Managing offline contributions alongside your online fundraising efforts shouldn’t be a logistical headache. Give Manual Donations is a powerful extension for the GiveWP platform that allows site administrators to seamlessly record, track, and report donations received outside of your website. Whether you are processing checks, cash, bank transfers, or other offline payment methods, this plugin ensures your fundraising data remains unified, accurate, and professional.
Key Features
- Unified Reporting: Consolidate all your fundraising data into a single dashboard. Manual donations appear alongside online contributions, ensuring your reports reflect the true total of your fundraising efforts.
- Customizable Donor Receipts: Automatically generate and send professional donation receipts to donors via email, even for offline contributions, maintaining consistent communication and donor appreciation.
- Flexible Payment Methods: Easily categorize offline gifts by creating custom payment methods, such as Check, Cash, Bank Transfer, or Corporate Grant, providing clarity in your financial records.
- Donor Profile Integration: Link manual donations directly to existing donor profiles. This keeps a complete history of donor engagement, making it easier to manage relationships and plan future outreach.
- Administrative Control: Manually adjust donation dates, statuses, and donor information, giving you full control to correct errors or record historical donations accurately.
- Seamless GiveWP Integration: Designed specifically for the GiveWP ecosystem, the plugin feels like a native part of your donation platform, requiring no complex workarounds to manage offline funds.
Use Cases and Who It’s For
Give Manual Donations is essential for non-profits, charities, and community organizations that operate in a hybrid environment. If your organization frequently receives support at gala events, through the mail, or via direct wire transfers, this plugin is for you.
For development officers and fundraising managers, it eliminates the need to maintain separate spreadsheets for offline and online gifts. By centralizing this data, you can generate accurate year-end tax statements for your donors without having to manually compile data from multiple sources. It is also ideal for organizations managing corporate sponsorships or major gift programs where payments are often handled through traditional banking channels rather than online payment gateways.
Setup and How It Works
Getting started with Give Manual Donations is designed to be straightforward for administrators who are already familiar with the GiveWP interface.
- Installation: Install and activate the plugin alongside your existing GiveWP installation.
- Configure Settings: Navigate to the plugin settings to define your offline payment methods. You can label these according to your organization’s specific accounting needs.
- Record a Donation: When you receive an offline gift, go to the “Donations” menu in your WordPress dashboard and select the option to add a new manual donation.
- Enter Details: Fill in the donor information, the donation amount, the specific form the donation should be attributed to, and the date the funds were received.
- Finalize: Choose the appropriate offline payment method from your configured list and save the entry. The donation is immediately recorded, and a receipt is triggered based on your settings.
Similar Plugins
While GiveWP offers a robust ecosystem, other plugins exist to help manage offline or manual entries for donation platforms. These include various “Offline Donation” or “Manual Entry” add-ons specifically built for the GiveWP framework. Organizations using alternative platforms may also look for “Manual Payment” or “Check Payment” gateways, though these are often designed for e-commerce rather than the specific donor-management requirements provided by Give Manual Donations.