Connect your app to Pledge
Connect your Lovable app to Pledge to add charitable giving features like searching nonprofits, creating donations, and managing fundraisers. This lets you build donation checkouts, loyalty point redemptions, or employee giving programs directly into your product.
Anyone who wants to add charitable giving options to their Lovable app without handling nonprofit vetting and payment processing themselves.
Do this, in order
- 1
Make sure you have a Pledge account and permission to create connections in your Lovable workspace.
These are necessary prerequisites before you can set up the connection.
- 2
Go to 'Connectors' in your Lovable dashboard and select 'Pledge'.
This is where you initiate the connection process for Pledge.
- 3
Click 'Add connection' and choose 'App + chat connector'.
This starts the setup for a connection that works both in your project chat and published apps.
- 4
Give your connection a descriptive name under 'Details'.
This name helps you identify the connection within Lovable.
- 5
Under 'Sharing', decide who can use this connection. It's private by default, but you can share it with specific members or your entire workspace.
This controls access to the Pledge connection for other team members.
- 6
Click 'Connect', and in the pop-up window, sign in to your Pledge account if prompted, review the permissions, and authorize the connection.
This links your Lovable workspace to your Pledge account, granting Lovable the necessary permissions to interact with Pledge.
- 7
Once connected, ask Lovable in your project chat to link your project to this Pledge connection.
This makes the Pledge features available for use within that specific project.
Paste this into your project
Connect my Lovable app to Pledge so I can search verified nonprofits, create donations, and manage fundraisers. I want to build a donation checkout add-on where customers can pick a nonprofit and give $1, $5, or $10.
Words decoded
- App + chat connector
- A single connection that works both when you're building your app by talking to Lovable and when your app is live and being used by others.
- Nonprofit vetting
- The process of checking and approving charitable organizations to ensure they are legitimate and meet certain standards.
- Disbursement
- The process of paying out funds, in this case, sending donations to the chosen nonprofits.
- API
- A set of rules and tools that allows different software applications to talk to each other.
- Webhooks
- Automated messages sent from one application to another when a specific event happens, like a donation being completed.
- Sandbox environment
- A testing area that mimics the real system but doesn't affect live data or real money.
Where people get stuck
- Donations created through this connector are real and will be charged to your Pledge account, so only link the connection to projects that should be able to create actual donations.
- The connector does not support per-end-user Pledge logins; all donations will be processed through the single Pledge account connected to Lovable.
- The connector does not connect to Pledge's sandbox environment, meaning all connections use your live production Pledge account.
- The connector cannot receive Pledge webhooks for events like donation completion; you must check the API for donation status updates.
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