The best WordPress donation plugin. Create fundraising donation forms, accept recurring donations, easy donor management, add crowdfunding, and more.
As of April 2026, Charitable is a WordPress donate plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 208 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.1M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 166% this week. Support resolution rate: 71%. Top alternative: GiveWP – Donation Plugin and….
Charitable is the best WordPress donation plugin that’s both EASY & POWERFUL. Add a simple donate button, create beautiful fundraising campaigns with smart donation forms, accept recurring donations with Stripe, PayPal, & Square, add crowdfunding / peer-to-peer fundraising, and other powerful donation features to your site in minutes with just a few clicks!
At Charitable, user experience is our #1 priority. Our pre-built donation form templates and workflows make Charitable the most beginner-friendly donation plugin on the market. You can create a fundraising campaign in less than 5 minutes with our drag & drop donation form builder or by using our pre-built donation campaign templates to get a head start.
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Charitable is a great plugin for donations and is highly customizable, provides custom donations and donation suggestions that I liked to use.
Thank you so much for the good work! We were experiencing the difficulty – the redirection stopped working well because of a wordpress theme bug, the tech support team were patient and dilligent, the issue is now fixed!
As a web designer, I’ve seen more hosting migrations go sideways than I care to admit. So when a Square payment integration hiccuped mid-migration on a new client build, I braced for the usual support experience — you know, the one where tumbleweeds blow through your inbox for three days.
Not here. The Charitable support team was already on it before I finished typing my first email. They communicated clearly, followed up proactively, and resolved everything with the kind of calm professionalism that makes you want to send them a fruit basket. (I didn’t. But I thought about it.)
The plugin itself? Intuitive, powerful, and genuinely well-built. But great software with lousy support is just a fancy headache. Charitable delivers both, and that’s rare enough to shout about.
This was my first time using Charitable — it will not be my last, and I’ll be recommending it to every client who needs a donation solution. Five stars, no notes, go team.
Before trying to bootstrap something yourself, as I did, do yourself a favour and invest in Charitable, your future self will thank you! It has a great core and the team have bent over backwards to make it work for my pretty unusual situation (five membership tiers, loads of custom fields, 4 languages…).
Let’s be honest, no plugin is designed to be all things to all people. Charitable does donation and donor management exceptionally well and in a delightfully simple environment/interface. It was never designed to be a membership plugin – but actually, for a membership organisation such as our new Gaudí Movement, it’s working fine for annual subscriptions and related member relations (I’ll update this when I have more experience as we grow).
Great tool. Flexible in how you set it up. The support team was super responsive when I had a question.
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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