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
Help make Charitable make a bigger impact around the world by translating our donation plugin in our language. Contribute to the translation project in your language.
Love Charitable? Leave us a review – it’s really motivating for our team.
Recommended Resources
- AIOSEO – free WordPress SEO plugin for nonprofits (trusted by over 3 million sites).
- Duplicator – free WordPress backup plugin to help you protect your donations and nonprofit website (trusted by over 1 million sites).
- WP Mail SMTP – free plugin to help improve email deliverability.
- Sugar Calendar – free event management plugin. Great for organizing nonprofit fundraising events.
- SeedProd – Create beautiful landing pages for your nonprofit donation campaigns with this free drag & drop page builder.
- MonsterInsights – best free analytics plugin for nonprofits & charity websites.
- WPForms – best contact form and survey plugin for nonprofits.
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Screenshots
Blocks
This plugin provides 2 blocks.
- Charitable Campaign Quickly add a Charitable campaign.
- Charitable Campaign Quickly add a Charitable campaign.
Installation
- Install Charitable either via the WordPress.org plugin repository or by uploading the files to your server. (See instructions on how to install a WordPress plugin)
- Activate Charitable.
- Navigate to the Charitable menu in your WordPress admin area and create your first campaign.
- Want more features? Purchase Charitable Pro!
FAQ
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Can I accept donations directly on my site?
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Yes you can! If you use Stripe, donors will be able to make credit card donations right on your website. If you use PayPal, donors will be redirected to PayPal to complete their donation. You can also use the Offline Donations gateway to allow your donors to create a donation and make the payment via cheque or bank transfer (you can display your payment details to them).
Want to accept credit card donatinos from other payment gateways? Upgrade to Charitable Pro.
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How do I add a grid of fundraising campaigns to my page?
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Easy. Just add
[campaigns]
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How do I add a donation form to a page?
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You can use the
[charitable_donation_form]
shortcode to embed a particular campaign’s donation form on a page. Read more -
Can I collect recurring donations with Charitable?
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You can accept monthly, quarterly or semi-annually or annually recurring donations with the Recurring Donations extension. This works with PayPal, Stripe, Braintree, Authorize.Net and PayFast.
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Can I run peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns with Charitable?
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Indeed you can! Charitable is the best way to run peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns with WordPress. Peer-to-peer fundraisers are supported with our Ambassadors extension
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Can I let donors pay the gateway processing fees?
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Yes. Our Fee Relief extension adds support for this, with the option to set how fees are calculated for different payment gateways. Read more
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You certainly can. The Newsletter Connect extension supports MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, ActiveCampaign, Mailerlite, MailPoet and Mailster.
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Does WP Charitable work with WooCommerce?
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No. WP Charitable is a standalone donation and fundraising plugin and does not integrate with WooCommerce.
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Can I translate Charitable into my language?
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You can. Charitable has full localization support through the
charitable
textdomain. All Charitable extensions are also fully translatable.Contribute to the translation project in your language and help us make Charitable better for everyone!
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How do I get support?
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You can post in the support forum or reach us via our support form.
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Contributors & Developers
“Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More” has been translated into 17 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Changelog
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.15
- NEW: Added exit modal popup on getting started screen when user visits Pro page.
- NEW: Added ability via two global PHP variables to force/not force «tour» for visual campaign builder.
- FIX: Resolved issue resolving showing license information for lifetime licenses.
- FIX: Resolved a misalignment of the icon/field for the minimum donation amount field in the visual campaign builder.
- FIX: Addressed security issue involving creating new users primarily via Charitable registration shortcode.
- FIX: Resolved sanitization issue with the custom CSS field for HTML field in visual campaign builder.
- FIX: Minor translation, CSS, and PHP coding updates.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.14
- FIX: Resolved a PHP fatal error when saving information for legacy campaigns.
- FIX: Resolved error on getting started screen after Stripe was connected.
- FIX: Improved retrieval of campaign descriptions for legacy campaigns.
- FIX: Resolved CSS issue in visual builder.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.13
- UPDATE: Updated copy and links on getting started screen.
- FIX: Minified starting screen CSS.
- FIX: Resolved typos and PHP notices.
- FIX: Updated additional text in admin UI to allow for translations.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.12
- NEW: Getting Started Screen for new users upon install and activation.
- NEW: Tour guide of visual builder for new users.
- NEW: Expiring license and expired license noticiations in WordPress admin Charitable screens.
- NEW: Progress bar in visual builder campaigns show currency in frontend. Filter added for further customization.
- NEW: Show currency symbol in visual builder settings under «Goal».
- NEW: Added filters for showing content before and after donor lists and donor wall using shortcodes.
- UPDATE: UI updates and tweaks related to visual builder and admin screens.
- UPDATE: UI updates to items in marketing and payment tabs in visual builder.
- FIX: Better sync for legacy and visual campaigns in certain scenarios.
- FIX: Issue with Easy Digital Downloads addon card in addons screen resolved.
- FIX: Resolved typos and PHP warnings and notices.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.11
- FIX: Resolve issue when incorrectly connecting to Stripe in live mode on new installs in certain scenarios.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.10
- NEW: UI updates and tweaks to notices and tooltips.
- NEW: Deactivate legacy campaigns now an option in advanced settings.
- NEW: Added and updated several items in the Growth Tools page.
- FIX: Addressed security for ajax functions related to reporting.
- FIX: Resolved typos and PHP warnings and notices.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.9
- FIX: Added nonce and permissions check for depreciated function to show Stripe keys.
- FIX: Fixed typo in a permissions check for viewing a campaign builder preview.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.8
- NEW: Add three WordPress hooks to allow developers to add custom content in the gateway fieldset in the donation form.
- NEW: Add ‹charitable_stripe_payment_intent_data› filter payment_intent_data sent to Stripe (example: remove setup_future_usage for some Stripe payment integrations).
- NEW: New menu item «SMTP» with ability to download and install WP Mail SMTP.
- NEW: Added hooks ‹charitable_gateway_fields_front›, ‹charitable_gateway_fields_after_legend›, and ‹charitable_gateway_fields_after_legend› to insert text into gateway fields area in donation form.
- NEW: Updated charitable.pot.
- FIX: Resolved a security issue when checking to see if a campaign can recieve donation.
- FIX: Resolved issue related to exporting recurring donations.
- FIX: Added nonce and permissions check to checking licenses via AJAX.
- FIX: Resolved typos and PHP warnings and notices.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.7
- FIX: Resolve issue when incorrectly showing («false alarm») dashboard security notice.
- FIX: Dashboard Guide Tools notice no longer displays over populated donation charts when changing days.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.6
- NEW: Tools page menu with Export and Import now located here (previously Settings page).
- NEW: «System Info» tab on Tools page.
- NEW: WPCode Intergration! Browse from all Charitable snippets on WPCode without leaving Charitable (Seen on Tools page and Dashboard page).
- NEW: Growth Tools page.
- NEW: Guide Tools recommendations on Charitable Dashboard.
- NEW: Notice on Charitable Dashboard if Charitable detects recent failed donation attempts due to invalid security checks.
- NEW: Improvements to allow third-party gateway providors a dedicated menu in the Payments tab in the campaign visual builder.
- FIX: Improved display of currency on y axis on headline chart on dashboard and overview pages and print output.
- FIX: Resolved issue where certain settings of the donor wall in the campaign visual builder weren’t being reflected on the campaign page.
- FIX: Tweaks to social sharing in campaign visual builder.
- FIX: Resolve issue involving previewing Charitable emails while using newer Block themes.
- FIX: Resolved typos and some PHP warnings and notices.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.5
- NEW: Addon and plugin suggestions for campaign and donation screens when campaign or donations don’t exist yet.
- NEW: Dismissable pointer boxes added.
- NEW: Updated text and promotional content.
- NEW: Updated addon suggestions on Charitable dashboard.
- FIX: «Date Created» populated in campaign CSV export.
- FIX: Update capbility of visual campaign builder so that roles with «manage_pages» (such as Campaign Managers) would have access.
- FIX: Minor code cleanup and tweaks for PHP notices.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.4
- NEW: Improved marketing and payment tabs in visual builder that link to Newsletter Addon settings (if installed) or enable gateways/view settings for activated payment addons.
- NEW: Email address and time now appearing on donation list page in admin.
- NEW: Campaign and donation exports show fields foramtted for currency for donations, goal amounts, etc.
- NEW: Ability for Charitable addons to add additional items on the advanced tab in «Settings».
- NEW: Addition of ‹charitable_report_overview_args› filter that allows adjustment of default values for the Overview report.
- FIX: Fixed a minor JavaScript issue on addon directory page that enables «link to search/filter» to work via «search» keyword in the URL.
- FIX: Issue saving legacy license codes in certain scenarios.
- FIX: Minor code cleanup and tweaks for PHP notices.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.3
- NEW: Pagination for all donor reports, with a filter allowing customization of items per page based on the report.
- FIX: Lybunt reporting now sorts by total lifetime amount and includes non-default avatars if possible.
- FIX: Donor reports should be more reliable showing non-default avatars and «last donation» amounts where applicable.
- FIX: Top donor reports showing more rows (if available) in non-pagination display.
- FIX: Adjustment to cache logic for visual campaign builder when loading pre-built templates when creating campaigns.
- FIX: Improved communication with Charitable server and caching of failed API attempts for licenses.
- FIX: Added additional checks for activities database tables.
- FIX: Resolved a few PHP warnings and notices.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.2
- FIX: Resolved a PHP fatal error for older PHP versions when checking license information for addons.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1.1
- FIX: Resolved a PHP 8.x fatal error in getting sample donors for Lite users on donor report page.
- FIX: Better results for activities on activity page when «donations (paid)» filter is selected.
- FIX: Improved communication with Charitable server and caching of API data when confirming addon and license information.
- FIX: Adjusted CSS for a call to action button for lite users on campaign page.
- FIX: Resolved an issue where sample activity data was appearing for lite users in certain scenarios.
- FIX: Minor cleanup of activity HTML on overview reporting page when no activities are available to display.
Donation Form & Fundraising Campaigns v1.8.1
- NEW: New dashboard showing new data and reports related to campaigns, donations, and donors over last 7, 14, and 30 days. More information.
- NEW: Introducing a new reporting tab that (among other reports) includes an overview showing donation breakdown, report filtering, payment breakdown, and more. More information.
- NEW: Clear activity database option in Charitable settings->advanced tab.
- NEW: Addition of ‹charitable_is_main_loop› filter which is involved in checking whether Charitable is currently in the main loop on a singular page.
- NEW: Updated CSS of frontend campaign visual templates, including adding word wrap CSS to campaign title headlines.
- FIX: Resolved fatal error in certain scenarios when ‹donation form on page› was in set in general settings and a shortcode was used to add a single campaign.
- FIX: In Stripe gateway settings: card descriptor field for Stripe (with Stripe Connect) appears in both CHARITABLE_DEBUG mode true and false.
- FIX: Resolved issues related to embedding campaigns in the visual builder.
- FIX: Added checks for get_current_screen() to resolve a fatal error in some scenarios on an admin screen.
- FIX: Auto setting for donation receipt pages should work better for block themes, including Twenty Twenty-Three and Twenty Twenty-Four.
- FIX: Adjusting allowed HTML in the text block for campaign visual builder.
View entire donation form and fundraising platform changelog