FUNDRAISING PROGRESS BAR

Display a Real-Time Progress Bar

When donors land on a campaign page, they’ll see a bold fundraising progress bar that puts your goal, amount raised, donor count, and days remaining front and center – updating in real time with every donation.

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Everything in Charitable’s Fundraising Progress Bar

Here’s a look at what’s packed into Charitable’s fundraising progress bar – ready to work the moment you publish your first campaign.

Your progress bar reflects real-time donation totals the moment a gift comes in.

A smooth animated fill draws donors’ eyes to your goal and communicates momentum.

Show how many donors have given. Social proof that drives more gifts.

Add an optional deadline and let a live countdown create natural urgency.

Place the progress bar anywhere on your campaign page with no code required.

Compatible with every WordPress theme. Zero conflicts, no custom CSS needed.

Fully responsive – looks great on phones, tablets, and desktop screens.

The progress bar is included in Charitable Lite. No paid plan required to launch.

Run as many campaigns as you need. Each gets its own goal, bar, and countdown.

Why You’ll Love Charitable’s Fundraising Progress Bar

Your donors are mission-driven. They give more when they can see their impact. These are the features that turn a passive campaign page into an active fundraising engine.

Real-Time Progress Display

Watch Live as Every Gift Brings You Closer to Your Goal

Progress bars work because they make progress visible. The moment a donation comes in, Charitable’s progress bar moves forward. No manual refreshes, no admin work, no delays on your part.

Your donors see exactly where you stand and how much is left to raise, right on your campaign page as they’re deciding whether to give.

The closer you get to your goal, the more urgency builds on its own.

Progress Updates Automatically

All in One View

Motivates Late-Campaign Giving

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Drag-and-Drop Setup

Add a Professional Progress Bar to Any Campaign in Minutes

You don’t need a developer or a design background to build a campaign page that looks polished and converts. Charitable’s visual builder lets you drag the progress bar block anywhere on your campaign.

Place it above the fold, below the description, or wherever it drives the most attention. Customize your goal, adjust the style, and reposition it at any time without touching a single line of code.

Works with any WordPress theme. No conflicts, no custom CSS, no developer needed.

Drop the Bar Anywhere on Your Page

Edit Goal and Copy Any Time

Works With Any WordPress Theme

Campaign Goal Setting

Set a Clear Goal That Turns Browsing Into Giving

Every great fundraising campaign answers the same question: what are we raising money for, and how much do we need? Setting a specific dollar goal gives donors a compelling reason to act today rather than “later.”

A visible progress bar and an optional ticking countdown create the kind of urgency that moves campaigns from stalled to fully funded. Charitable handles both in the same setup screen.

Set your goal once and let the bar and countdown do the motivating for you around the clock.

Set Any Dollar Amount as Your Goal

Optional End Date for Built-In Urgency

Remaining Amount Calculated Automatically

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Mobile-Optimized Display

Reach Every Donor on Every Device Without Extra Configuration

Most donors now give on their phones. Your progress bar should look just as compelling on a 5-inch screen as on a desktop – and with Charitable, it does, automatically.

The progress bar is fully responsive: it resizes, adjusts, and renders cleanly on smartphones, tablets, and desktops without any extra setup from you.

Every donor gets the full emotional impact of seeing your goal in motion, wherever they find your campaign.

Fully Responsive. No Extra Setup

Consistent on All Screen Sizes

Fast Loading on Every Campaign Page

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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