STRIPE

Securely accept donations with a popular, easy to use payment gateway

You can accept credit card donations directly on-site, or offer your donors a streamlined payment page hosted by Stripe.

Securely accept credit card donations with Stripe, a popular, easy to use payment gateway. You can accept credit card donations directly on-site, or offer your donors a streamlined payment page hosted by Stripe.

Accept credit card donations securely with Stripe

With the Charitable Stripe extension, you can give your donors the option of making card donations directly on your website, without being redirected anywhere else.

Stripe on-site card payments
Accept credit card donations on your website securely with Stripe

The payment form uses Stripe’s integrated card field, which is designed to blend seamlessly with your other donation form fields, providing a secure, user-friendly way for your to accept credit card donations.

Take card payments offsite with Stripe Checkout

Prefer to accept card payments offsite? The plugin has built-in support for Stripe Checkout, a streamlined one-page payment page hosted by Stripe.

Screenshot of Stripe Checkout
Stripe Checkout offers a streamlined attractive payment form

Stripe Checkout fully supports payments with Apple Pay and Google Pay, in addition to standard card payments.

Collect recurring donations with Stripe

The Stripe extension integrates seamlessly with Charitable’s Recurring Donations plugin, so you can easily start collecting recurring donations with Stripe.

Stripe handles weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and annually recurring donations.

Let donors pay the transaction fee

Add the Fee Relief extension alongside Stripe to give your donors the option of increasing their donation to cover Stripe’s transaction fees.

It’s an easy yet powerful way to grow your donations.

Use Stripe globally

Stripe is available in more than 45 countries through the Americas, Europe, parts of Asia and Australia and New Zealand.

Find out if your country is supported via the Stripe Global page.

More Details

There are some minimum requirements for using the Stripe plugin:

  • A Stripe.com account.
  • An SSL certificate (required by Stripe).
  • PHP 5.6+
  • Charitable 1.6.22+

You will find detailed documentation here: Charitable Stripe documentation.

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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.

Fundraising page header for Save Maple Grove Park with a donation widget and a small square photo of a sunlit tree thumbnail on the left.

🔦 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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Moderation and Directory Screens In Ambassadors 3.0

Ambassadors 3.0 has new features: moderation and directory screens… now easily see those who are earning donations on your peer to peer network – including campaign creators that might need to be verified – all in one place. Generate reports, email ambassadors and campaign creators directly and more.

🚀 See when campaign creators and ambassadors have updated their campaigns, what donors/donation they have brought in and more.

🎉 Manually add ambassadors and campaign creators, and approve them in one-click!

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