Tithe & Offering: direct giving to your church

A Tithe or Offering is a direct, undirected gift to your church. It is the single direct-funding bucket on Xerish: the giver supports your church, and your church receives the money to steward at its own discretion. Everything else - posts, campaigns, and Funds - routes giving toward a specific appeal or set of recipients. Tithes & Offerings do not.

What it's for

Use the Tithe & Offering bucket for the ordinary, ongoing generosity that sustains your church - weekly tithes, general offerings, and gifts a member wants to give without tying them to any one appeal. Because the gift is undirected, you decide how it's applied. This is the home for general giving that isn't a campaign and isn't split across other organizations.

How it works

1. A giver opens your church profile and chooses to give a Tithe or Offering (the app's Quick Tithe flow is one entry point).
2. They pick an amount and, if they like, set it to recur weekly, every two weeks, or monthly. Tithing is recurring-first - monthly is the default, with a one-time option.
3. Optionally they choose one of your church's designation categories (for example General Fund, Missions, or Building). The gift still goes 100% to your church - the designation is your own internal label for how it's earmarked, not a different recipient.
4. The gift is received for your church and settles to your connected account after a short clearing window.

You manage your designation categories in your church's settings - add, rename, reorder, or retire them so givers see the buckets that match how you account for giving.

Governing limitations

• Churches only. Tithes & Offerings are a church concept. Standard organizations receive giving through posts, campaigns, and Funds, not a tithe bucket.
• Undirected by definition. A Tithe or Offering goes to your church alone. If you want to split giving across other organizations, create a Fund instead.
• Designations are internal labels. They categorize gifts to your church; they never route money to another organization and never change the recipient.
• 0% Xerish fee on the gift. Xerish takes nothing from wallet giving. (Topping up a wallet by card or ACH carries the standard top-up fee, which is separate and disclosed to the giver.)
• No goal or close date. Unlike a Fund, the Tithe bucket is ongoing - there's no target, no allocation weights, and no completion.

Good to know

• Recurring gifts are the backbone of tithing. Encourage members to set a cadence so support is steady; they can edit or stop a recurring gift at any time.
• Designations vs Funds. A designation like Missions keeps a gift inside your church. A Missions Fund is a published, time-boxed giving target that can route to one recipient (your church) or many. Choose a designation for steady internal accounting; choose a Fund when you want a public, goal-bearing appeal.
• Reporting. Tithe & Offering giving appears in your financial reporting alongside Fund and campaign giving, so you can see total generosity in one place.