Connecting Anedot or Donorbox to your Electbase site
Anedot and Donorbox both serve campaigns at every race level, from school board to Congress, and both give you a hosted donation page that your Electbase donate button opens. The money always flows from your donor to the processor to your committee's account. Electbase never touches it.
Anedot
Anedot is a nonpartisan processor with no race-level restrictions — a state legislative or school board campaign gets the same tools a congressional campaign does.
Getting your link. In your Anedot dashboard, open the Action Page you want to use and go to Share, where you'll find your hosted page URL.
Connecting it in Electbase. From your dashboard, open Connections in the top navigation and find the Anedot card. Paste your webhook signing secret (from Anedot: Settings → Webhooks) — your Anedot account ID is optional. The card flips to Connected and shows your campaign's private webhook receiver URL to paste back into Anedot. For the donate section itself, set Anedot as your processor in the editor's Campaign details panel and paste your hosted Anedot page URL. If you change the link later, change it there again; the editor moves your donate section to the new link too.
Electbase doesn't offer embedded donation forms yet, for any processor. The hosted page is also what Anedot itself recommends for conversion, and it takes PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, which Anedot's embedded form can't.
Data back to your supporter list. On Rally and above, Anedot's webhooks can send donation records to Electbase automatically, at no extra cost from Anedot — you set this up self-serve from your Anedot account. On the Electbase side it's the same Connections card: once your signing secret is saved, point Anedot's webhook at the receiver URL the card shows. After the first real donation arrives, the card reads "Webhook verified" and the donor appears in Supporters.
Donorbox
Donorbox is one of the few processors that supports political fundraising explicitly rather than merely tolerating it: there's a dedicated "Political Campaign or Committee" organization type when you sign up, and they provide FEC-compliant report templates.
Getting your link. In your Donorbox dashboard, open your campaign's Share & Embed panel, where you'll find the hosted page link.
Connecting it in Electbase. Same shape as Anedot: the Donorbox card on your Connections page handles the data link, and the processor choice + hosted page URL live in the editor's Campaign details panel. Your donate button opens your hosted Donorbox page.
Data back to your supporter list. Donorbox supports webhooks and an API, but they sit behind Donorbox's paid "API & Zapier Integration" add-on, on your own account. Donorbox includes the add-on in its Pro and Premium plans; on the free Standard plan you add it separately, from Integrations & Addons inside your Donorbox account. One thing to know before you go looking: Donorbox's pricing page lists API access only under Pro and Premium and doesn't mention the add-on at all, which makes the sync look far more expensive than it is. Donorbox support confirmed to us in writing in September 2026 that Standard-plan accounts, new and existing, can still buy it on its own. The price is theirs to set, not ours to quote, so confirm it with Donorbox before you rely on the sync. Without the add-on, your donation records still live in your Donorbox dashboard and can be exported manually; the add-on just automates the sync into Electbase.
Setting up the sync. On Rally and above, once the add-on is on, copy the receiver URL from the Donorbox card on your Connections page. In Donorbox, open Integrations & Addons → API & Zapier Integration and add a custom webhook at that URL. Select both donation.created and donation.updated. Donorbox reports refunds only through donation.updated, so without it a refund never reaches Electbase and your totals won't reflect it. Save the webhook, open its details page, copy its Signature Secret, and paste it into the Donorbox card. The card reads "Webhook verified" once the first donation arrives.
From then on, each donation adds the donor to your supporter list and the gift to your Finance page. A refund, full or partial, appears as its own line and comes off your total. A refund for a gift made before you connected is listed but not subtracted, because that gift was never counted here.
Which one?
Both are solid nonpartisan choices for any race level. Donorbox's explicit political-committee support and FEC report templates are a plus if your treasurer wants the paperwork help; Anedot's free self-serve webhooks make automatic data sync cheaper. Fees differ too — see Which donation processor is right for your race? for the comparison.
Quick checklist
- Set up your committee's account with Anedot or Donorbox (use Donorbox's "Political Campaign or Committee" type if applicable).
- Get your hosted page link — Anedot: Action Page → Share; Donorbox: Share & Embed panel.
- Connect it in Electbase: Connections page for the data link, Campaign details in the editor for the donate section.
- Check the live donate page for your "Paid for by" disclaimer — Electbase places it by default, but verify.
- Optional, on Rally and above: enable webhooks (free and self-serve on Anedot; paid add-on on Donorbox) to sync donations into your supporter list. On Donorbox, select both donation.created and donation.updated so refunds come through.