PayPal Standard & PayPal Commerce Setup

PayPal Standard — classic (in Free)

1. Settings → Payment Gateways → Enable PayPal Standard.
2. Enter your PayPal business email.
3. Enable IPN in PayPal Business profile (copy webhook URL from CharityGlow settings).
4. Turn on PDT identity token (PayPal → Account Settings → Website payments → PDT).

PayPal Commerce Platform (Pro recommended)

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Enabling PayPal recurring / subscriptions

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. All payment processing fees go straight from Stripe / PayPal to your bank account — CharityGlow never touches, sees or holds your donations. CharityGlow is WordPress Multisite compatible, GDPR ready, translation ready and RTL friendly. Design flexible multi-step donation forms, pick preset amounts, allow custom amounts, add a cover-fee checkbox and convert 30% more donors overnight. No more hunting for 7 different plugins and patching them together. Everything you need lives under one roof.