Qgiv is now Bloomerang Fundraising: what an event platform becomes inside a CRM

Those sentences are more use than any brochure. They tell you where a product sits in somebody else’s plans.

Qgiv was built as event and auction software. It is now the fundraising module of a donor database, and modules get priced and prioritised differently from products. I read the pricing page, the processing rates, the auction page and the acceptable use policy in October 2026.

Is Qgiv still Qgiv?

Partly, and the split is informative. The banner across qgiv.com announces that Qgiv is now Bloomerang Fundraising, and every product link in that navigation leaves the domain: auctions, events, peer-to-peer and donation forms all land on bloomerang.com. The Our Story link goes to Bloomerang’s company page, and qgiv.com/our-story returns a 404.

Underneath, the older layer is untouched. The acceptable use policy still sits on qgiv.com, is dated March 2021, refers throughout to Qgiv systems and the Qgiv Merchant Interface, and gives info@qgiv.com as its contact. The login still lives at secure.qgiv.com.

Bloomerang acquired Qgiv in an announcement published on 10 January 2024, in which Qgiv’s chief executive described fifteen years spent on fundraising technology.

The marketing layer has been renamed since. The legal and operational layers have not.

What does Qgiv do at a fundraising event?

It runs the bidding, the registration and the money. The auction tools cover app and browser bidding with outbid alerts by text, email and push notification, bulk item upload, drag-and-drop table management, temporary volunteer logins, QR-code checkout and fund-a-need appeals. Guests buy raffle tickets and merchandise in the app and settle one tab at the end.

The wider event feature list adds registration forms, multi-attendee discounts, promo codes and QR-code check-in, with peer-to-peer campaigns and text fundraising alongside it.

Nobody should tell you this is thin. It is a complete event stack, built by people who did only this for fifteen years, and I would be happy to run an auction on most of it.

How much does Qgiv cost in October 2026?

Bloomerang Fundraising starts at $40 a month billed annually, and the asterisk on the pricing page says it must be bought bundled with Bloomerang CRM, which starts at $125. Auctions and peer-to-peer sit on top of that, with no figure against either.

So the honest answer is that Qgiv no longer has a price of its own.

The event software is a line item inside a database subscription, and the entry point is $165 a month before anybody bids on anything.

What does Qgiv charge on each transaction?

More than the CRM beside it does. The published processing rates for Bloomerang Fundraising, which the article applies to auctions, event registration and peer-to-peer, are 3.95% plus $0.30 per card transaction, 4.95% plus $0.30 for American Express, and a further 1% on peer-to-peer.

Read those two rows together. The same gift, from the same donor to the same charity, costs roughly a percentage point more for arriving at an event instead of through a donation form, and twice as much in platform fees if you bring your own processor.

There are fair explanations for a gap like that. Event income is seasonal and support is heaviest on the night.

It is still the charity that pays it, and it is the sort of asymmetry that shows up when an event product becomes one shelf in a bigger shop.

Does Qgiv work for a UK charity, and in which currency?

It takes British money, and it is built in dollars. Donation forms accept international donations, and a form setting changes the currency format, which is presentation rather than settlement.

The hard limit is the processor. Bloomerang’s own documentation says that organisations outside the US must use an integrated third-party processor, naming Authorize.net or Stripe. A UK charity therefore cannot use Bloomerang Payments, which means the 1.95% platform processing fee applies to every transaction on top of whatever Stripe charges you.

On a night that takes £40,000 through tickets, bidding and appeals, that platform fee alone is £780 before your processor has taken a penny. Put it in the budget next to the subscription, and ask about it when you compare platforms.

Can a UK charity claim Gift Aid on a Qgiv auction?

Mostly not, and that is HMRC rather than Qgiv. A payment for a lot is not a gift, it is a purchase, and where the lot is not commercially available its benefit value is the whole price paid, which leaves nothing eligible. You can claim on donations from individuals who sign a declaration.

Now sit that beside the fee table. The income charged at the higher event rate is largely the income that cannot be topped up by 25%, and the gifts that do carry Gift Aid are the part of the evening most platforms treat as an afterthought.

That arithmetic is why auction Gift Aid belongs in the design months out, not in a checkbox on the night.

What Qgiv gets right

Its fee-covering feature is the honest version of a model that usually is not. GiftAssist works out the real processing cost, shows it, and sends it to the charity rather than to the vendor as a tip: on a $100 auction gift it adds $4.42. Donors can decline, and on auction forms they cannot be opted in automatically.

The payments side carries no setup fee, no monthly fee, no minimum merchant fee, no payout fee and no transaction limits. The auction product is mature. And for a charity that genuinely wants one supplier for the database and the gala, the integration argument is real.

Where the Generosity Works platform sits

Outside the suite, on purpose. I built the platform around the four hours: bidding, ticketing, the gala screen, the table plan, an offline event server for when the venue wifi gives up, and Gift Aid capture on the pledge at the moment it is made. Payments run through the charity’s own Stripe account, so nothing is added to Stripe’s standard rate and no percentage is taken.

It is free when a charity books me as auctioneer and host, and my fee is the only money Generosity Works takes. The platform is not sold on its own; our pricing page explains why. One fee agreed up front, whatever the total turns out to be. The hire itself lives on my charity auctioneer site.

Acceptiva is still online, two owners deep, with its old sentence intact. Software outlives the companies that built it, which is fine for a database and less comfortable for the one night a year you cannot run again.

So ask it before the demo rather than after: whose roadmap is my gala sitting on, and what is that roadmap for?

If that question is live for you, book a discovery call. Let’s talk about your number.