Give Manual Donations 1.8.0
Wordpress Plugins Give 4.8 (821 reviews)
Give Manual Donations is an official plugin from the Give team, built specifically for WordPress. It adds a simple but important capability to your donation setup: the ability to record a donation from inside your WordPress dashboard without the donor going through a checkout page. In practice, this means you can register an offline contribution such as cash or a check directly in the admin area. The donation is logged as a regular transaction, which keeps everything in one place. The plugin is designed for sites that already run Give, and it extends the core donation workflow rather than replacing it. You end up with a single record of all contributions, whether they came in through your online forms or through more traditional channels. The whole point is to give you a complete picture of incoming donations, no matter how they reached you. That matters for every organization that depends on accurate gift records.
When a supporter hands you cash at an event or mails in a check, the contribution still deserves a place in your donation history. That is exactly the gap this plugin fills. From the WordPress dashboard, you can create a manual donation record for that amount and save it as an official transaction. The entry behaves like any other donation in your system, which matters when you review totals or prepare summaries. You no longer need to decide whether to leave those gifts out of your records or to go through the awkward process of trying to run them through an online form. Manual donations become a normal part of your data, and the distinction between online and offline gifts stays clear where it needs to be. When that cash or check finally reaches your bank account, the corresponding record already exists, so reconciliation becomes a matter of matching entries rather than recreating history.
A manual donation is only useful if it shows up where you expect it. This plugin connects to the reporting side of Give, so the transactions you create appear in your donation reports and logs alongside the ones collected online. This makes the numbers you look at genuinely complete. Fundraising reports, donor histories, and transaction logs all reflect the full picture. That means fewer surprises at the end of a campaign and less time spent cross-checking separate spreadsheets just because a few donations were collected offline. The reports stay accurate because manual entries are treated as first-class records rather than afterthoughts. Donor histories stay full and accurate, which matters for stewardship. For organizations that have relied on messy workarounds to record offline gifts, this integration removes a layer of guesswork. Everything you record through the dashboard becomes part of the same data stream, ready for review, and you can trust that the totals match what actually happened.
Setting the plugin up does not require a lengthy configuration session. The developer describes the installation as a matter of minutes, which fits the design of Give itself: you install the plugin, activate it, and the manual donation option becomes available inside your existing donation workflow. The plugin comes as a standard WordPress plugin archive, so you install it the same way you install any other extension. Once active, it works quietly in the background until the moment you need to record an offline contribution. For administrators who handle donations across different channels, having this option built into the dashboard means fewer steps between receiving a gift and having it reflected in your records. It is a focused tool that does one specific job and does it inside the environment you already use every day. It simply gives you a way to enter contributions that would otherwise never appear in the system.
- Item type
- plugin
- Category
- Wordpress Plugins
- Version
- 2025.2
- Availability
- In stock
- Delivery
- Digital
- Last updated
- August 10, 2026
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