Ape Donate

Ape Donate helps charities, nonprofits, and fundraising organizations accept donations on WordPress. Donors can give without a page reload, payments are processed through Stripe Checkout, and you manage campaigns, donors, and receipts from a dedicated admin dashboard.

Donation forms

• AJAX-based forms so donors can complete a gift without reloading the page

• Three form templates: Classic, Standard, and Premium

• Logged-in users have their details auto-filled

• Optional anonymous donations, Gift Aid, and a service-fee option

• Google reCAPTCHA (visible or invisible) to reduce spam

Campaigns and receipts

• Create and manage fundraising campaigns from the admin dashboard

• Campaign list shortcode with pagination

• Success and failed receipt pages are created on activation

• PDF receipt download for completed donations

Payments and admin

• Stripe Checkout with test and live modes, plus webhook support

• Multiple currencies with formatted amounts

• Dashboard, donation list, donors, transactions, and reports

• Color and font settings so forms match your site

• Translation-ready with the ape-donate text domain

Optional add-ons

Gift Aid and Recurring Donations are separate WordPress plugins. Install and activate them from the WordPress Plugins screen. Ape Donate → Add-ons shows which companion plugins are active:

• Gift Aid – Claim Gift Aid on eligible UK donations

• Recurring Donations – Accept monthly and other recurring gifts through Stripe

Shortcodes

Place these shortcodes in any page, post, or widget.

Donation form

[apedo_Quick_donation_form]

Optional attribute:

• template – classic, standard, or premium

Examples:

[apedo_Quick_donation_form] [apedo_Quick_donation_form template="standard"] [apedo_Quick_donation_form template="premium"]

Campaigns

[apedo_campaign_lists] – List of active campaigns

[apedo_campaign id="5"] – Single campaign by campaign ID

[apedo_campaign post_id="10"] – Single campaign by WordPress post ID

Donation history

[apedo_donation_table]

Logged-in donors see their donation history. Guests are prompted to log in.

Receipts

Receipt pages are created automatically. You can also use:

[apedo_thank_you] – Success receipt (`id` or `donation_id` query argument)

[apedo_failed_receipt] – Failed payment receipt (`id` or `donation_id` query argument)

[apedo_failed_reciept] – Alias of `[apedo_failed_receipt]` (kept for existing pages)<h3>Developer Notes</h3>

JavaScript source lives in resources/vue/ and resources/js/. Compiled assets are written to assets/ with Laravel Mix.

The plugin ZIP includes the build tools at the plugin root:

• package.json — npm dependencies and scripts

• package-lock.json — lockfile for npm ci

• webpack.mix.js — Laravel Mix / Webpack configuration

To rebuild production assets from the plugin directory:

npm ci

npm run production

php so donation rate limiting can use X-Forwarded-For. By default only REMOTE_ADDR is used.

js ) includes Vue 3, Element Plus, and ECharts. Those libraries are used only in wp-admin. Public donation forms use separate, smaller frontend assets.

External Services

This plugin connects to third-party services when those features are used.

Stripe

• Purpose: Process donations through Stripe Checkout and verify payments with webhooks.

• Data sent: Amount, currency, donation ID, and payment metadata. Card details are entered on Stripe-hosted Checkout and are not stored by this plugin.

• When: When a donor submits a payment, and when Stripe sends webhook events.

• Terms of Service: https://stripe.com/legal

• Privacy Policy: https://stripe.com/privacy

Google reCAPTCHA (optional)

• Purpose: Reduce spam on donation forms.

• Data sent: Form interaction data used by Google to score or challenge the submission.

• When: Only if reCAPTCHA is enabled in Settings and a donor loads or submits a form.

• Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms

• Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

All requests to these services use HTTPS.

Privacy

• Card numbers are collected and processed by Stripe, not stored in WordPress.

• Donor name, email, phone, address, amount, campaign, donation message, and transaction status are stored in your WordPress database so you can manage donations and receipts.

• The plugin registers with WordPress Tools → Export Personal Data and Tools → Erase Personal Data. Erasure removes personal donor details and retains donation amounts and payment status for accounting.

• Donation records stay in the database after the plugin is deleted unless Remove all data on uninstall is enabled in Settings.

• Donation Success and Donation Failed pages are not deleted, so any customizations you made stay on the site.

• Google reCAPTCHA runs only when you enable it.

• Gift Aid and recurring billing run only when the matching addon is installed and activated.