Charitable Documentation

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How to Use Charitable Widgets in Elementor

Charitable now includes native integration with the Elementor page builder, featuring four purpose-built widgets that allow you to create professional donation pages without any coding knowledge.

These widgets seamlessly integrate with your existing Elementor designs and provide full control over your fundraising content.

This guide will show you how to use the Charitable widgets inside the Elementor builder.

Don’t have Charitable yet? You’ll need to install it first. The Elementor widgets feature is available in the Charitable Pro plugin).

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Finding Charitable Widgets in Elementor

When you create pages with the Elementor page builder, on the left taskbar, you can click on the + icon to access the Elements menu.

Plus icon in Elementor

You can search for these widgets, for example, to search for the donate button, simply type “donate” in the search bar and you’ll see it populate. You can also scroll down to find four ready-made Charitable widgets that seamlessly integrate with your design:

  1. Campaigns
  2. Donate Button
  3. Donation Form
  4. Campaigns (Gallery style)
Charitable Elementor widgets

Adding the Campaigns Widget

The Campaigns widget lets you showcase individual campaigns with all their compelling details.

To add this widget to your page, drag and drop it into your design where you would like it to appear.

Add campaign in Elementor

In the left taskbar, you can add a title for this section. Below that, a dropdown menu appears. Select your campaign and a preview will appear in your design.

Charitable campaign Elementor widget

Now you can preview, save, and publish with ease.

Adding the Donate Button Widget

This Donate button widget is perfect for adding donation CTAs throughout your site – in your header, sidebar, or at the end of blog posts.

To add this simple “Donate” button to your page, drag and drop the widget into your page design.

Add donate button in Elementor

Now you can add a label for the button. This is the text that will show up inside the button.

Belore that, you can select your campaign that you want for this button.

Donate button Elementor widget

If you want the campaign to open in a new tab, use the toggle switch here to enable that feature.

The last option here lets you show this widget as a Button or as Link text.

Adding the Donation Form Widget

Add the Donation Form widget to your page design by dragging and dropping it.

Add donate form in Elementor

The preview the form directly in the Elementor builder (due to how forms work), just hit the preview button or publish to see it live.

Donation form Elementor widget

You can preview your page design or hit the publish button to see your form in action.

Adding the Campaigns Widget

The Campaigns widget lets you create a gallery of your campaigns. This allows donors to see all the campaigns you want to showcase and they can donate according to their passion and inclination.

Add campaigns in Elementor

When you add the Campaigns widget to your page, you’ll see all your campaigns appear like so with options to edit the gallery on in the left taskbar:

Display campaigns settings

In this taskbar, you can tweak the settings:

  • How many campaigns to display
  • Order by Date, Popularity, Ending Soon, Title or Random
  • Sort by ascending or descending order
  • Add categories
  • Show campaigns created by a specific users
  • Exclude specific campaigns if needed
  • Include/Exclude inactive campaigns
  • Column layout (2, 3, 4 columns)

This widget lets you create all sorts of filtered views to create the campaign showcase you need.

The Campaigns widget is helpful to organize and showcase your projects and fundraisers. Here a few ways in which you can use this widget in pages:

  • Campaign Gallery
  • Ways to Give
  • Partner Projects
  • Community Collaborations
  • Sponsored Campaigns
  • Peer-to-peer Fundraisers
  • Ambassador Campaigns
  • Double Your Impact
  • Cause Spotlights

Now you’ve learned how to add these widgets to your pages in Elementor. Next, let’s learn how to style them.

Styling The Charitable Widgets in Elementor

For all the four widgets, you can style them with the regular Elementor Styling options.

Under the Style or Advanced tab, standard Elementor button styling options are available.

Style and advanced tabs in elementor

Here, you can:

  • Modify colors, typography, padding, borders
  • Change alignment, width, size, position
  • Add hover effects and animations
  • Add CSS ID and classes
  • Change the background

Once you’ve added and customized your widget, make sure you save your changes. Preview and publish your page in Elementor.

That’s it. Not sure how to create a fundraiser? Learn How to Set Up Your First Campaign »

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🗓️ Annual Receipts 2.0: Send Year-End Receipts to Every Donor in Minutes

You can now send annual receipts in minutes with a few clicks to all your donors.

📧 One-Click Bulk Send Wizard that guides you to sending to hundreds of donors simultaneously directly from your WordPress dashboard.

🔍 Smart “Dry Run” Mode: See exactly who will receive a receipt and who will be skipped (and why) before a single email leaves your server.

🛡️ SMTP-Aware & Limit Protection: Charitable now detects your email setup and automatically adjusts batch sizes and pauses for daily limits to ensure your emails land in inboxes.

✅ Complete Audit Trail: Dedicated system log and on the individual donor’s profile, giving you a clear history for every fiscal year.

Stop dreading tax season and start spending that time on your mission. Update to Annual Receipts 2.0 and automate your year-end reporting today.

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🎈Recurring Donations 2.0: Smarter Automation, Better Recovery, and More Control

We’ve completely rebuilt our Recurring Donations system to help you grow your reliable income stream while giving you (and your donors) more powerful tools than ever before.

What’s New:

🔒 Recurring-Only Campaigns: You can toggle “Recurring Only” mode in the campaign builder to hide the one-time option entirely, ensuring your supporters stay focused on long-term commitment.

📧 Automatic Payment Recovery: Our new Payment Failed Email fires automatically the moment a subscription fails.

🛠️ Self-Service Donor Control:The new Cancel Subscription Button appears directly in the donor dashboard, allowing supporters to pause or end their recurring gifts on their own terms—reducing your admin burden and payment disputes.

📊 Real-Time Revenue Insights: Track your growth, monitor active subscriptions, and see exactly how much predictable support is coming in each month at a glance.

Our new Recurring Donations addon gives you the professional-grade tools you need to grow your mission.

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🧡 Modal Donate Button: Turn Any Click into a Contribution

Instead of redirecting users to a new URL, the lightweight Modal Donation Button allows donors to complete their gift in a sleek, focused popup, keeping them engaged with your content while they support your cause.

What’s New:

  • Zero-Friction Giving: Open your donation form in a responsive modal overlay. Donors stay on the same page, reducing drop-off.

  • 🖱️ Place it Anywhere: Use the dedicated WordPress block or a simple shortcode to drop a donate button into sidebars, footers, or even mid-sentence in your storytelling.

  • 🎨 Full Design Control: Match your brand perfectly with customizable background colors, hover effects, border radius, and font sizes—all without touching a single line of CSS.

Whether you need a simple “Donate Now” link or a high-converting popup button, the Modal Donate Button gives you the flexibility to raise more with less effort.

donation form Donations New

💵 Mini Donation Widget: Show The Impact Of Every Dollar!

Not every donor who wants to give will navigate to your campaign page. Meet them exactly where they are by placing a fully functional giving experience directly on any page or post.

💬 Show the impact of every dollar: Attach custom messages to each preset amount so donors understand exactly what their gift provides.
🔄 Monthly and one-time giving: Supports a tabbed interface with independent amounts and impact statements for recurring giving programs.
🎨 Match your brand: Easily set accent colors and control size or alignment to fit the widget naturally into your layout without CSS.
⚡ Reduce donor friction: Open the donation form in a modal overlay to keep donors on the page and reduce drop-off.

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👉🏻 Showcase Real Momentum with the Donations Feed

Give your donors a reason to trust. Our new feed lets you display a living, breathing record of people showing up for your cause.

🤝 Build instant trust: Overcome donor hesitation by showing a proven track record of community support.
💬 Highlight donor stories: Display real donor comments and locations to show the human side of your fundraising.
🛠️ Drop it anywhere: Easily add the block to your homepage, campaign pages, or confirmation screens in seconds.
📈 Curate your feed: Group multiple donations from the same person or sort by highest amounts to encourage larger gifts.