I wasn't in the church, so the details I am a little short of, but they had something like a tiered system where everyone had cards like on a cruise ship. So you could get some things here, but not things from there, with a limit. It seems not unlikely that they had to separate the donation from the transaction, but there was still a "transaction-like" activity there. I'm honestly not sure if that church is still around, but it was enormous.