Donation Platform for WooCommerce: Fundraising & Donation Management

July 24, 2024

Donation Platform for WooCommerce: Fundraising & Donation Management Plugin

100% free donation system for your fundraising that supports recurring donations and more

πŸš€ Demos | πŸ“š Docs | 🏁 Getting Started

Transform WooCommerce into a robust platform for seamless fundraising, crowdfunding & donation management!

πŸ’ͺ Why Choose Donation Platform for WooCommerce? πŸ’ͺ

Unlock the potential of WooCommerce for your charity or fundraising efforts:

  • πŸ’³ Recurring Donations: Seamlessly integrate regular donation schedules, ensuring ongoing support.
  • 🎨 Modern Design: Access sleek and elegant donation form designs that captivate donors’ attention and make it quick and easy to donate.
  • 🧾 Automatic Donation Receipts: Generate PDF donation receipts effortlessly, enhancing donor confidence and trust.
  • πŸ’Έ 100+ Payment Gateways: Diverse options for lower transaction fees, enabling greater flexibility for donors.
  • πŸš€ Express Donations: Your supporters can donate quickly using Apple Pay, Google Pay & PayPal, providing a hassle-free giving experience.
  • πŸ’° Fee Recovery: Encourage donors to cover transaction costs, ensuring more funds go towards your cause.
  • πŸ† Donation Leaderboard: Showcase top donors with a donor wall, recognizing and motivating generous contributions.
  • πŸ†“ 100% Free & Open Source: No platform fees or subscriptions, ensuring accessibility for charities of all sizes!

🌟 The Ultimate WooCommerce Donation Solution

Harness the power of WooCommerce for online fundraising, crowdfunding, and donor management. This WooCommerce donation plugin is a free alternative to tools like Patreon, Donorbox, GoFundMe or GiveWP.

Free, open source and no platform fees. There are no paid extensions for Donation Platform for WooCommerce.

🎯 Essential Fundraising Features 🎯

  • 🌟 Beautiful Design: Five elegant donation form templates, adaptable to suit your branding.
  • 🌐 Mobile-Optimized: Perfectly designed for mobile fundraising, ensuring accessibility from anywhere.
  • πŸ›’ 100+ Payment Gateways: Variety to reduce transaction fees and accommodate donor preferences.
  • πŸ“Š Advanced Donation Management: Streamlined donor & customer management for efficient tracking.
  • πŸ’³ Express Donations: Apple Pay, Google Pay & PayPal integration for swift contributions.
  • πŸ”„ Recurring Donations: Secure reliable funding with subscription options tailored to donors.
  • 🧾 Automated Donation Receipts: Generate receipts hassle-free, improving transparency.
  • πŸ“œ Thank You Certificates: Personalized certificates for donors, acknowledging their support.
  • πŸ† Donation Leaderboard: Showcase top donors with a donor wall, recognizing and motivating generous contributions.
  • πŸ’° Fee Recovery Options: Empower donors to cover transaction costs, maximizing contributions.
  • πŸ”„ Unlimited Integrations: Seamlessly integrate with CRM, Marketing & Analytics tools for comprehensive insights.
  • πŸ†“ Free & Open Source: A no-fee solution for charities, ensuring every penny counts towards the cause.

Note: Donation Platform for WooCommerce modifies WooCommerce for donation purposes. While it doesn’t change WooCommerce’s core functionality, it alters user frontend text. To use WooCommerce donations in parallel with a regular store, enable compatibility mode or use a separate WordPress installation.

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For whom is Donation Platform for WooCommerce suitable?

  • Charities
  • Individuals who wish to fundraise online (for example for weddings, birthdays etc.)
  • Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs)
  • Political Fundraisers
  • Foundations, Clubs & NGOs

🌟 Even More Free Features 🌟

Donation Platform for WooCommerce is a powerful and versatile fundraising solution for your charity.
A large part of the fundraising features arise through the use of WooCommerce, which allows your charity to benefit directly from the incredibly diverse ecosystem around it.
Thanks to its extensive features, the Fundraising & Donation Platform is suitable for charities, non-profit organizations, political fundraisers, individuals and more.

  • Recurring Donations To Your Charity: Using Subscriptions for WooCommerce (free extension) or WooCommerce Subscriptions (premium extension) you can charge your donors on a regular basis in order to reliably fund your projects.
  • Express Donations We live in fast times. If your donors want to use the Express Line, they can complete a donation via Apple Pay / Google Pay / PayPal in just 20 seconds.
  • Donation Receipts: Donation Platform for WooCommerce provides a template for your charity to automatically issue donation receipts.
  • Free Donations: There are no paid extensions for Donation Platform for WooCommerce: Fundraising & Donation Management. However, this does not apply to all extensions for WooCommerce.
  • Fee Recovery: Donors have the option to cover transaction costs.
  • Open Source Fundraising: Donation Platform for WooCommerce: Fundraising & Donation Management is open source software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2.0
  • Own Your Fundraising Data: All donation data belong exclusively to your charity and are under your full control. You are not tied to any other company that handles the donations for you.
  • Privacy Friendly Donations: WooCommerce and WordPress include privacy tools that make it easier to handle Right to Access and Right to Erasure requests from donors. This allows you to easily comply with regulations such as GDPR or CCPA.
  • Donation Account page: Every donor can create an account with your charity and manage their donations there.
  • Donation & Fundraising Management: Thanks to WooCommerce’s advanced donation, donor & customer management, you can easily oversee all donations.
  • Integrated Evaluations: WooCommerce helps you collect more donations through the Analytics Dashboard.
  • Fundraising Accounting: Exports and more help you with the annual financial statements, among other things.
  • CRM: CRM solutions like Salesforce, Hubspot or Zoho CRM integrate with WooCommerce. So you can easily integrate the donation platform into your charity’s existing systems.
  • Fundraising Accounting Software: Migration made easy: with WooCommerce you can easily continue to use your existing accounting software.
  • Fundraising Marketing: Newsletter tools such as Mailchimp or Mailpoet can be integrated into the donation form.
  • Analyse your Fundraising Success: Use analysis tools such as Google Analytics or Matomo and more to optimize the donation process.
  • Shipping Providers: If you want to send a gift to donors as a thank you, you can use the existing integrations with shipping services.
  • Social Proof Fundraising: Increase fundraising engagement by using Fomo plugins, Social media integrations and more.
  • Credit Card Donations: Accept donations through credit cards with Stripe, Razorpay, Square and more.
  • PayPal Donations: Use the PayPal integration out of the box and reach the hundreds of millions of potential PayPal donors.
  • Direct Bank Transfer Donations: The cheapest transaction fees and the great popularity make bank transfers a promising as a payment method.
  • Local Payment Options: With 100+ payment gateways, there are also many local payment methods that you can use to make it easy to donate.
  • Gorgeous Fundraising Designs: Donation Platform for WooCommerce comes with 5 different beautiful and simple designs.
  • Custom CSS Donations: You can add custom CSS to integrate the donation form seamlessly into your fundraising website.
  • Custom Donation Templates: You can even adapt the templates and thus completely adapt the fundraising & donation form to your own wishes.
  • Pop-Up Donation Form: The donation form comes with a pop-up mode to collect donations even more elegantly.
  • Custom Donation Checkout: Adapt the donation form fields to your requirements
  • Localize your Fundraising: With tools like Loco Translate you can use the donation & fundraising plugin in any language.
  • Use any Currency for Fundraising: WooCommerce supports any currency and with extensions even multiple currencies can be used at the same time.
  • Extendable Fundraising: Hit the keys and adapt everything to your charity’s needs, your creativity (and programming skills) are the limits.
  • API: WooCommerce offers a REST API
  • Webhooks: Use Webhooks to get Fundraising Notifications in real time.
  • Developer Friendly Fundraising: You can use Actions & Filters to change to layout, design und behavior of your donation platform. Because WooCommerce is so widely used you can find a WooCommerce developers with ease.

Donation Platform for WooCommerce: Fundraising & Donation Management: Motivation

Why does the world need this WooCommerce donation plugin?
Hands down, WooCommerce is the most mature eCommerce solution. It is supported by all other major systems (CRM, Analytics, Marketing, Accounting and more) and offers numerous possibilities to customize the behavior to your needs.

So it doesn’t make sense to reprogram all the features already implemented by WooCommerce for a donation and fundraising platform again and worse. Instead, you just customize the look and in some places the behavior of WooCommerce and you get a comprehensive fundraising, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and donation solution for your charity.

Problems? Feel free to open a ticket in the WordPress Support Forum.

Screenshots

  1. Highly converting donation form for your online fundraising.

    Highly converting donation form for your online fundraising.

  2. Donors can easily manage their donations.

    Donors can easily manage their donations.

  3. Use popup donation forms to collect donations even more elegantly.

    Use popup donation forms to collect donations even more elegantly.

  4. Automatically generate tax-deductible donation receipts and thank your donors with a personalized thank-you certificate.

    Automatically generate tax-deductible donation receipts and thank your donors with a personalized thank-you certificate.

  5. Express Donations allow your supporters to donate to you in less than 20 seconds via Apple Pay / Google Pay / PayPal

    Express Donations allow your supporters to donate to you in less than 20 seconds via Apple Pay / Google Pay / PayPal

FAQ

Thank you for using Donation Platform for WooCommerce: Fundraising & Donation Management! I’m working hard to improve your experience and add new features. If you find any issues, please reach out to me to ask any questions or file feature requests.

Will my theme work with Donation Platform for WooCommerce: Fundraising & Donation Management?

Probably. Unfortunately, many themes add a lot of custom styles to the WooCommerce checkout, some of them may compete with the CSS of Donation Platform for WooCommerce: Fundraising & Donation Management and you get weird results.

Will my WooCommerce extension work with Donation Platform for WooCommerce: Fundraising & Donation Management?

Probably. I cannot test every WooCommerce extension out there. Donation Platform for WooCommerce: Fundraising & Donation Management uses WooCommerce filters & actions to change the behaviour and appearance of WooCommerce. When other plugins also use these hooks they may interfere with each other.

Does Donation Platform for WooCommerce: Fundraising & Donation Management support every WooCommerce feature?

No. For now, it primarily focuses on customer facing behaviour and appearance that is crucial for the donation & fundraising platform.

Why is only one donation form allowed per page?

Since WooCommerce and other plugins like payment gateways don’t assume that there are multiple checkouts on a page, you might run into problems otherwise.

How can I set up recurring donations?

To set up recurring donations, please also install Subscriptions for WooCommerce (free plugin) or WooCommerce Subscriptions (premium extension). Here you can find detailed instructions on how to set up recurring donations: Set up recurring donations

How can I generate donation receipts automatically?

WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips is a free and open source WordPress plugin you can use to send out your tax-deductible receipts & thank you certificates. Please follow this guide to set up donation receipts: Set up donation receipts

How can I run a normal shop in parallel with Donation Platform for WooCommerce?

If you want to disable the wording changes applied by Donation Platform for WooCommerce you can enable to compatibility mode in the plugin’s settings.

Changelog

Active development of Donation Platform for WooCommerce: Fundraising & Donation Management is handled on GitHub.

1.3.2 2024-07-09

new: add [wcdp_order_counter] shortcode that allows you to display the number of orders to a product
new: add sample language to Privacy Policy Guide page
tweak: improved invalid nonce handling
tweak: mark link as rel=”nofollow” for improved SEO
tweak: use net revenue (excl. shipping etc.) to calculate donation revenue in progress bar
tweak: update supported WP version to 6.5
tweak: update supported WC version to 9.0.2
tweak: add error message to AJAX donation form / progress bar render
tweak: add blueprint.json for WordPress playground
tweak: decrease priority of filename filter
tweak: resolve js errors by using optional chaining operator
tweak: update templates
tweak: resolve WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment warnings
tweak: improve review CTA
tweak: add newsletter subscription notice
fix: layout issue of progress bar shortcode style 1
fix: remove dependencies from js/css files to improve compatibility with some themes
fix: make sure single product pages are not overwritten by theme
fix: checkout filter now returns the original value
fix: improved compatibility with rankmath SEO plugin on Product Pages
fix: fix Thank you certificate not sending
fix: remove strict type declarations
fix: wcdp_checkout_donation_calculation being called too early
fix: leaderboard “Show more” button no longer triggers the donation form
fix: replace deprecated function
fix: skip orders in Leaderboard that are not of type WC_ORDER
fix: unexpected price change for shipping fee leads to errors
fix: fix js error on booking success page
fix: improve error messages

1.3.1 2024-01-30

new: new progress bar styles
new: use “current” in progress & leaderboard shortcode to use current page id
new: donation product is added to the checkout on page load, improving compatibility with WooCommerce Gutenberg Checkout Block
tweak: compatibility with v3.7.6 of PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce
tweak: set supported WP version to 6.4
tweak: set supported WooCommerce version to 8.5.2
tweak: declare incompatibility with new WooCommerce Gutenberg Checkout Block
tweak: improve compatibility with some payment gateways that do not load with empty checkout
fix: various compatibility mode improvements
fix: fix Stripe checkout bug
fix: support for PayPal express checkout
fix: take network active plugins into account when checking if certain plugins are active

1.3.0 2023-09-24

new: leaderboard (donor wall) shortcode
new: compatibility mode: run donation platform and webshop simultaneously
new: “delete cache” checkbox
new: compatibility with WooCommerce API
new: compatibility with High performance order storage
fix: compatibility with the newest version of PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce, thanks to @kprovance #40
fix: select2 dropdown not visible within popup
tweak: do not allow to embed donation form when using AJAX
tweak: improve revenue cache calculation & invalidation
tweak: update the revenue of a product directly for small webshops
tweak: add project name to tax-deductible receipt template
tweak: set supported WP version to 6.3
tweak: set supported WooCommerce version to 8.1.1
tweak: add filter wcdp_next_button to edit next button text

1.2.10 2023-05-30

new: Add progress bar style 4 (with percentage)
new: set supported WP version to 6.2
new: set supported WC version to 7.7.1
fix: add nonce verification to feedback endpoint
fix: fix incompatibility with Subscriptions for WooCommerce
fix: fix some php 7.1 incompatibilities
fix: make sure that max_donation_amount >= min_donation_amount
fix: make sure check user’s donation input validity
tweak: update Gutenberg block
tweak: remind of database migrations for outdated WooCommerce version
tweak: increase priority for woocommerce_checkout_redirect_empty_cart hook
tweak: make input text box inline-block

1.2.9 2023-01-26

new: shortcode attribute ‘label’ lets you change the text of the popup button
new: filter wcdp_certificate_background_image allows you to dynamically change the background image of the thank-you certificate
new: add non-intrusive feedback survey
fix: mixed return type in wcdp_add_product_type_option causing PHP error in older PHP versions

1.2.8 2023-01-06

Happy new year πŸ™‚
new feature: add filters wcdp_min_amount & wcdp_max_amount with parameter $product_id that allows you to change the min/max donation amount on a per-product basis
new feature: support for WooCommerce Payments
fix: checkout not updating properly
fix: jQuery not defined error
tweak: add wcdp_range_slider_steps to change steps of slider
tweak: push supported WP version to 6.1
tweak: push supported WC version to 7.2.2

1.2.7 2022-09-12

new feature: charge transaction fees also for recurring donations with WC Subscriptions
tweak: add wcdp_range_slider_steps filter. This filter can be used to change the step size of the range slider.
tweak: push supported WC version to 6.8.1
tweak: changed wordings
fix: Compatibility issue with Subscriptions for WooCommerce
fix: donation amount selection not saving properly

1.2.6 2022-07-24

tweak: check for min/max donation amount for suggestion fields
tweak: push supported WP version to 6.0.1
tweak: push supported WC version to 6.7.0
tweak: push required WP version to 5.8 (since WC requires WP >= 5.8)
tweak: add fallback name for invoice
tweak: Default error message is now added in a different way to avoid issues with some themes
tweak: Rename wcdp-style.css to wcdp.css and wcdp-script.js to wcdp.js
fix: fix some css issues
fix: resolve popup overlay issues with some themes/page builders
fix: improved JS/CSS file enqueue
fix: some layout issues with 2022 theme
fix: php warning in woocommerce-subscriptions/admin-payment-retry email template
fix: include class-wcdp-thank-you-certificate at most once

1.2.5 2022-05-10

new feature: add ‘cheat’ attribute to shortcode wcdp_progress (manipulate donation turnover by a specified amount)
new feature: add ‘addids’ attribute to shortcode wcdp_progress (show the cumulated turnover of several products)
new feature: improved support for Polylang for WooCommerce (add up turnover for translated products)
tweak: calculate product revenue only when status change includes ‘completed’ (performance improvement)
tweak: calculate product revenue no more than once in 30s (performance improvement)
tweak: add wcdp_update_product_revenue filter to revenue calculation (revenue in db)
tweak: add wcdp_progress_revenue filter to displayed donation turnover (revenue displayed to donors)
tweak: update supported WC version to 6.5.0
tweak: compatibility with php 7.1
tweak: some code improvements
fix: css color variables for shortcode wcdp_progress not set

1.2.4 2022-04-18

new feature: Set default donation amount per project
performance improvement: only update cart if necessary
tweak: add wcdp_custom_html_amount_{Product-ID} Action for amount layout 3
tweak: update supported WC version to 6.4.1
fix: PayPal Gateway not working #19
fix: CSS variables not defined under certain circumstances

1.2.3 2022-04-10

new feature: support for multiple products in cart, activate in general donation settings
new feature: support for grouped products
tweak: fee recovery: show info message if no active payment methods found
tweak: show Transaction costs fee even when the fee is 0
tweak: update supported WP version to 5.9.3
tweak: change position of fee recovery checkbox
tweak: adjust CSS of fee recovery checkbox
tweak: code maintainability improvements
tweak: add README.md for GitHub
fix: readme link error
fix: fee recovery not working

1.2.2 (skipped: unreleased, because of a bug)

1.2.1 2022-03-17

new feature: Fee Recovery: give your donors the option to cover the processing fees on their donations
tweak: update supported WC version to 6.3.1
fix: wrong textdomain
fix: set donation project for automatic product update (#16)
fix: increase priority of woocommerce_checkout_update_order_review_expired filter

1.2.0 2022-02-24

new feature: support for Google Pay / Apple Pay / PayPal Express Checkout (Express Donation)
new feature: added support for Subscriptions For WooCommerce
new feature: from now on donation orders do not net manual processing: autocomplete donations as soon as they are paid
new feature: show progress in product overview
new feature: support for [product_page] shortcode
new feature: support for default configuration for variable products
tweak: mark variation selection required in donation form
tweak: show price for normal products on overview page
tweak: update supported WC version to 6.2
tweak: some code quality adjustments
fix: JS error with non-focusable and invalid elements
fix: check for <= max donation amount instead of <
fix: html syntax error for checked attributes
fix: donation form on product page #15

1.1.4 2022-01-25

fix: invalid progress colors #10
fix: echo bug in progress shortcode
tweak: improved support for normal products
tweak: update supported WP version to 5.9
tweak: update supported WC version to 6.1.1

1.1.3 2022-01-13

fix: remove is_ajax function (deprecated since version 6.1.0. of WC) and replace it with wp_doing_ajax
fix: Prevent is_subscription() from interfering with product editing on admin pages
tweak: rename “Donable” label to “Donation Product”
tweak: update supported WC version to 6.1.0

1.1.2 2022-01-04

new feature: set custom title for Donation Amount
tweak: Update the Gutenberg block to support Style 5

1.1.1 2021-12-16

enhancement: push supported WC version to 6.0.0
fix: donation selection not displayed in product settings
fix: asort on null in wcdp_product_settings.php

1.1.0 2021-12-13

new feature: new Design for wcdp_progress Shortcode
new feature: set fundraising goal and campaign end per product
tweak: sort donation amount options
tweak: some small fixes and enhancements

1.0.9 2021-11-23

new feature: Shortcode wcdp_progress to display a donation progress bar
new feature: new donation form design (Style 5)
fix: Settings Link not working
tweak: min, max donation amount on product settings page
tweak: readme revised

1.0.8 2021-11-23

1.0.7 2021-11-23

1.0.6 2021-11-23

Faulty updates. Please do not install these versions

1.0.5 2021-11-11

fix: textdomain not loading properly
fix: i18n of “Other” string
fix: Amount Suggestions field not hiding properly
performance: load wc-password-strength-meter only when it is necessary
tweak: set standard price of simple product to 1
tweak: add direct donation link on product edit page
tweak: push supported WC version to 5.9
tweak: push supported WP version to 5.8.1

1.0.4 2021-11-02

fix: Popup does not open if plugin/theme prevents adding #wcdp-form
tweak: Increase the default value for the maximum donation amount to 50,000

1.0.3 2021-10-16

tweak: rename from “Donation Platform for WooCommerce” to “Donation Platform for WooCommerce: Fundraising & Donation Management”
tweak: push WC supported version to 5.8.0
fix: text-domain error and i18n warning

1.0.2 2021-10-10

fix: general settings not working

1.0.1 2021-10-09

small fixes

1.0.0

Initial release

Details

  • Version: 1.3.2
  • Active installations: 4,000
  • WordPress Version: 5.8
  • Tested up to: 6.6.1
  • PHP Version: 7.1

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