Gift Aid baked in
Every checkout has a Gift Aid declaration toggle, and donors can manage their preference from My Account. Sky Gift Claim handles the HMRC submission side: together they're the complete Gift Aid stack.
See Sky Gift ClaimFlagship donation plugin · v4.10.35
Built after years of patching other people's donation plugins. SkyDonate is WooCommerce-native, Gift Aid-ready and Elementor-powered, and designed so a non-technical fundraiser can launch a campaign in an afternoon.
Why SkyDonate
Generic ecommerce plugins bolt on donation forms as an afterthought. SkyDonate was designed from day one around how charities, mosques and nonprofits actually fundraise.
The problem with generic plugins:
The SkyDonate way
Every checkout has a Gift Aid declaration toggle, and donors can manage their preference from My Account. Sky Gift Claim handles the HMRC submission side: together they're the complete Gift Aid stack.
See Sky Gift ClaimA live nisab-linked Zakat calculator, a Qurbani form with sheep, goat, cow and share options and icons, and real-time gold and silver price widgets via the metal prices API.
Every donor gets a profile: full giving history, certificate generation, SMS and email communication, notes, and a donor-facing My Account area with Magic Login.
Google Places address autocomplete, Magic Login with no password, phone validation with a country code selector, and real-time field validation cut checkout time dramatically.
Platform overview
A full donation platform, not just a form. Built on WooCommerce, so payment processing, subscriptions and order management are solid, then extended with everything charities need that WooCommerce doesn't provide out of the box. Backed by 340+ unit tests.
Monthly and yearly recurring donations via WooCommerce Subscriptions, with smart retry on the WooCommerce Stripe gateway.
Declaration, export, subscription renewals and a My Account endpoint.
Full history, certificates, SMS and email, notes and a plaque editor.
Charts for trends, campaigns, countries and distribution.
A passwordless email link, so donors never need a password.
Zakat calculator, live nisab and a Qurbani form with icons.
Google Places for faster checkout and fewer typos.
Configurable toast pop-ups showing recent donations.
Elementor widgets
Every SkyDonate widget is a native Elementor element, fully configurable in the visual editor with no shortcodes and no code. Style, layout and content are controlled from the panel.
The core fundraising widget. Preset amounts, recurring giving tabs (one-time, monthly, yearly), a fund selector, a Gift Aid toggle and custom field support.
A compact campaign card for landing pages and sidebars, with campaign image, title, progress ring and a donate button in one responsive block.
An enhanced card with progress bar, donor count, raised and target amounts and campaign description. Ideal for featured campaigns on the homepage.
An animated fundraising thermometer that pulls live totals from WooCommerce. Set the target amount, bar colour, label format and animation speed.
An enhanced progress bar with donor count, percentage raised and social proof snippets. Supports multiple campaigns in a stacked layout.
A live-updating feed of recent donations, anonymised or named, with a configurable count and country flags. Builds social proof in real time.
A full nisab-based Zakat calculator linked to live gold and silver prices for the current nisab threshold. Breaks down savings, gold, silver and business assets.
A compact Zakat estimator for campaign pages: enter one figure and see the Zakat due instantly. Pairs with the Classic Calculator for a guided giving journey.
A live gold and silver spot price widget, fetched via API hourly or daily, showing the current nisab threshold in GBP for Zakat reference.
A one-tap button that opens the full donation form in a lightbox, placed anywhere on the page without disrupting the layout.
A standalone HMRC Gift Aid declaration widget for campaign pages or inside the donation form. Saves the preference to the donor's account.
A configurable impact list showing what specific amounts achieve, such as "£10 feeds a family for a week". Pairs with any donation form widget.
An animal availability tracker for Qurbani campaigns, showing sheep, goat, cow share and full cow options with live availability counts and icons.
An upsell at checkout that prompts donors to add a small extra contribution to cover processing fees or top up a campaign. Amounts and copy are fully configurable.
A storytelling carousel showing donation impact at different levels. Swipeable on mobile, with images, copy and a matching donate button on each slide.
Donor CRM
A full donor record, not just an order list. SkyDonate's CRM sits on top of WooCommerce orders and adds what a fundraising team actually needs: a complete donor profile with communication history, certificates and follow-up tools.
Your team sees the whole picture, and your donors get the acknowledgement they deserve.
Get SkyDonateIslamic giving
SkyDonate is the only WordPress donation plugin with a full Islamic giving suite built in: live nisab calculations, Qurbani animal selection and real-time gold and silver prices.
Built with UK Islamic charities from the ground up. The Zakat calculator links live to the gold and silver API, so the nisab threshold is always accurate with no manual updates.
Donor experience
Every friction point in the donor journey (account creation, address entry, payment and confirmation) has been redesigned to reduce drop-off.
Donors log in via a secure email link, with no password to remember or reset. The link is valid for 15 minutes, uses a cryptographic token and works on WooCommerce My Account and checkout.
Google Places pre-fills the billing address from a single search, with two layouts: a compact summary bar or inline edit. The mobile keyboard always opens correctly.
A real-time tick or cross on every field as the donor types: email format checks, phone length validation with intl-tel-input, and pre-filled field detection for logged-in donors.
Toast-style notices such as "Ahmed just donated £50 to Winter Appeal" shown to visitors. Configurable timing, styling via the WordPress Customiser and a master on/off toggle.
Donors can give anonymously per order or set a permanent preference in My Account. Anonymous status applies to public recent-donation feeds and CRM displays.
Configurable "cover our costs" or campaign top-up prompts at checkout. Set a list of products and amounts, and donors add them in one tap without leaving checkout.
Gift Aid
SkyDonate captures Gift Aid declarations at checkout, saves preferences to donor accounts and applies Gift Aid automatically to subscription renewals.
Pair it with Sky Gift Claim for one-click HMRC batch submission: together they're the complete UK Gift Aid stack.
Sky Gift Claim: HMRC submissionIntegrations
SkyDonate is built on WooCommerce and integrates with the payment processors, marketing tools and page builders charities actually use.
Card, wallet and recurring payments through WooCommerce, with Gift Aid captured on every donation.
WooCommerce-native, with Elementor widgets and support for custom fields and multilingual sites.
Email marketing, edge delivery and storage alongside the donation platform.
Technical spec
| Spec | Detail |
|---|---|
| Version | 4.10.35 stable |
| WordPress | Requires 5.0, tested to 6.7 |
| PHP | 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 |
| Depends on | WooCommerce 5.0+ · HPOS-compatible · Elementor (for widgets) |
| Payment gateways | Stripe · Apple Pay · Google Pay |
| Elementor widgets | 15 widgets in the SkyDonate category |
| Recurring giving | WooCommerce Subscriptions compatible · smart retry logic |
| Gift Aid | Declaration capture · My Account endpoint · subscription renewals · CSV export |
| Multi-currency | Configurable currency switcher with selectable currencies |
| Security | Nonce verification · capability checks · cryptographic magic login tokens · libsodium encryption |
| Uninstall | Optional complete cleanup removes all options, tables, cron, user meta and uploaded files |
| Multisite | Network-activable · site-level licences |
| Licence | GPLv2 or later · full source code, no obfuscation |
Compatibility
All features are supported on the following.
| Platform | Supported | All features |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress | 5.0 – 6.7 | |
| PHP | 7.4 – 8.3 | |
| WooCommerce | HPOS-compatible, 5.0+ | |
| Elementor | Free and Pro: all widget features | |
| Multisite | Network-activable, site-level licences | |
| Accessibility | WCAG 2.2 AA on all frontend widgets |
Licensing
A per-site licence, updates through the WordPress admin, and the plugin keeps working after expiry.
Get SkyDonateYes. SkyDonate is built on WooCommerce for payment processing, checkout, order management, recurring donations and reporting. WooCommerce must be installed and active.
Yes. The plugin captures Gift Aid declarations during checkout, remembers donor preferences and supports recurring donations. For direct HMRC submissions, it integrates with the companion plugin, Sky Gift Claim.
Magic Login lets donors access their account securely with a one-time email link instead of a password, making the donation experience faster and easier without compromising security.
Yes. SkyDonate includes dedicated Islamic giving tools, including a Zakat calculator, Qurbani donation options, live availability displays and Elementor widgets for easy page building.
Yes. Donors can stay anonymous for individual donations or set anonymity as their default, while the charity still keeps the records it needs for administration and Gift Aid.
SkyDonate works with any WooCommerce payment gateway. Most charities use the WooCommerce Stripe gateway, which supports cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay; other gateways and manual or bank-transfer methods are also supported.
Yes. You can personalise certificates with your branding, colours, logos, signatures, QR codes and custom messaging, then send them to donors automatically or make them available to download.
Yes. The plugin works with WooCommerce Subscriptions to manage recurring donations, automatic renewals and ongoing Gift Aid preferences.
Yes. SkyDonate includes an optional uninstall cleanup that removes its database tables, settings, scheduled tasks, uploaded files and other plugin data.
Charities, non-profit organisations, mosques, churches, community groups, fundraising campaigns and any organisation that wants to accept secure online donations through WordPress and WooCommerce.
Yes. Companion modules add personal peer-to-peer fundraising pages and recurring orphan or child sponsorship with a partner portal.
Yes. A cover-the-fee option and an extra-donation upsell let donors top up their gift at checkout.
Yes. It ships a performance suite, with a Redis object-cache drop-in and native LiteSpeed page caching, so donation pages stay fast on busy appeals.
SkyDonate, Sky Gift Claim, and our hosting and care plan: everything your charity needs, under one licence, from one team.
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