New Starter Plan

We introduced the new Starter Plan for nonprofits that want to start fundraising with lower friction.

With Starter, donors can choose to cover transaction costs at checkout. When they don’t, CharityStack covers those costs for the nonprofit, so the organization still receives the full intended gift.

Unlike many “free” fundraising platforms, CharityStack does not ask donors to tip the software provider at checkout. The donor experience stays focused on the nonprofit, the mission, and the gift being made.

Checkout Bumps and Monthly Subscription Bumps

We added two new ways for nonprofits to raise more from each donor moment.

Checkout Bumps let donors add a small additional amount during checkout. The prompt appears as an “Increase your impact” slider, giving donors an easy way to increase their gift before they pay.

Monthly Subscription Bumps help turn one-time gifts into recurring support. When a donor chooses a one-time donation, CharityStack can suggest a monthly gift instead, helping the nonprofit build steadier revenue over time.

These features resemble tip-style prompts, but the key difference is where the money goes: the additional revenue supports the nonprofit, not CharityStack.

Dashboard Assistant

We also added the new CharityStack AI Chat in beta.

Nonprofit teams can now ask questions inside the dashboard and get help understanding fundraising data, navigating the product, and taking common actions.

The assistant is designed to make CharityStack feel less like a static admin tool and more like an active fundraising workspace.

Because this is a beta, we’re continuing to improve the assistant’s reliability, context awareness, and action support.

In this release, we added the assistant backend, chat persistence, improved analytics, and frontend hardening so conversations can carry context across the dashboard and teams can move from question to action faster.

CharityStack Is Now Generally Available

CharityStack is now open for nonprofits to sign up and launch on their own.

The new onboarding flow guides organizations through account setup, organization verification, first form creation, payment processor connection, and sharing. Nonprofits with a website can install CharityStack on their site; nonprofits without one can launch with a hosted donation page.

We also added onboarding checklists, guided setup flows, Stripe status handling, share tools, QR-code support, and feature cards to help teams know what to do after launch.

New Overlay Forms

We added Overlay Forms for nonprofits that want flexible, headless giving experiences.

An Overlay Form can open from a simple URL trigger, such as ?donate&formid=... for donations or ?attend&formid=... for events. That makes it easier to connect donation flows to existing buttons, campaign pages, partner pages, QR codes, and custom landing pages.

Overlay Forms also support prefilled links. Nonprofits can prefill values like amount, fund, frequency, donor contact details, ticket selections, seat details, sponsorship options, quantities, campaign values, and custom inputs. This makes it possible to create targeted giving links for specific campaigns, funds, events, and donor journeys.

Smaller Improvements

• Added fixed recurring charge day support.

• Added server-side exports and export progress tracking.

• Added supporter anonymity controls.

• Improved fundraising bar metrics.

• Added configurable sponsorship and product quantities.

• Increased event and fundraiser description limits.

• Added Apple Pay registration/status visibility.

• Improved payout and event drilldown exports.

• Added Fingerprint.com fraud detection support.

• Improved checkout reliability across Stripe, Finix, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.

• Improved payment diagnostics.

• Improved CI, deploys, integration tests, and monorepo tooling.