First Steps

1360 June 2, 2022
  1. Install WooCommerce & Donation Platform for WooCommerce
  2. Set up your WooCommerce store (address, payment methods, etc.)
    You can find detailed instructions and documentation for this on the WooCommerce site and numerous other blogs.
  3. Add a new product:
    – Important: Specify a price (default donation amount) for the product. (Only products with a regular price can be sold. If the price is not within the minimum and maximum donation amount, it is not a problem, just no default donation amount is set).
    – Make it virtual (optional)
    – Important: Activate Donation Project. Only products marked as Donation Project can be used in donation forms
    – navigate to the “Donation Form” tab
Set any price for the product and activate “Donation Project”
If you wish, you can set a donation target and an end date.
  1. You can use the Shortcode to insert the donation form anywhere you want
  2. You can enter a Fundraising Goal and an End Date.
    Please note: These two settings have no influence on whether donations can be made to the project. You can manually pause/terminate a fundraising campaign at any time by setting the product to “out of stock”.
  3. Publish your product and check out the product page. You should see something like this:
  1. Congratulations! You have published your first donation form.
  2. Using the shortcode and the Gutenberg block, you can now add the donation form anywhere you want.

Donation Platform for WooCommerce turns WooCommerce into a donation system, parallel use as a normal store is not possible.
It is recommended to test the plugin in a staging environment first.

Next Steps

  • Under the WooCommerce Settings → Donations tab, adjust the settings to your needs.
  • Explore the different styles for the donation form and also the individual rows
  • Add a variable product