Top 10 Crowdfunding Plugins for WordPress

Crowdfunding plugins for WordPress offer a cost-effective and user-friendly solution for initiating and managing fundraising campaigns. With features like secure payment gateways, customization options, and analytics, these plugins streamline the fundraising process, foster community engagement, and provide a quick, budget-friendly alternative to building a dedicated crowdfunding platform from scratch or even using white-label crowdfunding software.

GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform

GiveWP is one of the most popular donation plugins for WordPress. It is suitable for creating a single donation button on your online resource or for crafting a comprehensive donation-based crowdfunding platform. It allows your resource to receive gifts, charitable or other types of donations with simple and highly customizable donation forms. 

GiveWP allows you to keep track of your donors and contributions made by them, generate tax receipts, and even integrate with popular third-party tools. Additionally, it offers free donor tools, and a donor dashboard allows them to see their donation history and manage their accounts. 

The main benefit is an extensive set of tools and integrations. The main drawback is its complexity of setting up.

WP Crowdfunding

WP Crowdfunding is a plugin that allows anybody to create a donation-based crowdfunding platform. It offers the majority of features needed to launch a crowdfunding portal for free. Here is a list of such features.

• User registration
• Project start and end dates
• Setting a featured image and video
• Setting a recommended price, a minimum, and a maximum price
• Setup a funding goal and a reward system with an estimated delivery date
• Campaign target date, goal
• Update a published project
• Display backers.

A dashboard for users is also available. From there, they can manage the following:

• Update profile and contact information, update a password
• View own projects
• View backed projects
• View received pledges
• View favorite projects.

Along with free features, advanced paid features are available such as:

• Managing payment methods
• Setting notifications
• Analytical reports
• Stripe Connect
• Social share, and some more features.

The main benefit of this plugin is its ease of use. The main drawback is the lack of software updates and a very low customization level.

FundEngine

FundEngine is a fundraising donation plugin that allows anyone to create a fully functional donation-based crowdfunding website with WordPress.

The plugin comes with PayPal, Stripe, and Woocommerce payment gateways. Also, it supports manual payments with a bank account or bank card. With the FundEngine plugin, you can either set up the following options:

• User registration and login form
• Project submission form
• Project start and end date
• Project funding goal
• Setting a recommended, maximum, and minimum price
• Setting up rewards
• Updating a campaign.

The main advantage of the plugin is ease of use. The main disadvantages are the lack of guides on how to use it and almost non-existent customer support.

Crowdfundly

Crowdfundly is a plugin that allows you to build a website for donation-based or reward-based crowdfunding campaigns. The plugin is free to start, and you can upgrade it to a paid version whenever you need it.

Crowdfundly was created by following the best crowdfunding practices this is why with it, you get a resource that works. It offers the following features:

• 2-step giving form built by applying the most advanced marketing techniques to retain donors and make them donate
• An anonymous giving option
• Donation presents to give donors an idea of how much you expect them to donate
• An offline contribution functionality to receive donations offline
• Setting a donation reminder for those who were interested in your project but haven’t donated yet.

The plugin allows to create campaigns in less than one minute, manage donors, track donation activities, and post campaign updates. 

With a paid version, you get an opportunity to build a custom crowdfunding platform with a custom domain and email and benefit from social sharing functionality, intelligent data insight, and other valuable features.

The plugin has high user reviews, with no major complaints.

Whydonate

Whydonate is a donate plugin button that can be integrated into any website to allow you to accept donations. The plugin is easy to install and use, and the customization level is very high.

With it, you can:

• Host your own campaign or add peer-to-peer fundraisers, with each one having its unique button and style
• Set up one-time and recurring donations
• Access several payment options such as PayPal, bank card and bank account, SEPA, Sofort, and HomePay, among others
• Access a dashboard from where you can manage fundraisers and donors.

Whydonate is easy to use, it offers the required functionality to launch and manage a donation-based campaign, and the support team works efficiently and is willing to help anybody who has issues or questions.

Crowdfunding for WooCommerce

Crowdfunding for WooCommerce enables a full crowdfunding functionality for WooCommerce. It allows you to set for each product:

• Project start and end dates
• Goal funding and pledged amount
• An Open Pricing functionality
• A project bookmarking functionality
• Modifying project information
• Enabling and disabling email notifications, among other functionalities. 

 The main benefit is the abundance of features. The main drawback is the lack of support, bad design, and unclear documentation.

IgnitionDeck

IgnitionDeck is a plugin used by many companies to run their crowdfunding platforms. With a free version, you can launch unlimited crowdfunding projects by raising funds with PayPal, set up unlimited reward levels, and access a custom dashboard. You can benefit from light CRM capabilities, custom checkout pages, and user & order management options.

With a paid version, you get all the functionalities included in a free version, plus free updates & support, raising funds with credit cards, setting up recurring payments, WooCommerce integration. 

Finally, you can purchase the ultimate white-label solution for WordPress, with such options added as:

• Creation of campaigns by users
• Project creator profiles
• Multi-site support.

The plugin caters to the needs of any type of user, offers great tools, and allows for a high customization level.

InFunding

InFunding is a plugin that allows the creation of donation-based crowdfunding campaigns. It supports raising funds through PayPal or by using a bank account.

It offers the following functions:

• Creation and management of donation-based campaigns
• Donors and donations management
• Allowing volunteers to register for a campaign
• Controlling donations

The main benefit is its ease of use. The main drawback is that the plugin has not been updated for a long time, and may not work with more recent WordPress versions.

Buy Me a Coffee 

Buy Me a Coffee is a donation button for WordPress online resources such as a website, a page, a blog, etc. It allows content creators to receive direct support from their fans. 

It takes just a couple of minutes to integrate the Buy Me a Coffee button on your website to allow your supporters to make one-time or recurrent donations. 

Even though the plugin is easy to install, it has no customization options. 

CodeBard’s Patron Button and Widgets for Patreon

This is a plugin that allows you to add a button to enable your users to support you on Patreon without leaving your website. It also provides you with two highly customizable widgets that you can install in your sidebar. You can use both the widgets and the button or disable any of the options.

Building a Crowdfunding Platform with LenderKit

When your business outgrows the free or even paid crowdfunding plugins for WordPress, you can consider developing a comprehensive crowdfunding platform customized to your needs.

Alternatively, you could rely on feature-rich white-label investment software to scale your operations further, process more deals and provide the right impression and offer more robust solutions to your clients such as investors and fundraisers.

If you’d like to learn more about the LenderKit crowdfunding software, fill in the contact form on our website and our fintech strategist will reach out to you to discuss your project requirements.