Best Free Donation Plugin for WordPress: Start Fundraising

Launch high-converting campaigns and deepen donor relationships. Use the best free donation plugin for WordPress and begin fundraising with all essential features intact.

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5 ways Charitable makes fundraising faster & easier

We help nonprofits raise more money by simplifying the donation process. Begin fundraising at no cost with these powerful fundraising features.

Unlimited Campaigns, Donors, and Donations

Run as many campaigns as you need, engage with an unlimited number of donors, and accept donations from trusted gateways.

Scalable Campaigns

Endless Donations

Secure Payments

Customizable Donation Forms

Create personalized donation forms that match your branding and appeal to your supporters, ensuring a seamless and engaging donation experience.

Brand Matching

Personalized Forms

Seamless Experience

Full Donation Management

Manage every aspect of your donations with comprehensive tools, including tracking, reporting, and donor updates, all from a single platform.

Donor Updates

Detailed Reporting

Centralized Management

Accept Donations with Peace of Mind

Offer familiar and trusted payment gateways, with industry-leading security standards. Accept online donations through options like PayPal and Stripe, or offline, in over 50 currencies.

Industry-Leading Security

Global Currencies

Seamless Experience

Powerful Campaign Builder and Reporting

Use our intuitive campaign builder to design effective fundraising campaigns and gain insights with overview reporting to track progress and adjust strategies as needed.

Intuitive Builder

Progress Tracking

Drag-&-Drop Design

Here’s why others say it’s best to raise funds with Charitable

Hear what’s to love about Charitable from users you can relate to. 

Belinda Martin

“…others were charging 5% and more for every donation, but with Charitable there are no fees for donations, so we were able to run a number of fundraising campaigns with all the money going to the charity.”

Stuart Robinson

“Really useful plugin. I wanted to extend the functionality of it a wee bit and the code was very easy to work with and adapt. Really great response from the developer and it looks like fantastic updates are being added all the time.”

Paul Lawley-Jones

“I’d like to thank you both for making such a great tool at such a great cost. It’s literally 24 times cheaper than the platform we were using before I came on board.”

Stephen Weinberg

“This plugin is exactly what our small, parent-run organization needed… Easy to set up. Easy to customize (as long as you can handle just a tiny bit of code). And superior support! Thanks so much for this full-featured software.”

Frequently asked questions

Do you have a question about Charitable? See the list below for our most frequently asked questions. If your question is not listed here, then please contact us.

Can I see a demo of Charitable?

You can. Contact us and we’ll be glad to set you up with an up-close view of how Charitable can power your fundraising success. 

Does Charitable offer ability to export donations or create reports?

Yes! Charitable allows you to export key data points for your campaigns and donations via CSV. It also offers a dashboard with the highlights of what has been happening recently to your campaigns, along with a general overview report that allows you to go deeper.

Can Charitable create campaign pages?

Yes! In addition to creating donation forms, Charitable offers a visual campaign builder for quickly building campaign pages WITH NO CODE. You can also customize these pages and where they are located on your site.

Can I customize donation forms to match my website’s branding?

Absolutely. Charitable has layouts and color schemes for you to experiment with out of the box. If you’d like to keep everything consistent with your site’s design and identity, that’s the default option.

Can Charitable replace all the tools I’m using now?

Definitely. Donors will get personal profiles that they can log into to, for instance, change their recurring donation settings. Charitable also lets you turn your website into crowdfunding others can easily use to launch campaigns. 

What payment gateways do I get out of the box?

You can start accepting donations through PayPal and Stripe as soon as you launch. Using Charitable’s easy-to-install extensions, you can add other gateways such as Payrexx, Authorize.Net, and several others.

Can I generate email receipts for my donors?

Yes, and it’s easy. Emails can go out automatically after the donation. Plus you can customize the email templates to include your organization’s information and messaging. You can also setup email notifications to go out when you get a donation. 

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Improvement receipts

🗓️ Annual Receipts 2.0: Send Year-End Receipts to Every Donor in Minutes

You can now send annual receipts in minutes with a few clicks to all your donors.

📧 One-Click Bulk Send Wizard that guides you to sending to hundreds of donors simultaneously directly from your WordPress dashboard.

🔍 Smart “Dry Run” Mode: See exactly who will receive a receipt and who will be skipped (and why) before a single email leaves your server.

🛡️ SMTP-Aware & Limit Protection: Charitable now detects your email setup and automatically adjusts batch sizes and pauses for daily limits to ensure your emails land in inboxes.

✅ Complete Audit Trail: Dedicated system log and on the individual donor’s profile, giving you a clear history for every fiscal year.

Stop dreading tax season and start spending that time on your mission. Update to Annual Receipts 2.0 and automate your year-end reporting today.

Addon Donations Improvement

🎈Recurring Donations 2.0: Smarter Automation, Better Recovery, and More Control

We’ve completely rebuilt our Recurring Donations system to help you grow your reliable income stream while giving you (and your donors) more powerful tools than ever before.

What’s New:

🔒 Recurring-Only Campaigns: You can toggle “Recurring Only” mode in the campaign builder to hide the one-time option entirely, ensuring your supporters stay focused on long-term commitment.

📧 Automatic Payment Recovery: Our new Payment Failed Email fires automatically the moment a subscription fails.

🛠️ Self-Service Donor Control:The new Cancel Subscription Button appears directly in the donor dashboard, allowing supporters to pause or end their recurring gifts on their own terms—reducing your admin burden and payment disputes.

📊 Real-Time Revenue Insights: Track your growth, monitor active subscriptions, and see exactly how much predictable support is coming in each month at a glance.

Our new Recurring Donations addon gives you the professional-grade tools you need to grow your mission.

Campaigns New

🧡 Modal Donate Button: Turn Any Click into a Contribution

Instead of redirecting users to a new URL, the lightweight Modal Donation Button allows donors to complete their gift in a sleek, focused popup, keeping them engaged with your content while they support your cause.

What’s New:

  • ⚡ Zero-Friction Giving: Open your donation form in a responsive modal overlay. Donors stay on the same page, reducing drop-off.

  • 🖱️ Place it Anywhere: Use the dedicated WordPress block or a simple shortcode to drop a donate button into sidebars, footers, or even mid-sentence in your storytelling.

  • 🎨 Full Design Control: Match your brand perfectly with customizable background colors, hover effects, border radius, and font sizes—all without touching a single line of CSS.

Whether you need a simple “Donate Now” link or a high-converting popup button, the Modal Donate Button gives you the flexibility to raise more with less effort.

donation form Donations New

💵 Mini Donation Widget: Show The Impact Of Every Dollar!

Not every donor who wants to give will navigate to your campaign page. Meet them exactly where they are by placing a fully functional giving experience directly on any page or post.

💬 Show the impact of every dollar: Attach custom messages to each preset amount so donors understand exactly what their gift provides.
🔄 Monthly and one-time giving: Supports a tabbed interface with independent amounts and impact statements for recurring giving programs.
🎨 Match your brand: Easily set accent colors and control size or alignment to fit the widget naturally into your layout without CSS.
⚡ Reduce donor friction: Open the donation form in a modal overlay to keep donors on the page and reduce drop-off.

Donations Live New

👉🏻 Showcase Real Momentum with the Donations Feed

Give your donors a reason to trust. Our new feed lets you display a living, breathing record of people showing up for your cause.

🤝 Build instant trust: Overcome donor hesitation by showing a proven track record of community support.
💬 Highlight donor stories: Display real donor comments and locations to show the human side of your fundraising.
🛠️ Drop it anywhere: Easily add the block to your homepage, campaign pages, or confirmation screens in seconds.
📈 Curate your feed: Group multiple donations from the same person or sort by highest amounts to encourage larger gifts.

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