The whole plugin is free forever — every feature, no paywall, no platform fees. The fundraising toolkit other plugins charge $399–$599/year for, at $0.
Every feature, free forever. Not a trial, not a teaser — the whole plugin.
No account, no card, no catch.
Same free plugin — plus a human in your corner when you need one.
The plugin stays free — this is optional support.
For agencies and teams running donations across many sites.
For multi-client agencies & teams.
Recurring giving, fee recovery, tributes, donor management, ACH, and integrations — the exact features other plugins lock behind their top tiers are free here. Here's what you'd otherwise pay, every year:
Everything the big names do — and the things they charge extra for, included free. Compare for yourself.
| Feature | Donor Merchant | GiveWP | Charitable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giving | |||
| One-time donations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Recurring (monthly / quarterly / yearly) | ✓ Free | $399/yr | Paid plans |
| Recurring via PayPal | ✓ Free | $399/yr | Paid plans |
| Campaigns & goal thermometers | ✓ Free | ✓ | ✓ |
| Designations / funds | ✓ Free | $599/yr | Paid plans |
| Tributes & memorials | ✓ Free | $399/yr | — |
| Fee recovery (donors cover fees) | ✓ Free | $399/yr | Paid plans |
| Payments | |||
| Cards, Apple Pay & Google Pay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bank debit (ACH) — lower fees | ✓ Free | Pro | ✓ |
| PayPal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Zero added platform fees | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Card data never touches your site | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Donors & receipts | |||
| Donor database + CSV export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Donor self-service portal | ✓ Free | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF receipts | ✓ Free | $399/yr | ✓ |
| Annual tax statements | ✓ Free | $399/yr | ✓ |
| Offline / manual donations | ✓ Free | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom form fields | ✓ Free | $599/yr | ✓ |
| Marketing & automation | |||
| Mailchimp sync | ✓ Free | $399/yr | Paid plans |
| Zapier / outgoing webhooks | ✓ Free | Add-on | Paid plans |
| Monthly summary email | ✓ Free | — | — |
| Platform & ownership | |||
| Developer hooks & webhooks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 100% open source (GPL) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 20 currencies | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cost to unlock everything above | $0 | $399–599/yr | $69–299/yr |
Competitor pricing and feature placement as published on each vendor's site, June 2026 — always verify current pricing with the vendor. Deep dives: vs GiveWP · vs Charitable
Free pricing, serious engineering. Here's why nonprofits trust it with real money.
We never take a cut of donations. You pay only Stripe's or PayPal's standard processing — and donors can cover that for you.
Card details are handled by Stripe and PayPal — never your server. Totals verified server-side, webhooks signature-checked.
Everything lives in your WordPress database — export to CSV any time. Open source, so nothing's locked away or phoning home.
Give them a form worth filling out. Install Donor Merchant free and take your first recurring gift today.
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