Cheerful Give
| 开发者 | cheerfulgive |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年7月31日 17:04 |
| PHP版本: | 8.0 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.0 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
- A fast, mobile-first form that works on any device, added with a single
[cheerful-give]shortcode - One-off or monthly giving, each with your own preset amounts, plus a custom-amount option
- Gift Aid for UK charities, with HMRC-approved declaration wording, for an extra 25% at no cost to the donor (elsewhere, it simply stays off)
- Unlimited campaigns, each with its own goal, preset amounts and story, with nothing to unlock
- Make it yours: primary and hover colours, corner radius, shadow, border, width, a header image and the font, all with a live preview as you edit
- A friendly live-donations popup that celebrates recent gifts and encourages others to give
- Translation-ready, and you can optionally hide the small "Powered by Cheerful" credit
- Apple Pay, Google Pay and cards, all powered by Stripe
- Accept donations in your own currency: GBP, USD, EUR, AUD, CAD or NZD
- An optional "cover the fees" switch, so donors can add the card fee and even more of each gift reaches you
- 100% of each gift is paid straight into your own Stripe account, with no platform fee
- An optional thank-you and receipt email to every donor, set up once
- A friendly notice to a monthly donor if a card payment ever fails, with a secure link to update it
- A new-donation notification to your team, plus optional large-donation alerts
- An optional monthly summary email, so you always know how giving is going
- A clean dashboard with total raised, average gift, Gift Aid claimable, recurring gifts and a monthly trend
- Quick filters and date ranges, plus your top campaigns and top donors at a glance
- Export your donations and donors to CSV, or straight to QuickBooks and Xero for reconciliation
- Every figure leads with the amount actually given to you, so your books and your Gift Aid claim start from the right number
- See your supporters and their giving at a glance, and export a stewardship list of your top donors
- Donors give with no account to create; a monthly gift continues until cancelled through Stripe's secure billing portal
- Per-donation anonymity, so each donor can give publicly or privately
- An optional mailing-list opt-in on the form, unticked by default, with a subscriber list you can export as CSV for your own email tool
- Optional privacy-policy and terms consent, with on/off toggles
- Built-in tools to export or anonymise a donor's data (GDPR, CCPA and similar), wired into WordPress's own Export and Erase Personal Data tools, plus automatic anonymisation after your chosen retention period
- Card details are entered directly into Stripe's own secure fields and never touch your website or our servers
- Payments run on Stripe, a PCI-compliant, industry-leading payment provider, over encrypted connections
- Your organisation connects its own Stripe account and is paid directly; you never hold Stripe platform credentials on your site
- The donation form is served only over HTTPS, and the payment endpoints are protected against abuse
- An optional donor tip at checkout, a small, skippable contribution toward keeping Cheerful free for everyone. It's collected as a Stripe application fee; your organisation still receives its full gift.
- An optional Mailsync add-on, a separate paid plugin from getcheerful.org that syncs mailing-list opt-ins to Mailchimp or MailerLite. The core plugin is free and fully functional without it.
- Churches and faith groups: collections, tithes, offerings and ministry appeals
- Animal shelters and rescues: fund medical care, rescue work and adoption drives
- Food banks and community aid: raise money to feed and support your neighbours
- Schools and PTAs: donations for trips, programmes and classroom supplies
- Charities and foundations: accept one-off and regular gifts for any programme
- Arts and culture: fund performances, exhibitions and creative projects
- Clubs, teams and community groups: subs, fundraisers and member support
- Creators, campaigns and individuals: a tip jar, a cause or a personal fundraiser
- Mailsync: automatically sync new mailing-list opt-ins to Mailchimp or MailerLite. Without it, the free plugin still captures opt-ins and exports them as CSV for your email tool.
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常见问题:
What do I need to run Cheerful Give?
WordPress 6.0 or newer, PHP 8.0 or newer, an HTTPS (SSL) site, and a free Stripe account for your organisation. You connect it with one click: no keys or webhooks to configure. Most managed WordPress hosts meet these out of the box.
Does Cheerful take a percentage of donations?
No. Your organisation receives 100% of every donation, straight into your own Stripe account (less only Stripe's standard card processing fee, which Stripe charges on any integration). Cheerful is funded instead by optional donor tips, plus the optional Mailsync add-on.
How does the optional donor tip work?
At checkout a donor can choose to add a small, entirely optional tip that helps keep Cheerful free. It's shown with a clear "No thanks" option, so any donor can decline it in one tap, and your organisation always receives its full gift either way. The tip is collected by Stripe as an application fee and is not part of the donation to your cause.
Which currencies can I accept?
GBP, USD, EUR, AUD, CAD and NZD. Choose your currency in the plugin settings; donors give and are charged in that currency.
Can donors give monthly, not just one-off?
Yes. Donors switch between a one-off gift and a monthly recurring donation right on the form, each with its own preset amounts. Monthly gifts are set up as a Stripe subscription and continue until the donor cancels. They can manage or cancel from a secure Stripe billing link (also emailed to them automatically if a renewal payment ever fails).
Who pays the card processing fees?
Stripe deducts its standard card processing fee from each payment, exactly as it would for any Stripe integration. Cheerful adds no fee of its own. You can optionally switch on "cover the payment fees", which invites the donor to add the estimated card fee so even more of their gift reaches you.
How do refunds work?
You issue refunds from your own Stripe dashboard, in full or in part. Cheerful then automatically returns the donor's optional tip in step with the refund (the whole tip on a full refund, or the same proportion on a partial one) and updates your dashboard totals and reports to match.
How does Gift Aid work?
If you're a UK charity, switch Gift Aid on and eligible donors can add an HMRC-approved declaration in one tap, letting you reclaim an extra 25% at no cost to them. The declaration, plus the donor's name and home address, is stored with the donation for your claim and included in your exports.
Do donors need to create an account?
No. Donors give directly on your site with no account or login. Their card details are entered into Stripe's own secure fields and never touch your server.
Can I match the form to my brand?
Yes. From the Branding screen you set your primary and button-hover colours, corner radius, shadow, border, width, a header image and the font, all with a live preview as you edit. You can also hide the small "Powered by Cheerful" credit.
Will it work with my theme or page builder?
Yes. The form is added with the [cheerful-give] shortcode, so it works in the block editor, the classic editor and popular page builders, and renders on the front end of any theme. It's mobile-first and responsive.
How is Cheerful Give different from other donation plugins?
Two things stand out. First, there is no platform fee: many donation tools take a percentage of every gift, while Cheerful takes none and is funded by optional donor tips instead, so you keep 100% of what you raise. Second, it is beautifully simple: a branded, mobile-first form you add with a single shortcode, with one-off and monthly giving, Gift Aid, reporting, exports and privacy tools built in. You connect your own Stripe account with one click and donations are paid directly to you.
Is Cheerful a good alternative to a PayPal donate button?
If you want more than a basic button, yes. A donate button is quick, but Cheerful gives you a fully branded, mobile-first form with one-off and monthly giving, your own preset amounts, Apple Pay and Google Pay, Gift Aid for UK charities, and a donor dashboard with CSV, QuickBooks and Xero exports, all from a single shortcode, with 100% of each gift going straight into your own Stripe account. (Cheerful processes payments through Stripe rather than PayPal.)
Do I need to configure Stripe webhooks myself?
No. The Cheerful payments backend handles webhooks for you and forwards the relevant donation events to your site securely, with nothing to set up in the Stripe dashboard.
Does this work without HTTPS?
No. The donation form is not shown on non-HTTPS sites, and an admin warning appears if SSL is not active.
What is the Mailsync add-on, and do I need it?
Mailsync is an optional, separately-installed paid plugin that automatically syncs mailing-list opt-ins to Mailchimp or MailerLite. You don't need it: the free plugin captures opt-ins and lets you export them as a CSV for your own email tool. Mailsync simply automates that sync.
Where is donor data stored?
Donation records are stored in your own WordPress database. Payment card details are handled entirely by Stripe and never touch your server. The plugin includes privacy tools to export or anonymise a donor's data (for GDPR, CCPA, the Australian Privacy Act and similar), plugs into WordPress's own Export and Erase Personal Data tools, and can automatically anonymise personal data after your chosen retention period while keeping the amounts you need for your accounts (and Gift Aid records in the UK).
What happens to my data if I uninstall?
Your donation records stay in your WordPress database when you deactivate or uninstall, so nothing is lost by accident. Only if you specifically enable "delete all data on uninstall" (off by default) is the plugin's data removed when you uninstall.
更新日志:
- Security: a new Security tab adds optional, invisible bot protection — bring your own free keys from Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha or Google reCAPTCHA — plus a one-click link to switch on Stripe Radar. Most donors never see a thing; only suspicious visitors get a brief check.
- Card-testing defence: if a burst of suspicious donation attempts is blocked, you get a single "suspicious activity" heads-up email so you can tighten your setup. The hidden honeypot and rate limiting on your form are always on.
- Chargebacks: when a donor's bank disputes a payment, the donation is marked "Disputed" in your dashboard and you're emailed, so you can respond in Stripe in time.
- Activity log: sensitive actions — connecting or disconnecting Stripe, and exporting donor data — are now recorded (who, when, and from where) on the Security tab, and kept for a year.
- Reliability and security under the hood: donation confirmations from Cheerful's backend are now time-stamped and replay-protected, and disconnecting your Stripe account is handled cleanly.
- Donation form polish: clearer "Add 25% with Gift Aid" wording, tidier on/off switches with a tick and cross, and better spacing on the amount buttons.
- Branding — Advanced colours: a new optional section on the Branding page lets you set the donation form's text, button and border colours by hand, with an optional border on the Continue button — handy for minimal or white designs where the automatic colours aren't quite what you want. The automatic colours stay the default, so nothing changes unless you turn it on.
- Multisite: new sites added to a network are set up automatically.
- Fixed the "Reset branding to defaults" button on the Branding page.
- Fixed the campaign editor jumping back to the first tab after you save or refresh — it now keeps you on the tab you were using.
- Header image controls: fit any image to the header band cleanly, with no cropping or tiling. Choose how it fills the band (Cover, Contain, Fill or Scale down), which part to anchor (a nine-way position), and the band height (Standard, Tall or Extra tall). You can also float the image outside the card's frame, so a transparent PNG blends into your page.
- Embed as an iframe: alongside each campaign's shortcode you now get an iframe embed that fully isolates the donation form from your theme's styles. Handy if a theme restyles the form, and it works pasted onto any page, even a non-WordPress one.
- Tidied the Branding screen layout and simplified the wording across the admin.
- Removed the "Donation delivery" self-test from setup: the automatic recovery added in the last update makes a blocked notification a brief delay rather than a lost donation, so the warning was no longer needed.
- Reliability: donations now record even when a security plugin or firewall on your site blocks Stripe's incoming notifications. Your site periodically checks the payment service for recently completed donations and records any it missed — covering one-off gifts, first monthly payments and every monthly renewal. Receipts and your admin notification email still send as usual, with full donor and Gift Aid details.
- Theme compatibility: the donation form now holds its own appearance — button shape, fonts, colours, hover states and text size — even on themes that aggressively restyle buttons and inputs, so your Branding settings display the way you set them.
- Campaigns: the "Raised" figure on the Campaigns screen now matches your donor dashboard exactly — real (live) donations only, counting the gift itself (not any covered card fee or tip) and netting refunds. Test donations no longer inflate a campaign's total.
- Setup & admin: a clear banner shows when the form is in test mode; you can now set a button text colour and remove a header image to return to the default; and the Campaigns, Donations and Mailing list screens share the same tidy card layout.
- Polish: donation-form buttons use a single, slightly larger text size, with assorted spacing and styling refinements across the admin.
- Reliability: a donation caught by a momentary database hiccup is now retried by Stripe instead of being lost, and only your own donations are ever recorded (never another Stripe subscription on the same account).
- Donors no longer get stuck on busy or cached sites: an expired security token refreshes and retries automatically, and friendly messages replace raw technical errors at the payment step.
- Your Stripe dashboard now labels each payment "Donation - [campaign]" or "Monthly donation - [campaign]" instead of leaving it blank.
- Refunds: a refunded monthly donation now correctly shows as Refunded in your dashboard (with its tip returned automatically), matching how one-off refunds already worked.
- Security: the Stripe connection now requires a matching security token to complete; the spam honeypot is now active; rate limiting is proxy-aware so donors behind a CDN aren't blocked at peak; and email validation is stronger.
- Dashboard: "Recurring donors" now counts real subscribers rather than each monthly payment; partially refunded gifts get their own amber badge; the dashboard opens in your site's current Live/Test mode; and long lists page tidily.
- Gift Aid: the address is required on monthly gifts too (for valid HMRC claims), and an erasure request keeps HMRC-required records for the retention window.
- Consent: your donors' privacy and terms agreement is now recorded per donation and enforced on the server.
- Fixes: billing country follows your account (not always GB); campaign saves report errors instead of silently failing; a rare payment-loading hang is resolved; the live donations popup no longer appears oversized or unstyled on pages that don't contain a donation form (e.g. another plugin's page or a page-builder preview).
- Refunds now flow through your dashboard totals, exports and monthly summary. A refunded donation reduces "Total raised", Gift Aid claimable and your campaign/donor figures: a full refund comes out entirely, a partial refund keeps only the share you didn't return. A new "Partially refunded" status and filter, and Refunded/Tip Refunded/Refunded Date columns in the donations CSV, let you see exactly what came back.
- Added: when you refund a donation from your Stripe dashboard, the donor's tip is now returned too: the whole tip on a full refund, or the same share of it on a partial refund. The refund and the returned tip are recorded against the donation in your dashboard.
- The optional donor tip is always shown at checkout, and every live donations popup control (custom avatar, timing, on-screen duration, minimum amount and position) is available to everyone.
- Reworked how the plugin's admin scripts and styles are attached so no output buffer is ever left open.
- Updated the "External services" documentation for accuracy.
- Campaigns are now unlimited on every install.
- Added: if Stripe hasn't confirmed a card fee by the time a donation arrives, that donation's card fee and net received are now marked as estimates in your dashboard, your notification email and your export (a new "Card Fee Confirmed" column). Rare, but you can now see at a glance which figures are Stripe's own and which to double-check.
- Fixed: some donations recorded an estimated card fee instead of Stripe's real one, which also made "net received" wrong. This happened at random, whenever Stripe hadn't finished calculating the fee at the moment it told us about the payment.
- Changed: the donation form now says the card fee is an estimate. The exact fee depends on the donor's own card and isn't known until they pay, so the figure on the form is a good guess; your dashboard and emails always show the real fee Stripe charged.
- Fixed: your charity's name no longer appears twice in a row at the bottom of donation emails.
- Fixed: when a donor covered the card fee, the amount asked for was too small, so the charity received slightly less than the full gift. The fee cover now allows for the fee Stripe charges on the whole payment, and assumes your own country's card rate rather than a flat 2.9% + 30p.
- Fixed: the "Card Fee" column wrongly included the donor's tip to Cheerful, which also made "Net Received" too low. Fees now match Stripe exactly.
- Fixed: monthly donations recorded an estimated card fee instead of Stripe's real one, always showed the donor's tip as £0.00, and left the payment method blank.
- Changed: dashboard totals (Total raised, Average gift, Gift Aid, trend, top campaigns and donors) now show the amount given to you, excluding card fees and any tip, so they match the "Amount Given" column in your export.
- Your donation figures now lead with "Amount given to [your organisation]" (the donation itself) instead of the total charged, so your books and your Gift Aid claim start from the right number.
- Donor tips to Cheerful are now listed separately and clearly marked as not your income. They never reach your account (Stripe takes them as an application fee), so they no longer sit inside your totals.
- When a donor covers the card fee, the notification email now says so, instead of looking like a cost you paid.
- New "Total charged to donor" column at the end of the donations export, for reconciling against Stripe.
- Gift Aid is a UK-only scheme, so its columns (and the address fields only collected to support a claim) no longer appear in the donations export for organisations outside the UK.
- New: donation receipts now itemise what the donor paid: the donation, any card fee or tip they chose to cover, and the total charged.
- Reliability: donations are always recorded (and the receipt sent) even if the database upgrade for this version hasn't finished applying yet, so an update can never drop a donation mid-way.
- New: the charity notification email now shows the Stripe processing fee for each donation.
- Gift Aid is now calculated on the donor's actual gift rather than the fee-covered total, so the claim matches the receipt.
- Fix: the donation form now loads correctly on block themes (Twenty Twenty-Four / Twenty Twenty-Five and similar), where its buttons could previously stay unresponsive.
- Tip step: "No thanks" now appears below the custom-tip field, and the tip amount stays readable when you hover a percentage option.