5 Best Donation Plugins for WordPress in 2023 (All Free)

In this article, I’ll go through the 5 Best and Free Donation Plugins in WordPress, as the name suggests, these plugins will help you collect donations easily on the front end of your website. 

Web owners may decide to set up donations for a project or if they offer premium products or services for free or at a lower price, their loyal customers/audience will decide to support them. 

So, How do these donation Plugins in WordPress work? 

Once you install the plugin from the WordPress Repository, the plugin should come with a settings page, which enables you to set donation amount and payment methods, you may be required to connect your PayPal account. 

So, without further Ado, let’s check out the best free donations plugin for WordPress in 2022. 

GiveWP

GiveWP is the number 1 free and excellent donation plugin for WordPress, it comes with free donor tools and a custom dashboard for your donors to manage their donations. 

I recommend this plugin because it allows you to easily view donor data and donation reports, it also seamlessly connects with third-party payment options like PayPal, Stripe, etc. 

With over 100,000 active installations currently, GiveWP has helped WordPress site owners raise millions of dollars simply by adding a donation option to their site. 

Let’s take a look at some of the key features of the GiveWP Plugin in 2022: 

• Recurring Donations
• Donor Management tools
• Third-Party Payment Methods Supported
• PDF Receipts
• Customization Made Easy
• Offline Donations 

Donation Platform for Woocommerce 

This plugin enables you to easily manage fundraising, crowdfunding, and donation options on your eCommerce WordPress Website. 

Donation Platform for Woocommerce is the best alternative to GoFundme, and the GiveWP Plugin mentioned above and the best part is that it’s free forever. 

You heard me right, this plugin can be used on any Woocommerce website 100% free, with no subscriptions, and no down payment. 

Let’s take a look at some of the features of the Donation Platform for Woocommerce Plugin: 

• Recurring Donations.
• Free for Life.
• Powerful Donor Management tools.
• Collect Donations via Popups.
• More than 100 payment gateways.
• Your Donors can convert the payment costs. 

Charitable – Donation Plugin 

Charitable is another powerful, free, and gorgeous donation plugin perfect for crowdfunding, fundraising, and many more, it charges no fees to the publisher. 

With the Charitable – Donation Plugin, you can setup up a lot of crowdfunding campaigns, set your campaign goals, and track results from a powerful dashboard. 

The one feature of this plugin that stands out is the seamless PayPal integration, for some other plugins, you may have to hire developers to connect your PayPal account, Charitable helps you do it comfortably and you don’t have to hire any developer. 

Let’s now take a look at some of the features of the Charitable – Donation Plugin: 

• Supports Every Payment Gateway even Offline. 
• GDPR Ready.
• Auto Donation Receipts and Admin Notifications. 
• Email Integration with 3rd party services like MailChimp, Mailerlite, ActiveCampaign, etc. 
• Automating functions is made easy with Zapier. 

Donations via PayPal 

Talk about a one-trick pony, this plugin does only one job, it lets you run fundraising campaigns on your website and receive payment to your PayPal.

Yes… just PayPal! 

The infamous Donations via PayPal is currently used by more than 40,000 WordPress Websites and I’m sure it’s raised millions of dollars because PayPal is the most popular and convenient means of online payment. 

Once you’ve installed the plugin, you can set your PayPal ID in the options menu as well as customize other options (which may not be a must), all you need is to set up your PayPal ID so you can receive funds. 

The plugin then generates a shortcode that you can add to Sidebar and within your site’s content, where shortcodes are supported. 

Explore some features of the Donations via PayPal Plugin: 

• Translation to Supported Languages which include: Spanish, Albanian, Italian, German, Russian, etc. 
• Sidebar Widget.
• Select the Preferred Donation button.
• Setup Donations form.

If you wish to receive donations on your WordPress website using PayPal as a payment gateway, the Donations via PayPal are the perfect choice for you. 

Donorbox – Free Recurring Donations form 

As the heading implies, Donorbox is a feature-packed WordPress donation plugin that helps you process recurring Donations using a form(s). 

Once you install the Donorbox Plugin, and you select your preferred payment gateway (PayPal and Stripe supported), it’ll generate a form for you that you can choose to embed or display as a popup. 

This plugin is great because your donors get an automated payment receipt as well as login details, so they can view the history of their donations as well as make changes to their data. 

Let’s take a look at some of the key features which the Donorbox Plugin possesses: 

• Monthly recurring donations are set up in less than a minute.
• Powerful Donor Management tools. 
• Offline Donations.
• Seamless Integration with MailChimp.
• Secure Client Information. 
• Export Donors. 
• Create Campaign Forms using a free drag and drop Editor. 
• Not Free.

Yes.. the Donorbox Plugin possesses a lot of jaw-dropping functionalities but it charges publishers, but the fees are low. 

There are no setup fees, you only pay 1.5% of the Donations you receive every month. Several Integrations may also cost a few bucks. 

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Conclusion on the Best Donation Plugins for WordPress

These donation plugins which I’ve talked about in this article are all unique in their way. I listed their features, compared them, and chose the one you can work with. 

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