Friday is the busiest hour of your mosque's week. Hundreds of people, hearts open, hands reaching for the donation box as it moves down the rows. Then everyone goes home, and the other half of that generosity begins. Someone counts coins at a folding table, writes the totals into a notebook, drives a bag of cash to the bank, and months later, if a donor asks nicely, fills out a tax receipt by hand.
The generosity was never the problem. The tools were.
Today we are shipping Donations on moschee.io, a donation platform built for how mosques actually collect: online, on site at the entrance, and in the classic Friday round. It comes with campaigns, a Zakat calculator, printable QR posters, recurring giving, and tax receipts that generate themselves.
Try the whole journey
Take the same path a donor takes. Pick an intention, an amount, and a frequency, then watch what happens after you press the button, including the part your treasurer usually dreads.
New prayer hall
Interactive demo — no real payment€18,450 of €25,000
The full €50 reaches the mosque.
That receipt at the end is the point, not decoration. Every donation, including cash you record by hand, lands in the same statistics and the same automatically numbered year-end tax receipt.
From the poster on the wall to a finished donation
The journey usually starts with paper, so we made the paper part easy too. moschee.io generates print-ready A4 donation posters with your mosque's logo set inside the QR code. Hang one at the entrance, one in the prayer hall, one by the iftar buffet.
Someone scans the code with their phone camera and lands straight on your donation page. Nothing to install, no account, no password. The whole thing takes less time than passing the box down a single row.
Three ways in, one set of books
Not every donation starts with a scan, and it shouldn't have to. Donations on moschee.io covers the three ways money actually reaches a mosque:
Online
Card, SEPA, Apple Pay and Google Pay — on your website and in the app.
On site by card
A SumUp reader at the entrance, at iftar or at events.
Friday collection
Cash and bank transfers, recorded in seconds.
One overview
Every euro lands in the same statistics — and in the same tax receipts.
Three ways in, one honest set of books.
The SumUp card reader is worth calling out. More and more visitors carry no cash at all, and that generosity used to walk straight past the box. Now a small reader at the entrance, at events, or at the iftar table takes a tap of a card or a phone, and the donation flows into the same overview as everything else. In the moschee.io app, your community gives with Apple Pay and Google Pay in two taps.
Cash from the Friday collection isn't left behind either. Record the counted total in seconds and it counts toward your statistics, your campaigns, and your donors' receipts.
Giving, the way your community knows it
Generic donation tools know one button: "Donate". Your community gives with intention, and the platform should understand what those intentions mean.
Donations on moschee.io ships with eight Islamic donation types (Zakat al-Mal, Zakat al-Fitr, Sadaqah, Sadaqah Jariyah, Fidya, Kaffara, Qurbani, and Aqiqa), kept separate in checkout, statistics, and reports. Because Zakat is a duty with real rules, there is a built-in Zakat calculator:
The built-in calculator also checks the current nisab, so donors know whether Zakat is due at all — and can donate the result in one step.
Smaller touches make giving personal. Donors can give in someone's name, as a gift or in memory, with a personalised certificate by email. Campaigns can show what an amount actually does ("€10 = 4 bricks"), calculated live as the donor types.
Good intentions become steady income
One-off generosity builds prayer halls. Generosity you can count on pays the imam, the electricity, and the Quran school, every month. This is where recurring giving changes what a mosque can plan for.
The habit we like most is Friday Sadaqah: a small amount, automatically, every Friday. Drag the sliders and see what a modest habit does to a yearly budget:
€867
per month
€10,400
a year — before a single fundraiser
Small weekly amounts become income your mosque can actually plan with.
Donors stay in control the whole time. Through the donor portal, opened with a magic link and no password, they can raise, lower, pause, or cancel their recurring gift and download their receipts themselves. Nobody has to call the treasurer to change €5 into €10.
Receipts without the winter evenings
If you have ever spent January evenings writing donation receipts by hand, this part is for you.
At year end, moschee.io generates a tax receipt for every donor on its own. Each one is sequentially numbered, compliant with the tax office, delivered by email, and it includes the cash and offline donations you recorded. Donors who lose theirs download it again in the donor portal without asking anyone.
Zero minutes of manual work. That is the design goal, not a rounding-down.
Your money never touches ours
Here is a principle we will not bend on: donations flow straight into your mosque's own payment account. moschee.io never holds your money, and your donor data belongs to your mosque.
The platform fee is deliberately small, between 0.5% and 1% per transaction depending on your plan, with no setup costs. And because donors can choose to cover the fees at checkout, most mosques see the full amount arrive on the majority of gifts.
Turning it on
Donations is included in all paid plans. If your mosque is already on moschee.io:
- Open Donations in your dashboard and connect your payment account.
- Create your first campaign: a goal, a description, and optional building blocks with limited slots.
- Generate and print your QR posters.
- If you collect card donations on site, pair your SumUp reader.
- Tell your community on Friday. That is honestly the hardest step.
Frequently asked questions
Where does the money go? Straight into your mosque's own payment account. moschee.io never holds your funds, so payouts, donor data, and bookkeeping stay under your control.
Do donors need an app or an account? No. Scanning the QR poster opens the donation page in the browser. The mobile app adds Apple Pay and Google Pay for the fastest possible giving, but it is never required.
Are tax receipts really automatic? Yes. At year end every donor receives an annual receipt with a sequential number, including the cash and offline donations you recorded. Donors can also download receipts themselves in the donor portal.
Which Islamic donation types are supported? Zakat al-Mal, Zakat al-Fitr, Sadaqah, Sadaqah Jariyah, Fidya, Kaffara, Qurbani, and Aqiqa, plus the built-in Zakat calculator with a live nisab check.
Can donors manage recurring gifts themselves? Yes, through the donor portal via magic link. They can change the amount and frequency, pause, cancel, and download receipts, with no password and no account.
What does it cost? Donations is included in all paid plans. Each donation carries a small transaction fee, 0.5% to 1% depending on the plan, which donors can choose to cover so the full amount arrives.
The box was never the point
The donation box did honest work for generations. But it only ever collected from the people standing next to it, in the moment it passed, from those who happened to have cash in their pocket. Your community's generosity is bigger than that. It lives on phones, on cards, in standing Friday intentions, and with family members far away who still want to give to their mosque.
Donations on moschee.io is live today, in your dashboard.
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