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.

Charitable 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.

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

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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Supported Extensions

Recurring Donations: Combine Charitable Braintree with our Recurring Donations plugin to start accepting recurring donations. Braintree supports monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and annually recurring donations.

Fee Relief: Charitable Braintree works seamlessly alongside our popular Fee Relief extension, allowing your donors to pay Braintree’s transaction fees when they donate – it’s a simple, proven way to increase your average donations.

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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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.