BRAINTREE PAYMENTS WITH CHARITABLE

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April 24, 2026

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Get Easy Payments with Cutting-Edge Security Features

The Braintree integration offers your supporters a smooth and secure giving experience, no matter how they choose to donate. You can accept a wide range of payment methods – from credit cards and PayPal to digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay. All transactions are protected by advanced security measures, including top-notch encryption and fraud detection tools. 

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Why You’ll Love Our Braintree Integration

Quick & Easy Setup

Single Integration for Multiple Payment Options

Simply enable Braintree as a payment gateway in your Charitable settings, enter your Braintree credentials, and you’re ready to go. The intuitive interface guides you through each step, making the process easy even for those without technical expertise.

Once integrated, you’ll enjoy streamlined donations, easy donor management, detailed reporting, and the flexibility to adapt to your growing fundraising needs – all while providing your supporters with a smooth and secure donation experience.

User-friendly integration process

Multiple payment methods

Extensive global and local payment support

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Local & International Donations

Enhanced Donor Experience and Global Reach

Braintree comes with a user-friendly dashboard and support for multiple payment methods to provide a seamless donation experience. Accept payments via credit cards, PayPal, and digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay. 

With extensive localization features supporting 130+ currencies and 45+ countries, you can expand your fundraising efforts globally while offering donors a familiar, localized experience.

Support for 130+ currencies

Localized payment methods for 45+ countries

Multi-language support

High Security Standards

Leverage Braintree’s Advanced Fraud Protection

Braintree offers cutting-edge security features to protect your donations. With AI-powered fraud detection, 3D Secure 2.0 authentication, and secure Vault storage for recurring donations, your transactions are safeguarded at every step. 

The integration with Charitable ensures PCI compliance and data encryption, allowing you to focus on your mission while Braintree handles the security complexities.

AI-powered fraud prevention

Advanced authentication protocols

Secure storage for recurring donations

Secure payment

Payment Methods Supported With Braintree

With our Braintree integration, you’ll unlock a suite of modern payment methods that give your customers the freedom to pay however they prefer. Here’s a list of payment methods offered by Braintree:

  • ACH Direct Debit
  • Digital Wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay
  • Secure Remote Commerce (SRC)
  • Card Payments
    • Visa
    • Mastercard
    • Discover
    • UnionPay
    • JCB
    • American Express
  • Debit Cards and Dual-branded Cards
  • PayPal
  • Local Payment Methods
  • Venmo

Learn more about Braintree’s supported payment methods »

While we try to keep this list updated to the best of our ability, payment methods and support tend to change from time to time. For the most current options, head over to the Braintree official website – we’ve just covered the highlights here so it’s always best to check directly with Windcave.

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Tutorial

Charitable Braintree

Learn how to supercharge your fundraising efforts by integrating Braintree Payments with Charitable. This step-by-step guide will show you how to set up Braintree as a payment gateway, configure recurring donations, and use diverse payment methods to boost your nonprofit’s donation potential.

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New Payments

⚡ Unlock India-Based Donations: Meet Charitable’s Native Razorpay Integration

Trying to collect donations in India? Charitable’s native Razorpay integration features:

⚡ Instant UPI Integration: Accept fast, local donations directly inside your form via apps like PhonePe, Google Pay, Paytm, and BHIM without sending donors away from your site.

📲 Auto-Generated Campaign QRs: Instantly render scannable QR codes encoding a UPI deep link directly on your public campaign pages and sidebars for an effortless “scan-to-give” experience.

💰 Dual Local & Global Reach: Headline your campaigns in INR while seamlessly accepting major international currencies like USD, EUR, GBP, and CAD to maximize global support.

🔁 Seamless Recurring Giving: Fully integrates with the Charitable Recurring addon to manage automatic monthly subscriptions directly through Razorpay without extra code.

↩️ Automatic Two-Way Sync: Keep your books perfectly clean with two-way refund syncing—issue a refund inside WordPress or your Razorpay dashboard and both sides update automatically.

🔒 Webhook-Verified Security: Automatically protect your donation records using HMAC-signed webhook verification to ensure every status update represents real money cleared on the rails.

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Integration New

🎉 New Built-in PushEngage Integration

Struggling with falling email open rates and rising ad costs just to keep your supporters engaged? Charitable’s built-in PushEngage integration features:

🔔 Zero-Fee Direct Messaging: Deliver crisp, instant pop-up notifications straight to your donors’ desktops and mobile devices.

⏱️ Four Smart Automated Triggers: Automatically send updates for immediate donation thank yous, full-list campaign launches, urgent “ending soon” alerts, and goal milestone celebrations.

📈 Group Momentum Broadcasts: Turn private milestones into public wins by automatically broadcasting alerts to your entire subscriber list the moment a campaign hits 50%, 75%, or 100% of its goal.

📊 Automatic Analytics Tracking: Monitor exactly where your incoming notification traffic is coming from with built-in attribution that requires zero complex configuration.

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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.