ACCEPT DONATIONS WITH PAYSTACK

Secure, Easy, and Fast Donations with Paystack

Accept donations with our Paystack integration that takes only minutes to set up. Donors can contribute using 100+ payment method including credit cards, Apple Pay, Mobile Money, and more.

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December 28, 2022

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Maximize Donations With Paystack

Transform your payment experience with Paystack’s all-in-one solution. One simple integration unlocks a world of payment options, letting your customers choose how they want to pay.

Similar Extensions

Use Cases

Secure checkout
International donations
Recurring donations

Raise funds faster and with less stress

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Why You’ll Love Paystack Payments with Charitable

Instant Payment Integration

Set Up Paystack in Minutes

Adding Paystack to your Charitable donation forms is super simple. Just enable Paystack in your Charitable dashboard, connect your Paystack account, and you’re ready to accept donations. No coding needed – just a few clicks and you’re done.

Your donors get a smooth checkout experience that’s built for the African market. They can give using their local payment methods, whether that’s cards, bank transfers, or mobile money – all working seamlessly with your Charitable donation forms.

Simple integration process

Works right away

User-friendly dashboard

Paystack credit card payment
Paystack payment checkout

Cater to Local & Global Donors

Accept International Payments Through Your Forms

Collect donations from all over the world. Your donation forms automatically show relevant local options – from cards and bank transfers to mobile money – based on where your donor is giving from.

No need to set up different forms for different regions – the integration handles it all, making giving easy for all your supporters.

Local payment methods

International donations

One form, multiple ways to give

Simple Donation Payouts

Get Your Donations Faster

No more waiting days or weeks to receive your donations. When supporters donate through your Charitable forms with Paystack, you’ll get your money quickly and reliably.

Every successful donation automatically settles to your bank account within 24 hours. Paystack processes all settlements before 10 AM every morning, so you can count on consistent access to your funds.

Next-day settlements

Morning payouts

Reliable transfers

Charitable reports
Secure payment

Secure Donations

Bank-Level Security for African Donations

Paystack brings top-level payment security to your Charitable donation forms.

Every transaction is protected by PCI-DSS certified systems and automatic fraud detection that learns from millions of transactions to spot and stop suspicious activity.

When something doesn’t look right, these systems kick in to protect both you and your donors. Plus, if fraud is detected with any Paystack merchant, all users get protected from similar attempts – creating a stronger safety net for everyone.

PCI-DSS certified

Smart fraud detection

Automatic protection

Payment Methods Supported With Paystack

With one Paystack integration, you’ll unlock a suite of modern payment methods that give your customers the freedom to pay however they prefer. Below are the major payment options offered:

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Verve
  • American Express
  • Google Pay
  • Apple Pay
  • PayPal
  • M-Pesa
  • Pocket App
  • PalmPay
  • Scan to Pay
  • EFT
  • Visa QR
  • SnapScan
  • Mobile Money
  • PayAttitude
  • USSD
  • Pay with Transfer
  • Pay with Bank

Learn more about Paystack’s supported payment methods »

While we maintain this list to the best of our ability, payment methods and support may vary by region and time. For the most current options, head over to Paystack’s official website – we’ve just covered the highlights here!

Paystack payment methods

Ready to Get More Donations with Paystack?

Get started with Charitable Pro today and start collecting donations online with Paystack. We’re so confident you’ll love it that we back every purchase with our 14-day money-back guarantee – giving you the freedom to explore risk-free.

Easy Tutorial: How to Set Up Paystack Payments

Charitable Paystack tutorial

Learn how to integrate Paystack Payments with Charitable to get more donations across the globe. This step-by-step guide will show you how to set up Paystack as a payment option for your Charitable fundraisers and donation forms.

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ambassadors New

🖨️ Introducing Fliers and Posters: Raise Money Away From the Screen!

A lot of peer-to-peer fundraising happens away from a screen: at the finish line of a 5K, on a school noticeboard, in an office kitchen. Charitable Ambassadors 3.4.7 adds 2 printables, a fundraiser flier carrying each fundraiser’s own story and QR code, and a recruitment poster that signs new fundraisers up. Both open as a normal web page and print straight from the browser. Why this is important:

  • 🏁 A flier for every fundraiser: Each one carries that fundraiser’s own photo, story and goal, with a QR code that opens their page rather than your main campaign.
  • 📌 A poster that recruits: It shows “Now Recruiting” above your campaign name with a large QR code that opens your sign-up form, so someone can start fundraising without waiting on a link from you.
  • 🪄 No design tool needed: Both printables render as a normal web page and print from the browser, with no PDF plugin and no designer.
  • 📄 2 flier layouts: Hand out carries the full story for giving to friends and family, and Post up carries a short hook with 5 tear-off tabs for a noticeboard.
  • 🛡️ Off until you switch it on: Fliers stay off after the update until you enable them under Charitable » Ambassadors » Other » Fliers, and only the owner or an administrator can open one.

Check out our announcement here.

Improvement Payments

💸 Introducing Tiered Rates for Fee Relief: Match the Ask to the Gift!

Fee Relief asks your donors one short question at checkout: would you like to cover the processing fee on this gift? Until now that question used a single rate for every donation on a gateway, so a $10 gift and a $500 gift were asked for the same percentage. Fee Relief 1.3.0 lets you set as many donation bands as you like, each carrying its own rate. Why this is important:

  • 🪙 Gentler on small gifts: A fixed transaction cost is a far bigger share of a $10 donation than a $500 one, so bands let you ask for less at the bottom.
  • 🎚️ As many bands as you need: Each band carries its own percentage and its own fixed amount, and the top band runs on with no upper limit.
  • 🛑 An optional ceiling: A Maximum fee field stops any donor being asked for more than a number you choose, however large the gift.
  • 🔌 Set per payment gateway: Stripe can run on four bands while Windcave and Payfast stay on a single rate, because bands belong to a gateway and not to your whole site.
  • 🛡️ Nothing changes until you say so: Your current rates stay exactly as they are until you switch Use Tiered Rates on under Charitable » Settings » Advanced » Fee Relief.

Check out our announcement here.

Donations Improvement

📊 Your Pro Dashboard Can Now Compare, Export, and Score!

Most fundraising dashboards only tell you how much you have raised. Charitable Pro 1.8.19 rebuilds the dashboard and the Reports Overview around the harder questions: whether anything is broken, whether this period beat the last one, and which single change would make the most difference today. Why this is important:

  • 📈 Every figure has a trend: Pick a period and the tiles and the chart move together, with each total shown against the previous period.
  • 🗓️ Charts that stay readable: Short ranges group donations day by day, while longer ranges group by week or month, so a full year reads as a curve instead of a flat line.
  • 🔀 Compare any 2 periods: Not just consecutive ones, so you can ask how this December did against last December. That matters because fundraising is seasonal.
  • 📤 Export the whole summary: Send the full overview out as CSV or PDF, ready for a board pack or a funder report.
  • 🎯 Score your setup for free: Have your fundraising setup scored, so the one change worth making next is the one you can see.

Check out our announcement here.

Feature New

🎟️ Introducing Charitable Events: Sell Tickets Inside Your Campaigns!

Most nonprofits sell event tickets in one tool and collect donations in another, which leaves two sets of reports and a manual match at the end of the year. Charitable Events brings both together, selling tickets through the same donation forms and payment gateways you already run in Charitable. Why this is important:

  • 🎟️ Every ticket is a donation: Ticket sales run through the gateway you already use and count toward the campaign goal, with everything managed under Charitable » Events.
  • 📱 QR check-in from any phone: Each attendee gets their own QR code on the receipt, and volunteers scan at the door through a check-in link that needs no WordPress account.
  • 🧾 Receipts ready for tax time: Give each ticket type a fair market value, and Charitable puts the correct tax-deductible amount on every donor receipt.
  • 📋 Attendee details at checkout: Ask every guest for a meal choice, shirt size, or access needs, with a separate attendee record created for each ticket.
  • 🗓️ Blocks and calendars included: Three editor blocks plus Sugar Calendar and The Events Calendar support put your events where supporters already look.

Check out our announcement here.

ai New

🚀 Unleash AI Power in Charitable!

Your AI assistant can now build, edit, and manage your Charitable fundraising campaigns directly — just by asking. With Charitable Pro adding write support for the WordPress Abilities API, tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor can handle full administrative actions safely through MCP. Why this is important:

  • 🤖 Campaign creation in plain language: Prompt your assistant with a goal like “Set up a fundraiser for the shelter with a $5,000 goal”, and it builds a real draft campaign complete with suggested donation tiers.
  • 🎨 Instant donation form tweaks: Add custom fields, change button colors, or reorder elements without diving into form settings.
  • 📝 Offline gift logging: Tell your assistant about cash or check gifts, and it will match donor emails and record transactions into your history.
  • 🛡️ Safety and control by default: Write access stays strictly off until turned on in Charitable » Tools » AI MCP, keeping read-only reporting safe by default.
  • 📜 Full audit logging: Every change made by an AI assistant is tracked under Charitable » Tools » Logs, so you always know who (or what) updated your site.

Check out our announcement here.