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How to connect Donately to Claude

Connect Claude Web, Desktop and Cowork to Donately MCP. List recent donations from this month, find donors with recurring giving plans, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Donately is a fundraising platform for campaigns, donations, recurring giving, donors, forms, fundraisers, and webhooks. It helps nonprofits and fundraising teams manage online giving workflows in one place.

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Introduction

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, in the desktop app, and on mobile. Cowork is its agent for knowledge work, and it runs on all of those surfaces too. Connected to your apps, Claude can work with your files and services to accomplish complex tasks on your behalf.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Donately account to Claude via Composio Connect, enabling it to list recent donations from this month, find donors with recurring giving plans, summarize campaign performance by donation total, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Setup is the same on Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork, and you only need to do it once. The connector is tied to your account, so it's available in all three.

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Connecting Donately to Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork

Two ways to add the Composio connector. Pick whichever you prefer.

1. Add with one click

Click the button. Claude opens with the Composio connector filled in. Click Add, then go to step 2.

Add to Claude

Add manually

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

2. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork

3. Connect your Donately account

Back in Claude, ask it to connect to Donately or give it any Donately-related task.

For example, ask Claude to:

  • "List recent donations from this month"
  • "Find donors with recurring giving plans"
  • "Summarize campaign performance by donation total"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Claude, and your Donately account is ready to use.

What is the Donately Claude Connector, and what's possible with it?

The Donately MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Donately account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform Donately operations on your behalf.

Troubleshooting

1. Why does Claude not use the Composio connector for Donately?

The connector can show as connected, but Claude must use it in each Donately conversation.

  • Click + at the lower left of the chat, or type /.
  • Hover Connectors.
  • Turn on Composio.
  • Ask Claude to connect to Donately again.

2. Why does Claude show an MCP server error before Donately connects?

Claude can show Couldn't reach the MCP server or Authorization with the MCP server failed when you add the connector for Donately.

  • Check that the connector URL is https://connect.composio.dev/mcp.
  • Connectors run from Anthropic's cloud, so your device network is usually not the problem.
  • Add the connector again from Customize > Connectors, then ask Claude to connect Donately.
  • If it fails again, send the error and the ofid_ reference id to support@composio.dev.

3. Why does the Donately authorization link not work?

The Composio connector is one server. Your Donately account connects separately when Claude asks for it.

  • If the browser does not open, or the link expires, ask Claude to retry the Donately connection.
  • Composio creates a fresh Donately authorization link.
  • Open that link in your browser and finish the Donately sign-in.

4. Why do Donately actions fail after they worked before?

The Donately connection can expire or lose permission.

  • Ask Claude to inspect the Donately connection.
  • If the connection is unhealthy, disconnect it when Claude prompts you.
  • Reconnect the Donately account and retry the action.
  • If Claude shows a permission prompt, approve it before Claude changes data in Donately.
  • If the action still fails with a permission error, check that the connected account has that permission in Donately itself.

5. How do I switch to a different Donately account?

Claude can manage the Donately connection for you.

  • Ask Claude to disconnect or delete the current Donately account.
  • Ask Claude to connect Donately again.
  • Open the new Composio authorization link for Donately.
  • Sign in with the other Donately account in the browser.
  • After the account connects, ask Claude to retry the Donately task.

6. Why is my Donately connection missing in Claude Desktop or on a Team plan?

The connector belongs to your Claude account, so your Donately connection works in Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork.

  • In Claude Desktop, open Customize > Connectors.
  • Next to Composio, click ⋮ and click Clear cache.
  • If Donately tools still do not appear, click ⋮, disconnect, remove the connector, and add it again.
  • On Team or Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner must enable the connector before you can connect Donately.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Donately action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Get Current Account

Return the Donately account associated with the connected API token, including its identity, currency, status, and billing plan.

Get Form

Return a specific Donately donation form and its embedded configuration by form ID.

Get Person

Return a specific Donately donor or contact by person ID.

List Campaigns

List campaigns in the connected Donately account, optionally filtering by publication state, type, keyword, or fundraiser availability.

List Donations

List donation records in the connected account and filter them by status, related donor or fundraising resource, payment type, or other common attributes.

List Forms

List donation forms in the connected Donately account, including default-form and form configuration information returned by Donately.

List Fundraisers

List peer-to-peer fundraisers in the connected Donately account, optionally limited to one campaign.

List People

List donors and contacts in the connected Donately account, optionally searching by keyword.

List Subscriptions

List recurring donation subscriptions in the connected Donately account.

List Webhooks

List webhook registrations configured for the connected Donately account.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Donately MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Donately tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Donately and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Donately tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Donately scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Donately data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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