Givebutter

· #235 most-used

Fundraise, engage donors, and manage events — automated by AI agents

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Givebutter is an all-in-one fundraising platform for nonprofits, schools, and organizations — offering donation forms, peer-to-peer campaigns, event ticketing, donor management, and zero platform fees. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can acknowledge every gift within about a minute, sync donors to your CRM, monitor campaign progress, reconcile payouts, track pledge fulfillment, and manage event attendee rosters — all without anyone logging into the Givebutter dashboard.

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Average time saved

10 hours

per person · per month

≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate manual donor acknowledgment, weekly campaign reporting, CRM data entry after each gift, payout reconciliation, and event roster maintenance — tasks that otherwise require staff time every day.

Schedule

What your Givebutter agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs

7Agents at work

24/7Always on

Agents

Tue–Thu

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Multi-app workflows

Givebutter × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows

6Apps spanned

~21 hrsSaved / week

5Personas served

For fundraising

Featured3 apps

Personalized thank-you sent within a minute of every gift

When a new donation lands in Givebutter, the agent retrieves the donor's Contact record and the campaign details, sends a personalized acknowledgment email via Brevo within about a minute, and logs the gift in a Google Sheets donor history — all without a staff member touching a keyboard.

~8 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow

Trigger·When a new donation transaction is recorded in Givebutter

Trigger

Step 1

Givebutter

New Transaction webhook fires when a donation is recorded

read

Step 2

Givebutter

Retrieve the donor's Contact record for personalization data

read

Step 3

Givebutter

Get the Campaign record to include the campaign name and goal progress

write

Step 4

Brevo

Send a personalized thank-you email with gift amount and campaign context

write

Step 5

Google Sheets

Append the transaction to the donor giving history sheet

Result

Send a personalized thank-you email with gift amount and campaign contextAppend the transaction to the donor giving history sheet

The win

Saved per run

12 min

Runs / week

~40×

Every donor is acknowledged before they close the browser tab

Driven byMarketing Agent

ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

Sales
30 min / week
Manual donor-to-CRM data entry
Development staff manually copy new donor details from Givebutter into the CRM, update giving history, and build outreach lists by hand — a repetitive task that delays follow-up by hours.
Sales Agent
0 min
Agent syncs new donors to CRM and flags major prospects automatically
When a new donation lands, the agent retrieves the Contact record, creates or updates the CRM entry, and flags major-gift prospects for personal outreach — before any staff member sees the notification.
Marketing
25 min / week
Weekly fundraising performance reporting
The marketing team manually logs into Givebutter, pulls campaign totals for each active campaign, formats a summary, and shares it in Slack every Monday morning.
Marketing Agent
0 min
Agent posts weekly campaign fundraising digest automatically
Every week the agent fetches campaign totals, donor counts, and goal percentages for all active campaigns and posts the digest to Slack — no one logs into Givebutter for reporting.
Customer Support
20 min / week
Manual ticket and transaction lookup
Support staff manually search Givebutter for each donor inquiry, pulling up ticket records, transaction history, and campaign details one at a time before they can answer a question.
Customer Support Agent
0 min
Agent handles ticket inquiries with real-time transaction context
When a ticket buyer contacts support, the agent retrieves the full Transaction and Ticket record — purchase date, type, amount, campaign — before the support rep even opens the message.
Human Resources
20 min / week
Manual staff giving program tracking
HR manually exports donor lists from Givebutter, cross-references them against the employee directory to calculate participation rates, and checks for recurring gift lapses by reviewing plans one by one.
Human Resources Agent
0 min
Agent tracks staff giving participation and recurring gift health weekly
The HR agent automatically calculates staff giving participation rates from Givebutter Contact and Transaction records and flags lapsed recurring gifts for personal follow-up — no manual list-building.
Finance
45 min / week
Manual payout reconciliation and fund tracking
Finance manually downloads payout reports from Givebutter, compares totals to transaction data in a spreadsheet, and tracks restricted fund balances by reviewing each fund page individually.
Finance Agent
0 min
Agent reconciles payouts and tracks restricted funds weekly
Every Friday the agent lists all payouts, computes expected totals from transaction records, writes the reconciliation to Google Sheets, and flags variances — the finance team's monthly close starts with the week already reconciled.
Operations
60 min / week
Manual operations data management
Ops staff manually export ticket rosters before each event, pull campaign health summaries for leadership updates, and audit contact data quality in Givebutter on a best-effort basis.
Operations Agent
0 min
Agent keeps event rosters, campaign portfolios, and contact lists current automatically
The operations agent refreshes event attendee rosters, campaign health data, and contact database quality every week without prompting — ops always has current data for logistics, leadership, and vendor coordination.
Legal
30 min / week
Manual compliance auditing
Legal manually pulls transaction reports per fund to check for restricted fund misallocation, reviews pledge records for overdue items, and reconciles payout totals against authorized schedules — work typically done quarterly rather than weekly.
Legal Agent
0 min
Agent audits restricted funds, pledges, and payouts for compliance weekly
Every week the legal agent checks restricted fund transactions for misallocation, reviews open pledges for overdue compliance obligations, and compares payouts against the authorized disbursement schedule — a full compliance sweep in minutes.

+ 100s of other Givebutter automations

Average time saved

23 hrs / person / month

Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size

5 people

Hourly rate

$75 / hr

Hours saved / week

Hours saved / year

625

Annual ROI

$46,875

Based on Givebutter's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Givebutter into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect Givebutter via a personal API key from your Givebutter developer settings. The key inherits the permissions of the generating user — use an admin account key to enable all agent actions.

Open Givebutter Developer Settings

Generate and copy your API key

Click Generate new key, give it a descriptive name (e.g. 'Actionist'), copy the key, and store it in a secure location — it will not be shown again.

Paste into Actionist

Paste the key into Actionist and click Test connection. The agent runs a read-only verification call to confirm the handshake.

Credentials you'll need

API Key*

Givebutter → Settings → Developers → API Keys → Generate new key

Actions

15 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

4 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

FAQs

Questions about Givebutter + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to Givebutter?

Go to the Apps tab in Actionist, find Givebutter, and click Connect. You will be prompted to enter a Givebutter API key. In your Givebutter account, navigate to Settings → Developers → API Keys, generate a new key, and paste it into Actionist. The agent runs a read-only test call to confirm the connection before any actions execute.

What Givebutter permissions does the agent need?

Actionist uses your Givebutter API key, which inherits the permissions of the generating user. For read operations (fetching campaigns, contacts, transactions, tickets, funds, payouts, and pledges) a standard account-level key is sufficient. For write operations (creating contacts, funds, discount codes, updating contacts) the key must belong to a user with the appropriate account permissions in Givebutter. Generate the key while logged into an account with admin-level access to ensure the agent can perform all configured actions.

Can I connect Givebutter to other apps in the same workflow?

Yes. Givebutter is most powerful when combined with CRM, finance, and communication tools. Common combinations: sync new donors into HubSpot or Salesforce contacts; push transaction data into Google Sheets for budget reconciliation; send Slack alerts when a campaign hits a milestone; use the New Transaction webhook trigger to fire a thank-you email in Mailchimp or Brevo. Any of Actionist's 200+ connected apps can send or receive data alongside Givebutter in the same workflow.

What are the most common things agents do with Givebutter?

The four patterns that come up most often: (1) donor onboarding — when a new contact appears in Givebutter, the agent syncs them to the CRM and queues a welcome sequence; (2) campaign reporting — the agent fetches weekly transaction totals per campaign and posts them to a Slack channel or Google Sheet; (3) event management — when a ticket is sold, the agent logs the attendee, sends a confirmation, and updates the event headcount; (4) donor stewardship — after a transaction, the agent looks up the contact record, notes the gift in the CRM, and queues a personalized acknowledgment.

Can I trigger a workflow the first time a donor gives?

Givebutter's webhook events available in Actionist fire on account-level events: New Campaign, New Ticket, New Transaction, and Updated Campaign. There is no per-donor first-gift trigger built into the webhook system. To detect a first gift from a specific donor, use a scheduled Get Transactions action filtered by contact email, compare the result count, and fire downstream logic when the count transitions from zero to one. This polling approach runs within about a minute on the configured schedule.

Does Actionist charge extra per Givebutter transaction?

Givebutter charges no platform fees — it is free to use for nonprofits. Donors can optionally cover payment processing fees, which go to Stripe or PayPal. Actionist itself operates on a subscription plan. There is no additional per-transaction charge from either Givebutter or Actionist for running agent tasks against the Givebutter API.

Can Actionist manage recurring donors from Givebutter?

Yes. Actionist can read recurring plan details from Givebutter, including the donor, amount, frequency, and status of each active recurring gift. You can schedule a weekly agent task that identifies lapsing or cancelled recurring plans and queues a re-engagement outreach in your email or CRM tool. Actionist cannot create or modify recurring plans via the API — those are managed by the donor inside Givebutter — but it can monitor and react to their status.

How do I pull real-time fundraising totals per campaign into a spreadsheet?

Use the Get Transactions action with the campaign ID and a date range filter to pull totals for a specific campaign, then write the result to Google Sheets or post it to Slack. For multi-campaign dashboards, chain several Get Transactions calls across the campaign IDs and aggregate the output. You can also use the New Transaction trigger to update a running total in a spreadsheet within about a minute of each gift coming in — no waiting for end-of-day exports.