Documentation Category: For Developers

  • Charitable Ambassadors: Creator Donations View

    Requires: Charitable Pro 1.8.16+ Charitable Ambassadors 3.1.0+ The Donations tab on the My Campaigns page lets each campaign creator see every donation to their own fundraiser, filter and sort the list, export a CSV, and optionally send a personal thank-you to each donor. None of this requires WordPress admin access – the whole flow lives on the front-end ambassador dashboard.…

  • Disable the Auto-Created Single Campaign Page

    When you create a campaign in Charitable, WordPress automatically gives it its own public URL at /campaigns/[campaign-slug]/. That happens because Charitable registers campaigns as a public custom post type, which is what allows search engines and direct links to reach a campaign’s own page. That works well if you want every campaign to have its own…

  • PayPal Commerce Account Type

    Requires: The Account Type setting on the PayPal Commerce gateway tells PayPal how to classify every donation your site sends to them. The choice you make here affects four things on PayPal’s side: the transaction fee tier you receive, how donor disputes are handled, how PayPal’s fraud and risk engine evaluates your transactions, and how…

  • How to Activate PayPal Commerce

    PayPal Commerce is Charitable’s modern PayPal integration – a single connection that lets your donors pay with PayPal, Venmo, Pay Later, credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. This page walks you through activating it on your site and what to do if it isn’t showing up in your gateway list. PayPal Commerce…

  • Charitable Divi Integration

    This guide is a technical reference for developers working with Charitable’s Divi integration. Divi integration was introduced in Charitable Pro 1.8.12. Overview The Charitable Divi integration provides four custom modules for the Divi Builder. The integration uses Divi’s legacy ET_Builder_Module API for maximum compatibility with both Divi 4 and Divi 5. Architecture The integration follows…

  • Setting Up Square Webhooks

    Would you like Charitable to receive real-time updates when a payment is completed or refunded through Square? With Square webhooks enabled, your forms can stay in sync with Square so payment statuses are always up to date. This guide will show you how to easily connect Square webhooks with Charitable, ensuring your website stays in…

  • Hooks and filters in Annual Receipts

    Like all Charitable extensions, Charitable Annual Receipts is designed to be developer-friendly, with hooks and filters that will help you customize it to your needs. Filters Action

  • Hooks and filters in Automation Connect

    Like all Charitable extensions, Charitable Automation Connect is designed to be developer-friendly, with hooks and filters that will help you customize it to your needs. Filters Action

  • User Roles and Permissions

    Charitable adds two new user roles. In addition, Charitable Ambassadors adds an additional user role. Roles Donor The donor role is given to users after they make a donation. Permissions: read Campaign Manager The campaign_manager role gives a user the ability view Charitable campaigns and donations in the admin, without being able to change settings.…

  • Donation Fields API

    The Donation Fields API is provides a powerful, flexible way to add, remove and edit your donation fields. What are donation fields? How do I get the value for a particular field? How do I add a new field to my donation form? How do I change an existing donation field? How do I add…

  • Charitable_Donation_Field

    The Charitable_Donation_Field class allows you to create new donation fields or edit existing ones. Table of Contents Usage Create a new donation field Get an existing donation field Properties Methods __construct set __set __get Usage Create a new donation field If you want to add a new donation field, you will first need to create…

  • Hooks and filters in Stripe

    Like all Charitable extensions, Charitable Stripe is designed to be developer-friendly and includes hooks and filters that will help you make any customizations you need. Filters Action Hooks

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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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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.

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New Security

💂‍♂️ New DonationGuard 🛡️ Automatically Protects Your Donations!

Worried about card testing attacks or spam bots flooding your donation forms, but don’t want to ruin the giving experience for your real supporters? Charitable’s DonationGuard features:

🛡️ Real-Time Bot Detection: Actively monitors every donation submission for five distinct attack signals without slowing down your human donors.

📊 Smart Traffic Scoring: Instantly evaluates activity against a learned baseline of your site’s normal donation rhythms to catch sneaky, slow-drip card testing.

🚨 Severity-Tiered Alerts: Immediately opens structured “Attack Records” and notifies you via email and admin alerts the moment a campaign starts taking fire.

🎯 Single-Click Defense: Deploy instant security using the “Recommended Settings” preset to turn on Honeypot, Time Trap, and Rate Limit modules all at once.

🚫 Automated Blocklists: Permanently stop repeat offenders by automatically blocking suspicious email addresses based on your customized rules.

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GiveWP Migrations New

🧤 White Glove Migration Service for GiveWP

Thinking about switching your fundraising platform from GiveWP to Charitable, but don’t want to risk losing your data or handle a complex technical setup yourself? Charitable’s White Glove Migration Service features:

👥 Flawless Donor Mapping: Safely transfer your entire supporter database with zero data loss.

📊 Complete Financial History: Meticulously preserve every historical transaction for continuous, accurate reporting.

🔄 Seamless Recurring Giving: Safely transfer active sustaining subscriptions without disrupting your incoming revenue or requiring your donors to update their information.

💳 Zero Gateway Disruptions: Keep using Stripe, PayPal, or any other GiveWP-compatible processor you already love.

🚀 Expert Technical Setup: Relax while our team handles the heavy lifting to install and configure your forms—plus, qualifying users get a full year of Charitable Pro completely free.

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automation Improvement

📢 New Feature Alert: Automation Connect 2.0 Is Here! 🚀

Thinking about connecting your fundraising data to tools like Mailchimp, Slack, or Google Sheets, but don’t want to hire a developer or write custom code? Charitalbe’s new automation addon has:

⚡ 17 Event Triggers: Instantly fire webhooks for a donor’s first gift, renewal payments, or reached campaign milestones.

🎯 Smart Conditional Logic: Use powerful AND/OR logic across 11 fields to only send data when it meets your exact criteria, like newsletter opt-ins.

📊 Custom Payload Control: Select from 80+ clean data fields across donor, donation, and campaign metadata so your apps get exactly what they need.

🚀 Pre-Built Platform Templates: Skip the setup from scratch with ready-to-go templates for Zapier, Make.com, n8n, HubSpot, and Slack.

🛡️ Reliable Developer Tools: Power your workflows with signed HMAC-SHA256 payloads, complete WordPress filters, and automatic retry logs.