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Donately
Encinitas, California, United States
What it is
Donately is an online fundraising platform for accepting donations, building branded giving pages, and tracking donor activity. Donation pages support custom messaging, branding, drag-and-drop editing, mobile optimization, and recurring gifts. Campaigns can include rich media, live fundraising thermometers, peer-to-peer and team fundraising, custom branding, and social sharing. Forms and widgets embed on websites, landing pages, or blogs without redirects or coding. Donor tools provide profiles, gift tracking, segmentation, automated receipts, reports, exports, and retention insights. Native connections include HubSpot, Salesforce, Mailchimp, Slack, and Constant Contact, while Zapier links to thousands of tools. An API sends or updates donation data in external systems. Stripe and PayPal support one-time or recurring payments, wallets, and multiple currencies. Donately states that it supports PCI compliance, HTTPS, fraud prevention, GDPR, and CCPA requirements. Plans include free usage with a 4% platform fee, $99 a month with 2%, or $$5,000 once with 0% platform fees up to $1M raised.
For and against
For
- Branded donation pages and campaigns
- Embedded forms without redirects or coding
- Peer-to-peer and team fundraising
- Donor segmentation and reporting
- API, Zapier, and native integrations
Against
- Free plan charges a 4% platform fee
- Paid plan starts at $99 a month
- Payment processing is separate
The verdict
Donately covers donation pages, campaigns, embedded forms, donor management, and connected payment workflows. Its free entry point and broader paid options are clearly defined, with platform fees varying by plan.
Who it suits
It suits nonprofits, churches, schools, agencies, businesses, and influencers collecting online gifts. Organizations needing embedded forms, recurring donations, campaign fundraising, or donor integrations may find its tools relevant.
Plans and prices
Standard fees
4% platform fee · no commitment
Read 1 Oct 2026 · donately.com
Lower fees
2% platform fee · cancel anytime
Read 1 Oct 2026 · donately.com
No fees
0% platform fees · up to $1M raised
Read 1 Oct 2026 · donately.com
On the record
- API
- Donately provides API access for connecting applications and sending or updating donation information in external systems.donately.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Donately lists nonprofits, churches, schools, agencies, businesses, and influencers as audiences it serves.donately.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Campaigns
- Campaign pages support rich media, live fundraising thermometers, peer-to-peer fundraising, team fundraising, custom branding, and social sharing.donately.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Donation pages
- Users can create branded donation pages with custom messaging, branding, drag-and-drop editing, mobile optimization, and recurring giving options.donately.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Donor management
- Built-in donor tools provide profiles, donation tracking, segmentation, automated receipts, reporting, exports, and donor-retention insights.donately.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Embeddable forms
- Donation forms and widgets can be embedded on websites, landing pages, or blogs without redirects or coding.donately.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Native integrations include HubSpot, Salesforce, Mailchimp, Slack, Constant Contact, and others; Zapier connects to thousands of tools.donately.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Offline donations
- Donately does not charge for tracking offline cash or check donations.donately.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Payments
- Donately supports Stripe and PayPal processing, Google and Apple payment wallets, one-time and recurring giving, and multiple currencies.donately.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Payment security
- Donately says it is fully PCI compliant and partners with Stripe, which it describes as holding the highest level of PCI compliance available.support.donately.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Product
- Donately is an online fundraising platform for accepting donations, creating customizable donation forms, and tracking donor activity in real time.donately.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Security
- Donately states that it is PCI compliant, uses HTTPS encryption on forms, provides fraud-prevention tools, and supports GDPR and CCPA data privacy compliance.donately.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- Plans include in-house fundraising experts, email, video and live chat assistance, onboarding sessions, webinars, and personalized campaign advice.donately.com · read 1 Oct 2026
