AGAPAY is the purpose-built giving platform for Orthodox parishes and monasteries. We unify stewardship, designated funds, and campaigns in a secure, beautiful platform that honors our faith and simplifies giving.
Most giving platforms collect your donation into their own account first — then disburse it to the church on their schedule. For a window of time, they hold your money. That introduces custody risk, disbursement delays, and regulatory complexity none of us want.
AGAPAY uses Stripe Connect's direct charge architecture — meaning your gift flows straight to the parish's or monastery's own Stripe account at the moment you give. AGAPAY does not take a percentage of your donation. Eligible nonprofit donation pricing is 2.2% + $0.30 for cards and 0.8% for ACH, capped at $5.* We never touch your principal.
This isn't a technical detail. It's a commitment: your stewardship belongs to the Church, not to a platform.
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Most giving platforms treat every donation the same. AGAPAY understands that a weekly tithe, a memorial offering, and a relief campaign are fundamentally different acts — and treats them accordingly.
"Generosity is not a response to deficit. It is the natural rhythm of a faithful life."AGAPAY founding principle
AGAPAY’s feature set is organized around the way Orthodox communities actually give: stewardship, candles, memorials, feast days, monastery support, and designated funds.
Giving is only one part of serving a parish. AGAPAY now connects the financial, administrative, and communal work around it—without making your team stitch together unrelated software.
Move from the gift to the ledger without losing the story behind the numbers. Parish accounting stays fund-aware, traceable, and ready for the people entrusted with oversight.
Koinonia means fellowship, communion, and shared participation. It is the umbrella for features that help parishioners receive, learn, gather, and serve together within the life of their own church.
They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.Acts 2:42
AGAPAY is built around the Orthodox festal cycle — both Julian and Revised-Julian calendars supported. Campaigns follow the feasts, not arbitrary marketing windows.
Dec 25 / Jan 7 — campaign window opens Dec 1. Both calendars supported.
Jan 6 / 19 — Great Blessing of Waters offering window built in.
Moveable — AGAPAY calculates the correct date per your parish calendar.
The holiest season — treated with the reverence it deserves.
Flagged throughout the year. Memorial donations routed to the priest's queue.
Aug 15 / 28 — elevated priority for Theotokos parishes.
June 29 / July 12 — configurable per parish patron.
Set your own patron saint. AGAPAY builds the campaign around it.
A parish and a monastery have different financial realities, rhythms, and relationships with giving. AGAPAY treats them as equals — not as an afterthought.
Stewardship adds pledge and donor insight plus Bookstore payments to essential giving. Parish adds Directory, Sacraments & Services, broader commerce workflows, staff tools, guided onboarding, and Text-to-Give in one Orthodox-first platform.
AGAPAY includes guided in-dashboard setup, Stripe onboarding, configuration support, and direct help channels so your priest, treasurer, and staff can begin with confidence.
Designed for parish councils, not software teams. If you can send an email, you can set up AGAPAY.
A priest or parish council administrator submits a registration request. We verify canonical standing before activation — ensuring only legitimate Orthodox communities use the platform.
Set your jurisdiction, calendar (Julian or Revised-Julian), patronal feast, and offering types. ROCOR, GOA, Antiochian — every jurisdiction and language supported.
Your parish connects its own Stripe account — or creates one in minutes. From this moment, all donations flow directly to you. AGAPAY never holds your funds.
Every parish receives a clean, dedicated giving page. Share it in your bulletin, from the ambo, or via email. No app download required for donors.
Memorial and candle offerings are formatted and sent directly to the priest's commemoration queue — ready for the proskomedia. Nothing is lost, nothing overlooked.
Every offering is categorized, dated, and attributed. Exportable reports, annual giving statements — generated automatically at year end. Nothing to reconcile manually.
We're onboarding a small number of founding parishes before public launch. Founding parishes receive preferred pricing and direct access to the founder.