About 8–12% of recurring card charges fail in any given month from expired cards and fraud-rule declines. Without retry logic, a 1,000-donor program shrinks to roughly 870 in a year. DonorForge is built so that does not happen.
A $25/month recurring donor at 90% annual retention gives $1,500 over five years. A $250 one-time donor at the typical 23% repeat rate gives about $400 over the same window. Recurring giving outperforms by nearly 4x per donor — but only if the program does not bleed donors to silent payment failures.
DonorForge treats recurring gifts as a first-class object, not a checkbox on a donation form. Charges retry on failure, donors can update their own card without emailing you, and every recurring gift ties back to the donor record and the campaign that produced it.
When a recurring charge fails — expired card, fraud-rule decline, insufficient funds — DonorForge retries on a schedule instead of dropping the donor. The most common cause of recurring-program shrinkage is handled for you.
Donors can update their own payment method through a secure link, so a re-issued card does not require a support email or a lost gift.
Monthly is the default; other recurring cadences are supported. Donors choose an amount and a schedule on your branded donation page.
Every recurring gift posts to the donor’s giving history and the originating campaign, so lifetime value and retention are accurate without manual reconciliation.
Recurring gifts can trigger templated or automated thank-you emails, so monthly donors are stewarded, not ignored after the first gift.
Recurring charges run through your own connected payment processor account. DonorForge is not a payment intermediary and adds no platform percentage on top.
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