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GiveSimp.ly allows churches to quickly and easily manage charitable giving and online donations.

If you're just looking to accept donations on Wordpress using Stripe, there's a great plugin called WP Stripe[1].

I've made my own enhancements[2] that you should check out if you like the plugin. My extended version isn't listed in the Wordpress directory but you can find it on github[3]

[1]http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-stripe/ [2]http://michaelapproved.com/articles/a-wordpress-plugin-to-ac... [3]https://github.com/MichaelApproved/wp-stripe

This looks like it'd be useful for any group that relies on donations from members, public collections, &c. - seems odd to limit the number of potential users by pitching exclusively to churches.

# of churches > # of startups

Also have a company geared towards church giving: https://simpledonation.co

I've never understood why people think that targeting churches is "limiting." There are far more churches than there are startups. And there are millions of people in those churches.

Many companies focusing on selling tools/software exclusively to startups. Selling to startups/tech crowd is in vogue, but it's much smaller market than selling to churches.

Agreed. Their almost exclusive emphasis on churches seemed odd, because the service looks like it could be useful for virtually any dot-org.

In fact, I wondered for a few seconds whether the site was accessing my browsing history in some way, because I recently had a church for a client and filled up my history with church-related things as a result. Nope, no tracking besides Google Analytics.

We have recently launched a startup targeting mobile donations for churches (http://thegivingapp.com/).

Our reasons:

1. We know the church market's needs pretty well.

2. It is a niche market that we feel is underserved.

3. Our product is an MVP. If it works for churches, we feel our assumption is validated and it will work for other non-profits as well.

I guess the idea behind this is that it's way easier to attack a vertical niche than trying to go horizontal.

Down for me.

  CheeseHammer:~ josephredfern$ curl -o- http://givesimp.ly/
  curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

I briefly checked out the site before it went down. IIRC it's a SaaS CRM for donors. They charge $25/month and up to manage and accept payments.

Great product! But seems to be self depreciatory by limiting only to churches.

Amazing to see how the half an hour with the twitter bootstrap templates can become a viable source of income.

I dont want to have to pay to be able to pay some more.

Great niche idea however why isn't the site targeting specific keywords to drive traffic?

Lybian?

I agree that this is a concern. The entire cctld has been tainted, for me.

Especially if it's handling money and donations. Not to mention it's a ridiculous abuse of TLDs (along with most of HN submissions but it winds me up nonetheless).

Site is down

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