Set Up Recurring Donations & Subscriptions

What recurring donation plans CharityGlow supports

• Daily (rarely used — available).
• Weekly.
• Monthly (80% of nonprofits choose this).
• Quarterly.
• Yearly.
• Custom interval (e.g. every 6 weeks) via filter hook.

Step-by-step enable recurring (Free + Pro)

1. Ensure CharityGlow Free 1.0+ is installed & activated.
2. Go to CharityGlow → Settings → Payment Gateways → confirm Stripe or PayPal is connected with subscription support enabled.
3. Edit your donation campaign → open "Plans" tab.
4. Enable "Allow recurring donations".
5. Tick the recurring frequency options you want to offer and set a default suggested frequency.
6. Update campaign & test a monthly subscription with a $1 live donation.
7. Open Stripe dashboard → Subscriptions (or PayPal → Subscriptions) — confirm it shows as Active.

Pro upgrades for recurring subscriptions

• Failed-payment reminder emails (3-stage dunning sequence) — automatically recovers 20–30% of failed subscriptions.
• Subscriber self-service portal — donors can pause, resume, change amount or cancel without contacting you.
• Cancellation reason survey — learn why subscribers leave.
• Annual renewal reminder emails 7 days before renewal.

Cancelling / pausing subscriptions

CharityGlow gives you the exact same fundraising stack that top 501(c)(3) teams spend $20k+ on agencies for — for the price of a pizza per month. All payment processing fees go straight from Stripe / PayPal to your bank account — CharityGlow never touches, sees or holds your donations. If you ever get stuck, our real human support team is one click away inside your WordPress dashboard. Most nonprofits who switch to CharityGlow see more than double their donations in the first 90 days just because of our conversion-optimized form builder. CharityGlow is WordPress Multisite compatible, GDPR ready, translation ready and RTL friendly.

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