CHARITABLE + AUTHORIZE.NET

Securely Accept Donations With Authorize.Net

Seamlessly integrate Authorize.Net to offer secure, professional payment options your supporters trust. Boost donor confidence and contributions!

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September 1, 2026

Payment

Offer Payment Types Your Donors Prefer With Authorize.Net

Authorize.Net is a popular and trusted payment gateway that lets you offer a variety of payment options including credit card, debit card, eChecks, and digital wallets like Google Pay and Apple Pay.

By integrating Authorize.Net with Charitable, you can easily add payment functionality to your fundraiser campaigns. Plus, your donors will love how smooth and secure every transaction is.

Similar Extensions

Use Cases

Secure Payment Processing
Recurring Donations
Saved Payment Information

Why You’ll Love Authorize.net + Charitable

Authorize net payment methods

Let Donors Choose

Accept Multiple Payment Methods

Accept multiple payment methods including credit cards, debit cards, PayPal, and ACH bank transfers (US only).

Every payment your donors make through the Authorize.net payment gateway is secure and protected against fraud through their built-in data encryption and security measures.

Secure payments

Multiple payment methods

Fraud protection

Fee Relief

Allow Donors to Cover Processing Fee

You can ause the Fee Relief extension with Authorize.Net to allow your donors to pay the gateway fees charged by the payment gateway

You can easily configure how the fee is calculated and provide a different configuration for E-check payments, which have lower fees, than card payments.

Recover processing fee

Smooth integration

No coding

Automatic fee relief calculation
Secure payment

Recurring Donations

Build Email Journeys Based on Giving Behavior

Charitable Authorize.Net is fully supported by our popular WordPress Recurring Donations plugin.

You can accept monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and annually recurring donations.

Donors simply need to select their amount and frequency, and Charitable will handle the rest.

Recurring Donations

Automatic payments

Automated emails

Tutorial

Learn how to connect Charitable & Authorize.Net. This lets you accept donations through credit card and online wallters as well as hassle-free bank transfers (US only).

Other Gateways You Can Enable

Charitable works with a range of payment gateways, and you can enable more than one at a time. Plenty of organizations run a local gateway for donors close to home and a second one for everyone else, so nobody reaches your donation form and finds no way to give.

See every gateway you can enable to accept donations »

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Improvement Payments

💰 Accept Recurring Donations with Windcave and Charitable

A donor sets their gift up once on Windcave’s secure payment page, and Charitable bills every renewal after that on schedule. Why this is important:

🏦 Organizations banked in New Zealand or Australia: monthly giving on the gateway your bank already set you up with, with no second processor to onboard.
⛪ Churches taking regular tithes and offerings: congregants set their own schedule once, which is the simplest way to launch recurring church giving without a separate platform.
🌏 Groups with donors in several currencies: Windcave handles more than 20, so a supporter can give in the currency they actually hold.
📅 Operating funds rather than one-time campaigns: switch on Recurring Only mode and the one-off option disappears, so every gift to that campaign is a subscription.
🧾 Teams with no developer on staff: 3 sets of credentials pasted into a settings page, and no code anywhere.

Check out our announcement here.

automation update

⚡ Visual Automation Builder: Drag and Drop With No Code!

Charitable Automation Connect 2.3.0 introduces the Visual Automation Builder, a full-screen canvas that lays each automation out as a flow of connected cards: a trigger, optional conditions, and a list of actions that run in order.

🧩 Many actions, one trigger: Tag a donor, send an email, add a note, and fire a webhook from a single event, dragged into any order.

✉️ Act inside Charitable: New Send Email, Tag Donor, and Add Donor Note actions run with no external service required.

🔤 Merge tags: Personalize emails and notes with live fields like {first_name}, {total}, and {campaign_name}.

🔁 Apply to existing donors: Run Tag Donor and Add Donor Note against the donors you already have.

🖥️ Canvas or Simple: Switch views anytime, and automations built before 2.3.0 keep working unchanged.

Read more here.

Integration updated

📬 Introducing Brevo for Charitable: Turn Donors into Subscribers Automatically

The moment a supporter makes a gift is when they are most engaged. With the new Brevo integration for Charitable, you can automatically turn those one-time donors into long-term subscribers without touching a single spreadsheet.

Simply collect donor consent right on your donation form and start your welcome series immediately.

What’s New:

🔄 Automated Subscriber Sync: New donors who opt in are added straight to your Brevo contact list as soon as their payment clears—no manual exports or CSV imports required.

🎯 Granular Consent & Opt-In Control: Customize your checkbox label, choose whether it defaults to checked or unchecked, or turn on Brevo double opt-in to keep your list clean and compliant.

📋 Per-Campaign List Mapping: Route supporters to your global email list or map specific campaigns to targeted Brevo lists to tailor your follow-up messaging.

⚡ 5-Minute Setup: Connect instantly by pasting your Brevo API key into the Newsletter settings, map your contact fields, and start building your email list on autopilot.

Ready to grow your mailing list? Brevo is available now starting on the Charitable Plus plan—connect your account today!

recurring donations updated

💳 Introducing Card Updates: Fix Expired Cards Without Losing Subscriptions!

newExpired or updated credit cards are one of the biggest silent leaks in recurring fundraising. With Card Updates in the Recurring Donations extension, donors can now refresh their payment details directly—keeping their subscription, schedule, and giving history completely intact.

No canceled plans, no lost history, and zero administrative headache for your team.

What’s New:

⚡ 30-Second Self-Service: Donors get a dedicated “Update Card” button in their dashboard that opens Stripe’s secure, PCI-compliant Customer Portal to update card details instantly.

🔒 Scoped & Safe Access: Scoped exclusively to card updates by default, donors can’t accidentally cancel or alter their plans from inside the portal, keeping your webhooks and data in sync.

🤝 Admin-Assisted Support: Helping a donor on the phone? Open their secure Stripe portal in one click from your admin screen or generate a single-use update link to email them.

📋 Automatic Audit Trail: Every payment method update is recorded automatically with a timestamp in both system-wide logs and the individual donor’s profile.

Ready to protect your recurring revenue? Get the Plus or Pro plan and update Recurring Donations to 2.3.0+ and enable “Update Payment Method” under your Settings today!

Integration page builder

Divi Fans Rejoice! Native Divi 5 Campaign Progress Bar Module!

With our new native Divi 5 module, you can anchor your microsites with real-time fundraising stats directly on the visual canvas. Here’s how it works, and why it’s worth turning on today.

Create campaign updates that are VISUAL AND LIVE. You can also:

📊 Campaign Progress Bar: Drop a live progress bar into any Divi 5 layout and show goal progress in real time.

🎨 Deep styling controls: Easily customize the bar and track color, height, and radius to match your brand perfectly.

👁️ Visual Builder ready: Configure and preview everything directly on the Divi canvas as a first-class module.

🔁 Identical rendering: The same exact engine powers this module, meaning consistent design without legacy shims.

✅ Faster launches: Never leave the Divi 5 interface to configure shortcodes or guess how your goal labels will look.

Learn more here.