Best WooCommerce Charity Donation Plugins

Supporting a charity or environmental cause is a great way to show your customers that you care, and the Woo Marketplace has some great plugins for your online store.

Why donate with your WooCommerce store?

More and more customers are choosing to buy from brands that align with their personal values. So much so, that purpose-driven consumers now make up 44% of retail consumers globally (now the largest demographic).

It is more important than ever for your store to also have a mission that your customers can get behind, and one of the best ways to show your values is to support a charity or environmental cause.

Why use a WooCommerce Plugin to donate?

Aligning with a charity is a great move for a business, but the steps to activate a partnership often make the process incredibly difficult and time-consuming. There are many steps in the process

• Finding a cause that aligns with your values

• Creating partnership terms and agreements

• Marketing campaigns + customer activation

• Managing orders and donations

The Woo Marketplace has a ton of great solutions for your online store. What used to take months to set up can now be done in minutes.

With a WooCommerce plugin, businesses can now:

• Start fundraising right away

• Save development time/costs

• Reduce admin time/costs
  

How to choose the best plugin for your business?

Of the integrations available in the Woo Marketplace, there are two main things to consider:

• Product Features

• Pricing

Here are a few recommended apps:

• Virtue

• Advanced Donations

• YITH Donations for WooCommerce
  

Virtue

Virtue is a great tool for managing donations and engaging with your customers. Whether it is your first time supporting a cause or you want to onboard an existing partnership to utilise Virtue's technology. Virtue is a great tool making it easy for brands to give back and share their giving story.

Get Started with Virtue for WooCommerce

Free Trial: Yes

Product Features:

• Can easily communicate with customers how much has been donated to charity

• Additional social proof features

• Customisable widgets

• Automated payouts

• WooCommerce Donation at Checkout

• Customer donation at checkout

• Social Impact Upselling

Causes

• Over 20,000 causes on the platform

• Can bring on new charities and fundraisers to the platform

Pricing Plans

• Pay as you Give (25p per order with impact)

• Impact Plus (£19 per month + 10p per order with impact)

• Impact Unlimited (£39 per month)

• Custom Plans Available

Advanced Donations

Advanced Donation is a great tool for merchants looking to run fundraising campaigns for charities and non-profits. Whether it is for an NGO or a local charity, Advanced Donation is a great tool to allow merchants to support multiple causes.

Link to Woo Marketplace

Woo Marketplace Rating: No Reviews

Price: $79.00 (billed annually)

Product Features

• Run multiple campaigns

• Add donations to checkout

• Campaign progress bars

• Donate custom amounts

YITH Donations for WooCommerce

This is a great way to add donations to your online shop and allow your customers to add donations as part of the checkout process. This is an ideal tool for nonprofit sites looking to collect donations or for brands looking to collect additional funds.

Link to YITH Marketplace

Woo Marketplace Rating: No Reviews

Price: Starting at $79.00 annually

Product Features

• Add donations to checkout

• Track donations collected to date

• Donate custom amounts and edit widgets

Potent Donations for WooCommerce

This is another tool that allows WooCommerce stores to accept donations through your WooCOmmerce store. With this plugin, you can add a donation product and enter donation amounts that your customers can select. While most reviews appear to be from a few years ago, the tool has a strong rating and is free!

Link to YITH Marketplace

Woo Marketplace Rating: 4.5/5 (37 Reviews)

Price: Free

Product Features

• Customer Donations to your WooCommerce Store

• Set varying donation amounts

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Support Causes from sales with store and checkout donations. Virtue is an easy to set up fundraising app for eCommerce brands built on Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento. Choose from over 20,000 Causes!