Charitable Recurring Donations

Generate reliable income for your campaigns

When donors creates a recurring donation, they are more likely to give and give more over the course of a year than supporters who make one-time donations. Network for Good suggests that the average recurring donor gives 42 percent more during the course of a year than one-time gifts.

Recurring donations help you accept ongoing donations right from your own WordPress website.

Accept recurring donations with your WordPress donation form

You can very simply add a checkbox to your donation forms so that donors can quickly convert their donation into a recurring gift.

Recurring Donations simple mode: with checkbox to convert suggested amount to monthly donation

If you’d like a little more control, you can create a tabbed interface that offers different recurring gift levels.

Recurring Donations advanced mode: with multiple suggested monthly amounts.

Besides monthly donations, Charitable Recurring Donations also supports weekly, quarterly, semi-annually and annually recurring donations. You can give your donors the choice of how regularly they would like to give:

Give donors the choice of how frequently they would like to give.

Customize your recurring donation email receipts

Send unique receipts to your recurring donors both when they send their first donation and with every renewal.

Supported gateways

Recurring Donations is supported with the following payment gateways:

• PayPal Standard (included in the free Charitable plugin).
  Note: Recurring billing with PayPal is only available for Business or Premier accounts.
• Authorize.Net
• Stripe
• Braintree
• Mollie
• GoCardless
• Payrexx
• PayFast
• Paystack

Please note: Recurring Donations doesn’t work with the Easy Digital Downloads Connect extension.

Get started

Learn how to start accepting recurring donations with the detailed setup guide.