Donatico - Stripe Donations & Recurring Giving

Yes. Sign up for free at stripe.com to get your API keys. You can accept donations in test mode without entering payment details.

Donatico itself is free and never adds a platform fee, on the free version or any paid Pro tier. Stripe charges its own standard processing fees (typically 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction in the US; see stripe.com/pricing for your country) - that's the only fee involved.

Donatico charges $0 platform fee at every tier - free or Pro. That's not universal in this space: GiveWP's free plugin adds a 2% platform fee on Stripe donations unless you buy a paid license (plans start at $199/year, and recurring donations require a higher tier), and DonatoTomato charges a flat 1% fee on every donation processed. Donatico Pro, which unlocks recurring donations, starts at $49/year with no platform fee at any tier. See donatico.forgeo.dev for full pricing.

Yes. Go to Donatico -> Import to bring in your donors, donation history, and campaign links from GiveWP or Charitable, or from a generic CSV export of any other system. A dry-run preview shows exactly what will be imported before anything is written to your database, and importing is duplicate-safe - running it more than once never creates duplicate donors or donations. Migration is available on the free version.

Yes - recurring donations are available in Donatico Pro, starting at $49/year. Supporters can give monthly or yearly through Stripe, with automatic renewal and a secure self-service portal to manage their subscription. The free version supports one-time donations. See donatico.forgeo.dev for Pro details.

The free version handles one-time donations with forms, goal tracking, multi-currency, offline/manual donation recording, fee recovery, an on-site donor history dashboard, migration tools (GiveWP, Charitable, CSV), donor receipts, a donation dashboard, a per-donation detail view, CSV export, Google Analytics 4 tracking, QR scan-to-donate codes, and a sticky donate button. Donatico Pro (Starter tier and up) adds recurring donations, fundraising campaigns (with countdown, milestone, and matching-challenge callouts included), donation tiers, full donor management, tribute gifts, a public donor wall, custom form fields, and a subscriber self-service portal. Donatico Business (a higher tier than Starter) additionally adds PDF donation receipts with sequential numbering, annual giving statements, your organization's name/address/tax ID on receipts, outbound webhooks for connecting your own systems, fund/designation tracking, and tribute eCards. Learn more at donatico.forgeo.dev.

Yes. Each [donatico_form] shortcode renders an independent form with its own ID. Multiple forms on the same page work without conflict.

Use Stripe test mode (enabled by default) and test card 4242 4242 4242 4242 with any future expiry date and any CVC. No real charges are made.

Yes. The plugin only collects data entered by the donor (name, email, optional message). Payment card details are entered directly on Stripe's hosted page and never touch your server. See our Privacy Policy for Stripe's data handling.

Yes. Donatico is a standalone plugin and does not require WooCommerce. It works alongside WooCommerce without conflict.

Yes. Go to Donatico -> Settings -> Notifications to customise the subject line, heading, body copy (with merge tags), and footer. You can also send test emails from the same page.

All major currencies supported by Stripe, including zero-decimal currencies like JPY and KRW, are supported. Set your currency under Donatico -> Settings.

All donation records are stored in your WordPress database in a custom wp_donatico_donations table. No data is sent to external servers other than Stripe for payment processing.