7 Donation WordPress Plugins for Your Church Website

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Developing your church website on WordPress is a great solution for most churches. It’s free, there are thousands of great themes, and you can extend the functionality of your site by using plug-ins. Today I wanted to share with you my favorite donation WordPress plug-ins. Online giving is a huge reason to have a church website. Online giving makes giving convenient for your church members to give regularly.  So enjoy this list of the best WordPress donation plugins.

  1. WordPress PayPal Donation Plugin
    If you use PayPal as your payment processor for online giving, this plugin is a must. It allows you to create a donations page or post where your readers can donate any amount they wish.
  2. WordPress Easy PayPal Payment or Donation
    A simple plugin that will allow you to accept paypal donations. You can use this in your sidebar, posts and pages.
  3. Senzoo Donation Widget
    Senzoo creates a very cool popup for your WordPress website that allows users to donate to your church. You can use PayPal, Amazon FPS, or Google Checkout.
  4. WP-DONATORS
    This advanced plugin will allow you to accept donations in any dollar amount needed. It uses PayPal as the main payment processor, but support for this plugin is growing.
  5. PayPal Donations
    This very simple plugin allows you to use a simple shortcode to put a PayPal donate button anywhere on your WordPress website. You can even add a custom button of your choosing. Great for a simple and easy solution.
  6. Donations Widget
    Another simple widget plugin that will allow you to accpet donations using AlertPay, Moneybookers, or PayPal. Great for adding a simple widget into the sidebar of your pages.
  7. EasyDonation
    Another simple paypal donation button plugin. This plugin will allow you to place a PayPal donate button anywhere on your website.

10 Responses to 7 Donation WordPress Plugins for Your Church Website

  • Florence Fielding

    Hi there! Can i ask something? Where would paypal donate the funds that they have earned? I know that some of it is to maintain the site and their company but there is a lot of money involved. I hope they also help some institutions.

    Florence Fielding,
    Donate a Car
    Wheels for Wishes

  • charity for children

    WordPress plugins are very useful for the people who have wordpress based websites these plugins can be installed easily and help people to make online donation.   

  • Rémi

    Hi, there’s also Easy WordPress Donations, it’s a great plugin to manage donations. It has nice and unique features, it’s available here: http://codecanyon.net/item/easy-wordpress-donations/1861818?ref=corsonr 

  • Thelittleredchurch

    Anything that takes VISA MC AMEX type cards?

  • c g

    Do you know of a way to make a “wordpress.com” site accept donations?

  • Edgar Rojas

    Hello Jesse,

    Would you mind checking my plugin as well?  You could just check the video tutorials if you don’t have time here: http://rednao.com/tutorials.htm.

    Thanks!

  • Ashish Ajani

    Good list Jesse, I would like to suggest another free WordPress plugin which can be used for Church website to receive donation and keep track on it. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-donate/

  • Hardik Surani

    Really helpful post Jesse, I like the WordPress PayPal Donation Plugin and I am using it from quite a while now without any problems. But if anyone is looking for a plugin with Authorize.Net credit card processing then this plugin can help https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-church-donation/. It is free, features are looking good and specially designed for Church. Should give it a try. Thank you for sharing nice list.

    • Jesse Orndorff

      Hi Hardik,

      Thanks for sharing that. Looks like a solid plugin!

      Does it handle recurring donations?

  • Hardik Surani

    Jesse, no the plugin does not support recurring transactions. Sorry for the late reply.

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