=== Give - Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform === Contributors: givewp, wordimpress, dlocc, webdevmattcrom, ravinderk, kevinwhoffman, raftaar1191, mehul0810 Donate link: https://givewp.com/ Tags: donation, donations, donation plugin, wordpress donation plugin, givewp, give, wp donation, ecommerce, e-commerce, fundraising, fundraiser, crowdfunding, wordpress donations, commerce, wordpress ecommerce, giving, charity, donate, gifts, non-profit, paypal, stripe, churches, nonprofit, paypal donations, paypal donate, stripe donations, stripe donate, authorize.net, authorize.net donations Requires at least: 4.8 Tested up to: 4.9 Requires PHP: 5.3 Stable tag: 2.1.3 License: GPLv3 License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html Accept donations and begin fundraising with Give, the highest rated WordPress donation plugin for online giving. == Description == **[Give](http://bit.ly/WPORGGive "Visit the Give website")** is the highest rated, most downloaded, and best supported donation plugin for WordPress. Built from the ground up for all your fundraising needs, Give provides you with a powerful donation platform optimized for online giving. Transform the way you accept online donations. With Give you can accept charitable gifts through customizable donation forms, view donation statistics and reports, manage donors, and integrate with a wide variety of third-party gateways and services. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNdEelhjoKE] = Give's Features = Give is free and yet is full of many advanced features to suit your needs. Slick donation forms, full-featured reporting, and donor management features provide you with the tools you need to accept donations and manage your donors. **[Powerful Donation Forms](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveFeaturesForms)** * Build custom donation forms in your WordPress admin * Give inherits your themes styles so it integrates seamlessly out of the box * Add goals, multiple giving amounts, custom amounts, terms and conditions and more with just a couple clicks **[Full-Featured Reporting](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveFeaturesReporting)** * Get a complete overview of your donation activity * Control your data with exports and reports * Filter reports by date, form, and payment method. * Measure performance across multiple campaigns. **[Complete Donor Management](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveFeaturesDonors)** * View a complete history of your donor activity * Generate tax-deductible receipts * Integrate with third-party services via our Give API Find out more: * **[Visit the Give website](http://bit.ly/WPORGGive "Visit the Give website")** * **[View Give features](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveFeatures "Give Features Showcase")** * **[View Give demos](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveDemos "Give Demos Showcase")** = Who Uses Give? = With more than 30,000+ active installs of Give, we hear more and more success stories from nonprofit organizations using Give. Causes are using Give to raise millions of dollars per year. Check out some of our [Give Stories](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveStories) and [Case Studies](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveCaseStudies) for details about their success. = Why Use Give for Donations? = If your nonprofit or cause depends on donations, you want to treat your donors right. Don't send them through a shopping cart or kick them off-site to a third-party platform. Give streamlines the giving process by allowing your donors to complete their donations directly on your website using an easy to complete donation form. As an admin, you have the customization options and reporting and donor management features you need in order to run successful giving campaigns. You may have struggled with other WordPress donation plugins in the past; dealing with the lack of features, documentation, and support can be a real pain. There's a better way. Now you have Give and our entire team on *your* side. = Simple and Pain-Free Giving = Our development and support team built Give from day one with best practices in WordPress development and online giving in mind. Give works great -- the "WordPress way" so you're already familiar with the interface once you begin using it. The strength of Give lies within its optimized donation forms. When creating a form you may specify whether the form is a single or multi-level amounts. As well, you can allow donors to give a custom amount if you wish. The donation forms can then be displayed anywhere on your website using a shortcode, widget, or the single donation form page. Simply install and activate the plugin to get started. = First Time Users = For new users, we suggest reviewing our [documentation](http://bit.ly/WPORGDocs "Visit the Give docs") to get an understanding of how the plugin works. If you run into any trouble, we offer [free support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/give "Visit the Give support page on WordPress.org") to help you with your issues, questions, and concerns. If you are a Give customer with an active license of any of our popular add-ons, we'd love to hear from you and support you via our [Priority Support channel](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveSupport). = Zero Commission Charges = Give's goal is to "Democratize Generosity." We want to make it easy for *everyone* to raise funds online. The money you raise using Give is yours to support your cause. Period. We are supported through the sale of [premium Give add-ons](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveAddons "View all of Give's Premium Add-ons"). Add-ons enable advanced features that enable you to extend the functionality of Give. For example, you can use one of our add-ons to accept funds through your favorite [payment gateway](http://bit.ly/WPORGGivePaymentGateways), enable [recurring donations](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveRecurring), or send donor emails to your favorite email marketing platform. [View all of Give's Add-ons](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveAddons "View all Give add-ons") to discover all the ways you can further enhance and extend Give. = Easy to Customize and Enhance = Give is built by [WordImpress](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveWordImpress "Visit the developers of Give - WordImpress"), our plugins are built from the ground up to be intuitive and easy to use. By following along with our [Getting Started Guide](http://docs.givewp.com/give101 "Give 101 - Getting started using Give to accept donations on WordPress"), setting up Give to accept donations on WordPress is simple and easy. Are you a developer? Give is fully extendable. We built in an advanced templating system similar to the ones found in many of WordPress' top plugins that makes customizing many of Give's frontend elements upgrade proof and extremely flexible. Run into some trouble? We're here to help! Along with the plugin is a support team that is dedicated, fast to respond, and always willing to squash bugs and help troubleshoot. Here's some great developer-oriented tutorials and docs to help you customize Give to your liking: * [Create Dramatic Donation Email Receipts](http://docs.givewp.com/blog-email-templates) * [Populate Donor Info with One Click](http://docs.givewp.com/blog-auto-populate) * [Using the Give API to Create Charts with ChartJS](http://docs.givewp.com/blog-chartjs) * [Themeing with Give](http://docs.givewp.com/themeing) * [How to Create Custom Form Fields](http://docs.givewp.com/custom-fields) = About the Give Team = Backed by a growing team of WordPress developers, support engineers, and marketing professionals who've worked with WordPress and nonprofits since 2009. This means Give is made with best practices in mind; extremely extensible and customizable, stable, and reliable. We'll be here in years to come for you and your nonprofit organization. = Connect with Give = Stay in touch with us for important plugin news and updates: * **[Give Website](http://bit.ly/WPORGGive "Visit the Give website")** * **[GitHub](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give "Visit the developers of Give - WordImpress")** * **[Newsletter](http://eepurl.com/bggG99 "Subscribe to Give via MailChimp")** * **[Facebook](https://facebook.com/wpgive "Visit the Give on Facebook")** * **[WordImpress](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveWordImpress "Visit the developers of Give - WordImpress")** * **[Give Add-ons](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveAddons "View all Give Add-ons")** = Contribute to Give = This plugin is proudly open source (GPL license) and we're always looking for more contributors. Whether you know another language, can code like no one's business, or just have an idea, we would love your help and input. Here's a few ways you can contribute to Give: * Star/fork/watch the [Give GitHub repository](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give "Visit the Give GitHub Repo") to learn more about what issues we're tackling and the project is developing. If you've never worked with Github before, learn about [pull requests here](https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-requests/) and submit one for Give, we'd love to give you our feedback. * Translate Give into your native language. The best place to do that is here on wordpress.org. Go to [https://translate.wordpress.org/](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/give), then search for your language, click the "Plugins" tab, then search for "Give". When you've submitted at least 95% of Give's strings, the language moderators will review and approve your translations and then they will be available to all WordPress users for your native language. If you are interested in translating any of our Premium Add-ons, [contact us](https://givewp.com/contact-us), we'd love to chat with you about that. * Join the [WordPress for Nonprofits Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/wp4nonprofits/). We chat about all things related to WordPress and nonprofits there and very often about Give and online donations in general. == Upgrade Notice == Give version 1.8 is a major update. Please make sure you make a backup of your database before updating. == Installation == = Minimum Requirements = * WordPress 4.8 or greater * PHP version 5.3 or greater * MySQL version 5.0.15 or greater * Some payment gateways require fsockopen support (for IPN access) * cURL version 5.40 or higher * An SSL certificate -- while this is not strictly required, it is highly recommend. If you are converting your site to use SSL/HTTPS now, [we have a detailed guide to help you here](http://docs.givewp.com/ssl). = Automatic installation = Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don't need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of Give, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click "Add New". In the search field type "Give" and click Search Plugins. Once you have found the plugin you can view details about it such as the point release, rating and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by simply clicking "Install Now". = Manual installation = The manual installation method involves downloading our donation plugin and uploading it to your server via your favorite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains [instructions on how to do this here](https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Manual_Plugin_Installation). = Updating = Automatic updates should work like a charm; as always though, ensure you backup your site just in case. == Frequently Asked Questions == = Where can I learn more about how to use Give? = We have extensive documentation on installing and configuring Give [on our website](http://bit.ly/WPORGDocs). We suggest starting with the [Give 101 article](http://bit.ly/WPORGGive101). = How can I get support for Give? = We work hard to the best support possible for Give. The [WordPress.org Support Forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/give) is used for free community based support. We continually monitor the forum and do our best to ensure everyone gets a response. [Priority support](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveSupport) is given to users who have an active license for one of Give's [Add-ons](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveAddons) or [Bundles](http://bit.ly/WPROGGiveBundles). We provide email-based support to our Premium Add-on customers with an average response time of under 2 hours and average time to resolution of 24-48 hours depending on the severity of the issue. = Do you have any demos? = Yes! We have several live examples of Give and the wide variety of form options you can use with Give. Check out [our Demos here](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveDemos). = Do you have Case Studies of Nonprofits using Give? = Yes! We have two different types of studies that highlight nonprofits in different ways. "Give Stories" are stories of how nonprofits or individuals implemented Give with success. [You can read them all here](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveStories). "Case Studies" are more detailed examples of how an agency implemented Give for a specific purpose for an organization. [You can read those here](http://bit.ly/WPORGGiveCaseStudies). = How is Give better than a form plugin for accepting donations through WordPress? = Form plugins are excellent solutions for general intake forms. That said, they most often lack substantial donation reporting features, and donor management options. They also lack a variety of presentation options like Give has for embedding your forms in different places throughout your site. If you want a "Donate Now!" button in the header of your site that opens in a modal, you'll most often have to do quite a bit of customization to get that working just right with form plugins -- but not with Give. Give works great alongside all the most popular form plugins. Use Give for donations, and Caldera Forms, Ninja Forms, Gravity Forms or other for your general purpose intake forms. They'll work great alongside each other. = How is Give better than an eCommerce plugin for accepting donations on WordPress? = We actually built Give specifically to overcome many of the hurdles you have to go through in order to get an eCommerce plugin (like WooCommerce) to be streamlined for donations. You want to treat your donors right. No donor wants to add their donation to a cart and go through several page refreshes just to type their information in. You, as the site admin, don't want to have to change the word "Products" to "Donations" everywhere, and go through all the hoops of removing taxes and shipping either. On top of that, customizing the plugin's terminology is a daunting task. You never want your users to receive an "invoice" for the donation "product" they "purchased". Rather, you'd like for them to receive a receipt for the donation they gave. Use Give for donations, and let WooCommerce or WP eCommerce or the like handle your products. They work alongside each other just fine. Your donors will be happy, your customers will be happy, and so will you. == Screenshots == 1. This is an example of a simple, yet powerful, donation form that allows the user to input a custom amount. 2. Creating powerful donation forms is easy with Give. Simply install the plugin, create a new donation form, set the desired giving options, and publish! 3. Donation form fields can appear within a modal window (as shown here), be revealed with a nice sliding animation, or display entirely on the page (default). 4. Give makes the donation process simple and easy for your donors. This helps maximize conversion rates and further empower your cause. 5. The multi-level donation amount functionality allows you to set different giving levels for your donors to choose from. In addition, you can allow donors to specify custom donation amounts and even set donation goals. 6. The admin view of a donation form with multi-level amounts configured. Give's flexible options allow you to control whether the amounts output as radio buttons, a select field, or input buttons. 7. Don't need donation levels? No problem. You can set a default amount and allow your donor's to configure a custom donation amount to create a simple, yet powerful, donation form. 8. In-depth donation reports allow you to track just how much your cause has raised over time. You can even export the data to CSV or PDF formats. 9. Extend Give with a robust suite of powerful [Add-ons](https://givewp.com/addons "View all Give Add-ons"). Accept recurring donations, credit cards, add custom form fields, and more! 10. Give is thoroughly [documented](https://givewp.com/documentation "Visit the Give documentation") to help you get started quickly and learn basic to advanced features and functionalities. 11. Give has a dedicated support team to help answer any questions you may have and help you through stumbling blocks. == Changelog == = 2.1.3: May 23rd, 2018 = * New: Better SPAM protection through the usage of improved client and server side validation to only allow alphabet characters for first and last name, validation to ensure that the gateway field is not left empty (to compbat SPAM bot scripts), and sanitize all input fields when processing the donation. [#3035](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/3035#issuecomment-391393093) * New: Added new customizable "Email Heading" fields for all Core emails (coming soon to add-ons as well). [#3110](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/3110) * New: Added autocomplete field attributes to the applicable donation form fields for faster completion. [#3202](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/3202) * New: Added a Give CLI command to update all add-ons or a single add-on from GitHub. [#1390](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/1390) * Fix: We have refactored how we are using nonces so now the often reported issue of "Nonce verification failed" should no longer happen. The solution implemented provides for the additional security of nonces and is now compatible with various forms of caching. [#3200](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/3200) * Fix: The add-on plugin activation banner now displays properly without having to refresh the plugins screen to see it. [#3153](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/3153) * Fix: Give's shortcode picker was having an incompatibility with Elementor causing the TinyMCE to be partially blocked. [#3171](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/3171) * Fix: Give was conflicting with Beaver Builder preventing users from seeing the builder options within the WP-admin single page/post view. [#3207](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/3207) * Fix: Give's API was not repecting the date range parameters passed to it. Now it does so you can filter the API by date ranges as expected. [#3191](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/3191) * Fix: This version contains a database cleanup routine to delete donation payment meta that is not attached to any payment. For instance, if you deleted a payment the metadata associated with it still remained prior to this version. With this upgrade the orphaned data will be removed. [#3205](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/3205) * Fix: Resolved PHP notices when exporting donor in lower PHP versions. (#3222)[https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/3222], [#3218](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/3218) * Fix: We've updated the donation form's