Mission – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising & Recurring Donations

🔁 Recurring donations included free

Recurring donations are the single biggest revenue lever for nonprofits, and they’re the feature other plugins charge extra for. Mission ships them free:

• Weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual frequencies
• Automatic renewal with retry on failure
• Donor self-service: pause, resume, or cancel from the donor dashboard
• Renewal history tracked per subscription
• Email notifications for renewals, cancellations, and failed payments
• Admin controls to pause, resume, cancel, or retry any subscription

👥 A donor dashboard your supporters will actually use

Drop the Donor Dashboard block on any page and your supporters get a self-service portal. They can:

• See a complete donation history
• Manage recurring donations: pause, resume, or cancel without contacting you
• Download a receipt for any donation
• Update their profile and email address
• Sign in with a magic-link email, so there’s no password to forget

Every action your donors can take in the dashboard is one less email in your inbox.

🎯 Campaign management

Run a single ongoing campaign or dozens of named campaigns side by side:

• Set goals by total raised, donation count, or unique donor count
• Auto-generated campaign pages built on the WordPress block editor
• Start and end dates per campaign
• Active, draft, and archived statuses
• Real-time aggregates that update as donations complete

Mission ships twelve campaign and donation blocks: donation form, donate button, campaign card, campaign grid, campaign image, campaign description, campaign progress bar, campaign statistic, donor wall, recent donors, top donors, and donor dashboard. Mix and match them to build campaign pages that match your brand. Not using the block editor? Every block has a shortcode equivalent that works in page builders like Elementor and Bricks.

🤝 Peer-to-peer fundraising

Let your supporters fundraise for you. Mark a campaign as peer-to-peer and anyone can sign up, on their own or as part of a team, and get a personal crowdfunding page to share:

• Supporters sign up right on the campaign page, verify their email, and their page is live in minutes
• Personal pages with a story, cover photo, goal, and live progress bar
• Teams, with captains who can invite members by email, keep the team private, promote a new captain, and manage the roster
• Approve every sign-up manually, or let pages go live instantly
• A fundraiser dashboard where participants edit their page, track progress, see their donors, and grab share links
• Donations automatically credit the fundraiser and their team, including recurring renewals
• Milestone emails celebrate 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of each fundraiser’s goal
• Twelve more blocks for fundraiser and team pages, including Top Fundraisers and Top Teams leaderboards, with both page layouts editable as Site Editor templates

Peer-to-peer crowdfunding is the feature other donation platforms charge hundreds of dollars a year for. In Mission it’s free, like everything else.

📊 Reports and exports you can actually use

The admin dashboard surfaces what fundraisers care about: total revenue, donation count, average donation, repeat donor count, top donor, and month-over-month growth, in test and live modes side by side.

Need the data outside WordPress? Export donors, transactions, campaigns, and subscriptions to CSV or JSON in a single click.

A built-in activity log records every donation, refund, subscription event, webhook, email, and admin action with a 90-day retention window so you can audit anything that happened on your site.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Who Mission is for

Mission is built to fit any organization or individual raising money online:

• Nonprofits and charities
• Foundations, clubs, and NGOs
• Churches and faith communities
• Schools, PTAs, and education nonprofits
• Political campaigns and advocacy groups
• Community groups and mutual aid funds
• Individuals crowdfunding for a specific cause

🫙 How the optional tip model works

Mission is funded by donor tips, not by selling features. Here’s exactly how that works:

• At checkout, donors see a small optional tip alongside their donation amount.
• The tip is preselected at a small percentage by default. Donors can change it, lower it, or set it to zero.
• 100% of the donation amount goes to your connected Stripe account.
• Prefer a flat platform fee instead of donor tips? You can switch to a fixed 3% platform fee per form.

Source Code

The full, unminified source code for this plugin is publicly available on GitHub at https://github.com/mission-wp/mission

See the README in the repository for full development setup, contribution guidelines, and a description of the build pipeline.

External Services

This plugin connects to the following third-party services:

Stripe processes donations. Payment data is sent from the donor’s browser to Stripe via Stripe.js, and Stripe sends webhook notifications back for payment, refund, and subscription events. See Stripe’s Terms and Privacy Policy .

Mission API proxies Stripe Connect onboarding, payment requests, and webhook forwarding to your site. If you opt in to feature notifications under Tools > Features, your email is also sent here. See Mission’s Terms and Privacy Policy .

Gravatar supplies donor avatars in the admin and on the Donor Wall block. Email addresses are hashed before being sent. See Gravatar’s Terms and Privacy Policy .