Changelog - Donor Merchant

2.4.1 - August 2026

Now on WordPress.org. Install and update Donor Merchant straight from your dashboard.

Listed in the official WordPress.org plugin directory - two-click install and automatic updates.
Form style customization - accent colour swatches with a live preview, plus a button-shape control (pill / rounded / sharp).
Contact form endpoint for the site, secret-key masking in settings, and a full pass of security and coding-standards hardening for the directory review (Plugin Check: 0 errors).
Now requires WordPress 6.2 or newer (for the %i identifier placeholder in prepared statements).

One more, still free.

Monthly summary report email - fundraising totals and trends, delivered on a schedule.
Developer hooks documented for extending the plugin.

Five more, still free.

Bank payments (ACH) via Stripe - lower fees than cards.
Recurring PayPal donations through PayPal Subscriptions.
Designations / funds - donors choose which fund their gift supports.
Integrations - outgoing webhooks (Zapier, Make) and Mailchimp audience sync.
Custom form fields - add your own questions; answers save with each donation and export.

Four big additions, all free.

Campaigns & goal thermometers - multiple donation forms, each with its own goal, amounts, description, and live progress bar.
Donor self-service portal - a passwordless, magic-link dashboard for giving history, receipts, and managing recurring gifts via Stripe's billing portal.
Printable receipts & annual tax statements - save-as-PDF receipts and year-end giving statements over signed links.
Offline donation entry - record checks, cash, and gifts taken elsewhere.
Tax-receipt settings, a donor-portal page setting, and a campaign column in the CSV export.

Complete production rewrite. The headline: recurring giving, free.

Stripe Payment Element - cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay; one-time and recurring (monthly, quarterly, yearly) via Stripe subscriptions.
PayPal Smart Buttons for one-time gifts (Orders v2, server-side capture).
Fee recovery with live totals, recomputed server-side.
Tributes & memorials with personal messages.
Donor management - automatic donor records, lifetime totals, search, filters, CSV export.
Email receipts with placeholders, plus admin notifications.
Reports dashboard - total raised, monthly trend, average gift, active recurring count.
Signed Stripe webhooks - renewals, refunds, and failures sync automatically.
Security hardening - server-side verification of every payment, rate limiting, honeypot, prepared statements throughout.
Donation Form block for the editor, plus a [donor_merchant] shortcode.
i18n-ready, 20 currencies, test mode for both gateways.

Initial prototype. Donation form and basic donor/donation tables. Replaced entirely by 2.0.0.