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As an approved Give Lively member, you have free and unlimited access to our entire platform. But first, you MUST complete the following three steps directly with Stripe, the independent business that processes payments made through our technology.

Claim/Confirm a Stripe Account and connect it to Give LivelyEnable your Stripe account to accept ACH (bank) donations
Apply for Stripe's nonprofit discount

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Getting Started

As an approved Give Lively member, you have free and unlimited access to our entire platform. But first, you MUST complete the following three steps directly with Stripe, the independent business that processes payments made through our technology. Our Give Lively fundraising pages will not function if your nonprofit does not have a fully authorized Stripe account.

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Money Flow & Fees

Money Flow & Fees

Give Lively’s platform facilitates the flow of funds raised between donors and the nonprofits they support. Critical to the process is Stripe, an independent service we use to process donations and then disburse them to nonprofit bank accounts. See how to get fully set up in Stripe and ensure that money donated through our platform moves as quickly, seamlessly and inexpensively as possible.

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Before

Create, activate and manage a Stripe account (required to use Give Lively tech)

Stripe is an industry-leading payment processor trusted by over 100,000 companies and nonprofits. To use Give Lively technology, you must have an activated Stripe account connected to Give Lively. A fully effective account is also enabled for ACH (bank) transfers and has applied for Stripe’s nonprofit discount. Learn how to set it up.
Campaign Pages
Donation Widget
Text-to-Donate
Event Ticketing
Live Display
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Team Fundraising
Leaderboard

Respond to the “Stripe Restricted Your Account” email and error messages

Have you received an email advising that “Stripe Has Restricted Your Account” or seen a “Fundraising pages disabled” error message? Learn what you can do about it. 
Campaign Pages
Donation Widget
Text-to-Donate
Event Ticketing
Live Display
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Team Fundraising
Leaderboard

Integrate our platform with Paypal, or disconnect from it

You can integrate PayPal with our platform, but only as an optional, additional donation-processing method and, at present, only for one-time donations. If you choose not to accept PayPal any longer, you can easily disconnect from it too.
Campaign Pages
Donation Widget
Text-to-Donate
Event Ticketing
Live Display
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Team Fundraising
Leaderboard

Enable and disable digital wallets

For mobile donors and speedy checkout, Give Lively supports both Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Campaign Pages
Donation Widget
Text-to-Donate
Event Ticketing
Live Display
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Team Fundraising
Leaderboard

Integrate with Double the Donation

Learn everything you need to know about Double the Donation: what it is, what it does and how to add it to your Give Lively donation pages.
Campaign Pages
Donation Widget
Text-to-Donate
Event Ticketing
Live Display
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Team Fundraising
Leaderboard

Learn about Plaid

Learn what you need to know about Plaid, an industry-leading service that allows for the instant verification and use of a bank account to make donations.
Campaign Pages
Donation Widget
Text-to-Donate
Event Ticketing
Live Display
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Team Fundraising
Leaderboard

Understand the third-party fees on donations through Give Lively

Everything you need to know about the fees and payment methods associated with use of Give Lively technology. We don't charge you anything, but third-party processors do.
Campaign Pages
Donation Widget
Text-to-Donate
Event Ticketing
Live Display
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Team Fundraising
Leaderboard

Learn our minimum and maximum transaction amounts

In our system, there are upper and lower per-donation limits to how much can be raised.
Campaign Pages
Donation Widget
Text-to-Donate
Event Ticketing
Live Display
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Team Fundraising
Leaderboard

Transfer recurring donations to Give Lively from another fundraising platform

When transferring from another fundraising platform to Give Lively, be certain that your recurring donations go with you.
Campaign Pages
Donation Widget
Text-to-Donate
Event Ticketing
Live Display
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Team Fundraising
Leaderboard

Understand how a fiscal sponsor and sponsored organizations can use Give Lively technology

A full look at whether and how a fiscal sponsor and its sponsored organizations can use Give Lively technology. Spoiler: They can!
Campaign Pages
Donation Widget
Text-to-Donate
Event Ticketing
Live Display
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Team Fundraising
Leaderboard

During

Set up notifications for every donation

Three easy steps will allow you to learn each time Stripe receives a donation to your nonprofit.
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Troubleshoot donation form errors

Donors may experience minor hiccups when filling out our donation forms. Here are the errors they may see, with notes about what they mean and how you can help them move forward with their contributions.
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Troubleshoot donations made via ACH/direct debit

Not seeing an ACH payment? ACH donations rejected by Stripe? Here are some important things to note about ACH payments.
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Add offline donations to Campaign Page totals

Manually add any funds raised in the form of paper checks or cash to the Campaign Page totals, including its progress bar.
Campaign Pages

Add offline donations to Peer-to-Peer Fundraising pages

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

Issue a full or partial refund for a donation

Full or partial refunds to your donors are possible through Stripe.
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Cancel a donor’s monthly donation or subscription

This article contains instructions for nonprofit organizations about how to correct/disable recurring donations, which is managed from the Stripe dashboard. For donors: please see "Before You Get Started" (directly below).
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After

Learn how donation disbursement works

While we consider quick donation disbursement to be important, the speed of disbursement is in part a function of the form of payment and whether a nonprofit is a Give Lively member.
Campaign Pages
Donation Widget
Text-to-Donate
Event Ticketing
Live Display
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Teams Fundraising
Leaderboard


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