BRAINTREE PAYMENTS WITH CHARITABLE

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Give donors the easy payment options they want including credit cards, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay and Google Pay, all through a single integration with top-tier security.

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April 24, 2026

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Get Easy Payments with Cutting-Edge Security Features

The Braintree integration offers your supporters a smooth and secure giving experience, no matter how they choose to donate. You can accept a wide range of payment methods – from credit cards and PayPal to digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay. All transactions are protected by advanced security measures, including top-notch encryption and fraud detection tools. 

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Why You’ll Love Our Braintree Integration

Quick & Easy Setup

Single Integration for Multiple Payment Options

Simply enable Braintree as a payment gateway in your Charitable settings, enter your Braintree credentials, and you’re ready to go. The intuitive interface guides you through each step, making the process easy even for those without technical expertise.

Once integrated, you’ll enjoy streamlined donations, easy donor management, detailed reporting, and the flexibility to adapt to your growing fundraising needs – all while providing your supporters with a smooth and secure donation experience.

User-friendly integration process

Multiple payment methods

Extensive global and local payment support

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Local & International Donations

Enhanced Donor Experience and Global Reach

Braintree comes with a user-friendly dashboard and support for multiple payment methods to provide a seamless donation experience. Accept payments via credit cards, PayPal, and digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay. 

With extensive localization features supporting 130+ currencies and 45+ countries, you can expand your fundraising efforts globally while offering donors a familiar, localized experience.

Support for 130+ currencies

Localized payment methods for 45+ countries

Multi-language support

High Security Standards

Leverage Braintree’s Advanced Fraud Protection

Braintree offers cutting-edge security features to protect your donations. With AI-powered fraud detection, 3D Secure 2.0 authentication, and secure Vault storage for recurring donations, your transactions are safeguarded at every step. 

The integration with Charitable ensures PCI compliance and data encryption, allowing you to focus on your mission while Braintree handles the security complexities.

AI-powered fraud prevention

Advanced authentication protocols

Secure storage for recurring donations

Secure payment

Payment Methods Supported With Braintree

With our Braintree integration, you’ll unlock a suite of modern payment methods that give your customers the freedom to pay however they prefer. Here’s a list of payment methods offered by Braintree:

  • ACH Direct Debit
  • Digital Wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay
  • Secure Remote Commerce (SRC)
  • Card Payments
    • Visa
    • Mastercard
    • Discover
    • UnionPay
    • JCB
    • American Express
  • Debit Cards and Dual-branded Cards
  • PayPal
  • Local Payment Methods
  • Venmo

Learn more about Braintree’s supported payment methods »

While we try to keep this list updated to the best of our ability, payment methods and support tend to change from time to time. For the most current options, head over to the Braintree official website – we’ve just covered the highlights here so it’s always best to check directly with Windcave.

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Tutorial

Charitable Braintree

Learn how to supercharge your fundraising efforts by integrating Braintree Payments with Charitable. This step-by-step guide will show you how to set up Braintree as a payment gateway, configure recurring donations, and use diverse payment methods to boost your nonprofit’s donation potential.

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New templates

🤩 New Beacon Campaign Templates w/ “Hero” Block!

With the new Beacon Campaign Templates for Charitable Pro, you can launch a stunning, full-width fundraising page that instantly captures visitor attention above the fold.

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🔦 Above-the-Fold Impact: Lead with a full-width hero image, your logo, and your goal with a donation widget locked right on top of the banner so your ask and momentum register instantly without scrolling.

📐 Two Flexible Layouts: Choose between a structured two-column layout for side-by-side storytelling and supporting details, or a clean one-column view designed for uninterrupted long-form narratives.

⚡ All-in-One Hero Field: Powered by the new Campaign Hero field, bringing background media, live progress bars, custom donation amounts, and recurring giving tabs together into a single cohesive block that can be dropped into any layout.

🎨 Automatic Theme Matching: The hero banner and donation widget automatically inherit your campaign theme’s button and accent colors, ensuring your entire presentation stays beautifully on-brand without touching a line of CSS.

Learn more here.

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📝 Donation Form Block: Embed a Working Donation Form Anywhere

With the new Donation Form Block for Charitable Pro, you can drop a fully working donation form directly onto any page or post in the WordPress block editor. No redirects, no page reloads, and zero friction between reading your story and making a contribution.

📝 Drop Forms Anywhere: Place a working form directly onto your homepage, inside a story-driven blog post, on a dedicated landing page, or within a campaign announcement.

🎯 Dynamic Campaign Binding: Easily choose a specific campaign from the block sidebar or set it to automatically bind to whichever campaign is currently being viewed.

📐 Full vs. Minimal Form Views: Switch between a full layout or a compact minimal view to perfectly fit sidebars, narrow columns, or wide landing pages.

🎨 Scoped No-Code Styling: Customize typography, container spacing, border radius, amount buttons, and accent colors independently for every form instance without touching a line of CSS.

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👤 Creator Profiles: Put a Face to Every Peer-to-Peer Campaign

Ambassadors 3.3.0 now provies Creator Profiles — giving your supporters a permanent, shareable public home that turns one-time fundraisers into ongoing relationships.

👤 Public Creator Pages: Give every fundraiser an instant, clean landing page at /creator/their-name/ to showcase their custom avatar, bio, and a browsable grid of their campaigns.

📊 Proof of Impact: Boost donor trust by displaying site-wide milestones on the profile—like total funds raised and total donor counts.

💳 Interactive Hover Cards: When donors hover over a creator’s name on a campaign page, a compact card expands with their bio and social handles right at the moment of decision.

📍 Responsible Location Sharing: Allow creators to safely show local supporters where they are based using only city, state, and country details.

🛠️ Self-Serve Customization: Fundraisers can update their own profiles and link up to six social networks directly from the My Campaigns hub, saving you admin time.

Ready to empower your advocates? Update to Ambassadors 3.3.0 and turn on “Enable Public Creator Page” today!

Improvement Payments

📱 Turn Mobile Scrollers Into Donors: Meet Charitable’s Mollie Upgrade

Losing mobile supporters because they hate typing out long card numbers on their phones? Charitable’s updated Mollie integration features:

⚡ One-Tap Wallet Checkout: Enable donors to complete their gifts instantly using Apple Pay or Google Pay with a simple face scan, fingerprint, or tap.

💰 No Extra PCI Burden: Skip complex domain verification and security compliance since all wallet transactions run safely through Mollie’s hosted checkout.

🛠️ Custom Cancel Routing: Keep the experience predictable by automatically sending donors who back out to your cancellation page, or use developer filters to route them to a custom page.

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Moderation and Directory Screens In Ambassadors 3.0

Ambassadors 3.0 has new features: moderation and directory screens… now easily see those who are earning donations on your peer to peer network – including campaign creators that might need to be verified – all in one place. Generate reports, email ambassadors and campaign creators directly and more.

🚀 See when campaign creators and ambassadors have updated their campaigns, what donors/donation they have brought in and more.

🎉 Manually add ambassadors and campaign creators, and approve them in one-click!

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