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No as described, and No as a Gift Aid claim app. Go, small, only as a success-fee Gift Aid service for one church network you can already reach.

churches & charities · ~$40 a month per church · last reviewed (next review by 29 Dec 2026) · 38 cited sources

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A Gift Aid office for one network of independent UK churches: matches bank statements and declaration photos, adds the small-donations scheme (GASDS), files with HMRC, and is paid as a 5–10% success fee on what HMRC repays

Odds of reaching each MRR level by month 24

Odds of reaching each MRR level by month 24, at about 15 hours a week and full-time, with the founder conditions met. Judgment estimates, not statistical probabilities.
MRR by month 24~15 hrs/weekFull-time
$1kReaching $1k MRR by month 24 at about 15 hours a week: ≈ 35 in 100 (35%, judgment estimate).Reaching $1k MRR by month 24 at full-time: ≈ 50 in 100 (50%, judgment estimate).
$3kReaching $3k MRR by month 24 at about 15 hours a week: ≈ 20 in 100 (20%, judgment estimate).Reaching $3k MRR by month 24 at full-time: ≈ 32 in 100 (32%, judgment estimate).
$5kReaching $5k MRR by month 24 at about 15 hours a week: ≈ 12 in 100 (12%, judgment estimate).Reaching $5k MRR by month 24 at full-time: ≈ 20 in 100 (20%, judgment estimate).
$10kReaching $10k MRR by month 24 at about 15 hours a week: ≈ 5 in 100 (5%, judgment estimate).Reaching $10k MRR by month 24 at full-time: ≈ 10 in 100 (10%, judgment estimate).
$20kReaching $20k MRR by month 24 at about 15 hours a week: ≈ 2 in 100 (2%, judgment estimate).Reaching $20k MRR by month 24 at full-time: ≈ 4 in 100 (4%, judgment estimate).
$50kReaching $50k MRR by month 24 at about 15 hours a week: < 0.5 in 100 (<0.5%, judgment estimate).Reaching $50k MRR by month 24 at full-time: ≈ 1 in 100 (1%, judgment estimate).

For context: across 10,150 products listing verified revenue on TrustMRR, the median makes about $30 a month and about 5% make more than $8k (analysis, Sept 2026). The odds above assume the founder conditions below are met and the narrowed version is built, so they sit well above that all-comers rate. Why.

How many months at the plan’s pace

At $40/month per customer and 1% monthly churn, adding the customers the plan needs for its month-24 checkpoint. Change any of it in the what-if model.

MRR~15 hrs/weekFull-time
$1k8 mo5 mo
$3k24 mo14 mo
$5k3 yr 8 mo2 yr 1 mo
$10k10 yr 5 mo4 yr 9 mo
$20knot reached16 yr 6 mo
$50knot reachednot reached

This works only if you…

  1. 1. A way into one church network(missing it: odds × 0.5)

    You belong to, or are trusted by, a network of 30+ independent churches (a denomination's UK arm, an association of African-led churches, a Pentecostal fellowship), and its leader or finance lead will introduce you.

  2. 2. A paid UK charity-tax reviewer(missing it: odds × 0.5)

    (a chartered tax adviser or charity accountant) who checks your rules and your wording, plus professional indemnity insurance. Claims that HMRC later rejects are clawed back from the church, and it will blame you.

  3. 3. 5 churches with a claim filed through you by day 45(missing it: odds × 0.5)

    , done by hand, before you build the product.

Evidence ledger

12 research findings: 0 sourced, 0 inferred, 0 unproven, 12 not rated. Tags come from the analyst's own confidence label; how tags work.

All 12 findings in the research file →

Sources

38 cited sources
  1. Civil Society (civilsociety.co.uk)
  2. Civil Society (civilsociety.co.uk)
  3. Crowe (crowe.com)
  4. Plinth, "Gift Aid reform" (plinth.org.uk)
  5. Parish Resources (parishresources.org.uk)
  6. Third Sector (thirdsector.co.uk)
  7. GOV.UK, claim Gift Aid online (gov.uk)
  8. HMRC Developer Hub (developer.service.hmrc.gov.uk)
  9. GOV.UK, Charities Online support for software developers (gov.uk)
  10. HMRC Charities Newsletter 3, Sept 2026 (gov.uk)
  11. GOV.UK, Charities Online guidance (gov.uk)
  12. AccountingWEB (accountingweb.co.uk)
  13. Saffery (saffery.com)
  14. GitHub, hmrc-gift-aid (github.com)
  15. GOV.UK, GASDS (gov.uk)
  16. altardesk.co.uk (altardesk.co.uk)
  17. ChurchSuite pricing (churchsuite.com)
  18. ChurchSuite support (support.churchsuite.com)
  19. GoCardless (gocardless.com)
  20. beaconcrm.org/pricing (beaconcrm.org)
  21. donorfy.com/pricing (donorfy.com)
  22. swiftaid.co.uk/pricing (swiftaid.co.uk)
  23. infoodle (infoodle.com)
  24. giftaider.com (giftaider.com)
  25. giftaidmanager.com (giftaidmanager.com)
  26. goodtogive.co.uk (goodtogive.co.uk)
  27. Tithe.ly help (help.tithe.ly)
  28. Xero product ideas (productideas.xero.com)
  29. Methodist Gift Aid and GASDS guidance notes, April 2026 (methodist.org.uk)
  30. Diocese of Canterbury (canterburydiocese.org)
  31. Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (cofesuffolk.org)
  32. Lausanne Movement (lausanne.org)
  33. Evangelical Focus (evangelicalfocus.com)
  34. RNZ (rnz.co.nz)
  35. masjidmanager.org (masjidmanager.org)
  36. mosquepay.co.uk (mosquepay.co.uk)
  37. RevenueCat (revenuecat.com)
  38. Jason Cohen, "Max MRR" (longform.asmartbear.com)