Mission

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.
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.
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.
<h3>✨ Why Mission</h3>
No paid add-ons. Ever. 
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.
Modern donation forms that convert. 
Multi-step forms with suggested amounts, custom amounts, tribute dedications, anonymous donations, optional fee recovery. Built to feel quick and trustworthy on every device.
Built for performance. 
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.
<h3>💝 Powerful donation forms</h3>
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:
<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>
Recurring donations are the single biggest revenue lever for nonprofits, and they’re the feature other plugins charge extra for. Mission ships them free:
<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>
Drop the Donor Dashboard block on any page and your supporters get a self-service portal. They can:
<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>
Every action your donors can take in the dashboard is one less email in your inbox.
<h3>🎯 Campaign management</h3>
Run a single ongoing campaign or dozens of named campaigns side by side:
<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>
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.
<h3>📊 Reports and exports you can actually use</h3>
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.
Need the data outside WordPress? Export donors, transactions, campaigns, and subscriptions to CSV or JSON in a single click.
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.
<h3>🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Who Mission is for</h3>
Mission is built to fit any organization or individual raising money online:
<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>
Mission is funded by donor tips, not by selling features. Here’s exactly how that works:
<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>
The full, unminified source code for this plugin is publicly available on GitHub at https://github.com/mission-wp/mission
See the README in the repository for full development setup, contribution guidelines, and a description of the build pipeline.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the following third-party services:
Stripe 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>.
Mission API 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>.
Gravatar 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>.

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

Easy Payment

DonateOcean is a free PayPal donation plugin for nonprofits, charities, churches, schools, and fundraising organizations. Accept one-time and recurring PayPal donations on your website, send automated tax receipts, track campaign progress, and let supporters manage their own subscriptions through a secure self-service portal.
Every PayPal donation is confirmed by webhook-verified payment: PayPal’s servers notify your site directly, so donations are recorded even if the donor closes their browser before the redirect completes. If a webhook delivery is delayed or temporarily unavailable, the plugin retries verification and updates the donation record once confirmation is received from PayPal.
All features ship in the free GPL release. There is no premium tier, no paid add-ons, and no platform fees — you only pay PayPal’s standard processing fees.
<h4>Why nonprofits choose DonateOcean for PayPal donations</h4>
<ul>
<li>No paid tier, no upsells — every feature is free; you only pay PayPal’s standard processing fees</li>
<li>Built for fundraising — campaigns, goals, tributes, anonymous giving, and offline donations in one place</li>
<li>Webhook-backed reliability — donations are recorded even when the browser callback drops</li>
<li>Donor self-service — donors manage their own recurring donations through a secure magic-link portal, no account required</li>
<li>GDPR-aware — built-in tools for personal data export, erasure, and retention</li>
</ul>
<h4>Core features</h4>
<ul>
<li>PayPal Orders API v2 — credit card, debit card, and PayPal balance</li>
<li>Webhook-verified donations — every payment confirmed by PayPal signature</li>
<li>Recurring donations — monthly and annual PayPal Subscriptions with admin controls</li>
<li>Donor self-service portal — donors manage subscriptions via secure magic link</li>
<li>Four display modes — inline, modal, widget, and full-page donation forms</li>
<li>Fundraising goals — progress bar with manual or automatic amount tracking</li>
<li>Campaign date gating — schedule campaign open and close dates</li>
<li>Tribute donations — “In honor of” and “In memory of” giving</li>
<li>Anonymous donations and optional fee coverage</li>
<li>Automated HTML receipts and PDF receipt downloads</li>
<li>Year-end tax summaries for each donor</li>
<li>Full admin suite — donations list, detail page, donor profiles, dashboard widgets</li>
<li>CSV export — up to 10,000 records with all metadata</li>
<li>Manual donations — record cash, check, and bank transfer donations</li>
<li>Full and partial refunds via the PayPal Captures API</li>
<li>Dispute management with automatic tracking and alerts</li>
<li>Custom roles — Donation Viewer (read-only) and Donation Manager</li>
<li>Capability-checked admin actions — refunds, settings changes, exports, and manual donation entry are all gated by WordPress capability checks</li>
<li>GDPR compliant — personal data export, erasure, and retention</li>
<li>Accessible donation form — keyboard-navigable controls and screen-reader-friendly labels and validation messages</li>
<li>Gutenberg block with all settings as Inspector Controls</li>
<li>Translation ready with a complete <code>.pot</code> file</li>
<li>Zero runtime dependencies — no Composer or npm required</li>
</ul>
<h4>Perfect for</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nonprofit organizations and 501(c)(3) charities</li>
<li>Churches and religious organizations collecting tithes and offerings</li>
<li>Schools, PTAs, and educational fundraisers</li>
<li>Animal shelters, hospitals, and community foundations</li>
<li>Crowdfunding campaigns, memorial funds, and tribute giving</li>
<li>Any site that needs to accept PayPal donations with recurring support</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrations</h4>
Each integration is disabled by default and only activates after credentials are entered.
<ul>
<li>Mailchimp — auto-subscribe donors to your mailing list</li>
<li>Constant Contact — auto-subscribe donors on donation completion</li>
<li>ActiveCampaign — add donors to your CRM and email lists</li>
<li>Brevo (Sendinblue) — auto-subscribe with optional double opt-in</li>
<li>Zapier — trigger 5,000+ app workflows on donation events</li>
<li>Slack — receive rich donation notifications in any channel</li>
<li>Twilio SMS — get text alerts for donations, refunds, and disputes</li>
<li>Google Sheets — log every donation to a spreadsheet automatically</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
Add the donation form to any page or post:
<pre><code>[donadosu_donation]
</code></pre>
Examples:
<pre><code>[donadosu_donation campaign="building-fund" goal_amount="50000" goal_current="auto"]

[donadosu_donation display_mode="modal" donation_mode="both" fee_coverage="1"]

[donadosu_donation amounts="25,50,100,250" min_amount="10" button_text="Donate Now"]
</code></pre>
Add a self-service subscription management portal:
<pre><code>[donadosu_donor_portal]
</code></pre>
Donors enter their email, receive a secure magic link (valid for 30 minutes), and can view or cancel their active subscriptions. No account required.
Full shortcode and block attribute documentation is available in the plugin settings help tab.
<h4>Translations</h4>
DonateOcean is fully translation-ready and ships with a complete <code>.pot</code> file. Community translations are welcome through the translation platform once it is available for this plugin.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin relies on third-party services to process payments and (optionally) sync donor data to external systems. Each service is described below, including what it is, when data is sent to it, what data is sent, and links to its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The plugin only contacts a service when the relevant feature is configured by an administrator; optional integrations remain inactive until their credentials are entered on the plugin settings page.
PayPal (required for online donation processing)
PayPal is the payment processor that handles every online donation. Without PayPal credentials, the plugin cannot accept online donations; manual (offline) donations recorded in the admin are the only exception.
<ul>
<li>What it is: PayPal’s REST API (Orders v2, Subscriptions v1, Webhooks) and the PayPal JavaScript SDK used to render the payment buttons.</li>
<li>When data is sent: each time a visitor initiates a donation (order creation), completes payment (order capture), creates or manages a subscription, when an administrator issues a refund, and whenever PayPal posts a webhook event that the plugin verifies.</li>
<li>Endpoints contacted: <code>https://api-m.paypal.com</code> (Live mode) or <code>https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com</code> (Sandbox mode). The PayPal JavaScript SDK is loaded from <code>https://www.paypal.com/sdk/js</code> on any page that renders the donation form.</li>
<li>Data sent: donation amount, currency, frequency (one-time or recurring), donor name, donor email, billing address (when provided), shipping address (when provided), campaign identifier, and the order or subscription identifier.</li>
<li>Partner attribution: the PayPal JavaScript SDK is loaded with a PayPal Partner Attribution ID (BN code) of <code>mbjtechnolabs_sp</code>. This is a non-personal integration identifier provided by the plugin’s PayPal technology partner (MBJ Technolabs). It does not transmit any donor data, does not change the donation amount, fees, or where funds are deposited (donations are always paid into your own connected PayPal account), and is used only so PayPal can recognise the integration. It can be removed by filtering the SDK attributes if you prefer.</li>
<li>PayPal Terms of Service: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/useragreement-full</li>
<li>PayPal Privacy Statement: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/privacy-full</li>
</ul>
Optional integrations
<ul>
<li>Mailchimp — an email marketing service. When enabled, the plugin contacts <code>https://<dc>.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/</code> on each completed donation to add the donor to the configured audience. Data sent: donor name, donor email, and the Mailchimp list ID. Terms of Service: https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/ — Privacy Policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/</li>
<li>Constant Contact — an email marketing service. When enabled, the plugin contacts <code>https://api.cc.email/v3/</code> on each completed donation to subscribe the donor to the configured list. Data sent: donor name, donor email, and the Constant Contact list ID. Terms of Service: https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/terms — Privacy Policy: https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/privacy-center</li>
<li>ActiveCampaign — a CRM and email marketing service. When enabled, the plugin contacts the administrator-supplied ActiveCampaign account URL on each completed donation to add the donor as a contact and attach them to the configured list. Data sent: donor name, donor email, and the ActiveCampaign list ID. Terms of Service: https://www.activecampaign.com/legal/ — Privacy Policy: https://www.activecampaign.com/legal/privacy-policy</li>
<li>Brevo (Sendinblue) — an email marketing service. When enabled, the plugin contacts <code>https://api.brevo.com/v3/</code> on each completed donation to subscribe the donor to the configured list (optionally with double opt-in). Data sent: donor name, donor email, and the Brevo list ID. Terms of Service: https://www.brevo.com/legal/termsofuse/ — Privacy Policy: https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/</li>
<li>Twilio SMS — a cloud-based SMS service. When enabled, the plugin contacts <code>https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/</code> to send a text message to the administrator-configured notification phone number when a donation, refund, or dispute event occurs. Data sent: the administrator’s notification phone number, the Twilio “from” phone number, and an SMS body containing the donation amount, currency, and campaign name. No donor personally identifiable information is sent by default. Terms of Service: https://www.twilio.com/legal/tos — Privacy Policy: https://www.twilio.com/legal/privacy</li>
<li>Google Sheets — Google’s spreadsheet service. When enabled, the plugin contacts <code>https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token</code> to authenticate with a service account, then <code>https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets</code> to append a row on each completed donation. Data sent: donation date, amount, currency, donor name, donor email, campaign, and donation identifier, written to the administrator-supplied spreadsheet. Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms — Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</li>
<li>Slack — a team messaging service. When enabled, the plugin contacts the administrator-supplied Slack incoming-webhook URL on each completed donation to post a notification message. Data sent: donation amount, currency, campaign name, and (if the administrator has not disabled it in settings) the donor name. Terms of Service: https://slack.com/terms-of-service/user — Privacy Policy: https://slack.com/trust/privacy/privacy-policy</li>
<li>Zapier — a workflow automation service. When enabled, the plugin contacts the administrator-supplied Zapier webhook URL on each donation event (completed, refunded, subscription created, subscription cancelled) to trigger a Zap. Data sent: the donation payload including amount, currency, frequency, donor name, donor email, campaign, event type, and donation identifier. Terms of Service: https://zapier.com/legal — Privacy Policy: https://zapier.com/privacy</li>
<li>Google Analytics 4 / Google Tag Manager (optional, disabled by default) — Google’s web-analytics and tag-management services. Only active when an administrator enables tracking and supplies a Measurement ID (<code>G-XXXXXXXXXX</code>) and/or Container ID (<code>GTM-XXXXXXX</code>). When active, the visitor’s browser loads <code>https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js</code> and/or <code>https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js</code> and Google receives standard analytics data (such as IP address, page URL, and donation-conversion events). These tags are only rendered after analytics consent: the plugin integrates with the WordPress Consent API (<code>statistics</code> category) when a consent-management plugin is active, otherwise honours the plugin’s “require consent” setting and the <code>donadosu_analytics_has_consent</code> filter. Terms of Service: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/ — Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</li>
</ul>
Apart from the optional Google Analytics / Tag Manager integration described above, the plugin does not send any data to DonateOcean servers or to any other analytics or telemetry service.
<h3>Data Storage</h3>
Donation records, donor profiles, and plugin settings are stored locally in the site’s database. Payment processing is handled by PayPal; full card details are never stored on the site server by the plugin. PDF receipts are generated on demand and are not retained on the server after delivery.
<h3>Privacy</h3>
DonateOcean stores donor information (name, email, billing address, donation history) in your database as post meta. No donor data is transmitted to the plugin author.
For convenience, the donation form may also remember a returning donor’s own contact details (name, email, phone, and company) in their browser’s local storage on the device they donate from, so the form can pre-fill on their next visit. This data stays in the visitor’s own browser, is not transmitted anywhere by this feature, and can be cleared by clearing the browser’s site data.
The plugin integrates with the core privacy tools to fulfill data subject requests:
<ul>
<li>Personal data export — a donor’s complete giving history can be exported via Tools > Export Personal Data.</li>
<li>Personal data erasure — a donor’s personally identifiable information can be erased via Tools > Erase Personal Data, while preserving anonymized aggregate financial records.</li>
<li>Automatic retention — administrators can configure automatic erasure of donor PII after a set number of months.</li>
<li>Uninstall cleanup — before deleting the plugin, administrators can opt in from the settings page to remove all DonateOcean data from the database.</li>
</ul>
For details on data shared with third-party services (PayPal and optional integrations), see the External Services section above.

DonateOcean – Donations via PayPal

PayPal donation plugin for nonprofits. Recurring donations, tax receipts, fundraising goals, and donor management — all free, no upsells.

Mission – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising & Recurring Donations vs DonateOcean – Donations via PayPal