Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More

Description

The Best WordPress Donation & Fundraising Plugin

Charitable is the best WordPress donation plugin that’s both EASY & POWERFUL. Add a simple donate button, create beautiful fundraising campaigns with smart donation forms, accept recurring donations with Stripe, PayPal, & Square), add crowdfunding / peer-to-peer fundraising, and other powerful donation features to your site in minutes with just a few clicks!

At Charitable, user experience is our #1 priority. Our pre-built donation form templates and workflows make Charitable the most beginner-friendly donation plugin on the market. You can create a fundraising campaign in less than 5 minutes with our drag & drop donation form builder or by using our pre-built donation campaign templates to get a head start.

Over 10,000+ nonprofits, charity foundations, clubs & NGOs get more donations from their websites with Charitable.

Charitable Pro
This plugin is the Lite version of Charitable Pro, which comes with additional email marketing & payment integrations, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, automated workflows, and more. Click here to purchase the best premium WordPress donation & fundraising plugin now!

Fully Customizable Donation Forms with Drag & Drop

Create custom donation forms and donate buttons in minutes with our easy-to-use drag and drop donation form builder (no coding needed).

With Charitable donation form builder, you can:

• Add suggested donation amounts, allow people to donate custom amounts, or do both.
• Accept one-time donations and recurring donations.
• Add donation goals and display them in the donation widget.
• Easily collect all relevant donor details.
• Customize your donate buttons to match your design needs.
• Display donation forms in a popup modal, on a separate page, in a widget on your site, or on the same page as the campaign. You can embed donation forms anywhere on your site.

Optimized Fundraising Campaign Templates

Charitable comes with pre-built highly optimized donation & fundraising campaign templates to help raise maximum donations for your charity or nonprofit organization.

• Create unlimited fundraising campaigns for your charity (no extra costs).
• Create time-sensitive fundraising campaigns that end automatically when they’re finished.
• Set fundraising goals, display total donors (donor wall) for your campaigns, share donor comments, donation updates, fundraising video, and more.
• Add peer-to-peer fundraising (aka crowdfunding) to maximize your donations.

Comprehensive Donor Management Tools

Charitable makes it easy to manage day-to-day donor management operations. This is why over 10,000+ charity & nonprofit organizations choose Charitable as their donation platform.

• See a complete history of your donor activity, track donation goal progress, and more in a single dashboard.
• Send beautiful annual tax-deductible donation receipts for end of year tax reporting.
• Add donor profiles to highlight your top contributors and raise more donations toward your cause.
• Send personalized donor updates to keep donors informed about their donations & contributions to your nonprofit charity.
• Export all donation details in CSV to help with your workflow.

Over a Dozen Donation Payment Integrations

Charitable integrates with all the top payment providers including Stripe donations, PayPal donations, Braintree, Square payments, and 10+ more to ensure you can accept both one-time donations as well as recurring donations using the payment solution of your choice.

We’re proud to be a Stripe Verified Partner. This partnership allows us to build the best Stripe integration with early access to features. You can use our Stripe integration to accept both one-time payments as well as recurring donations while syncing all donation data to your Stripe account.

Our full list of payment integrations include: Stripe, PayPal, Square, Authorize.net, Braintree, PayFast, Payrexx, Mollie, PayUMoney, GoCardless, Paystack, and Windcave.

Our Donation Fee Relief feature allows you to ask donors to donate extra to cover payment processing fees to maximize the impact.

Peer to Peer Fundraising with Donation Teams & Ambassadors

Charitable’s Peer to Peer fundraising feature allows you to maximize your donations through the power of community, donation teams & ambassadors.

The peer-to-peer crowdfunding feature allows your supporters to raise donations on your behalf and gain incredible support for their cause.

Each donation or fundraising campaign can have leaders & ambassadors that invite others to their donation team to help you get more donations by leveraging the power of community.

Our crowdfunding peer to peer donations feature is great for community events like:

• Nonprofit Charity Walkathons
• Nonprofit Charity Carwashes
• Nonprofit Charity Fundraising Dinners
• Other non-profit charity events

Communication & Promotion Tools to Maximize Donations

Charitable comes with all the marketing and promotion tools you need to get maximum donations for your charity or nonprofit organization.

• Integrate with your favorite email marketing tools like Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, MailerLite, Campaign Monitor, and more.
• Give your fundraising campaigns a boost through Charitable videos.
• Enable Charitable Geolocation to geotag your donation campaigns to bring more awareness to the fundraising cause.
• Save time with smart donation workflow automation with Zapier, Zoho Flow, and Webhooks.

Easy to Customize and Extend

Charitable is a 100% open-source donation plugin for WordPress. You can easily customize your donation forms, fundraising campaigns, donate buttons, donation goal widgets, and everything else thanks to our built-in features.

We also know that our developer friends may want more control, so we have added tons of hooks and filters.

Full Charitable Feature List

• Donation Form Builder – powerful drag & drop donation form builder. Create smart donation forms, add custom donate buttons, accept donation payments, and more without writing any code.
• 100% mobile responsive.
• GDPR & CCPA friendly – full privacy compliance tools
• Pre-built Fundraising Templates – Get access to sleek modern fundraising templates that are optimized to help you raise more donations.
• Secure Credit Card Payments – securely accept credit card donations on your website with Stripe donations, PayPal donations, and dozens of other payment gateways.
• Recurring Donations – accept recurring donations on your website with Stripe, PayPal, and other payment solutions. Turn one-time donors into repeat supporters.
• Offline Donations – accept offline donations from donors through other payment methods like cash, check, and wire transfer while keeping track of it in Charitable donation platform.
• Automatic Donation Receipts – automatically send PDF receipts for each donation to your donors (save time).
• Comprehensive Donation Management – easily manage and track all donor activity, donation amount, donor communication, and more from a single dashboard.
• Actionable Donation Reports – see all your donation reports in one place.
• Peer to Peer Fundraising – allow your community to raise more donations for your cause with crowdfunding.
• Donation Teams with Ambassadors – allow supporters and ambassadors to create donation teams to help raise more money for your nonprofit. Track progress through custom donate buttons for each team.
• Donation Fee Relief – allow donors to cover donation payment processing fees.
• Donation Goal Widget – Display public donation goals in a donation widget to motivate your donors and supporter.
• Annual Donation Receipts – help donors with annual tax planning with beautiful donation receipts.
• Anonymous Donations – allow donors to make anonymous donations.
• Gift Aid – allow donors to boost their donations through the government’s gift aid tax incentive.
• Spam protection built-in with support Google reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha.
• Workflow Automation to help you save time with Zapier, Webhooks, Zoho Flow, and more.

Donation Payment Integrations

Allow your users to donate with the payment solution of their choice to reach your donation goals faster.

• Stripe – We’re a Stripe Verified Partner for Stripe Donation payments. Easily accept credit card donations on your website with Stripe.
• PayPal – Easily accept PayPal donations on your website.
• Square – Accept credit card donations with Square.
• Braintree
• Authorize.net
• Mollie
• PayFast
• Payrexx
• PayUMoney
• GoCardless
• Paystack
• Windcave

Marketing & Donation Workflow Integrations

• Mailchimp
• Campaign Monitor
• ActiveCampaign
• Zapier – connect with over 7000+ apps.
• Zoho Flow – connect with over 900+ apps.
• MailerLite
• MailPoet
• Mailster
• Webhooks

You can see why Charitable is the best WordPress donation plugin on the market! Want to unlock all the features? Upgrade to our Pro version.

Who is Charitable Donation Platform Built for?

We built Charitable to help anyone who wants to fundraise online, and Charitable supports both one-time donations and recurring donations. Below are the common use-cases:

• Charities
• Non-profit Organizations
• Political Fundraisers
• Foundations, Clubs, & NGOs
• Individuals looking to raise money (i.e weddings, birthdays, etc)

Credits

This plugin is built by David Bisset and Syed Balkhi.

Branding Guidelines

Charitable® is a registered trademark of WP Charitable LLC. When writing about the donation form plugin by Charitable, please make sure to the letter casing is spelled correctly.

• Charitable (correct)
• WPCharitable (correct)
• WP Charitable (incorrect)
• wpcharitable (incorrect)

What’s Next

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