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Donor Merchant

Name: Donor Merchant
Author: Matt McWilliam

Free donation plugin for WordPress - one-time and recurring donations via Stripe and PayPal, with donor tracking, receipts, and reports.

Donor Merchant ranks #66,865 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #6,867 of 12,560 in the E-commerce category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Sep 17, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v2.5.3 Current Version v2.5.3

Updated 6 days ago Last Update on 17 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 12 hours ago Last Refreshed on

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.5.3
Last Updated: Sep 17, 2026
Requires WP: 6.2+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Matt McWilliam

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Donor Merchant

Yes. Monthly, quarterly, and yearly donations via Stripe are part of the free plugin. You pay only the payment processor's own fees.

Yes. Stripe and PayPal require your site to be served over HTTPS.

In your Stripe dashboard under Developers → API keys. Use the test keys with Test mode to try things out safely.

No, never. Card details are entered into fields hosted by Stripe (or on PayPal's site) and never reach your server.

No. Donor Merchant sends no telemetry and performs no analytics, tracking, or license checks. It never contacts our servers. When a page loads and nobody is donating, the plugin makes no external or background server requests. The donation form and the goal thermometer render entirely from your own database, and there is no AJAX polling or heartbeat activity. On pages that contain the donation form, the visitor's browser loads Stripe.js and/or the PayPal SDK from the gateway's own CDN. That is required so card details go straight into the gateway's secure fields and never touch your server. No donor or payment data is sent until someone submits, and on pages without a form those scripts are not loaded at all. Your server contacts Stripe or PayPal only when a visitor submits a donation, when a gateway sends an incoming signature-verified webhook, when a donor manages a recurring gift in the donor portal, and, if you enable them, when an outgoing webhook or Mailchimp sync fires on a completed donation. The plugin schedules two WordPress cron events, and neither makes an external request. The first runs daily and, on the first of the month, emails the fundraising summary to your own admin address if that option is enabled. The second also runs daily and deletes donation attempts that were never completed and have sat unfinished or failed for more than 90 days; completed and refunded records, and anything attached to a recurring gift, are never touched. Filter donor_merchant_stale_donation_days to change the window, or set it to 0 to switch the cleanup off.

Yes - enable fee recovery in settings and donors can opt in to add the estimated processing fee to their gift.

Recommended, but not required for one-time gifts. Recurring renewal payments are recorded via the Stripe webhook, so set it up if you accept recurring gifts. The settings page shows the exact URL and events to use.

The form ships with clean, self-contained styling that adapts to any well-built theme, and everything is namespaced to avoid conflicts.