Charities are running the world's giving on infrastructure built for e-commerce.

Stripe treats your mosque like a merchant. Your platform is a wrapper on Stripe. The dashboard you log into isn't even yours. Ummah replaces the entire stack.

Live in days · Free migration · You keep your brand, your donors, your data

DonationZakat eligible

$100.00

Clean Water — Ghana

MethodApple Pay · •••• 4417
Referencedon_9f2c41
Payment complete
A completed hand-pump water point in northern Ghana, with clean water filling a container and community members standing nearby
Proof of impact10 days later

“Your $100 reached us. This is the well it helped build.”

Field team · Bolgatanga District

Trusted by charities and giving platforms across the US, UK, Canada and Europe.

  • ◈ NORTHFIELD
  • △ RELIEFWORKS
  • ⬡ OPENHAND
  • ◍ AL-BIRR
  • ⬢ MERIDIAN
  • ◇ WATERLINE
01

Sub-accounts

Move money to Ghana without a team in Ghana.

Today, sending funds from your US account to a field operation abroad means incorporating locally, wiring through a partner, or losing a week and a cut to both. With Ummah, you open a new account in a new currency from your dashboard — and the money lands in days, not weeks.

  • Open accounts in any supported currency
  • No local entity required
  • Settlement in days
  • Full visibility on every leg of the transfer
New account

GHS — Ghanaian Cedi

Settlement currency

Available balance

₵ 148,200.00

  1. Initiated12 Mar · 09:14
  2. In transit12 Mar · 16:02
  3. Settled14 Mar · 08:37
02

Portal

The dashboard you log into today belongs to someone else.

Most giving platforms are a wrapper on Stripe or Adyen. That means the merchant portal — every transaction, refund, payout and dispute — sits with a processor you have no relationship with. Ummah gives you the portal. In your name, under your brand.

Transactions

Last 24h
Recent donations in the merchant portal
DonorAmountStatus
A. Rahman$250.00Settled
M. Okonkwo£80.00Settled
S. Haddad€1,200.00Processing
J. Whitfield$35.00Settled
N. FarahC$500.00Scheduled
03

Checkout

Every charity shows every donor the same form.

We know what this donor has given, where, when, and to whom. So we show them the right cause, the right amount, and the right ask. Same traffic. Materially more revenue.

First-time donor

Give to Clean Water — Ghana

$25Monthly
$10$25$50

Suggested for a first gift · cancel anytime

Give $25
Returning donor

Welcome back, Yusuf

$250Zakat
$100$250$500

You gave $250 to Zakat last Ramadan · 100% policy applies

Give $250
04

Ummah Intelligence

The retention team you don't have to hire.

Donor retention

Second-donation rate, lapse risk, and lifetime value tracked on every donor. Ummah re-engages them by SMS and email on your behalf, automatically.

  • Second-donation tracking
  • Lapse-risk scoring
  • Automated SMS and email
  • Segment-level reporting
Second-donation rate42%
Donors at lapse risk1,284
Median lifetime value$316
05

The stack

Everything we give charities and platforms.

DONATION

£120.00

CardEnabled
Apple PayEnabled
Google PayEnabled
GBPUSDEURAEDMYR

Global payments

Accept cards, digital wallets, bank transfers and local methods across 90+ countries from one integration. Currency conversion and method selection happen automatically for every donor.

  • Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Apple Pay, Google Pay
  • Multi-currency with automatic conversion
  • Local payment methods by country

ROUTING

Optimising path…
Acquirer EUApproved
Acquirer UKRetry
Acquirer MENAFallback

98.4% average approval rate

Smart routing

Every donation is routed to the optimal acquirer based on cost, geography and approval likelihood. Retry and fallback logic recovers failed gifts without touching your integration.

  • Dynamic acquirer selection per transaction
  • Configurable retry and fallback rules
  • 98.4% average approval rate

SPLIT

£10,000 received

Charity programme92%
Platform fee5%
Processing3%

Settled to 3 sub-accounts · same day

Split payments

Automate splits between the platform, the charity and the programme. Configure fees, schedule settlements and manage multi-party payouts from a single API.

  • Automated splits to sub-accounts
  • Platform fee configuration
  • Scheduled and on-demand settlement

ONBOARDING

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4
IdentityCharityReviewLive
Identity verificationApproved
Charity registrationIn review

Charity onboarding

Onboard charities and sub-organisations with built-in KYC, charity registry checks and compliance screening. Activate payments and payouts in minutes, not weeks.

  • Built-in KYC and identity verification
  • Compliance checks by jurisdiction
  • Activate charities in minutes
POST/v1/donations
{
  "amount": 2500,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "campaign": "water_kilifi",
  "gift_aid": true
}
200 OKid: don_8fk21

Developer API

A versioned REST API with backward-compatible endpoints, SDKs for JavaScript, Python, Go and PHP, and a sandbox with event simulation for the full donation and proof lifecycle.

  • Versioned REST API with consistent JSON
  • HMAC webhook signature verification
  • OAuth 2.0 and API key authentication

Security & compliance

£120Approved
£980Review
£2,400Blocked
Protected by real-time fraud detection

Security and compliance

PCI DSS v4 Level 1 compliant. End-to-end encryption from capture through authorisation, tokenised card storage with full portability, and real-time fraud monitoring.

  • PCI DSS v4 Level 1
  • Portable tokenisation
  • Real-time risk scoring on every gift

Donor Tracking

Donor tracking at the donation level.

Ummah closes the loop at the level of the individual donation. The people who received the funds record what happened — a photo, a video, a message — and it goes back to the donor who paid for it. Not an annual report. Not a newsletter. Proof, attached to their donation.

01

Donation

A donor completes checkout. The gift is tagged to a project and a field team.

$100.00

Clean Water — Ghana

02

Delivery

The team on the ground records what the money did — a photo, a video, a message.

Field workers recording delivery notes with community members during an outreach visit
03

Proof

It returns to the individual donor's phone, attached to the donation they made.

Donor's phone view showing the completed water point their donation funded

$100.00

“Your $100 reached us. This is the well it helped build.”

Bolgatanga District · 10 days after your gift

Recipient consent, face-optional formats and deletion rights are built into every capture flow.

The Standard

Money should flow toward the charities that can prove it works.

Charities that complete the feedback loop earn Ummah Verified — a credential you can display on your own site, and the key to a growing pool of committed weekly donors who fund transparent causes only.

Read the Standard →

The giving pool is held and distributed by the Ummah Foundation under independent trustee oversight.

Ummah Verified
$4,820,000

distributed to verified causes

  1. 1Process with Ummah
  2. 2Complete the loop
  3. 3Unlock the pool

We own the rail, so we don't mark up someone else's.

Most giving platforms resell Stripe and add their margin on top. You pay for two businesses. Ummah is the processor — which means our pricing isn't a markup on anyone.

30+

Countries supported

100+

Payment methods

99.9%

Uptime SLA

Days, not weeks

Settlement speed

Testimonials

The people who moved off the rented stack.

“We moved four currencies and eleven restricted funds onto Ummah in a fortnight. The first thing our board noticed was that the reporting finally matched the bank.”
Placeholder NameDirector of Fundraising · Placeholder Charity (example)
“Donors who receive a proof update give again at nearly twice the rate of the ones who don't. That is the entire retention strategy, and it runs itself.”
Placeholder NameHead of Digital · Placeholder Relief Org (example)
“We were renting a merchant portal we couldn't even export from. Owning the processor relationship changed what we're allowed to build.”
Placeholder NameChief Operating Officer · Placeholder Giving Platform (example)

Security & compliance

Built to the standard a regulator would ask for.

PCI DSS v4.0.1 compliant

Assessed annually against the current standard, with quarterly scanning in between.

End-to-end encryption

Card data is encrypted in the browser and never touches your servers or ours in the clear.

Tokenised, portable card data

Your tokens are yours. If you leave, they leave with you — no hostage vault.

Continuous fraud monitoring

Real-time scoring tuned for giving patterns, not retail baskets.

FAQ

Questions worth asking us.

Most charities are live in days. Self-serve onboarding and verification typically complete within 48 hours; migrating existing recurring donors and tokenised cards runs in parallel and is handled by our team at no cost. Nothing about your donation pages has to change on day one.

A community gathered at dusk around newly installed solar panels