Donors can fund their donations through Give Lively using any of the following:

• all major credit cards or debit cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club and JCB)
• ACH/bank transfers
• digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay
• PayPal
• Venmo (new payment form only) 
• donor-advised fund/DAFpay (new payment form only)

Credit and debit cards

To process major credit cards and debit cards, we rely on Stripe and Shift4, an industry-leading payment processors trusted by thousands of companies and nonprofits. Credit and debit cards stored in Apple Pay or Google Pay are processed by Stripe. All Give Lively members must have a fully authorized and connected Stripe account to use our technology. Learn more about Stripe and why it is required to use Give Lively.

ACH/direct debit

To handle ACH/direct debit transactions, we we work with Plaid and Stripe Financial Connections, two financial technology services that enable users to interact with their bank accounts. Both are trusted services that partner with thousands of US-based banks and guide users through a similar ACH/bank-payment process.

Digital wallets

To allow for the use of digital wallets, most Give Lively fundraising pages automatically detect if a donor's device/browser has Apple Pay or Google Pay enabled as a payment method. If detected, the relevant payment option appears. Learn more about digital wallets.

PayPal/Venmo

‍Give Lively nonprofit members can add PayPal, but only as an optional additional donation-processing method. At the present time, it can't be the sole payment processor. All other payment methods (credit/debit, ACH etc.) are processed via Stripe or Shift4. Learn more about our PayPal integration.

When PayPal is integrated with our platform, Venmo will also automatically appear as a payment method, but only to US-based donors using a supported device (a laptop/desktop, an iOS platform using a Safari browser or an Android system using a Chrome browser), only on our new payment form and never in donation widgets on Wix-hosted websites. A nonprofit must have integrated its PayPal merchant account with Give Lively to accept Venmo payments.

Donor-advised fund/DAFpay

To process donations from donor advised funds (DAFs), Give Lively uses DAFpay, powered by Chariot, the leading DAF payments solutions provider. The DAFpay button on Give Lively donation forms lets donors make one-time charitable grants to nonprofits through their DAF providers – a seamless giving flow. Learn more about DAFpay.