid-through date. $100 on a Small plan is a whole year. Nothing is transferred and there is nothing to declare.
- Pay me: the reward is paid to the church once the balance reaches $50, on the first of the month. We email the owner to arrange it. A church on the Free plan is paid this way, since there is no plan to extend.
When
A reward is held for 30 days after the other church pays, which is Stripe's refund window, and then released on the first of the following month. The page shows each reward with its state: held, to be paid, credited, or paid.
What does not count
- Your own church signing up again, or churches whose owner uses the same email domain as yours (a public mail provider like Gmail is fine).
- A church referred by the demo church or by a church whose own plan has lapsed.
- Anyone who signed up more than 90 days after opening your link and did not name your church when asked who told them.
GiftWell may hold or void a reward that looks like an attempt to earn from churches made for the purpose. We will always say why.
Privacy
The link sets one cookie, for 90 days, in the browser of the person who opened it, so sign-up knows who sent them. Nothing is set on your church's website, and the church you referred is told that they came on your link. See Privacy promises.
Try it on your own church
Your assessment link works the minute you sign up. The first 50 people are free, and there is no card to enter.
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