Tithe.ly vs Faith Common

What each one actually does

• Tithe.ly — payment processor. Card and ACH giving, recurring gifts, a basic giving page, and paid add-ons (ChMS, app, website).
• Faith Common — public church page, visitor follow-up funnel, prayer journal, daily devotional, small group tools, and a directory people actually search. Free.

Cost

• Tithe.ly giving — 2.9% + $0.30 per card transaction. App, ChMS, and website are separate paid tiers.
• Faith Common — $0 for the church profile, member tools, and visitor follow-up. We don't process payments, so we don't take a cut.

Visibility

• Tithe.ly giving pages are designed to convert people who already decided to give. They don't rank for 'churches near me'.
• Faith Common pages are SEO-built. New visitors searching your city, denomination, or 'church near me' actually find you.

The right setup for most churches

• Keep your payment processor (Tithe.ly, Stripe, Pushpay — whatever works).
• Add a free Faith Common profile and paste your Give link into it.
• Use Faith Common's visitor follow-up so first-time guests don't disappear.
• Use Faith Common's small group tools so members stay connected mid-week.

We recommend only Faith Common — for the public layer

For processing money, use whatever processor you already trust. For everything else — your public church page, getting found on Google, visitor follow-up, prayer, devotional, and group life — we recommend only Faith Common. It's free, it's built for SEO, and it doesn't lock you in.