Description
GiveWP is the highest rated, most downloaded, and best supported donation plugin for WordPress. Whether you need a simple donate button or a powerful donation platform optimized for online giving, GiveWP is right for you.
Transform the way you accept online donations, starting for free. With GiveWP you can accept gifts for charity or for other purposes, through customizable donation forms. Our donation plugin also allows you to view donor data and fundraising reports, manage donors, and integrate with a wide variety of third-party gateways and services.
✨ GiveWP Features
GiveWP is free and full of many advanced features to suit your needs. Start by choosing one of our donation form templates to create your first fundraising campaign. Then, take advantage of full-featured fundraising reports and donor management tools to increase your overall fundraising revenue by learning what makes donors donate.
Free donor tools also help keep your donors happy. The donor dashboard helps your donor base easily manage their accounts and access their donation history. With our premium add-ons, you can add additional donor tools, like annual receipts.
Campaign-Based Fundraising and Forms
GiveWP makes it easy to manage and launch successful fundraising campaigns directly from your WordPress site. Whether you’re raising funds for a single project, a long-term cause, or a series of initiatives, GiveWP’s campaign-based approach helps you streamline your efforts and maximize your fundraising potential.
Key Features of Campaign-Based Fundraising
- Campaign Creation: Create multiple campaigns on your site, each with its own unique donation goal, target audience, and messaging.
- Customizable Donation Forms: Each campaign comes with a built-in, fully customizable landing page, created using the WordPress Block Editor. Add text, images, and donation forms to create a visually appealing and engaging page that strengthens your donor connections.
- Dedicated Landing Pages: Create custom landing pages for each campaign, complete with campaign-specific content, donation forms, progress bars, and social sharing options to engage and inspire donors.
- Organized Fundraising: All your donation forms are linked to specific campaigns. This makes it easy to manage and track your efforts, set goals, and monitor campaign performance in one streamlined view.
- Visibility Controls: Publish, archive, or draft campaigns to manage when and how your campaigns appear on your site. This gives you full control over the visibility of your campaigns and associated donation forms.
How Campaigns and Donation Forms Work Together
GiveWP’s donation forms seamlessly integrate with your campaigns, allowing you to:
- Create forms that directly support the campaign’s fundraising goals.
- Customize form fields to match the needs of your campaign, whether it’s a specific project or a general cause.
- Promote campaigns via donation forms displayed on any page on your website.
Campaigns offer more flexibility, better control, and enhanced organization for your fundraising efforts, making it easier to achieve your goals and connect with donors. Whether you’re running a large-scale initiative or multiple smaller projects, Campaigns will help you streamline the process and improve your overall fundraising strategy.
Never used blocks before? No worries – we’ve got you covered with our guide.
Actionable Fundraising Reporting
- Get a detailed breakdown of your donation activity
- Control your fundraising data with exports and reports
- Filter reports by date, form, and payment method
- Measure performance across multiple campaigns
- View a complete history of your donor activity
- Generate tax-deductible receipts
- Allow donors to view their donation history, update their profile, manage their recurring donations, and download PDF receipts through their own donor dashboard
Find out more:
- Visit the GiveWP website
- Read our Docs on How to Use the Visual Form Builder.
- View GiveWP Premium Add-ons
- View GiveWP Free Add-ons
- Book a Live Demo with our Team
🧑🏿🤝🧑🏿 Who Uses GiveWP?
With more than 100,000+ active installs of GiveWP, we hear more and more success stories from nonprofit organizations. Causes are using GiveWP to raise millions of dollars per year. Check out some of our GiveWP Stories and Case Studies for details about their success.
- The City Mission used GiveWP for Giving Tuesday and a competition fundraiser with a neighboring organization, where they raised $45K in 16 hours.
- A local neighborhood watch program switched from using GoFundMe to GiveWP and raised $40,000 in five days for a memorial fundraiser.
- Fans of Ivan the Gorilla have kept his memory alive by fundraising for a conservancy program in his name.
- A hospital raised money through a community-wide virtual dance party during the pandemic.
- Quiltlove, which provides personalized quilts for different life events (like new babies, extended hospital stays, and more), uses GiveWP to create a sustainable business model.
- Niels Vink, a Dutch wheelchair tennis player, uses GiveWP to raise money to train, travel, and participate in competitions. At the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics, Vink earned a gold medal in doubles and a bronze medal in singles.
In addition to nonprofit organizations, GiveWP is widely used for individual or creative purposes. We’ve seen tip jars for blogs or musicians, live streams, and more. Our Donation Upsells for WooCommerce Add-on is even used in some eCommerce stores to collect donations for a cause, or ask for tips in the cart or checkout.
We’ve even seen GiveWP used to collect gifts for birthdays and weddings!
💝 Simple and Pain-Free Giving
We built GiveWP to be the best WordPress donation plugin from day one. Simply install and activate the plugin to get started.
The strength of GiveWP lies within its optimized donation forms. When creating a form, you can start with a template and customize the donation levels, including allowing donors to give a custom amount. The donation forms can then be displayed anywhere on your website using a block, shortcode, widget, or the single donation form page.
You can also integrate your forms with a wide variety of payment processors, including PayPal and Stripe within the free plugin. You can also purchase add-ons to use Authorize,net, Bitpay, Square, and more.
🌱 First Time Users
For new users, we suggest reviewing our Getting Started Guide to get an understanding of how the plugin works. If you run into any trouble, we offer free support to help you with your issues, questions, and concerns.
If you are a GiveWP customer with an active license of any of our popular add-ons, we’d love to hear from you and support you via our Priority Support channel.
💳 Accept Credit Card Donations and More
GiveWP comes with several payment gateway options:
- Stripe Donations — Accept donations through any payment method (like Apple Pay, Google Pay, or ACH) activated in your Stripe accounts. Upgrade to the Premium Stripe add-on to remove the 2% fee for one-time donations processed through Stripe.
- PayPal Donations — Allow worldwide donations with PayPal Donations. No additional fees applied.
- Venmo Donations — Give donors the option to pay through Venmo with their account balance or connected bank account.
- Offline Donations — Enable your donors to send checks or physical donations with an offline gateway with instructions.
- Test Gateway — use the Test Gateway to see exactly how your donors will walk through the donation process.
- And many more Gateways – View additional payment gateways on our website. These include Authorize.net, Bitpay, Square, Razorpay, Paytm, and more.
⚙️ Extend GiveWP with Powerful Add-ons
GiveWP’s goal is to “Democratize Generosity.” We want to make it easy for everyone to raise funds online.
In addition to our free donation plugin, we have premium GiveWP add-ons available to extend the functionality of GiveWP. Ultimately, these tools allow you to raise more money and give you a better relationship with your donors.
Must-Have Add-ons for GiveWP:
- WordPress Recurring Donations
- Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
- Text-to-Give
- Form Field Manager
- Fee Recovery
- Tributes
- PDF Receipts
- Funds & Designations
View all of GiveWP’s Add-ons to discover all the ways you can further enhance and extend GiveWP.
🛠️ Easy to Customize and Enhance
Are you a developer? GiveWP is built with best practices and easy to extend and customize. Here are some great developer-oriented tutorials and docs to help you customize GiveWP to your liking:
- Create Dramatic Donation Email Receipts
- Populate Donor Info with One Click
- Using the GiveWP API to Create Charts with ChartJS
- Theming with GiveWP
- How to Create Custom Form Fields in GiveWP
- How to Build a Gateway Add-on for GiveWP
- How to Style Your GiveWP Forms
- Site Redesigns Without Donation Data Loss
- Handling Custom CSS in WordPress
💚 About the GiveWP Team
GiveWP is part of StellarWP, a Liquid Web Family Brand. Our donation plugin is backed by a growing team of WordPress developers, support engineers, customer success managers, and marketing professionals who’ve worked with WordPress and nonprofits since 2009. This means GiveWP is made with best practices in mind; extremely extensible and customizable, stable, and reliable. We’ll be here in years to come for you and your nonprofit organization.
📧 Connect with GiveWP
Stay in touch with us for important plugin news and updates:
🐱💻 Contribute to GiveWP
This plugin is proudly open source (GPL license) and we’re always looking for more contributors. Whether you know another language, love to code, or just have an idea, we would love your help and input.
Here’s a few ways you can contribute to GiveWP:
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Star/fork/watch the GiveWP GitHub repository to learn more about what issues we’re tackling and the project is developing. If you’ve never worked with Github before, learn about pull requests here and submit one for GiveWP, we’d love to give you our feedback.
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Translate GiveWP into your native language. The best place to do that is here on wordpress.org. Go to https://translate.wordpress.org/, then search for your language, click the “Plugins” tab, then search for “GiveWP”. When you’ve submitted at least 95% of GiveWP’s strings, the language moderators will review and approve your translations and then they will be available to all WordPress users for your native language. If you are interested in translating any of our Premium Add-ons, contact us, we’d love to chat with you about that.
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Join the GiveWP Community Facebook group. We chat about all things related to WordPress, GiveWP, fundraising, and online donations in general.
Screenshots
Creating powerful donation forms is easy with GiveWP. Simply install the plugin, create a new donation form, set the desired giving options, and publish!
Customizing your donation forms is easy and intuitive with customization options for any fundraising campaign.
Display you donation forms within a responsive grid on any page to make it easy for your visitors to choose a giving option.
Show of your donor’s generosity with our customizable Donor Wall block and shortcode.
Manage your donors and receive key insights to maximize your fundraising efforts.
Extend GiveWP with a robust suite of powerful Add-ons. Accept recurring donations, credit cards, add custom form fields, and more!
GiveWP is thoroughly documented to help you get started quickly and learn basic to advanced features and functionalities.
GiveWP has a dedicated support team to help answer any questions you may have and help you through stumbling blocks.
Customize your forms with design mode.
Use almost any payment gateway integration with GiveWP through our add-ons or by creating your own add-on.
Blocks
This plugin provides 2 blocks.
- Campaign Comments Display all the donor comments associated with a campaign.
- Donation Form The GiveWP Donation Form block inserts an existing donation form into the page.
Installation
Minimum Requirements
- WordPress 6.5 or greater
- PHP version 7.4 or greater
- MySQL version 5.7 or greater
- MariaDB version 10 or later
- Some payment gateways require fsockopen support (for IPN access)
- cURL version 5.40 or higher
- An SSL certificate — while this is not strictly required, it is highly recommend. If you are converting your site to use SSL/HTTPS now, we have a detailed guide to help you here.
Automatic installation
Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of GiveWP, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click “Add New”.
In the search field type “GiveWP” and click Search Plugins. Once you have found the plugin you can view details about it such as the point release, rating and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now”.
Manual installation
The manual installation method involves downloading our donation plugin and uploading it to your server via your favorite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here.
Updating
Automatic updates should work like a charm; as always though, ensure you backup your site just in case.
FAQ
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Where can I learn more about how to use GiveWP?
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We have extensive documentation on installing and configuring GiveWP on our website. We suggest starting with the GiveWP 101 article.
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How can I get support for GiveWP?
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We work hard to the best support possible for GiveWP. The WordPress.org Support Forum is used for free community based support. We continually monitor the forum and do our best to ensure everyone gets a response.
Priority support is given to users who have an active license for one of GiveWP’s Add-ons or Pricing Plans. We provide email-based support to our Premium Add-on customers with an average 1st response time of 2 to 4 hours and average time to resolution of 24-48 hours depending on the severity of the issue.
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Do you have any demos?
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Yes! We have several live examples of GiveWP and the wide variety of form options you can use with GiveWP. Check out our live demo, where you can see what your donors would see.
GiveWP Plus, Pro, and Agency Plan customers will also get a free 30-minute website audit with our Customer Success Team after they purchase. In this meeting, we’ll cover everything you need to know about GiveWP to fit your needs.
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Do you have Case Studies of Nonprofits using GiveWP?
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Yes! We have two different types of studies that highlight nonprofits in different ways.
“GiveWP Stories” are stories of how nonprofits or individuals implemented GiveWP with success. You can read them all here.
“Case Studies” are more detailed examples of how an agency implemented GiveWP for a specific purpose for an organization. You can read those here. -
PayPal donate buttons take your users off-site, which can cause you to lose some in the process. With GiveWP, your donors can stay on-site and you get the benefit of gathering donor data, viewing free fundraising reports, and creating unlimited donation forms. On the other hand, you can always use GiveWP as a simple customized PayPal donate button if you prefer.
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How is GiveWP better than a form plugin for accepting donations through WordPress?
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Form plugins are excellent solutions for general intake forms. That said, they most often lack substantial donation reporting features, and donor management options. They also lack a variety of presentation options like GiveWP has for embedding your forms in different places throughout your site. If you want a “Donate Now!” button in the header of your site that opens in a modal, you’ll most often have to do quite a bit of customization to get that working just right with form plugins — but not with GiveWP.
GiveWP works great alongside all the most popular form plugins. Use GiveWP for donations, and Caldera Forms, Ninja Forms, Gravity Forms or other for your general purpose intake forms. They’ll work great alongside each other.
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How is GiveWP better than an eCommerce plugin for accepting donations on WordPress?
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We built GiveWP specifically to overcome many of the hurdles you have to go through in order to get an eCommerce plugin (like WooCommerce) to be streamlined for donations. You want to treat your donors right. No donor wants to add their donation to a cart and go through several page refreshes just to type in their information. You, as the site admin, don’t want to have to change the word “Products” to “Donations” everywhere, and go through all the hoops of removing taxes and shipping, either.
On top of that, customizing the plugin’s terminology is a daunting task. You never want your users to receive an “invoice” for the donation “product” they “purchased.” Rather, you’d like for them to receive a receipt for the donation they gave.
Use GiveWP for donations, and let your WooCommerce or WP eCommerce plugin or the like handle your products. They work alongside each other just fine. Your donors will be happy, your customers will be happy, and so will you.
Additionally, you can use our Donation Upsells for WooCommerce GiveWP add-on to allow your customers to do a donation upsell in the cart or checkout.
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How do I eliminated the 2% fee on Stripe donations?
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The 2% fee on Stripe donations only applies to donations taken via our free Stripe integration in GiveWP Core. If you purchase the premium Stripe add-on you will not have any additional fees at all. Additionally, even with the free Stripe plugin, the fees only apply to one-time donations, never to recurring donations.
Read our release announcement for all the details, and if you have further questions feel free to reach out via our contact page.
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How can I report security bugs?
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You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
4.0.0: March 31st, 2025
- New: Introducing Campaigns! Manage all of your fundraising efforts seamlessly.
- New: The Campaign overview dashboard provides donation data and goal progress monitoring for all forms under the same fundraising campaign.
- New: Campaign pages give you a landing page for each campaign to tell your story and engage with donors.
- New: All donation forms belong to a campaign, and each campaign can have multiple forms.
- Enhancement: Improved the processing of PayPal donations to be more reliable on forms using the visual form builder