Church Admin Plugin

Giving

⭐ Premium

The Giving module lets your church accept online donations through your website and the Our Church app, track all giving in the database, manage Gift Aid for UK churches, and produce giving reports and CSV exports. It supports both Stripe and PayPal as payment gateways.

What the Giving module does

  • Online giving form — a shortcode and Gutenberg block that places a donation form on any page of your website, accepting one-off or recurring monthly donations
  • Multiple funds — donors can choose which fund their gift goes to — General Fund, Building Fund, Missions, and so on
  • Giving records — all donations are tracked in the database, linked to people in your directory where possible
  • Manual gift entry — cash and cheque donations can be recorded manually so all giving is in one place
  • Giving reports — on-screen reports and CSV exports for all giving, filterable by date, fund, and individual
  • Pledges — record and track giving pledges from individuals
  • UK Gift Aid — record Gift Aid declarations, generate HMRC-compatible reports, and produce Gift Aid forms
  • Donation receipts — automated email receipts sent to donors after each gift

Setting up giving — the order to follow

Follow these steps in order before placing the giving form on your website:

  1. Set up a payment gateway — connect either Stripe or PayPal at Church Admin → Giving → Payment Gateway Setup. See Payment gateway setup.
  2. Create your funds — add the funds donors can give to at Church Admin → Giving → Funds. You need at least one. See Funds management.
  3. Customise the donation receipt email — set up the email donors receive after giving at Church Admin → Giving → Donation receipt template. See Donation receipt template.
  4. Add the giving form to your website — create a page and add the shortcode or block (see below).

Adding the giving form to your website

Create a page on your website and add the shortcode:

Or search for Church Admin in the Gutenberg block inserter and select the Giving option. The form is publicly accessible — donors do not need to be logged in to give.

If you only have one fund, the fund selector doesn’t appear and donors go straight to the amount. See One fund only giving form.

Viewing and managing giving records

Go to Church Admin → Giving to see all recorded donations. The screen shows giving totals and a list of individual gifts with donor name, amount, fund, date, and payment method. From here you can also add a gift manually for cash or cheque donations received in person.

UK Gift Aid

If your church is a registered UK charity, Church Admin can add a Gift Aid declaration section to the online giving form, record declarations against donor records, and produce a CSV in the format required for HMRC’s online portal. Enable Gift Aid in Church Admin → Giving → Payment Gateway Setup and see the Gift Aid tutorials for the full process.

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