Mission Donation Platform

Mission is a free, open-source WordPress donation plugin built for nonprofits. Accept one-time and recurring donations, manage donors and campaigns, give your supporters a self-service dashboard, and track everything from a modern admin — without paying for a single add-on. Most donation plugins lock the features you actually need behind a paid tier. Recurring donations? Add-on. Custom fields? Add-on. Donor dashboards, fee recovery, exports? Add-on, add-on, add-on. Mission takes a different approach: every feature ships in the free plugin, and we're funded by an optional tip donors can choose to add at checkout. Donors can change the tip, lower it, or set it to zero. 100% of the donation amount always reaches your nonprofit. The result is a donation platform that grows with your organization without surprise upgrade prompts. The plugin you install today is the plugin handling your donations next year, with no upsell screens between you and your supporters. Why Mission No paid add-ons. Ever. Recurring donations, donor dashboards, campaign management, custom fields, tribute donations, fee recovery, exports, activity logs — all included in the free plugin. There is no "Mission Pro" version, no premium tier, and no upsell at checkout. Modern donation forms that convert. Multi-step forms with suggested amounts, custom amounts, tribute dedications, anonymous donations, optional fee recovery. Built to feel quick and trustworthy on every device. Built for performance. The donation form is built on the WordPress Interactivity API — no React on the public-facing site, no bloated JavaScript, fast page loads for your donors. Donor data lives in dedicated database tables, not post meta, so reporting stays fast as your donor list grows into the thousands. Powerful donation forms The Donation Form block can be dropped into any post, page, or campaign. Configure it once and it adapts to your campaign and your brand:

• Suggested amounts and an optional custom-amount field, configured per frequency
• One-time and recurring giving (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually) — choose which frequencies to offer per form
• Multi-step layout that keeps the donor focused
• Cover-the-fees option — let donors absorb processing fees so 100% of their donation reaches your cause
• Anonymous donation toggle
• Tribute and memorial dedications, with an optional notification email to the honoree
• Custom fields per form — text, textarea, select, multiselect, radio, checkbox
• Built-in client and server-side validation
• Low-specificity CSS with no !important rules so themes can restyle freely

Recurring donations included free Recurring donations are the single biggest revenue lever for nonprofits, and they're the feature most plugins charge extra for. Mission ships them free:

• Weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual frequencies
• Automatic renewal handled by Stripe with retry on failure
• Donor self-service — pause, resume, or cancel from the donor dashboard
• Renewal history tracked per subscription
• Email notifications for renewals, cancellations, and failed payments
• Admin controls to pause, resume, cancel, or retry any subscription

A donor dashboard your supporters will actually use Drop the Donor Dashboard block on any page and your supporters get a self-service portal. They can:

• See a complete donation history
• Manage recurring donations — pause, resume, or cancel without contacting you
• Download a receipt for any donation
• Update their profile and email address
• Sign in with a magic-link email — no password to forget

Every action your donors can take in the dashboard is one less email in your inbox. Campaign management Run a single ongoing campaign or dozens of named campaigns side by side:

• Set goals by total raised, donation count, or unique donor count
• Auto-generated campaign pages built on the WordPress block editor
• Start and end dates per campaign
• Active, draft, and archived statuses
• Real-time aggregates that update as donations complete

Mission ships eleven campaign and donation blocks: donation form, donate button, campaign card, campaign grid, campaign image, campaign progress bar, campaign statistic, donor wall, recent donors, top donors, and donor dashboard. Mix and match them to build campaign pages that match your brand. Reports and exports you can actually use The admin dashboard surfaces what fundraisers care about: total revenue, donation count, average donation, repeat donor count, top donor, and month-over-month growth — in test and live modes side by side. Need the data outside WordPress? Export donors, transactions, campaigns, and subscriptions to CSV or JSON in a single click. A built-in activity log records every donation, refund, subscription event, webhook, email, and admin action with a 90-day retention window so you can audit anything that happened on your site. Stripe payment processing, done right Mission processes donations through Stripe Connect with direct charges:

• Stripe Payment Element for credit and debit card donations
• Test and live modes side by side with isolated data
• Webhook-driven — donation status, refunds, and subscription renewals all sync automatically
• Per-form fee handling — organization absorbs, optional cover-the-fees, or required cover-the-fees
• Mission absorbs the incremental Stripe fee caused by tips, so adding a tip never costs your nonprofit more in processing fees

Stripe is currently the only supported gateway. We chose to build a single deep gateway integration before adding more. Who Mission is for Mission is built to fit any organization or individual raising money online:

• Nonprofits and charities
• Foundations, clubs, and NGOs
• Churches and faith communities
• Schools, PTAs, and education nonprofits
• Political campaigns and advocacy groups
• Community groups and mutual aid funds
• Individuals raising for a specific cause

How the optional tip model works Mission is funded by donor tips, not by selling features. Here's exactly how that works:

• At checkout, donors see a small optional tip alongside their donation amount.
• The tip is preselected at a small percentage by default. Donors can change it, lower it, or set it to zero.
• Stripe processes the donation. Mission collects only the tip portion; 100% of the donation amount goes to your connected Stripe account.
• Prefer a flat platform fee instead of donor tips? You can switch to a fixed 3% platform fee per form.

Designed for developers Mission is open source and built to be extended. Eighty-plus actions and filters let you hook into every major event, customize every output, and integrate with the rest of your stack. A few examples:

• missiondp_donation_form_settings — customize per-form configuration
• missiondp_transaction_status_{from}_to_{to} — react to donation status changes
• missiondp_email_template_{type} — customize email templates
• missiondp_receipt_html — customize receipt PDF output
• missiondp_settings_updated — react to setting changes

A REST API exposes every entity for headless integrations, and a model-based data layer (Donor::find(), Campaign::query(), Transaction::create()) makes integrations clean to write and easy to maintain. The full source — including all build sources — lives at github.com/mission-wp/mission.

1.1.4

• Update screenshots and banners
• Don't show empty-state shell on Subscriptions/Transactions when a search is active
• Fix multi-word search on Donors, Transactions, and Subscriptions admin pages
• Fix fatal on subscription detail when a transaction has no recorded fee_amount

1.1.3

• Tested with WordPress 7.0
• Refreshed the admin menu icon
• API and webhook diagnostics now appear in Tools > Logs alongside other plugin activity
• Internal code quality and maintainability improvements

1.1.2

• Updated @wordpress/dataviews to 14.3.0 and @wordpress/icons to 13.1.0
• Fixed onboarding state select rendering taller than adjacent input fields
• Wrapped PHP templates in IIFEs to scope file-local variables
• Converted ReportingService identifier interpolation to %i placeholders
• Silenced Plugin Check false positives in custom-table data layer
• Prefixed $autoloader and silenced core-hook invocation sniff

1.1.1

• Donor login now goes through WordPress's standard auth pipeline for better compatibility with security plugins
• Donor user accounts are no longer deleted automatically when the plugin is uninstalled

1.1.0

• Renamed plugin slug to mission-donation-platform and prefixed all PHP/JS identifiers with missiondp_ per WordPress.org review
• Refactored DataStore queries and Cleanup IN-clauses to use wpdb::prepare() with proper placeholders
• Escaped block render output through wp_kses with an allowlist that preserves SVG icons and Interactivity API directives
• Moved security checks into permission_callback for state-changing public REST endpoints (donation/subscription confirm, email-change confirm)
• Added a Source Code section to the readme linking to the public GitHub repo with build instructions
• Disclosed Gravatar usage under External Services in the readme
• Removed unused stripe/stripe-php dependency
• Added WordPress.org directory assets (banners, icons, screenshots)
• Fixed MISSIONDP_STRIPE_PK_TEST to match the live platform Stripe account

1.0.1

• Renamed plugin to Mission Donation Platform per WordPress.org review team guidance

1.0.0

• Initial release