Flexible Donations for Stripe

Flexible Donations for Stripe lets you accept donations directly through Stripe Checkout, the PCI-compliant hosted payment page. Donations go straight to your Stripe account – no transaction fees beyond Stripe’s own.

Key Features

• One-time & recurring donations – donors choose either payment type
• Custom amount input – donors enter any amount they want
• Predefined amount buttons – quick-select popular donation amounts
• Flexible billing intervals – daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly
• Sandbox / Test mode – store separate test keys and switch live/test anytime without touching your live keys
• Email confirmations – automatic thank-you emails with dynamic placeholders
• Donation tracking – every session logged in the database
• Webhook support – real-time payment confirmation via Stripe webhooks
• AJAX or REST API submission – choose between admin-ajax.php and the WordPress REST API if your host blocks AJAX for visitors
• Multi-currency – works with any Stripe-supported currency

How it works

The plugin renders a shortcode form. When a donor submits it, a Stripe Checkout Session is created and the donor is redirected to Stripe’s hosted payment page. Stripe sends a webhook back to your site to confirm the payment, mark the donation completed, and send the thank-you email.

This plugin is an interface to the Stripe payment service. By configuring it with your Stripe API keys you consent to sending donation data (donor email and amount) to Stripe for processing. Review Stripe’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy before use.

Live vs Test mode

• Live mode – processes real payments with your sk_live_ keys
• Test mode – processes test payments with sk_test_ keys (use test card 4242 4242 4242 4242)

Your live keys are stored separately and are never touched when you switch modes. A warning banner is shown in settings while test mode is active.

Privacy

This plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data on its own. Donation information (donor email address and amount) is sent to Stripe, the payment processor, when creating a checkout session. Data is stored in your site’s database (fdfs_donations table) for donation tracking purposes.