PAYPAL DONATIONS WITH CHARITABLE

Secure and Easy Donations with PayPal

Enable secure transactions via PayPal, supporting cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more. Reach 200+ countries and 26 currencies, unlocking global support for your cause.

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Boost Donations with Seamless PayPal Payments

By integrating PayPal with Charitable, you unlock a powerful fundraising duo that makes online fundraising simple! You’ll tap into PayPal’s vast network of over 400 million active users worldwide, providing your donors with a familiar and trusted payment option they already know and love. Donors can complete their transactions quickly and securely, using their existing PayPal accounts or credit cards, without the need to navigate away from your website or enter extensive payment information. The seamless connection between PayPal and Charitable streamlines the giving process, potentially increasing conversion rates and boosting overall contributions to your cause.

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Why Integrate Paypal with Charitable

Enable PayPal in a Few Clicks – No Coding!

Getting started is a breeze – no technical expertise needed. Just enable PayPal as a payment gateway in Charitable and enter your PayPal credentials. Within minutes, you’ll be ready to accept PayPal donations. The intuitive interface guides you through each step, ensuring a smooth setup process.

Once integrated, PayPal works seamlessly with Charitable, automatically handling transaction processing and security. You won’t need to worry about payment logistics or coding – it’s all taken care of behind the scenes. This hassle-free setup allows you to focus on what really matters: your mission and connecting with donors.

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Access to 400+ million PayPal users

Streamlined donation process

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Offer Payment Options Your Donors Prefer

By adding PayPal to Charitable, you’re giving donors a payment method they know and trust. With over 400 million users worldwide, PayPal brings familiarity and security to your donation process. This means more supporters feel confident about contributing to your cause.

The best part? It’s super easy for donors to give. Those with PayPal accounts can donate in just a few clicks, while others can quickly use their credit or debit cards through PayPal’s secure system. This streamlined process for non-profits means fewer abandoned donations and potentially more funds for your mission.

 Simplified checkout process

Reduced donation friction

Higher potential for completed donations

Expand Global Reach and Accept Multiple Currencies

With PayPal integration, your fundraising efforts can go global! Break down geographical barriers and welcome supporters from over 200 markets worldwide. This means you can accept donations from almost anywhere, potentially boosting your fundraising results.

PayPal handles it all, supporting 26 currencies with automatic conversions. Your donors can give in their local currency, while you receive funds in yours. Plus, with localized checkout experiences, supporters worldwide will feel right at home when donating. No matter where your donors are, they can easily contribute to your cause.

Access to donors in over 200 markets

Support for 26 currencies

Automatic currency conversion

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Tutorial

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Enable PayPal payments with just a few clicks and collect donations from across the globe. Learn to connect to PayPal, configure APIs, get discounted fees for non-profits, and more.

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💂‍♂️ New DonationGuard 🛡️ Automatically Protects Your Donations!

Worried about card testing attacks or spam bots flooding your donation forms, but don’t want to ruin the giving experience for your real supporters? Charitable’s DonationGuard features:

🛡️ Real-Time Bot Detection: Actively monitors every donation submission for five distinct attack signals without slowing down your human donors.

📊 Smart Traffic Scoring: Instantly evaluates activity against a learned baseline of your site’s normal donation rhythms to catch sneaky, slow-drip card testing.

🚨 Severity-Tiered Alerts: Immediately opens structured “Attack Records” and notifies you via email and admin alerts the moment a campaign starts taking fire.

🎯 Single-Click Defense: Deploy instant security using the “Recommended Settings” preset to turn on Honeypot, Time Trap, and Rate Limit modules all at once.

🚫 Automated Blocklists: Permanently stop repeat offenders by automatically blocking suspicious email addresses based on your customized rules.

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GiveWP Migrations New

🧤 White Glove Migration Service for GiveWP

Thinking about switching your fundraising platform from GiveWP to Charitable, but don’t want to risk losing your data or handle a complex technical setup yourself? Charitable’s White Glove Migration Service features:

👥 Flawless Donor Mapping: Safely transfer your entire supporter database with zero data loss.

📊 Complete Financial History: Meticulously preserve every historical transaction for continuous, accurate reporting.

🔄 Seamless Recurring Giving: Safely transfer active sustaining subscriptions without disrupting your incoming revenue or requiring your donors to update their information.

💳 Zero Gateway Disruptions: Keep using Stripe, PayPal, or any other GiveWP-compatible processor you already love.

🚀 Expert Technical Setup: Relax while our team handles the heavy lifting to install and configure your forms—plus, qualifying users get a full year of Charitable Pro completely free.

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📢 New Feature Alert: Automation Connect 2.0 Is Here! 🚀

Thinking about connecting your fundraising data to tools like Mailchimp, Slack, or Google Sheets, but don’t want to hire a developer or write custom code? Charitalbe’s new automation addon has:

⚡ 17 Event Triggers: Instantly fire webhooks for a donor’s first gift, renewal payments, or reached campaign milestones.

🎯 Smart Conditional Logic: Use powerful AND/OR logic across 11 fields to only send data when it meets your exact criteria, like newsletter opt-ins.

📊 Custom Payload Control: Select from 80+ clean data fields across donor, donation, and campaign metadata so your apps get exactly what they need.

🚀 Pre-Built Platform Templates: Skip the setup from scratch with ready-to-go templates for Zapier, Make.com, n8n, HubSpot, and Slack.

🛡️ Reliable Developer Tools: Power your workflows with signed HMAC-SHA256 payloads, complete WordPress filters, and automatic retry logs.

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🔌 Charitable Meets Zapier: Connect to 7,000+ Apps and Automate Your Fundraising

Tired of manually copying donation data into accounting sheets or tracking down new donor signups? Put your administrative tasks on autopilot. Charitable is now officially on Zapier, giving you a powerful, no-code way to plug your fundraising directly into the rest of your favorite tools.

Every donation, donor signup, and campaign milestone can now trigger an automated workflow seamlessly.

What’s New:

♾️ Connect to 7,000+ Apps: Bridge your Charitable campaigns with everyday software like Google Sheets, QuickBooks, Slack, Mailchimp, HubSpot, Notion, Airtable, and thousands more.

⚡ 12 Powerful Triggers: Build deep workflows using smart automation triggers covering the entire donation lifecycle—including New Donation, New Donor, Subscription Cancelled, and Campaign Goal Reached.

📋 Pre-Built Action Templates: Get started in three minutes or less with our pre-made template combinations, like automatically logging new donations straight into a Google Sheet or firing custom donor welcome emails through Gmail.

🚫 Zero Code Needed: No complex webhooks or custom PHP scripts required. Just pick your trigger, choose your app, map your fields, and let Zapier handle the heavy lifting.

Ready to save hours of admin time? Grab Charitable Pro with the Automation Connect addon today and launch your first Zap!

Improvement Payments

🚀 Introducing PayPal Commerce: One Connection, Six Ways to Donate

Donors expect modern, flexible payment options when they support a cause. If they don’t see their preferred method on your donation form, they often disappear without a word. With PayPal Commerce, we are bringing a completely modernized checkout experience right to your campaigns.

Enjoy a single integration that upgrades your forms, makes giving seamless, and helps you capture every single donation.

What’s New:

🔌 One-Click Connection: Skip messy API keys and developer docs. Simply click “Connect with PayPal,” sign in to your business account, and your modern form is live in under five minutes.

💳 Six Ways to Give: Give your supporters instant access to PayPal balance, Venmo (US), Pay Later financing, major credit/debit cards, Apple Pay (Safari), and Google Pay (Chrome) all from the exact same form.

🔄 Flexible Recurring Giving: Fully supports monthly giving. Choose between the PayPal Subscriptions API (handled automatically on PayPal’s end) or Vault + Cron (handled securely right on your site).

💬 Friendly Error Recovery: No more confusing browser alerts. If a payment is declined, donors see plain-language, inline messages that guide them on how to fix the issue and complete their gift.

Ready for PayPal, modernized? Update to Charitable Pro 1.8.15+ (or Charitable Lite 1.8.11+) and connect your account today!