Recurring PayPal Donations

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1. ★★★★★ tamarinera

   7.5y ago

   This looks super, because I haven’t found another way to do recurring donations with Paypal. Business accounts need to sign up for Enhanced Recurring Payments in Paypal that costs $20 monthly. Not worth it for a tiny non-profit. So thank you for creating this plugin! For those who are interested: it’s basic: you have to cut and paste their code into your page, and then edit that code to change parameters (such as amounts, etc). But it makes a two-pronged form that gets the job done. Except… The problem I’ve found is that with the recurring donation, once I click to donate and am taken to Paypal, I can’t use the back button to get back to my site. So it’s a one way trip away from my site, and if someone clicks it by accident, they’ll never get back. The one-time donation button does not appear to have this problem. The other issue with this, is that they can’t change the amount of the donation once they’ve clicked through to PayPal. The amount is fixed by the plugin, and PayPal only has options to change the payment method, not the amount. COULD YOU PLEASE FIX THIS BUG? PRETTY PLEASE? This topic was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by tamarinera.

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2. ★★★★★ barrygen

   8.1y ago

   I have had no trouble with this plugin. It is working fine.

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3. ★★★★★ Torchy

   8.6y ago

   It works but it is $$$’s only and I would like to see it in other currencies (at least major currencies) Also, it is fixed to three parameters, no less no more.

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4. ★★★★★ yurone

   8.7y ago

   ok plugin, does what it says but can be a bit better 0. it looks like reccurent payements not possible for “non pro” paypal accounts This feature is only available to Business and Premier Accounts. please add this info in the plugin description so people don’t loose time. 1. on monthly reccurrent payements we ca see (p/m) i imagine this means per month, however i think that this is not clear for everyone. can be 2. on “DONATE ONCE ONLY” interface there is no information of selected “currency” that is confusing for people. DESIRED FEATURES 3. shortcode to select donation currency would be cool, at least some basic once : US, EU, GB 4. a redirect to a thank you page This topic was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by yurone. This topic was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by yurone.

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5. ★★★★★ copyjosh

   9.1y ago

   This is a great, still functional plugin that I used for a website that needed something close to the functionality provided. I added the modifications unique to their situation, but out of the box this worked great.

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6. ★★★★★ astaara

   9.6y ago

   This is super easy to use and does exactly what it promises. People can choose how much to donate either for one payment or recurring payments. Highly recommend.

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7. ★★★★★ peterbreen

   9.8y ago

   Paypal changes something in how they process form submissions about two months ago. I was working on a similar plugin called Custom Donations. I was experiencing a problem where Paypal would say that the link was bad. I was looking to see how this plugin handled that problem and found that it was also broken.

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8. ★★★★★ maalik1

   11.1y ago

   Quite cool app, perfectly working for me so far.

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2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.4 Recurring PayPal Donations <= 1.8 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-08-22 CVE-2025-57891 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.8 Patched in 1.9
2. Medium · 6.4 Recurring PayPal Donations <= 1.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode ↗
   2024-06-05 CVE-2024-35676 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.7 Patched in 1.8

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.2

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-04-27 900+ → 800+ down after 5 days in tier
2. 2026-04-22 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-04-21 900+ → 800+ down after 13 days in tier
4. 2026-04-08 800+ → 900+ up after 3 days in tier
5. 2026-04-05 900+ → 800+ down after 164 days in tier
6. 2025-10-23 1K+ → 900+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe 10K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags B
• Paypal Subscriptions 20+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags D
• GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Donations via PayPal 20K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• Charitable – Donation & Fundraising Platform (Donation Forms, Recurring Donations & Fundraising Campaigns) 10K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• Doneren met Mollie 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A

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Recurring PayPal Donations: 800+ active installs, 3.4★ (10 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/recurring-donation