PAYPAL DONATIONS WITH CHARITABLE

Secure and Easy Donations with PayPal

Enable secure transactions via PayPal, supporting cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more. Reach 200+ countries and 26 currencies, unlocking global support for your cause.

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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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Improvement receipts

🗓️ 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.

Addon Donations Improvement

🎈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.

Campaigns New

🧡 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.

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💵 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.

Donations Live New

👉🏻 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.