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Charitable Lite Update: New Dashboard, Test Mode Alerts & Easy Access Features

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We’re excited to introduce a fresh new look and helpful features exclusively for Charitable Lite users! This update focuses on making your day-to-day fundraising management smoother, more informative, and easier to navigate — all without leaving your WordPress admin.

Fresh New Dashboard Design — All Your Key Data at a Glance

When you log in to your WordPress site and click Charitable in the left menu, you’ll be greeted by the brand-new Lite dashboard. It’s designed to give you a clear overview of your fundraising activity — right inside your site.

Here’s what’s new:

Reports and Analytics Overview: See total donations, average donation, total donors, refunds, and a clear graph showing donation trends over time.

New lite dashboard overview

Switchable Tabs: Easily flip between top campaigns, latest donations, top donors, and campaign comments to stay on top of your donor engagement.

Helpful Sidebar Resources: Find tools to enhance your campaigns, plus the latest Charitable updates.

Enhance your campaign

Quick Access Links: Get instant help with documentation, support, and information on upgrading to Charitable Pro when you’re ready.

Quick access

This dashboard is your new fundraising command center, built to help you take control and grow your campaigns with confidence.

New Test Mode Alert Keeps You in Control

Sometimes you need to test your payment gateways before going live — and that’s why we’ve added a prominently placed Test Mode Active alert.

Charitable test mode active alert

Turn on Test Mode for your gateways, and you’ll see a clear alert box in the top-right corner of your WordPress admin screen. This reminder disappears the moment you switch back to live mode, protecting you from accidental test donations going live.

Test Mode is a crucial feature when setting up or troubleshooting your donation flows, and now you’ll never forget if it’s on or off.

Easily Learn More About Charitable Without Leaving Your Dashboard

We know you want quick answers and easy access to everything Charitable without jumping between websites. So we added a new About Us section inside the Charitable menu in your WordPress admin.

About us

Here’s what’s inside:

  • Meet the team and learn about the story behind Charitable.
  • Browse all available addons right from your dashboard.
  • Access a Getting Started Checklist to help new users set up their first campaigns smoothly.

We added the Getting Started Checklist so that new users always have step-by-step guidance right where they need it. Instead of digging through documentation or searching online, the checklist lives inside your WordPress dashboard, making it easy to access anytime you’re setting up or running your first fundraising campaign.

Getting started

It’s designed to make setup smoother, faster, and less overwhelming—so you can launch your campaign with confidence knowing you haven’t missed an important step.

Everything you need to succeed is now easier to find in one place.

Ready to Experience the Update?

The latest Charitable Lite version is available now. Simply update your plugin in WordPress and get started!

We hope these updates make managing your campaigns easier and more enjoyable. Your feedback always shapes our development, so please keep sharing your thoughts with us!

Stay connected with Charitable for more tips, tutorials, and updates:

Your feedback keeps Charitable moving forward. Thank you for being part of the Charitable community—we’re excited to continue building better tools with you!

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David Bisset Project Manager
David is the project manager of Charitable since 2022. David works with several non-profits (one operated by his wife) along with managing and developing features, support, and marketing for Charitable. Has been with WordPress since 2006 and has been lead organizer of multiple conferences, events, and meetups.

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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!

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David Bisset Project Manager
David is the project manager of Charitable since 2022. David works with several non-profits (one operated by his wife) along with managing and developing features, support, and marketing for Charitable. Has been with WordPress since 2006 and has been lead organizer of multiple conferences, events, and meetups.
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.

Visit this page to learn more.

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David Bisset Project Manager
David is the project manager of Charitable since 2022. David works with several non-profits (one operated by his wife) along with managing and developing features, support, and marketing for Charitable. Has been with WordPress since 2006 and has been lead organizer of multiple conferences, events, and meetups.
ambassadors improved New

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!

Visit this page to learn more.

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David Bisset Project Manager
David is the project manager of Charitable since 2022. David works with several non-profits (one operated by his wife) along with managing and developing features, support, and marketing for Charitable. Has been with WordPress since 2006 and has been lead organizer of multiple conferences, events, and meetups.
New Payments

⚡ Unlock India-Based Donations: Meet Charitable’s Native Razorpay Integration

Trying to collect donations in India? Charitable’s native Razorpay integration features:

⚡ Instant UPI Integration: Accept fast, local donations directly inside your form via apps like PhonePe, Google Pay, Paytm, and BHIM without sending donors away from your site.

📲 Auto-Generated Campaign QRs: Instantly render scannable QR codes encoding a UPI deep link directly on your public campaign pages and sidebars for an effortless “scan-to-give” experience.

💰 Dual Local & Global Reach: Headline your campaigns in INR while seamlessly accepting major international currencies like USD, EUR, GBP, and CAD to maximize global support.

🔁 Seamless Recurring Giving: Fully integrates with the Charitable Recurring addon to manage automatic monthly subscriptions directly through Razorpay without extra code.

↩️ Automatic Two-Way Sync: Keep your books perfectly clean with two-way refund syncing—issue a refund inside WordPress or your Razorpay dashboard and both sides update automatically.

🔒 Webhook-Verified Security: Automatically protect your donation records using HMAC-signed webhook verification to ensure every status update represents real money cleared on the rails.

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David Bisset Project Manager
David is the project manager of Charitable since 2022. David works with several non-profits (one operated by his wife) along with managing and developing features, support, and marketing for Charitable. Has been with WordPress since 2006 and has been lead organizer of multiple conferences, events, and meetups.
Integration New

🎉 New Built-in PushEngage Integration

Struggling with falling email open rates and rising ad costs just to keep your supporters engaged? Charitable’s built-in PushEngage integration features:

🔔 Zero-Fee Direct Messaging: Deliver crisp, instant pop-up notifications straight to your donors’ desktops and mobile devices.

⏱️ Four Smart Automated Triggers: Automatically send updates for immediate donation thank yous, full-list campaign launches, urgent “ending soon” alerts, and goal milestone celebrations.

📈 Group Momentum Broadcasts: Turn private milestones into public wins by automatically broadcasting alerts to your entire subscriber list the moment a campaign hits 50%, 75%, or 100% of its goal.

📊 Automatic Analytics Tracking: Monitor exactly where your incoming notification traffic is coming from with built-in attribution that requires zero complex configuration.

Visit this page to learn more.

author avatar
David Bisset Project Manager
David is the project manager of Charitable since 2022. David works with several non-profits (one operated by his wife) along with managing and developing features, support, and marketing for Charitable. Has been with WordPress since 2006 and has been lead organizer of multiple conferences, events, and meetups.