WordPress donation and fundraising tools
Charitable Pro is a paid edition of the Charitable donation and fundraising platform for WordPress. It helps charities, nonprofits, foundations, clubs, and NGOs create donation forms, organize fundraising campaigns, and manage donor activity from their websites.
The platform is designed for practical setup, with pre-built campaign templates and a drag-and-drop donation form builder. You can create a fundraising campaign, configure the information you want to collect, and place donation forms where visitors can find them.
Donation forms for different campaigns
Create forms with suggested donation amounts, custom amounts, or both. Forms can accept one-time donations and recurring donations, while donation goals can be displayed in the donation widget. You can also collect relevant donor details and customize donate buttons to suit the design of your website.
Donation forms can be displayed in a popup modal, on a separate page, in a widget, or on the same page as a campaign. The supplied shortcode options also allow campaign grids and particular campaign donation forms to be embedded within page content.
Fundraising campaigns and paid capabilities
Charitable supports unlimited fundraising campaigns, including time-sensitive campaigns that end automatically when finished. Campaigns can display fundraising goals, total donors, donor comments, donation updates, and fundraising video content.
Charitable Pro adds additional email marketing and payment integrations, along with crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, and automated workflows. These capabilities are useful when a campaign needs more than a single donation page, such as a community fundraiser with individual participant pages or a recurring communication workflow for supporters.
Peer-to-peer fundraising is supported through the Ambassadors extension. The Newsletter Connect extension supports connections with MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, ActiveCampaign, Mailerlite, MailPoet, and Mailster. Fee Relief can give donors the option to cover gateway processing fees, with settings for how fees are calculated for different gateways.
Payment and recurring donation options
The platform supports Stripe, PayPal, and Square in the supplied product information. Stripe can allow credit card donations on the website, while PayPal redirects donors to PayPal to complete payment. An Offline Donations gateway can be used for cheque or bank transfer payments, with payment details displayed to donors.
Recurring donations can be configured on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual basis through the Recurring Donations extension. The supplied integrations for recurring donations include PayPal, Stripe, Braintree, Authorize.Net, and PayFast.
Donor management
Manage donor activity from a single dashboard with access to donation history and donation goal progress. You can create donor profiles, highlight top contributors, and send annual tax-deductible donation receipts for end-of-year reporting. Personalized communications can also be sent as part of the donor management workflow.
Installation and setup
Install and activate Charitable Pro on a WordPress website, then create a campaign or begin with a pre-built template. Use the form builder to configure amounts, donor fields, goals, buttons, and display locations. Connect the payment, recurring donation, peer-to-peer, or email marketing extensions required for your fundraising workflow, then publish the campaign and embed its form where needed.
