Charitable vs Donorbox
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| Feature | Charitable v1.8.13.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.9/5 Visit Details | Donorbox v7.1.12 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 10,000+ | 8,000+ |
| Last updated | October 19, 2026 | October 5, 2026 |
| Editions | Charitable · Charitable Pro ($) · Charitable Recurring Donations ($) | Donorbox Donation Form |
| Pros | Stripe, PayPal and Square gateways plus offline donations in the free edition; Campaign builder with templates, goals and progress bars; Donor database, reports and CSV export; Built-in reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile spam protection; Usage tracking is opt-in | Embeds a Donorbox campaign with one shortcode; Two layouts: form only, or form with campaign info; Campaign can be set per shortcode |
| Cons | Lite card payments carry a 3 percent fee on top of gateway fees; Recurring donations and many integrations need Pro or extensions; Heavy admin with many upsell screens and menus; Large codebase of almost 5,000 files | Donations are processed and stored by the Donorbox service; Needs a Donorbox account before it does anything |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Campaign and donation post types, Drag-and-drop campaign builder, Donation form, donate button and donor list shortcodes, Donor and donation records in custom tables, Donation receipts and admin notification emails, CSV export of donations and campaigns, Reports screen and reports REST endpoint, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile on forms, Campaign, donor and donation blocks and widgets, Recurring donations ($), No 3 percent platform fee on card donations ($) | [donate] shortcode for the donation form, [donate-with-info] shortcode with campaign details, Campaign URL per shortcode, Default campaign set in settings |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe, PayPal, Square | Donorbox hosted donation forms |
| Plugins | Elementor | — |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile | — |
| Requires WordPress | 5.9 | 3.0 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1.3 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | No |
| External services | wpcharitable.com, nonprofitscore.org, squareupsandbox.com, squareup.com, connect.wpcharitable.com, paypal-sandbox.wpcharitable.com, api-m.sandbox.paypal.com, api-m.paypal.com, www.sandbox.paypal.com, www.paypal.com, plugin.wpcharitable.com, usage.wpcharitable.com, tracking.wpcharitable.com, challenges.cloudflare.com, www.google.com, hcaptcha.com, connect.squareup.com, api.stripe.com | donorbox.org |
| Blocks | 8 | — |
| Shortcodes | 13 | 2 |
| Custom tables | 7 | — |