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  • Charitable Videos

    Charitable Videos has no settings pages. Once you have installed and activated it (click here for a guide), you can simply edit one of your campaigns to add a video. Adding a video to a campaign Go to Charitable > Campaigns and edit your fundraising campaign or create a new one. On the Campaign management…

  • How to Switch From GiveButter to Charitable

    Migrating from GiveButter to Charitable is a simple process that helps you move your donors and donations without losing any important data. If you’re switching to Charitable, you can easily bring over your records using the built-in import tool. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through each step, from exporting your data from GiveButter to…

  • How to Use Charitable Widgets in Divi

    Building a custom donation page or a campaign showcase often requires complex coding or third-party tools that don’t fit your site’s design. Charitable solves this with native integration for Divi, offering four purpose-built modules that let you drag and drop fundraising elements directly into your layouts. With these widgets, you can add a simple donate…

  • How to Use The Import/Export Tool: GiveWP to Charitable

    Migrating from GiveWP to Charitable is a simple process that helps you move your donors, campaigns, and donations without losing any important data. If you’re switching to Charitable, you can easily bring over your records using the built-in import tool. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through each step – from exporting your data from…

  • How To Use The Donation Form Visual Builder

    The Donation Form Visual Builder is a powerful, easy-to-use drag-and-drop tool that lets you design custom donation forms directly within Charitable. It was created to simplify the process of building donation forms by giving you complete visual control over every field, section, and layout option – no coding required. In this documentation, you will learn…

  • How to Connect your Square Test Account in Charitable

    Testing your Square payment gateway before going live ensures donations work smoothly when you launch. This guide walks you through connecting your Square sandbox (test) account to Charitable. Prerequisites Before you begin, make sure you have: In this Guide Quick answers I clicked “Connect to Square (Sandbox)” and got a blank white screen. What happened?…

  • Using The Misc Options in Donor Settings

    Charitable Pro version 1.8.8.6 introduced new “Field and Profile Sync Settings” to improve how you collect and manage donor information. These settings help you customize registration fields, manage user profile details, and keep donor data consistent between the front end and WordPress admin. How To Access The Misc Tab You can access these settings in…

  • Setting Up Offline Donations in Charitable

    Charitable makes it easy to accept and manage offline donations—such as checks, cash, or bank transfers—right alongside your regular online gifts. This way, every contribution counts toward your fundraising goals and your records stay complete and transparent. In this guide, you’ll learn how to enable and use Offline Donations with Charitable. Enabling Offline Donations Go to Charitable…

  • How to Switch Donation Form Templates

    In Charitable, you can choose between two premade donation form templates. These templates are designed to have all the required fields you need in your donation form. You can choose to display a standard template or a minimal view. This guide will show you how to find and switch your donation form templates. Prerequisites You…

  • Getting Started With Charitable

    If you’re new to Charitable, we’ve put together a simple step-by-step guide just for you! This guide is designed to give you an introduction to Charitable and get you started in getting up and running with a campaign, and to start receiving donations. Note: If you haven’t yet installed Charitable into your WordPress site, then…

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Addon New

🗒️ Custom Receipts… New Addon!

With Custom Receipts, you decide which page your donors see, on every campaign. Here’s how it works, and why it’s worth turning on today.

Create receipts that are CUSTOM TO THE DONOR OR CAMPAIGN. You can also:

📅 Year-end appeal: Reinforce the goal and invite donors to share while momentum is high.

🎗️ Memorial or tribute campaign: Give a gentle, respectful thank-you that fits the moment.

💎 Major gifts: Show a special message only to donors who give above a threshold.

🔁 Recurring growth: Invite one-time donors to become monthly supporters right on the receipt.

🌍 Global campaigns: Surface a country-specific note, like a Gift Aid reminder, only where it applies.

Learn more here.

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.

🔦 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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