WORDPRESS DONATION PLUGIN WITH FEE RELIEF

Keep 100% of Donations With Donor-Covered Fees

Give donors the option to cover any transaction fees to offset the costs of online donations so you collect more for your cause.

Easy Setup

Secure Payments

Smart Calculation

Personalized Followups

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Features That Make Charitable the Top Choice for Fee Relief

See why it’s so easy to maximize your donations with Charitable’s fee recovery options.

Donor’s Choice

Give donors the option to choose whether they cover the transaction fee with simple checkboxes.

Automatic Fee Relief

Choose to automatically add the transaction fee amount to the donation total.

Easy Set Up

Charitable makes it as easy as point and click to set up and customize fee relief options.

Multiple Payment Gateways

Enable multiple gateways and add various processing fee relief amounts for each one, including Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, and more.

Automated Calculation

Add the fee as a fixed rate or a percentage, or through a mixture of both. Our formula will auto-apply the right amount to the donation total.

Campaign Specific

Choose which campaigns to enable/disable fee relief options. You can also change calculations for every campaign.

Site-Wide Fee Relief

Apply the fee relief options across your entire site and for all existing and future campaigns.

Easy Integrations

Connect with 5000+ popular payment, email, marketing, and automation tools to streamline your workflows.

Quick Receipts

Charitable automatically creates receipts for every donation, along with the fee relief amount for your tax and accounting purposes.

Why You’ll Love Donation Fee Relief With Charitable

Don’t let processing fees eat away at your donations! Charitable’s Fee Relief addon offers a powerful solution to reduce this common frustration. Here’s why:

Enable fee relief

One-Click Setup

Fee Relief That’s Easy to Set Up

Enable the Fee Relief feature with just a click inside your Charitable dashboard.

There’s a dedicated tab in your Settings area to manage your fee recovery options.

Enable and disable fee recovery on different gateways according to what is best for your organization.

Smart fee calculation

Supports a range of gateways

Keep 100% of donations

Easy Opt-In To Cover Fees

Flexibility for You and Your Donors

You choose to automatically include the transaction fee or give your donors the choice to cover it.

Donation Fee Relief lets you offer a convenient checkbox on your donation form, giving donors the option to cover processing fees themselves.

You can also enable fee relief across your entire site or only on specific campaigns.

Easy opt-in checkbox

Automatic fee inclusion

Full transparency for donors

Fee recovery checkbox
Automatic fee relief calculation

Automated Fee Calculation

Right Calculations Every Time

Say goodbye to complex calculations and ensure you receive every penny intended for your cause.

Fee Relief automatically calculates processing fees based on your chosen payment gateway, whether it’s a fixed fee, a percentage, or a combination.

No more guesswork, just accurate fee coverage done right, every time.

Smart fee calculation

Supports a range of gateways

Keep 100% of donations

See It In Action

Tutorial

Follow step-by-step instructions to enable and customize Fee Relief for all your campaigns as well as individual campaigns.

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How to Set Up Fee Relief

Create and send professional year-end receipts for all your donors with just one click. It takes less than 5 minutes to set this up and start sending annual receipts to your donors. Open Tutorial »

Frequently Asked Questions

See the list below for our most frequently asked questions. If your question is not listed here, please contact us.

Can I see a demo of Charitable?

You can. Contact us and we’ll be glad to set you up with an up-close view of how Charitable can power your fundraising success. 

How long is my Charitable license valid for?

All Charitable purchases are for a one-year license. It gives you access to support and our frequent product updates. Annual renewals are automatic and you’re free to cancel any time. 

Does Charitable offer a money-back guarantee?

Sure. We are confident you’ll be delighted with Charitable. But, if you’re unhappy for any reason or have a rare issue we can’t resolve, you’ll get a full refund within 14 days of the purchase date. 

Can Charitable replace all the fundraising tools I’m using now?

Yes, Charitable offers a complete solution to raise funds and manage donations all in one place. It includes donation forms, peer-to-peer fundraising, annual tax receipts, reports, and so much more. Try it today and see how it can simplify your fundraising efforts – we offer a money-back guarantee.

What payment gateways do I get out of the box?

You can start accepting donations through PayPal and Stripe as soon as you launch. Using Charitable’s easy-to-install extensions, you can add other gateways such as Payrexx, Authorize.Net, and several others.

Can I generate tax receipts for my donors?

Yes, and it’s easy. Receipts go out automatically after the donation. Plus you can customize the receipt template to include your organization’s information and branding. 

Can I customize donation forms to match my website’s branding?

Absolutely. Charitable has layouts and color schemes for you to experiment with out of the box. If you’d like to keep everything consistent with your site’s design and identity, that’s the default option.

Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Empower supporters to fundraise on your behalf.

Expand your reach through supporter networks

Keep 100% of donations with zero platform fees

Track campaign progress with detailed reports

Donor Management

Streamline donor relationships with powerful tools.

Manage all donor information in a centralized dashboard

Automate email communications to keep donors engaged

Export donor data effortlessly for deeper analysis

Recurring Donations

Convert one-time donors into loyal, long-term supporters.

Enable automated recurring payments with ease

Provide donor accounts for seamless contribution management

Offer flexible donation frequencies to suit individual preferences

Take it from other non-profits raising funds with Charitable

Over 10,000 non-profits are raising more funds, building relationships with donors, and creating greater social impact with Charitable. 

Belinda Martin

“…others were charging 5% and more for every donation, but with Charitable there are no fees for donations, so we were able to run a number of fundraising campaigns with all the money going to the charity.”

Stuart Robinson

“Really useful plugin. I wanted to extend the functionality of it a wee bit and the code was very easy to work with and adapt. Really great response from the developer and it looks like fantastic updates are being added all the time.”

Paul Lawley-Jones

“I’d like to thank you both for making such a great tool at such a great cost. It’s literally 24 times cheaper than the platform we were using before I came on board.”

Stephen Weinberg

“This plugin is exactly what our small, parent-run organization needed… Easy to set up. Easy to customize (as long as you can handle just a tiny bit of code). And superior support! Thanks so much for this full-featured software.”

WordPress Donation Fee Relief –
Frequently Asked Questions

Do you have a question about Charitable’s Fee Relief? See the list below for our most frequently asked questions. If your question is not listed here, please contact us.

What are payment gateway fees?

For using their service, most gateways do not have a subscription plan or a one-time fee. Instead, they charge fees on every transaction. Most payment gateways charge 1% to 3% of the transaction amount or a combination of a percentage and a set amount such as 2.9% + 0.50 cents on every transaction.

What is Fee Relief?

Fee Relief is a feature offered by Charitable that lets you ask donors to cover the transaction fee applied by the payment gateway. That way, you get to keep the full amount of their donation and maximize the amount you raise.

Can I enable Fee Relief only on certain campaigns?

Yes, Charitable’s Fee Relief feature is flexible. You can enable it site-wide or only on specific campaigns. You can also customize the Fee Relief options for each campaign,

What plan do I need to get access to the Fee Relief feature?

Fee Relief is available on Charitable’s Plus plan or higher.

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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.

Fundraising page header for Save Maple Grove Park with a donation widget and a small square photo of a sunlit tree thumbnail on the left.

🔦 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.

donation form Feature New

📝 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.

Learn more here.

ambassadors New

👤 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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