hblateral

<p>Most donation plugins force you to create campaigns, build forms, and configure success pages and failure pages separately. By the time you’re ready to accept your first donation, you’ve spent hours navigating settings.</p>
<p><strong>HBLateral Instant Donation Checkout takes a different approach: everything lives on a single page.</strong></p>
<p>Activate the plugin, configure Stripe, and your donation page is live — form, checkout, and confirmation, all in one place. No campaigns to create. No page builder required. No scattered configuration across dozens of screens.</p>
<p>Built on WooCommerce for secure, reliable payment processing, HBLateral Instant Donation Checkout is designed for organizations that need a donation page that just works.</p>
<h4>See It in Action</h4>
<p>No 20-minute walkthrough. No endless setup steps before you see a donation happen. Watch a real donation from start to finish in under 3 minutes:</p>
<div class="embed-vimeo" style="text-align: center;"><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1163923450" width="750" height="422" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<h4>One Page. Everything Included.</h4>
<p>Other donation plugins require you to set up:</p>
<ul>
<li>A donation form (with its own builder)</li>
<li>A separate success page</li>
<li>A separate failure page</li>
<li>A campaign to link it all together</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>HBLateral Instant Donation Checkout gives you all of this in a single, self-contained page</strong> — automatically created at <code>/donation</code> when you activate the plugin. Your donor selects an amount, pays, and sees the result — without ever leaving the page. A confirmation email with all the details arrives instantly. No accounts to create, no dashboards to navigate, no extra steps.</p>
<h4>What You Get (Free)</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Instant donation page</strong> — auto-created on activation, zero setup required</li>
<li><strong>Stripe payments</strong> — secure credit/debit card processing via WooCommerce Stripe Gateway</li>
<li><strong>Bank Transfer (BACS)</strong> — accept donations via direct bank transfer. Just enable it in WooCommerce and configure your bank details in plugin settings</li>
<li><strong>Built-in checkout</strong> — payment happens on the same page, no redirects</li>
<li><strong>Success and failure states</strong> — donors see the result immediately, no extra pages needed</li>
<li><strong>Instant email receipts</strong> — donors receive a professional confirmation email with all details right after donating. No account needed, no login, no dashboard — the email is the receipt</li>
<li><strong>Admin donation list</strong> — manage, filter, and track all donations from WordPress admin</li>
<li><strong>Predefined amounts</strong> — configurable suggested amounts with custom input option</li>
<li><strong>Mobile-friendly</strong> — fully responsive, optimized for every device</li>
<li><strong>Translation-ready</strong> — Spanish (es_ES) included, ready for more languages</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Compares</h4>
<p>  Feature<br />
  HBLateral Instant Donation Checkout<br />
  Complex donation plugins</p>
<p>  Setup time<br />
  2 minutes<br />
  30+ minutes</p>
<p>  Pages to configure<br />
  1 (automatic)<br />
  4-5 (manual)</p>
<p>  Campaign required<br />
  No<br />
  Yes</p>
<p>  Form builder needed<br />
  No<br />
  Yes</p>
<p>  Checkout location<br />
  Same page<br />
  Redirect</p>
<p>  Donor account required<br />
  No — email receipt is enough<br />
  Yes — registration + dashboard</p>
<h4>Pro Features</h4>
<p>Need more payment methods or advanced features? Upgrade to <strong>HBLateral Instant Donation Checkout Pro</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>SEPA Direct Debit</strong> — Accept bank debits for European donors</li>
<li><strong>Tax deduction certificates</strong> — Automatic generation and delivery to donors</li>
<li><strong>Custom form styling</strong> — Colors, backgrounds, and branding from the admin</li>
<li><strong>Advanced email notifications</strong> — Payment failed alerts for donors and admins</li>
<li><strong>Data export</strong> — Export donations for accounting</li>
<li><strong>Redsys and Bizum</strong> (beta, Spain only) — Spanish payment gateways for local donors</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.hblateral.com/pricing/instant-donation-checkout" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Pro</a></p>
<h4>Who Is This For?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Nonprofits and NGOs</strong> that need a donation page without the complexity</li>
<li><strong>Churches and community organizations</strong> collecting contributions</li>
<li><strong>Open source projects and creators</strong> accepting support from their audience</li>
<li><strong>Event organizers</strong> raising funds for a cause</li>
<li><strong>Anyone</strong> who wants to accept donations on WordPress without spending hours on configuration</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.0+</li>
<li>WooCommerce 4.0+</li>
<li>PHP 7.4+</li>
<li>WooCommerce Stripe Gateway plugin (free)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third-Party Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the following external services:</p>
<h4>Stripe</h4>
<p>This plugin processes donations through <a href="https://stripe.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe</a>, a third-party payment processing service, via the WooCommerce Stripe Gateway plugin. When a donor makes a payment, their payment card details are sent directly to Stripe’s servers for secure processing. No card data is stored on your site.</p>
<p>Data transmitted to Stripe includes: payment card details, donation amount, donor email, and donor name.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://stripe.com/legal" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://stripe.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Legal</h3>
<p>For legal and compliance information, please review:</p>
<ul>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://www.hblateral.com/resources/instant-donation-checkout/legal/privacy-policy</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://www.hblateral.com/resources/instant-donation-checkout/legal/terms-of-service</li>
<li>Data Responsibility: https://www.hblateral.com/resources/instant-donation-checkout/legal/data-responsibility</li>
</ul>


HBLateral Instant Donation Checkout

Turn your WordPress site into a donation platform. Beautiful checkout page, Stripe payments, and email receipts — ready in minutes.

Mission

<p>Mission is a free WordPress donation plugin built for nonprofits. Accept one-time and recurring donations, manage donors and campaigns, give your supporters a self-service dashboard, and track everything from a modern admin, without paying for a single add-on.</p>
<p>Most donation plugins lock the features you actually need behind a paid tier. Recurring donations? Add-on. Custom fields? Add-on. Donor dashboards, fee recovery, exports? Add-on, add-on, add-on. Mission takes a different approach: every feature ships in the free plugin, and we’re funded by an optional tip donors can choose to add at checkout. Donors can change the tip, lower it, or set it to zero. 100% of the donation amount always reaches your nonprofit.</p>
<p>The result is a donation platform that grows with your organization without surprise upgrade prompts. The plugin you install today is the plugin handling your donations next year, with no upsell screens between you and your supporters.</p>
<h3>✨ Why Mission</h3>
<p><strong>No paid add-ons. Ever.</strong><br />
Recurring donations, donor dashboards, campaign management, custom fields, tribute donations, fee recovery, exports, activity logs. All included in the free plugin. There is no “Mission Pro” version, no premium tier, and no upsell at checkout.</p>
<p><strong>Modern donation forms that convert.</strong><br />
Multi-step forms with suggested amounts, custom amounts, tribute dedications, anonymous donations, optional fee recovery. Built to feel quick and trustworthy on every device.</p>
<p><strong>Built for performance.</strong><br />
The donation form is built on the WordPress Interactivity API, so there’s no React on the public-facing site, no bloated JavaScript, and fast page loads for your donors. Donor data lives in dedicated database tables, not post meta, so reporting stays fast as your donor list grows into the thousands.</p>
<h3>💝 Powerful donation forms</h3>
<p>The Donation Form block can be dropped into any post, page, or campaign. Configure it once and it adapts to your campaign and your brand:</p>
<ul>
<li>Suggested amounts and an optional custom-amount field, configured per frequency</li>
<li>One-time and recurring giving (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually), with per-form control over which frequencies to offer</li>
<li>Multi-step layout that keeps the donor focused</li>
<li>Cover-the-fees option lets donors absorb processing fees so 100% of their donation reaches your cause</li>
<li>Anonymous donation toggle</li>
<li>Tribute and memorial dedications, with an optional notification email to the honoree</li>
<li>Custom fields per form: text, textarea, select, multiselect, radio, checkbox</li>
<li>Built-in client and server-side validation</li>
<li>Low-specificity CSS with no <code>!important</code> rules so themes can restyle freely</li>
</ul>
<h3>🔁 Recurring donations included free</h3>
<p>Recurring donations are the single biggest revenue lever for nonprofits, and they’re the feature other plugins charge extra for. Mission ships them free:</p>
<ul>
<li>Weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual frequencies</li>
<li>Automatic renewal with retry on failure</li>
<li>Donor self-service: pause, resume, or cancel from the donor dashboard</li>
<li>Renewal history tracked per subscription</li>
<li>Email notifications for renewals, cancellations, and failed payments</li>
<li>Admin controls to pause, resume, cancel, or retry any subscription</li>
</ul>
<h3>👥 A donor dashboard your supporters will actually use</h3>
<p>Drop the Donor Dashboard block on any page and your supporters get a self-service portal. They can:</p>
<ul>
<li>See a complete donation history</li>
<li>Manage recurring donations: pause, resume, or cancel without contacting you</li>
<li>Download a receipt for any donation</li>
<li>Update their profile and email address</li>
<li>Sign in with a magic-link email, so there’s no password to forget</li>
</ul>
<p>Every action your donors can take in the dashboard is one less email in your inbox.</p>
<h3>🎯 Campaign management</h3>
<p>Run a single ongoing campaign or dozens of named campaigns side by side:</p>
<ul>
<li>Set goals by total raised, donation count, or unique donor count</li>
<li>Auto-generated campaign pages built on the WordPress block editor</li>
<li>Start and end dates per campaign</li>
<li>Active, draft, and archived statuses</li>
<li>Real-time aggregates that update as donations complete</li>
</ul>
<p>Mission ships eleven campaign and donation blocks: donation form, donate button, campaign card, campaign grid, campaign image, campaign progress bar, campaign statistic, donor wall, recent donors, top donors, and donor dashboard. Mix and match them to build campaign pages that match your brand. Not using the block editor? Every block has a shortcode equivalent that works in page builders like Elementor and Bricks.</p>
<h3>📊 Reports and exports you can actually use</h3>
<p>The admin dashboard surfaces what fundraisers care about: total revenue, donation count, average donation, repeat donor count, top donor, and month-over-month growth, in test and live modes side by side.</p>
<p>Need the data outside WordPress? Export donors, transactions, campaigns, and subscriptions to CSV or JSON in a single click.</p>
<p>A built-in activity log records every donation, refund, subscription event, webhook, email, and admin action with a 90-day retention window so you can audit anything that happened on your site.</p>
<h3>🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Who Mission is for</h3>
<p>Mission is built to fit any organization or individual raising money online:</p>
<ul>
<li>Nonprofits and charities</li>
<li>Foundations, clubs, and NGOs</li>
<li>Churches and faith communities</li>
<li>Schools, PTAs, and education nonprofits</li>
<li>Political campaigns and advocacy groups</li>
<li>Community groups and mutual aid funds</li>
<li>Individuals raising for a specific cause</li>
</ul>
<h3>🫙 How the optional tip model works</h3>
<p>Mission is funded by donor tips, not by selling features. Here’s exactly how that works:</p>
<ul>
<li>At checkout, donors see a small optional tip alongside their donation amount.</li>
<li>The tip is preselected at a small percentage by default. Donors can change it, lower it, or set it to zero.</li>
<li>100% of the donation amount goes to your connected Stripe account.</li>
<li>Prefer a flat platform fee instead of donor tips? You can switch to a fixed 3% platform fee per form.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Source Code</h3>
<p>The full, unminified source code for this plugin is publicly available on GitHub at https://github.com/mission-wp/mission</p>
<p>See the README in the repository for full development setup, contribution guidelines, and a description of the build pipeline.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the following third-party services:</p>
<p><strong>Stripe</strong> processes donations. Payment data is sent from the donor’s browser to Stripe via Stripe.js, and Stripe sends webhook notifications back for payment, refund, and subscription events. See Stripe’s <a href="https://stripe.com/legal" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms</a> and <a href="https://stripe.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Mission API</strong> proxies Stripe Connect onboarding, payment requests, and webhook forwarding to your site. If you opt in to feature notifications under Tools > Features, your email is also sent here. See Mission’s <a href="https://missionwp.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms</a> and <a href="https://missionwp.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Gravatar</strong> supplies donor avatars in the admin and on the Donor Wall block. Email addresses are hashed before being sent. See Gravatar’s <a href="https://wordpress.com/tos/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms</a> and <a href="https://automattic.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>


Mission – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising & Recurring Donations


I'm quite happy with how well this plugin works, both for WordPress novices, and those that know their way around the editor. 



Setup is simple and straightforward. Details, payment connect, and right to your creating your first campaign. The campaign post is ready to go right away, probably good for most users, but it has an abundance of options if you want to dive a bit deeper. All content is editable, but it gives you some decent boilerplate sentences to start. 



The main donation form has quite a variety of options as well. Donation frequency and amounts, what info gets collected, who covers the card processing fees. Again great for most to set it and forget it, but the option is there for those who need to get more technical.



The dashboard is clean, easy to see who is donating, what's going where. Settings as well, easy export options, ability for webhooks / zaps. I haven't tested it, but it looks like it has the option to import from other plugins if you want to make the switch.



Best part, according to the features page, is that it looks like all future updates and features will be included. No add-ons or anything getting locked behind a paywall.


Easy to setup and start, good customization. Great that it's all free

Accept donations, manage recurring giving, easy donor management, and grow fundraising with Mission, a free WordPress donation plugin for nonprofits

HBLateral Instant Donation Checkout vs Mission – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising & Recurring Donations