Want to link a “Donate” button on Facebook to a website outside of Facebook? It used to be an effective way to call attention to your campaigns. Then, in early 2019, Facebook changed its policy on this and it is no longer possible. Learn more about what it means and why.

You can integrate PayPal with our platform, but only as an optional, additional donation-processing method. If you choose not to accept PayPal any longer, you can easily disconnect from it too.

Venmo is a mobile app for payments and other money transfers. It can appear as a payment method on Give Lively for eligible users and devices.

Learn about the variety of payment methods for donors with Give Lively.

Learn about sharing campaigns on social media and email.

Create user-friendly pages for fundraising event ticket and sponsorship sales. Unlimited, search-optimized, customizable pages come complete with tailorable payment tiers, a map, personalized thank-you emails and a progress meter.

Add a link to your fundraising page from a "Donate" or "Get tickets" button on your website, with instructions on how to do so from the most popular website-building services: WordPress, Wix, and SquareSpace.

An explanation of how Shift4 processes and displays voluntary donor tips to Give Lively (called “Splits” by Shift4) made through Give Lively donation forms.

Give Lively supports Apple Pay, Google Pay and Venmo in certain situations.

To maximize your fundraising potential, it's important to share word of your core and campaign fundraising page(s). The web address(es) to which you can point donors are easily copied with one click.

On your Core Profile and any Campaign Page, you can easily add (or remove) a way for people to dedicate a donation by giving in honor or in memory of someone.

Expand your fundraising capabilities: Tap into thousands of third-party services through direct integrations and Zapier automations.

Refer to the steps below if you would like to connect Give Lively to your Salesforce org using a different Salesforce user.

Once your event is over, you can download or share a file of your attendee data, such as names and answers to additional questions.

In the event that a fundraising page isn't working properly, first check the browser. Give Lively works best on the latest versions of most desktop/laptop computers and mobile devices, except Internet Explorer.

A look at how our voluntary tip request has changed, influenced by analytical data and the feedback of our member nonprofits.

Team Fundraising provides a way for groups of people with shared values to make collective appeals to the generosity of others, all in support of your nonprofit.

Manually add any funds raised in the form of paper checks or cash to the Peer-to-Peer Fundraising page totals.

The latest updates to our Simple Donation Widget make it more appealing, efficient and accessible.

Export contact information for your peer-to-peer fundraising supporters in case you need to check in with them, send them tips or special fundraising incentives, or anything else.

Event Ticketing pages let you host in-person and virtual fundraising events. You can use these pages to sell tickets and sponsorships for your events or use them for non-ticketed events. Learn how to set Event Ticketing up, including how to add basic event details, logos and images, information about tickets (categories and price tiers), additional donor information requests and thank you messages.

In our system, there are upper and lower per-payment limits.

For Salesforce integration users assigned to a custom profile that was created before October 2025,

Launch fundraising campaigns in minutes with beautiful, customizable and responsive donation pages that are as easy and satisfying for nonprofits to build as they are for donors to use.

Learn how to set up our Zapier integration, connect Give Lively to 6,000+ other web services and automate actions when new donations come in.

This article contains instructions for nonprofit organizations about how to change the default donation frequency — either "Monthly" or "One-Time. “ This can be easily accomplished at any time on your primary fundraising page and any of your fundraising Campaign Pages. For donors: please see "Before You Get Started" (directly below).

You can give (or revoke) the option for donors to make their donations anonymous to the public on your fundraising pages.

Download donor data with the click of a button. This data includes donor names, email addresses, donation date, donation amount, donation frequency (one-time or monthly), donation page, and other custom information.

Become familiar with the expanded view of on-screen data reports.

We have contingency and continuity plans, including workarounds to guarantee nonprofits’ uninterrupted ability to raise funds.

A walkthrough of the features in the Nonprofit Admin Portal available for Give Lively’s Salesforce integration.

Steps that nonprofit admins and Salesforce consultants should follow to integrate Give Lively with Salesforce.

Your Core Profile acts as the foundation for your fundraising efforts, no matter what Give Lively fundraising solutions or products you use. Many nonprofits even use the fundraising page associated with their Core Profile for year-round fundraising. Customizing your core profile is therefore a very important first step.

What consultants need to know and do to integrate Give Lively with Salesforce.

Instructions to automate the process for assigning GAUs to donations syncing from Give Lively to Salesforce.

When enabled, Salesforce’s built-in duplicate prevention features can interfere with Give Lively’s ability to sync donations and contacts. Learn how to add a rule to exempt Give Lively from the duplicate rules, something we recommend.

A full example of a Team Fundraising page showing and explaining all of its elements.

Understand the difference between Give Lively's two generations of payment forms. At present, the new, second-generation payment form is in use on all of our products except Event Ticketing.

Set a fundraising target for every campaign.