WORDPRESS DONATION PLUGIN WITH FEE RELIEF

Keep 100% of Donations With Donor-Covered Fees

Give donors the option to cover any transaction fees to offset the costs of online donations so you collect more for your cause.

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Smart Calculation

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Features That Make Charitable the Top Choice for Fee Relief

See why it’s so easy to maximize your donations with Charitable’s fee recovery options.

Donor’s Choice

Give donors the option to choose whether they cover the transaction fee with simple checkboxes.

Automatic Fee Relief

Choose to automatically add the transaction fee amount to the donation total.

Easy Set Up

Charitable makes it as easy as point and click to set up and customize fee relief options.

Multiple Payment Gateways

Enable multiple gateways and add various processing fee relief amounts for each one, including Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, and more.

Automated Calculation

Add the fee as a fixed rate or a percentage, or through a mixture of both. Our formula will auto-apply the right amount to the donation total.

Campaign Specific

Choose which campaigns to enable/disable fee relief options. You can also change calculations for every campaign.

Site-Wide Fee Relief

Apply the fee relief options across your entire site and for all existing and future campaigns.

Easy Integrations

Connect with 5000+ popular payment, email, marketing, and automation tools to streamline your workflows.

Quick Receipts

Charitable automatically creates receipts for every donation, along with the fee relief amount for your tax and accounting purposes.

Why You’ll Love Donation Fee Relief With Charitable

Don’t let processing fees eat away at your donations! Charitable’s Fee Relief addon offers a powerful solution to reduce this common frustration. Here’s why:

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One-Click Setup

Fee Relief That’s Easy to Set Up

Enable the Fee Relief feature with just a click inside your Charitable dashboard.

There’s a dedicated tab in your Settings area to manage your fee recovery options.

Enable and disable fee recovery on different gateways according to what is best for your organization.

Smart fee calculation

Supports a range of gateways

Keep 100% of donations

Easy Opt-In To Cover Fees

Flexibility for You and Your Donors

You choose to automatically include the transaction fee or give your donors the choice to cover it.

Donation Fee Relief lets you offer a convenient checkbox on your donation form, giving donors the option to cover processing fees themselves.

You can also enable fee relief across your entire site or only on specific campaigns.

Easy opt-in checkbox

Automatic fee inclusion

Full transparency for donors

Fee recovery checkbox
Automatic fee relief calculation

Automated Fee Calculation

Right Calculations Every Time

Say goodbye to complex calculations and ensure you receive every penny intended for your cause.

Fee Relief automatically calculates processing fees based on your chosen payment gateway, whether it’s a fixed fee, a percentage, or a combination.

No more guesswork, just accurate fee coverage done right, every time.

Smart fee calculation

Supports a range of gateways

Keep 100% of donations

See It In Action

Tutorial

Follow step-by-step instructions to enable and customize Fee Relief for all your campaigns as well as individual campaigns.

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How to Set Up Fee Relief

Create and send professional year-end receipts for all your donors with just one click. It takes less than 5 minutes to set this up and start sending annual receipts to your donors. Open Tutorial »

Frequently Asked Questions

See the list below for our most frequently asked questions. If your question is not listed here, please contact us.

Can I see a demo of Charitable?

Yes. You can try the Charitable demo right now and see how it can help your fundraising, with nothing to install. If you need more help with that, contact us. We’ll be happy to help.

How long is my Charitable license valid for?

Every purchase of the Charitable Pro plugin comes with a 1-year license. It gives you access to support and our regular product updates. Your license renews automatically each year, and you’re free to cancel any time.

Does Charitable offer a money-back guarantee?

Yes. We’re confident you’ll love Charitable, but if you’re unhappy for any reason, you’ll get a full refund within 14 days of your purchase date. No questions asked.

Can Charitable replace all the fundraising tools I’m using now?

Yes. Charitable lets you raise funds and manage donations in one place, right inside WordPress. Depending on your plan, you get tools like these.

  • Donation forms and campaign pages
  • Recurring donations
  • Peer-to-peer fundraising
  • Annual tax receipts
  • Donor management and reports

Try it today, risk-free, with our 14-day money-back guarantee.

What payment gateways do I get out of the box?

Charitable comes with Stripe, Square, PayPal and offline donations built in, so you can start accepting gifts the day you launch. Charitable’s paid plans let you add more gateways, such as Authorize.Net, Braintree, Mollie, GoCardless, Payfast, Paystack, and Payrexx.

Can I generate tax receipts for my donors?

Yes, and it’s easy. Donors get a receipt by email right after they give, and you can brand it with your organization’s details and logo. You can also send PDF receipts (Basic plan and higher) and annual receipts that sum up each donor’s giving for the year (Plus plan and higher).

Can I customize donation forms to match my website’s branding?

Absolutely. Charitable’s donation forms pick up your theme’s styling by default, so they match your site with no custom CSS. For campaign pages, the visual campaign builder gives you templates you can adjust to fit your brand.

Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Empower supporters to fundraise on your behalf.

Expand your reach through supporter networks

Keep 100% of donations with zero platform fees

Track campaign progress with detailed reports

Donor Management

Streamline donor relationships with powerful tools.

Manage all donor information in a centralized dashboard

Automate email communications to keep donors engaged

Export donor data effortlessly for deeper analysis

Recurring Donations

Convert one-time donors into loyal, long-term supporters.

Enable automated recurring payments with ease

Provide donor accounts for seamless contribution management

Offer flexible donation frequencies to suit individual preferences

Take it from other non-profits raising funds with Charitable

Over 10,000 non-profits are raising more funds, building relationships with donors, and creating greater social impact with Charitable. 

Belinda Martin

“…others were charging 5% and more for every donation, but with Charitable there are no fees for donations, so we were able to run a number of fundraising campaigns with all the money going to the charity.”

Stuart Robinson

“Really useful plugin. I wanted to extend the functionality of it a wee bit and the code was very easy to work with and adapt. Really great response from the developer and it looks like fantastic updates are being added all the time.”

Paul Lawley-Jones

“I’d like to thank you both for making such a great tool at such a great cost. It’s literally 24 times cheaper than the platform we were using before I came on board.”

Stephen Weinberg

“This plugin is exactly what our small, parent-run organization needed… Easy to set up. Easy to customize (as long as you can handle just a tiny bit of code). And superior support! Thanks so much for this full-featured software.”

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do you have a question about Charitable’s Fee Relief? See the list below for our most frequently asked questions. If your question is not listed here, please contact us.

What are payment gateway fees?

For using their service, most gateways do not have a subscription plan or a one-time fee. Instead, they charge fees on every transaction. Most payment gateways charge 1% to 3% of the transaction amount or a combination of a percentage and a set amount such as 2.9% + 0.50 cents on every transaction.

What is Fee Relief?

Fee Relief is a feature offered by Charitable that lets you ask donors to cover the transaction fee applied by the payment gateway. That way, you get to keep the full amount of their donation and maximize the amount you raise.

Can I enable Fee Relief only on certain campaigns?

Yes, Charitable’s Fee Relief feature is flexible. You can enable it site-wide or only on specific campaigns. You can also customize the Fee Relief options for each campaign,

What plan do I need to get access to the Fee Relief feature?

Fee Relief is available on Charitable’s Plus plan or higher.

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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.

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.

Check out our announcement here.

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.

Read more here.

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