Introducing CharityStack's Checkout and Embeds!
Checkout is a composable form that allows users to enable donations anywhere on their website and consolidate the payment experience across all use cases. Checkout allows nonprofits to accept payments from any of the embeds that CharityStack provides.
Embeds are a new way to place different fundraising components on your website, that is more centered around your brand, faster at load, and built with your custom website experience in mind.
What is Checkout?
Checkout is a pop-up form that is embedded on your website that allows you to accept payments anywhere on your website.
Checkout is composed of two pages on the left and right sides.
The left side consists of:
- A summary of the donation
- The ability to add additional details to your donations such as company matching or scheduling the donation.
The right side consists of:
- The ability to checkout with common payments wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay that will extract all donor information from a single click, significantly streamlining donation conversion time.
- The ability to pay via Credit Card or Bank Transfer from a simple form input
Checkout will be a pop-up form that will work with our new Embeds product and can be initiated from any part of your website. In the next few weeks, we will be introducing new Embeds that you're able to place on your website that can initiate Checkout from anywhere on your website.
What are Embeds?
Embeds will be replacing the current donation form. CharityStack will be moving away from embedding donation forms via an iFrame in favor of embedding components directly on your website. Currently, the only Embed that is available is the Donation Form. However, in the next few weeks, we'll be releasing the following Embeds:
- Crowdfunding Form
- Quick Donate
- Donation Flag
- Fundraising Bar
- Top Donors List
- Recent Donors List
- QR Codes
- Events
- Appointments
- Classes
How do Embeds and Checkout work together?
With Embeds, you're able to place a more streamlined form or multiple forms anywhere on your website that will initiate a Checkout overlay anywhere on your website. In the future, when we release new Embeds, you'll be able to place these components anywhere on your website while maintaining a consolidated payment experience.
With this new approach our donation forms now:
- Load significantly faster
- Provide a more branded experience
- Allow more of a consolidated payment experience for new embeds in the future
In the next few weeks, a CharityStack representative will be contacting you to replace your current donation form with our new Embed donation form that is compatible with Checkout.
To learn how to set up Checkout and Embeds today, check out our support article link here: https://support.charitystack.com/en/articles/8072705-setting-up-the-checkout-form