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Pledge is a charitable giving platform that lets businesses add donations and fundraising to their products. The Pledge connector lets your Lovable app search a global database of verified nonprofits, create and track donations, and create and update fundraisers, so you can build giving programs, donation flows, and fundraising tools directly into your product. Pledge is available as an app + chat connector: one shared connection that works in the project chat while you build and in your published apps. With Pledge, your app can:
  • Search nonprofits worldwide by name, location, or cause
  • Retrieve nonprofit details to present in your own UI
  • Create donations and track their status
  • Create and update fundraisers
  • Embed Pledge’s donation forms and nonprofit search widgets
  • Combine giving data with the rest of your app’s content (user accounts, dashboards, loyalty programs)
Pledge is a good fit when you want to add charitable giving to a product, for example donation checkouts, round-up giving, loyalty point redemption, cause marketing campaigns, or employee giving programs, without handling nonprofit vetting and disbursement yourself.

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Common use cases and example apps

These examples show what you can build with Pledge, each with a prompt to start from.

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How to connect Pledge

Who can create Pledge connections depends on your plan and workspace settings. App + chat connectors are available by default on Free, Pro, and Business plans. On Enterprise plans, they are effectively disabled at first: Who can create connections and clients defaults to No one until an admin changes it in Connectors → Admin settings → App + chat connectors. You can create multiple Pledge connections using different Pledge accounts, which is useful if your organization has more than one. When the connection is created, you can link it to the projects where you want to use it. Anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in chat to link their project to it.

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Prerequisites

Before connecting Pledge, make sure you have:
Donations your app creates through this connector are real donations. Pledge charges the payment method on file in your Pledge account for them in batches and deducts its platform and payment processing fees. Billing is handled directly by Pledge, not Lovable. See How are donations through the API paid for? in Pledge’s help center.

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Set up your Pledge connection

You authorize Lovable with your Pledge account, and no API key is needed.
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Open Pledge in Connectors

Open Connectors and select Pledge. For the other places to open the catalog from, see Where to find connectors.
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Add a connection

Click Add connection and select App + chat connector. The form is split into collapsible sections, Details and Sharing.
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Name the connection

Under Details, Lovable fills in a name for the connection, which you can change. The name is only used inside Lovable to identify the connection.
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Choose who can use this connection

Under Sharing, the connection is private to you by default and shows a Private label. To share it, click Share with others. Then add workspace members by email, or click Invite entire workspace to make the connection available to everyone in your Lovable workspace.See Who can use connections and clients for more information.
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Connect to Pledge and authorize

Click Connect. The Pledge authorization window opens, so make sure your browser doesn’t block pop-ups. If it does, Lovable redirects you instead.Sign in to Pledge if prompted, review the requested permissions, and authorize the app.You’ll be redirected back to Lovable with a confirmation.
When connected, anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in chat to link their project to Pledge (based on configured connection-level access). Your Lovable apps can then search nonprofits, create donations, and manage fundraisers through Pledge.
Any project linked to this connection can create donations that Pledge charges to your organization. Only link the connection to projects that should be able to create donations.

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Limitations

The Pledge connector cannot:
  • Receive Pledge webhooks, such as donation completed events. Poll the API for donation status instead.
  • Support per-end-user Pledge login. All requests use the Pledge account that authorized the connection, so donations created by your app’s end users run through your organization’s Pledge account.
  • Connect to Pledge’s sandbox environment. Every connection uses your production Pledge account.
For Pledge’s fees and billing, see Pledge’s pricing page and How are donations through the API paid for?.

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Manage your Pledge connection

Connections are managed from Connectors: select Pledge, then open the connection.
  • Unlink projects to remove Pledge access from specific projects while keeping the connection available for others. See Unlink projects from a connection for the steps.
  • Delete the connection to remove it from the workspace entirely. Deleting is permanent. It removes the credentials from all linked projects, and app features that use Pledge stop working until a new connection is added. See Delete a connection for the steps and who can delete.