Ask anyone who has tried to run contactless giving on a generic tablet propped up next to a separate card reader, and you will hear the same frustrations. The screen freezes in the middle of an appeal. An update lands at the worst possible moment. A tap fails, the donor shrugs, and the moment is gone. A donation kiosk is not really one product. It is two things that have to work together without fault: the hardware sitting in your venue and the software running the giving experience. Get either one wrong and the whole thing lets you down.
This is the thinking behind the partnership between DonorDynamics and Give A Little. Rather than one company stretching itself thin across both jobs, each side owns the part it does best. DonorDynamics builds and looks after the hardware. Give A Little provides the donation software and campaign tools that charities across the UK already know and trust. The result is a single, coherent donation kiosk with two specialists standing behind it.
Two specialists, not one compromise
Most contactless giving setups ask a charity to compromise somewhere. A consumer tablet running a donation app is cheap to begin with, but it was never designed to be left switched on in a public space for years on end, and it becomes awkward to manage the moment you have more than one. A fully closed, proprietary system removes that headache but tends to lock you in, with little say over the donor experience or the cost of giving.
The DonorDynamics and Give A Little model avoids both traps. The hardware is purpose built for unattended, always on use, and the software is built specifically for fundraising. Neither side is an afterthought bolted on to the other. When you choose this stack, you are choosing a manufacturer that thinks about nothing but donation hardware, paired with a software team that has spent years refining how people give by tap.
Hardware you can fit and forget
DonorDynamics is responsible for the device and its firmware. Every kiosk runs Android 14 and carries both GMS and EDLA certification, which is the difference between a tablet that happens to run an app and a device that is properly approved for dedicated, managed deployment. Inside sits an NXP PN7221 near field reader, chosen because it reads cards, phones and watches reliably on the first tap, including the cards people leave tucked inside a wallet or a phone case. A donation that goes through cleanly the first time is a donation you keep.
Because no two charities deploy in the same way, the range covers five form factors. CharityTab is the wireless tablet you can carry to an event or hand to a volunteer. CharityDesk sits on a reception counter or a shop till. CharityWall mounts beside an entrance. CharityPole and CharityStand stand on the floor in a foyer, a museum, a church or a high street shop. The same trusted device and software run across all of them, so a charity with several sites is running one stack rather than a cupboard full of mismatched kit.
Just as importantly, the fleet is managed remotely. Firmware updates, configuration and recovery all happen over the air, which means a charity does not need an IT department to keep a row of kiosks healthy. A device in a venue 200 miles away is as easy to look after as the one on your own desk.
Software built around the donor
Give A Little handles the layer the donor actually sees and touches, along with the tools your team uses behind the scenes. Campaign screens are yours to design, with your own images, video, colours and wording, and they can run in several languages and currencies. You can offer up to six suggested amounts or let donors choose their own, and a quick mode keeps queues moving when a crowd builds.
For UK charities, the feature that stands out is Gift Aid. Give A Little captures the donor declaration at the point of giving, so eligible charities can reclaim an extra 25% from HMRC at no cost to the donor. If someone is in a hurry, a Gift Aid later option emails them the declaration to finish afterwards, so a busy queue never costs you the uplift. Every eligible donation is recorded and ready to export for your HMRC claim.
Behind the screen, charities get real time reporting, campaign and channel performance, and payout reconciliation across their chosen payment processor. Just as useful, you stay in full control of what each kiosk is collecting for. A campaign can be switched on or off remotely the moment you need it, and changed across your whole estate in seconds. There are no fixed start or end dates to juggle. If your priority changes this afternoon, your kiosks reflect it this afternoon.
This is a genuinely trusted platform rather than an unknown quantity. Give A Little holds ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certification, is GDPR compliant, processes payments through PCI compliant partners, and verifies every fundraiser as a real charity so donors can give with confidence. In 2026 the platform was named Best Supplier to the Fundraising Sector at the Chartered Institute of Fundraising's National Fundraising Awards, and the Give A Little community has now raised more than £80 million for good causes since 2019.
What this means for your charity
Put the two halves together and the benefits are plain. You collect more in a world where fewer people carry cash, and you tend to collect larger gifts, since the average contactless donation sits comfortably above the loose change that lands in a tin. You unlock Gift Aid on eligible donations, which adds a quarter to your income without asking donors for a penny more. You carry almost no operational burden, because both the device and the giving experience are managed remotely. And you can move quickly, switching campaigns and swapping form factors as your fundraising demands, without waiting on anyone to do it for you.
One stack, clear accountability
The quiet strength of this partnership is how cleanly the responsibilities are drawn. DonorDynamics builds its donation hardware specifically around Give A Little, and the line between the two is deliberate. Anything to do with the device and its firmware sits with DonorDynamics. Anything to do with the donation app, the campaigns and the payment integration sits with Give A Little. For a charity, that means there is always a clear owner for whatever you need, and never a stalemate where two suppliers point at one another while your kiosk sits dark.
You get the reassurance of a single, coherent solution with two focused experts behind it, each held to account for their own part. That is harder to deliver than it sounds, and it is precisely why the combination holds up so well in real venues, day after day.
If you would like to see how it fits your organisation, take a look at the donation kiosks built for charities, explore the Give A Little fundraising software that runs on every device, or get in touch to talk it through.