One gift — an annual appeal, a memorial tribute, a legacy bequest — entered once, becomes the correct receipt (a tax receipt where DGR endorsement supports it), posts to your books without double-entry, and assembles an ACNC/ATO-ready report. With a 0% platform cut*.
*Card processing (~1.7% + 30c) is paid to the payment processor — never to Everflame. It’s opt-in for the donor, and many donors choose to cover it.
A single gift flows the whole way — no re-keying, no reconciling two systems that disagree.
A donor gives online, in person, or by recurring pledge. Captured once, cleanly.
The right receipt for the entity's status — a tax receipt where DGR-endorsed and in date, an ordinary receipt or acknowledgement otherwise — with every ATO field, issued automatically.
Posts straight to your ledger — no double-entry, no second system to reconcile.
Period figures assemble into a report aligned to your obligations, ready to review.
Everflame records, computes and assembles — it does not advise or lodge on your behalf.
*Card processing (~1.7% + 30c per transaction) is charged by the payment processor and goes to them — never to Everflame. It’s opt-in for the donor, and many donors choose to cover it so the cause keeps the full gift. Everflame is not free: we earn a flat compliance subscription, billed predictably regardless of how much you raise.
What the alternatives leave you to stitch together by hand.
| Capability | Everflame | Donation / crowdfunding platform | Accounting tool + a form |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform cut of donations | 0%* | 3–8% typical | n/a (no fundraising) |
| Correct DGR tax receipts | Automatic, ATO fields | Generic / often missing | Manual templates |
| ACNC / ATO-ready reporting | Assembled for you | Export & rebuild | You build it |
| One-entry chain (no re-keying) | Built in | Re-enter into books | Re-enter from form |
| Multi-entity / funds ring-fenced | Yes, can't co-mingle | Single pool | Manual tracking |
| Who owns the donor data | You do | The platform | You do |
| Custody of funds | Settles direct to you | Held, then paid out | n/a |
Not a generic receipt and a hope. The fields, the ring-fencing, and the obligations that actually apply.
Each entity and each restricted fund is kept separate in the ledger — donations can’t be co-mingled across causes.
The giving surface, the receipt, the ledger and the report — one platform, no reconciling.
A supporter raises on the charity's behalf through their own page under the campaign — their network gives through them, every gift still landing in the charity's account and carrying the charity's compliant receipt.
A timed appeal that runs to a target within a window, and a standing fund that simply accumulates with no end date, either branded to the cause.
Attendance sold for a gala, a dinner or an auction, with the deductible part of each ticket worked out under the fundraising-event rules rather than guessed.
An ongoing monthly commitment by card or, better, by direct debit, which fails less and costs less, so the charity keeps a dependable base of income.
Supporters commit an amount they choose and are charged only when the campaign reaches its goal, so demand is proved before a cent is collected.
A donor commits a fixed total paid in instalments the platform collects on a schedule, each receipted as it is taken and tracked against the total with reminders.
The progress display can be a plain total, or a staged ascent in which the published target lifts as each threshold is reached, every threshold carrying a short description of what it unlocks.
The charity chooses plain or staged for each campaign and writes the levels itself, with no code.
The same thermometer runs on a hosted page or embedded on the charity's own site, updating in real time as gifts arrive.
Where a charity holds several gift funds, the donor can direct the gift to the fund they choose and it lands in that fund's own account.
Each suggested amount is paired with the concrete thing it funds, so the donor is choosing an outcome rather than a number.
The gifts made can be listed, each donor appearing by name or anonymously — off unless the charity switches it on.
No account and lowest friction, the receipt by email as a matter of course; an account is offered only to the donor who wants their receipts and recurring gifts in one place.
Whether and how much of the gift is tax-deductible is shown at the point of giving, and where a payment carries a benefit the deductible part is shown too.
A gift made in memory or in honour of a named person, with an optional card the platform sends to someone the donor names.
Manage or pause recurring gifts, keep every receipt with the consolidated end-of-financial-year summary, and read the charity's updates on what the giving did — on the web and in the app.
An appeal races to a goal. A standing fund never closes. A ticketed event splits out the deductible part. Pick the shape that fits — the page, the progress and the receipt follow.
Goal + deadline
Appeal
Runs to a target within a window.
No deadline, never closes
Standing fund
Accumulates indefinitely.
Supporters raise for you
Peer-to-peer
Supporters raise on the entity's behalf through their own sub-pages.
Tickets + deductible split
Ticketed event
Sells attendance; may yield a deductible contribution under the minor-benefit rules.
Recurring monthly gifts
Regular giving
Solicits ongoing commitments.
All-or-nothing goal
Pledge (all-or-nothing)
Supporters commit and are charged only when the goal is reached.
Paid in instalments
Multi-year pledge
A fixed total fulfilled in instalments the platform collects on a schedule.
A searchable public directory of endorsed charities and funds — by cause, location, and need.
4 organisations
Endowing the arts in Australia for the long term.
Backing local relief, health and culture across its funds and programs.
Keeping Shakespeare alive on Australian stages.
Restoring the health of our rivers and wetlands.
Place the full donation form, progress display or give button on any page. Two lines of code, no backend.
<div data-fundraising-campaign="restore-the-organ"></div> <script src="/embed.js" async></script>
A CMS plugin places the same component without code.
Complete giving flow with the correct receipt for the entity's status, fund-picker and donor wall — identical to the hosted page.
The climbing thermometer with staged thresholds, live-updating as gifts arrive.
A minimal CTA that opens the full form in an overlay — one element for a sidebar or header.
Your supporter list is yours. We never resell it or hold it hostage.
Payments run through the processor’s secure vault. Card numbers never touch us.
Donations land in your account from the processor — we don’t sit between you and the money.
Download your records whenever you like. Leaving is always a clean export away.
No. The fundraising platforms run the campaign and leave the compliance, the donor record and the reporting to a second system, and the compliance and accounting systems do the reverse. Everflame is the one product that does both — the gift entered once and flowing into the receipt, the books, the thank-you and the regulator reports without re-entry.
Any Australian not-for-profit that raises funds. Legal structure (incorporated association, company limited by guarantee), charitable registration with the ACNC, and DGR endorsement are distinct and separate layers — not every not-for-profit is a registered charity, and not every registered charity is DGR-endorsed. Everflame serves entities at every point on that spectrum: the small community group with no charitable registration, the ACNC-registered charity, and the DGR-endorsed fund. The receipt issued depends on the entity's status: an ordinary receipt for a non-deductible gift, a tax receipt only where endorsement supports it. Individuals can also create fundraising pages — a birthday appeal, a sponsored run, a memorial collection — where every dollar raised flows to a registered organisation on the platform. Everflame does not support fundraising for personal benefit.
No. The multi-fund structure is simply the fuller case, and a single-fund organisation is the simple instance of it. The donor front end is free, so a small charity can run campaigns at no platform cost and add the compliance subscription only if it wants the deeper layer.
Yes. Everflame serves the whole spectrum, from the non-charitable not-for-profit through the registered charity to the deductible-gift-endorsed entity, issuing an ordinary receipt where a gift is not deductible and a tax receipt only where the endorsement supports it.
No. It assembles the inputs to the Annual Information Statement, the figures the tax office needs and the donor summaries from the data it already holds, and you or your agent lodge them. Everflame prepares; it never lodges - no return, statement or distribution is ever lodged for a fee.
No. The donor-facing front end is free under the donor-contribution model, and Everflame earns from a compliance subscription rather than a cut of the gift, so more of each gift reaches the cause.
Your data is held in an Australian region, owned by you and your donors rather than by Everflame, never mined or sold, and exportable in full at any time, so adopting the platform never means being locked into it.
Everflame holds no card data and takes custody of no funds. The payment provider holds the card data and gifts settle to your own account, not ours. Every account that can move money uses two-factor sign-in, every compliance action is written to an immutable audit record, and an independent penetration test is run before launch.
The compliance encoding is a versioned, maintained component, tracked against the reforms under way, and each receipt and report records which version of the rules governed it, with reform notes surfaced to you where a matter is in flux.
Yes. A supporter creates their own page under your campaign and raises through their own network, and every gift still lands in your account and carries your compliant receipt.
Yes. You don't need to be a staff member or a volunteer. You can create a personal fundraising page — a birthday fundraiser, a sponsored run, a memorial collection — and choose which registered organisation on the platform the gifts flow to. You'll indicate whether you're running it as an affiliate of that organisation or on your own initiative. The funds always go to the charity, never to you. Everflame does not facilitate fundraising for personal benefit.
Yes. Giving is done as a guest in a few taps with no sign-up, and the receipt arrives by email straight away. An account is offered only to the donor who wants their receipts and recurring gifts in one place.
You are shown before you give whether the gift is deductible and how much of it is, which depends on the charity's endorsement and the nature of the gift, and your receipt arrives the moment you give, computed from the entity's recorded endorsement status.
Yes. A monthly gift is set up in seconds, and you can change the amount or the card, or pause or stop it, at any time from the donor portal or the app.
Yes. Everflame is an Australian platform and every gift is taken in Australian dollars, but your card or bank handles the currency conversion automatically, so you can give from anywhere in the world. What differs by country is deductibility: Australian tax deductibility depends on the entity's ACNC/DGR endorsement, which is an Australian tax concept, so if you're giving from outside Australia your own country's tax rules — not Australia's — govern whether the gift is deductible for you, and that's a question for your own tax adviser.
One entry becomes a correct receipt, clean books, and an ACNC/ATO-ready report. We take no slice of your donations. No long contract. Export your data anytime. *Card processing is paid to the processor, not to Everflame.