Posts by ericnicolaas
Newsletter Connect 2.0: User Privacy, Field Mapping & ActiveCampaign
Charitable Newsletter Connect 2.0 is out today, with a host of improvements. Besides featuring a deep integration with Charitable’s Contact Consent feature, the update also adds a powerful new field mapping tool and support for ActiveCampaign. Powerful Field Mapping In MailChimp, they’re called merge fields. In MailerLite, they’re referred to as subscriber fields. In Campaign…
Read MoreTutorial: Set Custom Receipt Pages per Campaign
By default, your site will have a single donation receipt page, which donors will automatically be redirected to after they make their donation. You can use the auto-generated receipt page provided by Charitable out of the box, or you can specify a particular page to be used as your donation receipt page. Check the guide…
Read MoreTutorial: How to Change the Donate Button Text on a Per-Campaign Basis
While most people use Charitable for fundraising campaigns, some users have found creative uses for it. One customer recently wanted to continue using Charitable as a donation tool, while also using it as a way for people to register for their event. The first step to achieving this is easy enough: Just create a separate…
Read MoreTutorial: How to Add Campaign-Specific Content to the Donation Receipt Email
If you run many campaigns, you may need to add campaign-specific text to your donation receipt emails. Charitable does not support this out of the box, but thanks to the flexibility of the underlying code, it’s possible to enable this. The Solution To solve this problem, we are going to add a new field to…
Read MoreBoost Your Donations with Fee Relief
Today we’re releasing our first extension for 2019: Charitable Fee Relief. Now you can increase your donations by allowing donors to cover the processing fee when they make their donation. Not surprisingly, this has been a hotly requested feature and we are excited to finally be able to offer you an easy, customisable way to…
Read MoreCharitable 1.6: User Privacy & GDPR, Better Refunds and a New Shortcode
Charitable 1.6 is available today, with important user privacy & GDPR-related changes among other things. Read on to find out what’s new.
Read MoreRelease Notes: Security Release 1.5.14
If you haven’t already, upgrade to Charitable 1.5.14. It resolves a security bug affecting some sites using Charitable.
Read MoreMake Giving Personal with Donor Comments
Today we’re excited to release our latest extension, Charitable Donor Comments, allowing your donors share a message or story when they donate.
Read MoreMultilingual Fundraising Campaigns with TranslatePress
TranslatePress is a new translation plugin for WordPress that promises to make translating your website easier.
Read MoreAdd Donors to your MailerLite and Mailster Email Marketing Lists
Version 1.2.0 of Newsletter Connect comes out today and adds support for two new email marketing providers: MailerLite and Mailster. Never heard of them? I’ll make a confession: neither had I! But after working on this release I have been very impressed with both products. Read on to learn what makes these two email marketing…
Read MoreWhat’s New in Charitable 1.5
Today we release Charitable 1.5, the first major release of 2017. This is a milestone update for Charitable.
Read MoreCharitable 1.5: Ready for Testing
After months of development, Charitable 1.5 is nearly ready for release. This is the first major release of 2017…
Read MoreAdd Donors to Your Campaign Monitor Lists
We just released version 1.1.0 of Charitable Newsletter Connect, with a few new features, some bug fixes and support for Campaign Monitor.
Read MoreCustomize Your WordPress Donation Form — Without Code
When I started chatting to nonprofits about their online fundraising system, many mentioned the same problem…
Read MoreHow We Improved Our Easy Digital Downloads Integration
Version 1.1.0 of Easy Digital Downloads Connect comes out today, with a few key bug fixes and some new features. If you use it, read on to find out what’s new.
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