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.

Easy Setup

Secure Payments

Smart Calculation

Personalized Followups

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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:

Enable fee relief

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

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?

You can. Contact us and we’ll be glad to set you up with an up-close view of how Charitable can power your fundraising success. 

How long is my Charitable license valid for?

All Charitable purchases are for a one-year license. It gives you access to support and our frequent product updates. Annual renewals are automatic and you’re free to cancel any time. 

Does Charitable offer a money-back guarantee?

Sure. We are confident you’ll be delighted with Charitable. But, if you’re unhappy for any reason or have a rare issue we can’t resolve, you’ll get a full refund within 14 days of the purchase date. 

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

Yes, Charitable offers a complete solution to raise funds and manage donations all in one place. It includes donation forms, peer-to-peer fundraising, annual tax receipts, reports, and so much more. Try it today and see how it can simplify your fundraising efforts – we offer a money-back guarantee.

What payment gateways do I get out of the box?

You can start accepting donations through PayPal and Stripe as soon as you launch. Using Charitable’s easy-to-install extensions, you can add other gateways such as Payrexx, Authorize.Net, and several others.

Can I generate tax receipts for my donors?

Yes, and it’s easy. Receipts go out automatically after the donation. Plus you can customize the receipt template to include your organization’s information and branding. 

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

Absolutely. Charitable has layouts and color schemes for you to experiment with out of the box. If you’d like to keep everything consistent with your site’s design and identity, that’s the default option.

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.”

WordPress Donation Fee Relief –
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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New Security

💂‍♂️ New DonationGuard 🛡️ Automatically Protects Your Donations!

Worried about card testing attacks or spam bots flooding your donation forms, but don’t want to ruin the giving experience for your real supporters? Charitable’s DonationGuard features:

🛡️ Real-Time Bot Detection: Actively monitors every donation submission for five distinct attack signals without slowing down your human donors.

📊 Smart Traffic Scoring: Instantly evaluates activity against a learned baseline of your site’s normal donation rhythms to catch sneaky, slow-drip card testing.

🚨 Severity-Tiered Alerts: Immediately opens structured “Attack Records” and notifies you via email and admin alerts the moment a campaign starts taking fire.

🎯 Single-Click Defense: Deploy instant security using the “Recommended Settings” preset to turn on Honeypot, Time Trap, and Rate Limit modules all at once.

🚫 Automated Blocklists: Permanently stop repeat offenders by automatically blocking suspicious email addresses based on your customized rules.

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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.

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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!

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