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How to Enable Online Giving in Gracely

Online giving allows your church to accept donations by card and other online methods, fully tracked inside Gracely. Once enabled, giving data flows automatically into your reports, funds, and tax statements.

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Online giving lets your church accept donations directly through Gracely. To turn it on, you connect a payment processor — you can use Stripe, PayPal, or both.

Step 1: Open your integrations

  1. From the left sidebar, click Church Settings

  2. Open the Integrations tab

👉 Log in to Gracely to follow along.

① Church Settings → ② Integrations. ③ Connect your account on the Stripe card, or ④ on the PayPal card. Both cards are tagged Online gifts.

This is where Gracely connects with payment processors and other third-party services. You’ll see both Stripe and PayPal, each tagged Online gifts.

Step 2: Connect a payment processor

You can connect Stripe, PayPal, or both. Most churches start with one and add the other later.

To connect Stripe:

  1. Find Stripe under Integrations

  2. Click Connect your account

  3. You’ll be redirected to Stripe to sign in or create an account

  4. Complete the Stripe onboarding steps

  5. When you’re done, you’ll return to Gracely automatically

To connect PayPal:

  1. Find PayPal under Integrations

  2. Click Connect your account

  3. Sign in to (or create) your PayPal account and finish the connection

  4. You’ll return to Gracely automatically

💡 Tip: Connecting both processors gives your donors more ways to give. You can disconnect PayPal at any time from the same Integrations page.

Step 3: Confirm online giving is active

Once a processor is connected:

  • Online giving is automatically enabled

  • You’ll see Online gifts amounts appear on your Dashboard

  • The Enable online gifts button on the Dashboard will no longer appear

Before a processor is connected, the Dashboard shows ① Enable online gifts. Once one is connected, the button goes away and ② Online Gifts tracks your online donations.

Step 4: Check your funds

  1. Go to Contributions → Funds

  2. Make sure at least one fund is set to Active

  3. Mark funds as Deductible or Non-deductible as needed

Only active funds appear in the online giving form.

On Funds, ① the Active filter and ② the Status column show which funds donors can choose online.

What happens next

Once online giving is enabled:

  • Members can give through your online giving form

  • Donations appear instantly under Giving

  • Donors are matched to an existing profile or a new one is created automatically

  • Giving is included in reports and tax statements — no manual entry required

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