Seamless Donations is so easy to install and configure that your Web site can accept donations via your Stripe or PayPal account within five minutes of downloading the plugin.
Seamless Donations is free and does not charge you a commission or percentage fee.
Other vendors take 2% right off the top of every Stripe transaction unless you purchase an expensive add-on. Seamless Donations does not siphon off money from donations intended for your good causes.
Automatic Recurring Donations For Stripe and PayPal
You can instantly give your donors the option to make their donation repeat automatically. You can turn on on the option with a click, which gives your donors a checkbox to make any donation repeat. This feature is free for both Stripe and PayPal.
Other Free Premium Features
Seamless Donations comes with free features other plugin vendors charge hundreds of dollars for. In addition to free recurring donations and the Stripe gateway, Seamless Donations includes:
Tributes: Designate a donation “in honor of” or “in memory of” and specify both the honoree and person to notify when the honor donation is made.
Gift Aid: For those of you in the UK, once you specify UK as your country, Gift Aid is automatically enabled.
Watch the Intro Tutorial
Gorgeous, Compelling Responsive Forms
The default Modern form is fully responsive and scales for mobile devices. Seamless Donations users can also purchase the Beautiful Donation Forms or the Colorful Donation Forms style pack, containing hand-crafted, responsive forms designed to encourage donors to gift to your organization.
Track Donors and Donations
Seamless Donations uses standard WordPress post types for Donors, Donations, and Funds so not only can you keep track of your most important contributors, you can use all of WordPress’ tools and plugins to manage them.
Show Donors Your Appreciation
You can email donors customized email Thank You messages. You can also set up “in honor of” donations and send a customized Thank You email to a designated recipient. With the Thank You Enhanced extension you can display custom Thank You pages personalized for each donor.
Here are some of the major features added since 4.0
Full Stripe support: Seamless Donations now provides full, native Stripe support, including support for recurring donations
Gorgeous donation forms: Redesigned, responsive default form, plus a library of 35 additional form designs available for purchase.
Updated, modern admin UI: The admin interface has been updated to a modern tabbed-look.
Custom post types: Funds and donors have now been implemented as custom post types. This gives you the ability to use all of WordPress’ post management and display tools with donors and funds. The donation data has always been a custom post type, but it is now also available to manipulate using
plugins and themes outside of Seamless Donations.
Designed for extensibility: The primary design goal of 4.0 was to add hooks in the form of filters and actions that web designers can use to modify the behavior of Seamless Donations to fit individual needs. The plugin was re-architected to allow for loads of extensibility.
Forms engine designed for extensibility: Rather than just basic form code, Seamless Donations 4.0 now has a brand-new array-driven forms engine, which will give web site builders the ability to modify and access every part of the form before it is displayed to donors.
Shortcode engine designed for extensibility: The main shortcode for the plugin has been designed so that extensions can add features to the main seamless-donations shortcode.
Admin UI designed for extensibility: Yep, like everything else, the admin interface has been designed to allow for extensibility.
Translation-ready: Seamless Donations 4.0 has had numerous tweaks to allow it to be translated into other languages.
Open Source, Extensible, and Developer-Friendly
Seamless Donations was designed from the ground up to be developer-friendly. Here are some of the developer resources you might find useful:
Support has moved to the ZATZLabs site and is no longer provided on the WordPress.org forums. If you need a timely reply from the developer, please open a ticket. The developer reads every ticket.
Mailing List
If you’d like to keep up with the latest updates to this plugin, please visit David’s Lab Notes and add yourself to the mailing list.
Adoption Notice
This plugin was adopted in March 2015 by David Gewirtz. Ongoing support and updates have continued, as evidenced by the major 4.0 and 5.0 upgrades. Feel free to visit David’s Lab Notes for a development roadmap and additional details. Special thanks to Allen Snook for originally creating the plugin and making adoption possible.
Added a new log status message for when an email was successful.
5.2.6
Increased the header label size for all admin area sections
Added repeating field indicator to Donations list view
Bug fixes
5.2.5
Added reconcilliation audit debug mode
5.2.4
Added new form type textarea to forms engine.
5.2.3
Minor fixes to hooks and filters.
5.2.2
Mandatory update if you’re using PayPal Checkout. Fixes a critical bug.
5.2.1
Fixed minor bug where the PayPal live mode secret key was saved, but wasn’t shown in the dashboard
5.2.0
Added new PayPal Checkout system as new way to process donations with PayPal.
Removed IPN processing from new PayPal interface.
Added ability for old PayPal IPN requests to still be recognized for existing users.
New users will be required to use PayPal Checkout rather than the old legacy PayPal processing system.
Fixed presentation bugs in Donors and Donation lists
5.1.20 and 5.1.21
Internal bug fix upgrades
5.1.19
Fixed bug that caused some new Stripe users to get an invalid parameters error.
5.1.18
Fixed bug with setting Stripe keys
5.1.17
Added access codes to help determine where an Access Denied message is sent from
5.1.16
Fixed minor bug in expanded currency beta
5.1.15
Fixed minor bug causing some PHP complaints
5.1.14
Fixed security feature that recorded extra zeroes in some donations.
Fixed bug saving Stripe key data
5.1.13
Fixed yet more security bugs. Be sure to update to this version.
5.1.8 to 5.1.12
Fixed security bugs. Released internally only.
5.1.7
Added Live and Sandbox email fields for PayPal payments.
Added much more granular log reporting for Stripe key errors.
Added debug option to turn off Stripe key validation.
Added internal test code for future rolling 31 day transaction audit debug mode (requires PayPal id and secret key)
Improved clarity in some UI element descriptions.
5.1.6
Added compatibility check that identifies caching errors for transaction IDs.
5.1.5
Added option to extend currencies for Stripe, offering 134 currencies instead of the 26 previously offered.
Added a whole bunch of debug modes that help when supporting users with challenging-to-diagnose issues.
Fixed validation bug when “Other” was selected and no value was entered. Thanks to Daniel Oizumi for the fix.
5.1.4
Fixed responsiveness error in Modern form style
5.1.3
Fixed bug introduced in 5.1.2 that caused recurring donations to misplace decimal point
5.1.2
Modified test mailing fields to be less amusing and more useful (no more Internet Cat Fund, sorry!)
Added Stripe support for zero-decimal currencies (like the Japanese Yen)
Added two filters to email.php: seamless_donations_email_subject and seamless_donations_email_complete_body (thanks to user Robert for the suggestion)
5.1.1
Added link to view IPN transaction history in PayPal
Added HTTP 200 response to IPN chatback response, which should eliminate retries
Replaced PayPal IPN chatback code with streamlined version
Fixed bug where multiple zero-dollar emails are sent after a successful PayPal transaction
Fixed bug with PayPal SSL security compatibility indicator on Settings tab
Fixed issue users described as “extra blobs” after the submit button (in forms engine)
5.1.0
Added Total Donated column to Funds list
Added Options Explorer to Debug Mode
Added warning to pre-4.0 users to read blog post on upgrading
Added a more secure form initiation process that should be compatible with more hosting providers
Added more secure PayPal IPN processing that should also be compatible with more hosting providers
Changed the IPN URL PLEASE CHANGE THIS WITH PAYPAL (see Settings tab)
Added validation and prompting to make sure Stripe keys are correct
Substantially optimized code base, reducing overall size of plugin considerably
Removed “Process form data via initiating page or post” option in settings since this option is deprecated
Removed old Seamless Donations legacy code written before adoption of the plugin
Removed unnecessary private version of jQuery that had been tagging along with the plugin for a while
Disabled SSL check on Logs tab when in debug mode to avoid the check itself from interfering with debugging
Fixed bug in Funds detail where donor names were always listed as Anonymous
Fixed bug where Indian Rupee and Israeli New Sheqel were mixed up, due to an abbreviation snafu
Fixed validation and donor form bugs (thanks to user Jaka Kranjc for the code)
5.0.23
Added security code that fixes some vulnerabilities
Added new Stripe Event History debug mode
Added additional logging data in Stripe transaction check
Added debug line to determine where session IDs are derived from
Fixed bug in Stripe payment section where donation ID was sometimes missing
Fixed bug that set default currency to USD even if another default currency was set
5.0.22
Added street address field to notification email
Added repeating confirmation log entry for Stripe payment
Fixed minor undefined variable bug
Fixed issue where employer name wasn’t showing up on the donor list, even if specified
Fixed JavaScript bug where country element would sometimes return as undefined
5.0.21
Added option to require billing address collection in Stripe checkout form
Added SSL security status indicators and checks for Stripe
Added code to poll Stripe for repeating donation transaction data
Added an Seamless Donations cron subsystem, mostly for Stripe polling
Added one-time-run function that fixes transaction IDs for Stripe recurring donations
Added a whole series of internal utility functions for getting transaction data from Stripe
Added debug mode option to run a block of test code on Seamless Donations initialization
Added diagnostic message for when Seamless Donations redirects to Stripe during donation
Increased visible field size for Stripe keys
Fixed Stripe field entry validation for Stripe keys so already-entered keys aren’t deleted on error
5.0.20
Added additional diagnostic log data for Stripe payments
Fixed bug in form styles that would sometimes cause a crash
5.0.19
Added selective HTML tag support inside Thank You message
Preliminary testing with WordPress 5.5
5.0.18
Added more debugging telemetry to Stripe gateway functionality
Added a please post a review item to plugin’s menu
5.0.17
Fixed bug where non-required telephone number was required
Fixed bug where an error would be triggered if form style set to None
Fixed some undefined variable warnings
Fixed another bug in legacy licensing code
5.0.16
Fixed bug in legacy licensing code
5.0.15
Fixed bug in Stripe production/live server processing
Fixed bug in Funds where the fund visibility wouldn’t save
Fixed initiation issue with PayPal IPN.php processing
5.0.14
Fixed a conflict in browser identification code when a WordPress component wasn’t loaded in time
Fixed a minor bug in donor, donation, and fund details where an undefined variable was sometimes referenced
5.0.13
Added long-overdue default state option to form options
Added settings debug option to no longer check for pre-5.0 add-ons
Fixed newly-introduced bug that prevented donor, donation, and funds detail from being shown
Fixed a bug where browser identification in debug log failed for WordPress.com Business Plan users
5.0.12
Fixed duplicate header bug found on some systems
5.0.11
Added uninstall reason dialog so I can get feedback and make Seamless Donations better
Fixed bug where ipn.php was invoked every few seconds.
Eliminated a bunch (but possibly not all) warning messages that showed when WP_DEBUG turned on.
5.0.10
Added helpful up-to-the-minute server status info link to Logs page for PayPal servers
Added fully-responsive default Modern-style donation form
5.0.9
Fixed serious bug where gateway would default to Stripe even if PayPal was live
5.0.8
Soft launch of new form styling code… much more to come
5.0.7
Fixed Stripe production processing bug
5.0.6
Add Stylesheet Priority option to Form Options to help prevent themes from corrupting form styles
5.0.5
Added support for Stripe Checkout with recurring donations
Added link to comprehensive SSL report for domain, located on Log screen
Added security features to prevent most Seamless Donations’ php files from being executed directly
Added additional debug options to debug mode
Updated Add-ons screen with data export plugin and link to tutorial
5.0.4
Very minor tweak to make updating add-ons a bit easier
5.0.3
First public repository release of major 5.0 admin UI rebuild (5.0.0, 5.0.1, and 5.0.2 were beta releases only)
5.0.2
Added new action seamless_donations_tab_settings_before_payments which runs just before seamless_donations_tab_settings_before_paypal.
These two are separated out as unique elements because the PayPal engine may not always be there.
Added a new Payments Processor Compatibility table on the Logs tab
Fixed a problem introduced in 5.0.0 where the WordPress Media tab would hang
5.0.1
Added two settings action callbacks: seamless_donations_tab_settings_before_paypal and seamless_donations_tab_settings_before_host
Added two css action callbacks: seamless_donations_add_styles_first and seamless_donations_add_styles_after
Fixed bug that caused an error because it was attempting to include a file no longer needed
Fixed bug in sd4 add-on retirement code so it now retires better
5.0.0
Enabled the ability for donors, donations, and funds to be listed as Public, Private, or Password Protected. Also allowed donor, donation, and funds pages to be unpublished, if desired.
Enabled the permalink on the donor, donation, and fund detail pages for easy preview of the donor, donation, and fund pages.
Added helpful link to the IPN entry location in PayPal (on Settings tab).
Rebuilt entire plugin on CMB2 admin UI library.
Fixed issue where couldn’t create a new fund when Compact Menus enabled and Funds tucked under main Seamless Donations menu.
Fixed issue where the log obscurify feature didn’t properly initialize/
Deprecated the following admin filters: seamless_donations_donor_header_style and seamless_donations_donation_header_style. This is now formatted in adminstyles.css
Changed how admin validation filters are called. Before, the filter took three parameters. Now, it’s only passed one, the $POST. You can process admin form validations for any button pressed in the Seamless Donations admin UI. The filter is validate_page_slug[page_slug_name]. For example, if a page’s slug is seamless_donations_tab_thanks, it calls the filter validate_page_slug_seamless_donations_tab_thanks.
Changed the naming convention for all admin callbacks. Prior to 5.0, admin pages were previously of the form seamless_donations_admin_[name] and, as of 5.0, are now of the form seamless_donations_tab_[name]. Therefore any callback that would have used the slug seamless_donations_admin_[name] must now use the slug seamless_donations_tab_[name].
Fixed issue in Basic Widget Pack where a crash was caused when deactivating Seamless Donations itself. Other Seamless Donations add-ons did not have this problem.
4.0.23
Fixed a typo (an extra slash) introduced in 4.0.22. Thanks again, Jacob!
4.0.22
Incorporated fixes from user Rachel3004 (Jacob) for PayPal’s apparent deprecation of fsockopen.
4.0.21
Added PayPal TLS test results to Settings panel
Removed option to see obsolete IPN
4.0.20
Tweak that might help some very out-of-date users update more successfully.
Tweak to PayPal arguments to provide better plugin support
4.0.19
Minor update to add new support information and notice
4.0.18
Minor update to improve TLS compatibility with PayPal
Added an option (that should probably never be used) to turn on legacy SSL for PayPal transactions
4.0.17
Added processing mode entry to log
Fixed spurious blank IPN log entries
Fixed bug that wrote incorrect IPN to log entries
Fixed nasty little bug introduced in 4.0.16 that substantially slowed processing by calling both IPN handlers on every page
4.0.16
Required update for PayPal https IPN compatibility
Added https verification and notification code to PayPal section in preparation for PayPal security update
Added https-compliant IPN URL to PayPal settings section in preparation for PayPal security update
Added helpful note to Host Compatibility Options section
4.0.15
Added Donations This Month widget
Added failover PayPal security option with cURL TLS support
Added new Host Compatibility Options section in settings
Added host compatibility option and mechanism to process form data via initiating page or post rather than external PHP file
Added host compatibility option and mechanism to bypass nonce validation for those hosts who break nonces on form submission
Added host compatibility option and mechanism to generate unique transaction IDs in JavaScript rather than at the host
Added nicer styled beta labels
Added versioning to transaction IDs
Added option to obscurify donor names shown in logs
Donor names in logs now default to obscurified names unless otherwise turned off
Modified YouTube tutorial video in main admin panel to resize responsively
Changed name of main Debug Mode section to Debug Options
Fixed a bug where UK Gift Aid selection was not being recorded. Unfortunately, the data wasn’t actually written to any transaction logging due to a code typo, so there’s no pre-existing gift aid data available for recovery.
4.0.14
Update fixing PayPal chatback bug.
4.0.13
On the donor detail page, each donation now shows as Yes or No depending on whether the donation was made anonymously
On the donor detail page, each donor’s overall anonymity flag is displayed under the address
Donor records now have an internal overall anonymity flag. If a donor ever specified anonymity in any donation, that donor’s record is flagged as anonymous (even if the donor doesn’t ask for anonymity in other donations)
The cross-reference rebuild option in the Settings Debug Mode now also rebuilds the anonymity indexes
4.0.12
Clicking into a fund now displays a list of donations for each fund
Added a new Settings option to Debug Mode that allows users to rebuild the cross-reference index
New update to Spanish translation, courtesy David Chavez
Added a helpful prompt guiding users to the PayPal video tutorial and another to remind users to switch email addresses when moving from Sandbox to Live mode
Implemented important architectural change in funds, so donations and funds now cross-index
Implemented cross-reference rebuild function for funds and donors, so databases can be reindexed if necessary
Implemented an internal stored running total for funds and donors for performance
Modified license check code to provide details to error log
Refactored the donations.php file to make it easier to maintain
Renamed some donations functions from ‘transient’ to ‘transaction’ for accuracy
Added a new ‘seamless_donations_admin_settings_before_tweaks’ action that allows placing items on the Settings tabs before the lower-priority tweaks and debugging elements
Fixed bug where funds showed unsupported post-related options that could cause breakage
4.0.11
Added helpful upgrade notes
Added dgx_donate_thank_you_email_body hook. This works with the legacy text-only mailer, takes in body text of email and returns back a possibly modified body text
Minor bug fix
4.0.10
Fixed another bug in repeating donations
4.0.9
Added Add-ons and Licensing tabs, along with full licensing and premium extensions support
Added a new beta tweak to Settings tab that tucks Donations, Funds, and Donor custom post types under the Seamless Donations menu
Added Portuguese translation (thanks to Daniel Sousa)
Added Singapore as a country requiring a postal code
Fixed initial display of postal code for countries other than US, CA, UK
Fixed bug on Donations and Donors list page where “Add New” was an available option. You can only add donations through the shortcode
4.0.8
Added support for GoodBye Captcha spam-blocking plugin
Fixed bug limiting notification emails to one email address
Fixed other minor and potential bugs in the code
4.0.7
Fixed bug in repeating donations
4.0.6
Added a transaction audit database table that replaced the unreliable transient data system.
Rewrote payment initiation system. Payments no longer are initiated by JavaScript running on visitors’ browsers, but by a PHP script running inside the plugin on the server.
Added new shortcode extensibility system.
Added a debug mode checkbox to the Settings panel.
4.0.5
Public beta release only
4.0.4
Beta release only
4.0.3
Fixed fatal bug introduced in 4.0.2
4.0.2
Added Spanish translation (thanks to David Chávez) and French translation (thanks to Etienne Lombard).
Added new Form Tweaks section to Form Options, with an option to enable Label Tags. This may improve form layout for some themes, particularly those where vertical form field alignment needs improvement.
Added an indicator comment in the form code to allow inspection to determine the version of the plugin that’s currently running.
Fixed bug in legacy export code introduced in 4.0. Unnecessary mode check caused the routine to fail.
Fixed bug where getting the plugin version number failed internally in some instances.
4.0.1
Added German translation
Fixed problem with Windows servers and long path names
Fixed multiple currency-related bugs: be sure to re-save your settings for this fix to take effect
Fixed the giving level filter
Fixed “undefined index” error
Fixed bug where default fields didn’t default properly
Fixed overly oppressive field sanitization
4.0.0
Major update
Added updated, modern UI
Funds and donors have now been implemented as custom post types.
Designed for extensibility with support for wide range of hooks
Array-driven forms engine
Translation-ready
3.3.5
Added update notice warning and splash so current site operators can have some warning before the new 4.0 version lands. Also added MailChimp subscribe form to main plugin page.
3.3.4
Officially adopting the plugin and beginning support by David Gewirtz as new developer
3.3.3
Officially marking this plugin as unsupported and putting it up for adoption
3.3.2
Updated: Seamless Donation news feed updated to point to designgeneers.com
Fixed: Corrected variable name to resolve PHP Warning for formatted amount that would be displayed on sending a test email
Fixed: Corrected variable name to resolve PHP error for new donation created from PayPal data
3.3.1
Tested with WordPress 4.1
3.3.0
Changed PayPal IPN reply to use TLS instead of SSL because of the POODLE vulnerability
Changed PayPal IPN reply to better handle unexpected characters and avoid IPN verification failure – props smarques
3.2.4
Fixed: Don’t start a PHP session if one has already been started – props nikdow and gingrichdk
3.2.3
Fixed: Unwanted extra space in front of Add me to your mailing list prompt
3.2.2
Added Currency Support: Brazilian Real, Czech Krona, Danish Krone, Hong Kong Dollar, Hungarian Forint, Israeli New Sheqel
