BRAINTREE PAYMENTS WITH CHARITABLE

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Give donors the easy payment options they want including credit cards, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay and Google Pay, all through a single integration with top-tier security.

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April 24, 2026

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Get Easy Payments with Cutting-Edge Security Features

The Braintree integration offers your supporters a smooth and secure giving experience, no matter how they choose to donate. You can accept a wide range of payment methods – from credit cards and PayPal to digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay. All transactions are protected by advanced security measures, including top-notch encryption and fraud detection tools. 

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Why You’ll Love Our Braintree Integration

Quick & Easy Setup

Single Integration for Multiple Payment Options

Simply enable Braintree as a payment gateway in your Charitable settings, enter your Braintree credentials, and you’re ready to go.

Charitable guides you through each step, making the process easy even for those without technical expertise.

Once integrated, you’ll enjoy streamlined donations, easy donor management, detailed reporting, and the flexibility to adapt to your growing fundraising needs.

User-friendly integration process

Multiple payment methods

Extensive global and local payment support

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Local & International Donations

Enhanced Donor Experience and Global Reach

Braintree comes with a user-friendly dashboard and support for multiple payment methods to provide a seamless donation experience.

Accept payments via credit cards, PayPal, and digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay. 

With extensive localization features supporting 130+ currencies and 45+ countries, you can expand your fundraising efforts globally while offering donors a familiar, localized experience.

Support for 130+ currencies

Localized payment methods for 45+ countries

Multi-language support

High Security Standards

Advanced Fraud Protection

Braintree offers cutting-edge security features to protect your donations.

With AI-powered fraud detection, 3D Secure 2.0 authentication, and secure Vault storage for recurring donations, your transactions are safeguarded at every step. 

The integration with Charitable ensures PCI compliance and data encryption, allowing you to focus on your mission while Braintree handles the security complexities.

AI-powered fraud prevention

Advanced authentication protocols

Secure storage for recurring donations

Secure payment

Supported Extensions

Recurring Donations: Combine Charitable Braintree with our Recurring Donations plugin to start accepting recurring donations. Braintree supports monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and annually recurring donations.

Fee Relief: Charitable Braintree works seamlessly alongside our popular Fee Relief extension, allowing your donors to pay Braintree’s transaction fees when they donate – it’s a simple, proven way to increase your average donations.

Ready to Get More Donations with Braintree?

Get started with Charitable Pro today and start collecting donations online with Braintree. We’re so confident you’ll love it that we back every purchase with our 14-day money-back guarantee – giving you the freedom to explore risk-free.

Payment Methods Supported With Braintree

With our Braintree integration, you’ll unlock a suite of modern payment methods that give your customers the freedom to pay however they prefer. Here’s a list of payment methods offered by Braintree:

  • ACH Direct Debit
  • Digital Wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay
  • Secure Remote Commerce (SRC)
  • Card Payments
    • Visa
    • Mastercard
    • Discover
    • UnionPay
    • JCB
    • American Express
  • Debit Cards and Dual-branded Cards
  • PayPal
  • Local Payment Methods
  • Venmo

Learn more about Braintree’s supported payment methods »

While we try to keep this list updated to the best of our ability, payment methods and support tend to change from time to time. For the most current options, head over to the Braintree official website – we’ve just covered the highlights here so it’s always best to check directly with Windcave.

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Tutorial

Charitable Braintree

Learn how to supercharge your fundraising efforts by integrating Braintree Payments with Charitable. This step-by-step guide will show you how to set up Braintree as a payment gateway, configure recurring donations, and use diverse payment methods to boost your nonprofit’s donation potential.

Other Gateways You Can Enable

Charitable works with a range of payment gateways, and you can enable more than one at a time. Plenty of organizations run a local gateway for donors close to home and a second one for everyone else, so nobody reaches your donation form and finds no way to give.

See every gateway you can enable to accept donations »

Frequently Asked Questions

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ambassadors New

🖨️ Introducing Fliers and Posters: Raise Money Away From the Screen!

A lot of peer-to-peer fundraising happens away from a screen: at the finish line of a 5K, on a school noticeboard, in an office kitchen. Charitable Ambassadors 3.4.7 adds 2 printables, a fundraiser flier carrying each fundraiser’s own story and QR code, and a recruitment poster that signs new fundraisers up. Both open as a normal web page and print straight from the browser. Why this is important:

  • 🏁 A flier for every fundraiser: Each one carries that fundraiser’s own photo, story and goal, with a QR code that opens their page rather than your main campaign.
  • 📌 A poster that recruits: It shows “Now Recruiting” above your campaign name with a large QR code that opens your sign-up form, so someone can start fundraising without waiting on a link from you.
  • 🪄 No design tool needed: Both printables render as a normal web page and print from the browser, with no PDF plugin and no designer.
  • 📄 2 flier layouts: Hand out carries the full story for giving to friends and family, and Post up carries a short hook with 5 tear-off tabs for a noticeboard.
  • 🛡️ Off until you switch it on: Fliers stay off after the update until you enable them under Charitable » Ambassadors » Other » Fliers, and only the owner or an administrator can open one.

Check out our announcement here.

Improvement Payments

💸 Introducing Tiered Rates for Fee Relief: Match the Ask to the Gift!

Fee Relief asks your donors one short question at checkout: would you like to cover the processing fee on this gift? Until now that question used a single rate for every donation on a gateway, so a $10 gift and a $500 gift were asked for the same percentage. Fee Relief 1.3.0 lets you set as many donation bands as you like, each carrying its own rate. Why this is important:

  • 🪙 Gentler on small gifts: A fixed transaction cost is a far bigger share of a $10 donation than a $500 one, so bands let you ask for less at the bottom.
  • 🎚️ As many bands as you need: Each band carries its own percentage and its own fixed amount, and the top band runs on with no upper limit.
  • 🛑 An optional ceiling: A Maximum fee field stops any donor being asked for more than a number you choose, however large the gift.
  • 🔌 Set per payment gateway: Stripe can run on four bands while Windcave and Payfast stay on a single rate, because bands belong to a gateway and not to your whole site.
  • 🛡️ Nothing changes until you say so: Your current rates stay exactly as they are until you switch Use Tiered Rates on under Charitable » Settings » Advanced » Fee Relief.

Check out our announcement here.

Donations Improvement

📊 Your Pro Dashboard Can Now Compare, Export, and Score!

Most fundraising dashboards only tell you how much you have raised. Charitable Pro 1.8.19 rebuilds the dashboard and the Reports Overview around the harder questions: whether anything is broken, whether this period beat the last one, and which single change would make the most difference today. Why this is important:

  • 📈 Every figure has a trend: Pick a period and the tiles and the chart move together, with each total shown against the previous period.
  • 🗓️ Charts that stay readable: Short ranges group donations day by day, while longer ranges group by week or month, so a full year reads as a curve instead of a flat line.
  • 🔀 Compare any 2 periods: Not just consecutive ones, so you can ask how this December did against last December. That matters because fundraising is seasonal.
  • 📤 Export the whole summary: Send the full overview out as CSV or PDF, ready for a board pack or a funder report.
  • 🎯 Score your setup for free: Have your fundraising setup scored, so the one change worth making next is the one you can see.

Check out our announcement here.

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.