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Boost Donations with Seamless PayPal Payments

By integrating PayPal with Charitable, you unlock a powerful fundraising duo that makes online fundraising simple! You’ll tap into PayPal’s vast network of over 400 million active users worldwide, providing your donors with a familiar and trusted payment option they already know and love. Donors can complete their transactions quickly and securely, using their existing PayPal accounts or credit cards, without the need to navigate away from your website or enter extensive payment information. The seamless connection between PayPal and Charitable streamlines the giving process, potentially increasing conversion rates and boosting overall contributions to your cause.

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Why Integrate Paypal with Charitable

Enable PayPal in a Few Clicks – No Coding!

Getting started is a breeze – no technical expertise needed. Just enable PayPal as a payment gateway in Charitable and enter your PayPal credentials. Within minutes, you’ll be ready to accept PayPal donations. The intuitive interface guides you through each step, ensuring a smooth setup process.

Once integrated, PayPal works seamlessly with Charitable, automatically handling transaction processing and security. You won’t need to worry about payment logistics or coding – it’s all taken care of behind the scenes. This hassle-free setup allows you to focus on what really matters: your mission and connecting with donors.

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Access to 400+ million PayPal users

Streamlined donation process

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Offer Payment Options Your Donors Prefer

By adding PayPal to Charitable, you’re giving donors a payment method they know and trust. With over 400 million users worldwide, PayPal brings familiarity and security to your donation process. This means more supporters feel confident about contributing to your cause.

The best part? It’s super easy for donors to give. Those with PayPal accounts can donate in just a few clicks, while others can quickly use their credit or debit cards through PayPal’s secure system. This streamlined process for non-profits means fewer abandoned donations and potentially more funds for your mission.

 Simplified checkout process

Reduced donation friction

Higher potential for completed donations

Expand Global Reach and Accept Multiple Currencies

With PayPal integration, your fundraising efforts can go global! Break down geographical barriers and welcome supporters from over 200 markets worldwide. This means you can accept donations from almost anywhere, potentially boosting your fundraising results.

PayPal handles it all, supporting 26 currencies with automatic conversions. Your donors can give in their local currency, while you receive funds in yours. Plus, with localized checkout experiences, supporters worldwide will feel right at home when donating. No matter where your donors are, they can easily contribute to your cause.

Access to donors in over 200 markets

Support for 26 currencies

Automatic currency conversion

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Tutorial

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Enable PayPal payments with just a few clicks and collect donations from across the globe. Learn to connect to PayPal, configure APIs, get discounted fees for non-profits, and more.

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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.

Improvement Payments

💰 Accept Recurring Donations with Windcave and Charitable

A donor sets their gift up once on Windcave’s secure payment page, and Charitable bills every renewal after that on schedule. Why this is important:

🏦 Organizations banked in New Zealand or Australia: monthly giving on the gateway your bank already set you up with, with no second processor to onboard.
⛪ Churches taking regular tithes and offerings: congregants set their own schedule once, which is the simplest way to launch recurring church giving without a separate platform.
🌏 Groups with donors in several currencies: Windcave handles more than 20, so a supporter can give in the currency they actually hold.
📅 Operating funds rather than one-time campaigns: switch on Recurring Only mode and the one-off option disappears, so every gift to that campaign is a subscription.
🧾 Teams with no developer on staff: 3 sets of credentials pasted into a settings page, and no code anywhere.

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automation update

⚡ Visual Automation Builder: Drag and Drop With No Code!

Charitable Automation Connect 2.3.0 introduces the Visual Automation Builder, a full-screen canvas that lays each automation out as a flow of connected cards: a trigger, optional conditions, and a list of actions that run in order.

🧩 Many actions, one trigger: Tag a donor, send an email, add a note, and fire a webhook from a single event, dragged into any order.

✉️ Act inside Charitable: New Send Email, Tag Donor, and Add Donor Note actions run with no external service required.

🔤 Merge tags: Personalize emails and notes with live fields like {first_name}, {total}, and {campaign_name}.

🔁 Apply to existing donors: Run Tag Donor and Add Donor Note against the donors you already have.

🖥️ Canvas or Simple: Switch views anytime, and automations built before 2.3.0 keep working unchanged.

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Integration updated

📬 Introducing Brevo for Charitable: Turn Donors into Subscribers Automatically

The moment a supporter makes a gift is when they are most engaged. With the new Brevo integration for Charitable, you can automatically turn those one-time donors into long-term subscribers without touching a single spreadsheet.

Simply collect donor consent right on your donation form and start your welcome series immediately.

What’s New:

🔄 Automated Subscriber Sync: New donors who opt in are added straight to your Brevo contact list as soon as their payment clears—no manual exports or CSV imports required.

🎯 Granular Consent & Opt-In Control: Customize your checkbox label, choose whether it defaults to checked or unchecked, or turn on Brevo double opt-in to keep your list clean and compliant.

📋 Per-Campaign List Mapping: Route supporters to your global email list or map specific campaigns to targeted Brevo lists to tailor your follow-up messaging.

⚡ 5-Minute Setup: Connect instantly by pasting your Brevo API key into the Newsletter settings, map your contact fields, and start building your email list on autopilot.

Ready to grow your mailing list? Brevo is available now starting on the Charitable Plus plan—connect your account today!