Do you want to be able to accept donations on your nonprofit website? WordPress makes it easy for nonprofits to create a donation form and accept donations from their website. In this step by step guide, we’ll show you how to setup your own custom WordPress donation form, step by step.
The simplest way to solicit donations on your website is by adding a Paypal donate button, but it’s not the right solution for everyone.
Creating a custom donation form on your website instead of using a donation button allows you to:
- customize the form fields to gather the information you need
- keep donors on your own website for a more professional experience
- ask donors if they want to subscribe to your email newsletter in the same form
- use other payment processors besides Paypal, such as credit cards (Stripe)
- integrate with other third-party software such as a CRM or cloud storage
As you can see, there are plenty of benefits to keeping donors on your own website instead of redirecting them to Paypal.
You might think setting up a donation form on your website would be a tricky process, but there are WordPress plugins for non-profits that makes it easy.
Having said that, let’s take a look at how to create a custom donation form in WordPress.
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