DONORBOX VS CHARITABLE

Charitable Gives You Incredible Value

At A Fraction Of The Cost!

Why pay thousands a year in monthly and platform fees? With Charitable, you keep more of your donations, enjoy powerful fundraising tools, and never worry about hidden fees!

Stop losing funds to platform fees. Take control of your fundraising with Charitable!

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Charitable - WordPress Donation & Fundraising Plugin

Spending too much on your current fundraising platform but still feeling limited?

Switch to Charitable for an easy setup, professional campaigns, and full donation management designed to help nonprofits like yours raise more without breaking the bank.

Charitable offers more features, continuous innovation, and listens closely to your feedback—all at a fraction of the cost.

Make the change today and partner with a platform that grows with your needs and delivers true value.

David Bisset
Project Manager, Charitable

Why Pay $1,800 a Year? Charitable Gives You More for Just $69!

Stop overpaying for donation software. With Charitable, you get everything you need to run successful fundraising campaigns – at a price that’s truly affordable.

Donors can contribute without leaving your website, building trust and increasing conversions.

Manage campaigns and donations inside WordPress—no extra dashboards or logins.

All donation data stays on your site; enjoy total control and privacy, with no restrictions.

Flat annual rate—no platform fees, hidden costs, or “optional tips” deducted from gifts.

Get expert help from a team dedicated to nonprofit success, always responsive and friendly.

Enjoy tools for recurring, peer-to-peer, Gift Aid, and campaign goals with no costly upgrades.

Regular updates and proven security keep every donation safe and fully compatible.

Customize everything—colors, layout, fields—for a donation flow that truly matches your brand.

Run unlimited campaigns on your own hosting; scale as you grow, with no platform limits.

Imagine waking up tomorrow with a better donation plugin and:

🚀 Launching fundraising campaigns in minutes that deliver faster results and higher donations.

💰 Paying a fraction of the cost for more features and better performance

✅ Having faster, more personalized support from a team dedicated to helping your nonprofit succeed.

Here’s How Easy It Is To Switch From Donorbox to Charitable

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Why Charitable Stands Out: Features You Can’t Miss

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Unlimited Campaigns✅✅
Unlimited Team Members❌✅
Zero Transaction Fee❌✅
Recurring Donations✅✅
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising✅✅
Visual Builder❌✅
Campaign Templates❌✅
Fully Customizable❌✅
Campaign Gallery❌✅
Donor Referrals❌✅
Fundraising Teams❌✅
Donor Custom Fields❌✅
Ambassadors❌✅
Privacy Compliance❌✅
Progress Bars✅✅
Fee RecoveryPartial✅
Donor Profiles✅✅
Donor Dashboard✅✅
Comprehensive Donor Management❌✅
Anonymous Donations✅✅
Recent Donation Notifications❌✅
Advanced Automated Emails❌✅
Email Customization Without Code❌✅
PDF Receipts✅✅
Annual Statements✅✅
Advanced Reports❌✅
Social Sharing✅✅

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Why Choose Charitable Over DonorBox?

Zero Transaction Fees

Keep Every Dollar Raised. No Hidden Fees.

Donorbox’s fees quickly add up – cutting deeply into your donations and fundraising impact.

Charitable Pro charges a simple, predictable annual fee with zero platform fees, letting you keep 100% of every dollar donors give.

No hidden costs, no optional tips, just straightforward pricing that respects your mission and your budget.

Charitable pricing plans

No Payment Delays

Fast, Direct Fund Access.

Waiting days – or even weeks – for funds to clear can derail your nonprofit’s momentum. Donorbox users often face delayed disbursements due to third-party holds.

Charitable ensures your funds go directly to your bank through your payment processor, with no holds or interference.

You control your cash flow and keep your campaign moving forward without frustrating delays.

Complete Ownership & Customization

Total Control and Customization

Don’t be limited with basic donor management and few customization options.

Charitable gives you full ownership: host every campaign on your own WordPress site, customize forms and pages with drag-and-drop ease, and integrate seamlessly with your favorite tools.

Plus, we offer expert help available 24*7 to help you succeed.

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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.

Check out our announcement here.

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.

Read more here.

Integration updated

📬 Introducing Brevo for Charitable: Turn Donors into Subscribers Automatically

The moment a supporter makes a gift is when they are most engaged. With the new Brevo integration for Charitable, you can automatically turn those one-time donors into long-term subscribers without touching a single spreadsheet.

Simply collect donor consent right on your donation form and start your welcome series immediately.

What’s New:

🔄 Automated Subscriber Sync: New donors who opt in are added straight to your Brevo contact list as soon as their payment clears—no manual exports or CSV imports required.

🎯 Granular Consent & Opt-In Control: Customize your checkbox label, choose whether it defaults to checked or unchecked, or turn on Brevo double opt-in to keep your list clean and compliant.

📋 Per-Campaign List Mapping: Route supporters to your global email list or map specific campaigns to targeted Brevo lists to tailor your follow-up messaging.

⚡ 5-Minute Setup: Connect instantly by pasting your Brevo API key into the Newsletter settings, map your contact fields, and start building your email list on autopilot.

Ready to grow your mailing list? Brevo is available now starting on the Charitable Plus plan—connect your account today!