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Charitable PayFast integration

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January 7, 2021

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Unlock Secure, Contactless Donations with PayFast

PayFast’s seamless integration with Charitable creates a powerful donation system that takes just minutes to set up. Donors enjoy a smooth, secure payment experience while you benefit from immediate payouts, recurring donations, and detailed reporting. With built-in security features and automated payment processing, you can focus on your mission while PayFast and Charitable handle the technical details of donation management.

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What PayFast and Charitable Can Do For You

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Instant Payment Integration

Quick and Easy Integration Process

Setting up PayFast with Charitable is quick and easy – anyone can do it! The process is designed to be user-friendly. You won’t need any coding experience or special technical skills to get started.

The whole setup usually takes between 5 to 10 minutes to complete. All you need to do is copy and paste your account details into the right places. Once you’re done, you can start accepting donations through PayFast instantly on your website.

Simple setup process

Minimal technical requirements

Automatic syncing

Enable PayFast payments
PayFast recurring donations

Accept Multicurrency Payments

Secure & Flexible Payments in South Africa

PayFast is specifically designed for the South African market with 18+ payment methods to choose from. You can accept donations in South African Rand (ZAR) as well as foreign currencies.

PayFast uses advanced fraud detection tools and secure encryption to ensure both your organization and your donors are protected. The system automatically flags suspicious transactions and provides real-time verification. 

This powerful combination gives South African organizations a secure, locally-optimized platform for accepting and managing donations of any size, from anywhere in the world.

Multiple layers of security

Accept donations in South African Rand (ZAR)

Multi-Currency support

Secure Regular Donors

Recurring Donations for Continuous Support

PayFast’s integration with Charitable lets your donors contribute to your cause regularly by choosing their preferred amount and schedule.

You can offer various donation schedules including monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, or annual payments.

Worried about more admin work? You can set up automations and you never have to worry about the next payment. We handle all the processing, saving you time and effort on administration.

Flexible recurring schedules

Automated billing

Secure card management

Payment methods supported by PayFast

Payment Methods Supported With PayFast

PayFast integration with Charitable allows you to accept donations through a wide range of payment options popular in South Africa. These include:

  • Card Payments (Visa, Mastercard)
  • Instant EFT
  • QR Code Payments
  • Apple Pay
  • Samsung Pay
  • Capitec Pay
  • SiD Secure EFT
  • Debit Cards (Maestro, Visa Electron)
  • Mobicred
  • Mukuru Pay
  • SnapScan
  • PayPal
  • MTN MoMoPay
  • Scan To Pay (powered by Ukheshe)
  • SCode
  • Store Cards (RCS)
  • Visa Checkout
  • MoreTyme (by TymeBank)
  • Zapper

Learn more about PayFast’s supported payment methods here »

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 PayFast official website – we’ve just covered the highlights here so it’s always best to check directly with PayFast!

Payment methods supported by PayFast

Charitable + PayFast Tutorial

Charitable payfast tutorial

Learn how to boost your fundraising efforts by integrating PayFast with Charitable. This step-by-step guide will show you how to set up PayFast as a payment gateway, enable various payment methods, and configure options to maximize your nonprofit’s donation potential.

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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.

Visit this page to learn more.

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.

automation Improvement

🔌 Charitable Meets Zapier: Connect to 7,000+ Apps and Automate Your Fundraising

Tired of manually copying donation data into accounting sheets or tracking down new donor signups? Put your administrative tasks on autopilot. Charitable is now officially on Zapier, giving you a powerful, no-code way to plug your fundraising directly into the rest of your favorite tools.

Every donation, donor signup, and campaign milestone can now trigger an automated workflow seamlessly.

What’s New:

♾️ Connect to 7,000+ Apps: Bridge your Charitable campaigns with everyday software like Google Sheets, QuickBooks, Slack, Mailchimp, HubSpot, Notion, Airtable, and thousands more.

⚡ 12 Powerful Triggers: Build deep workflows using smart automation triggers covering the entire donation lifecycle—including New Donation, New Donor, Subscription Cancelled, and Campaign Goal Reached.

📋 Pre-Built Action Templates: Get started in three minutes or less with our pre-made template combinations, like automatically logging new donations straight into a Google Sheet or firing custom donor welcome emails through Gmail.

🚫 Zero Code Needed: No complex webhooks or custom PHP scripts required. Just pick your trigger, choose your app, map your fields, and let Zapier handle the heavy lifting.

Ready to save hours of admin time? Grab Charitable Pro with the Automation Connect addon today and launch your first Zap!

Improvement Payments

🚀 Introducing PayPal Commerce: One Connection, Six Ways to Donate

Donors expect modern, flexible payment options when they support a cause. If they don’t see their preferred method on your donation form, they often disappear without a word. With PayPal Commerce, we are bringing a completely modernized checkout experience right to your campaigns.

Enjoy a single integration that upgrades your forms, makes giving seamless, and helps you capture every single donation.

What’s New:

🔌 One-Click Connection: Skip messy API keys and developer docs. Simply click “Connect with PayPal,” sign in to your business account, and your modern form is live in under five minutes.

💳 Six Ways to Give: Give your supporters instant access to PayPal balance, Venmo (US), Pay Later financing, major credit/debit cards, Apple Pay (Safari), and Google Pay (Chrome) all from the exact same form.

🔄 Flexible Recurring Giving: Fully supports monthly giving. Choose between the PayPal Subscriptions API (handled automatically on PayPal’s end) or Vault + Cron (handled securely right on your site).

💬 Friendly Error Recovery: No more confusing browser alerts. If a payment is declined, donors see plain-language, inline messages that guide them on how to fix the issue and complete their gift.

Ready for PayPal, modernized? Update to Charitable Pro 1.8.15+ (or Charitable Lite 1.8.11+) and connect your account today!

Campaigns New

⏳ Campaign Countdown: Drive Urgency and Lift Donations

Urgency is one of the most powerful tools in fundraising! Meet Campaign Countdown—a live, real-time timer built to turn procrastination into immediate generosity.

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What’s New:

⏱️ Live, Real-Time Urgency: Beautifully track days, hours, minutes, and seconds down to your campaign’s deadline w/ live-updating visual countdowns.

🎨 Tailored to Your Look: Choose between Boxed bordered tiles or a clean, single-line Inline display. Match your theme instantly with font and deep color controls.

🛠️ Place it Anywhere: Drop the countdown anywhere you like using the Campaign Builder field, a dedicated Gutenberg block, or a simple shortcode.

🚨 Smart Expiry Actions: Total control over the end state—choose to automatically replace the timer with a custom message, freeze it at zero, and more.