Donation form builder for nonprofits, churches, and schools
Donately's donation form builder lets nonprofits, churches, and schools create custom online donation forms and embed them on any website in under 10 minutes. Forms support one-time and recurring gifts, credit card, ACH and digital wallets, optional donor fee coverage, and add-ons like tickets and memberships, with platform fees as low as 0%.
What is a donation form builder?
A donation form builder is the tool you use to create the form supporters actually give through. The amounts, the fields, the branding, the payment methods; all put it on your website without a developer.
Build a donation form in under ten minutes
Pick your amounts, choose the fields you need, match it to your brand, copy the embed code. No developer, no payment gateway to configure separately, no plugin to keep updated.
Fewer fields is most of the game.
Aim for five or six across two or three steps.
Baymard Institute finds roughly 18% of checkout abandonment comes down to a process that ran too long or got too complicated.
Customize every field, color, and step
Every part of the form is yours to set:
- Amounts: suggested giving levels, your own defaults, and whether a custom amount is allowed
- Fields: add what you need, mark it required or optional, drop what you don't
- Custom questions: how they heard about you, whether the gift is in tribute, anything you'd otherwise email to ask
- Designated funds: let donors choose the program their gift supports
- Branding: colors, fonts, button styling and layout
- Confirmation screens: what a donor sees after giving, and what the receipt says
- Steps: one page or several, depending on how much you're asking for
Embed it anywhere — WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow
Copy the embed code, paste it into your site, done. The form runs inside your page rather than redirecting supporters to a checkout branded like someone else's organization.
Or host your form on a page — no website needed
Every form also gets its own hosted page, automatically. Share the link in an email or a text, post it, or turn it into a QR code for print and events. Nothing to embed and no website required.
A hosted form page is deliberately simple: your form, your branding, nothing else. When an appeal needs a goal, a story and live progress, or you want supporters fundraising on your behalf, that's a campaign page.
A form built into the page erases the mobile penalty
Among people who reach a primary donation page, M+R Benchmarks 2026 reports 11% of desktop visitors complete a gift and 8% of mobile visitors do. For small nonprofits mobile drops to 4%, which is 52% of nonprofit website traffic. Most of your donors arrive on the device the sector converts worst on.
Across Donately-powered forms in 2025, once a donor engaged the form, completion was essentially identical across devices; 70.5% on desktop while 71.0% on mobile. The gap that defines the sector average disappears when the form is built into the page.
Give donors every way to pay
Credit and debit cards, ACH bank transfer, PayPal, and digital wallets including Apple Pay and Google Pay on every form.
Turn one-time gifts into recurring giving
Any form can offer recurring giving. You choose whether it's an option, the pre-selected default, or the only choice. Nine frequencies from daily to annual, donors manage their own plans, and you're alerted when a payment fails.
Building a monthly program? Our monthly giving guide covers the asking side.
Sell tickets, merch, and memberships in the same form
Add event tickets, membership tiers, sponsorships or merchandise as items on the same form. A supporter buys a gala ticket, adds a shirt, and rounds up with a donation; one checkout, one receipt, one donor record.
Sync your donation data with your favorite apps
Simplify your processes by integrating with thousands of leading applications and automatically keep all your data up-to-date across all systems.
Test which form converts better
Build multiple forms and compare their conversion rates in your dashboard.
Different suggested amounts, different field counts, different copy; then keep the winner.
Let donors cover your processing fees
Give donors the option to add your processing fees to their gift, so you receive 100% of what they intended to give.
That distinction is the whole argument on what platforms actually cost.
Keep donor data off your website
Card details are handled by the payment processor and never stored on your site. This means your donors' data is secure, regardless of your site, hosting, and plugins.
What it costs
Platform fees as low as 0% depending on plan. Get detail on pricing, the license, and what platforms actually cost.
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Frequently asked questions
What is a donation form builder?
A donation form builder is the tool you use to create the form supporters give through. The amounts, fields, branding, payment methods, and to embed it on your website without a developer. Donately also handles receipting, donor records, and recurring plans, where a generic form plugin does not.
How do I create an online donation form?
Build the form in the builder, choose your suggested amounts and fields, match it to your brand, then copy the embed code and paste it into your site. Most organizations have a working form in under ten minutes.
How do I embed a donation form on my website?
Copy the embed code from the Share panel and paste it into your page. On WordPress use the iframe option rather than the script; WordPress strips script tags. Wix, Squarespace, Webflow and Shopify accept either.
Can I customize the fields and design of my donation form?
Yes. You can customize suggested amounts, which fields appear and which are required, custom questions, designated funds, colors, fonts, button styling, confirmation screens, and whether the form runs in one step or several.
Which website builders and CMS platforms do Donately forms work with?
Any platform that accepts an HTML embed, which is effectively all of them. WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Shopify, Weebly. See integrations.
Do I need a website to collect donations?
No. Every form gets its own hosted page, so you can share a link or a QR code without embedding anything anywhere. If you do have a site, the embed puts the same form inside your own page.
What's the difference between a hosted form page and a campaign page?
A hosted form page is the form plus your branding — the quickest way to have somewhere to give. A campaign page adds a goal, a story, live progress and the option to let supporters fundraise on your behalf.
What payment methods can donors use?
Credit and debit cards, ACH bank transfer, PayPal, and digital wallets including Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Can donors cover the processing fees?
Yes, as an option you switch on. Donors can add your fees to their gift so you receive the full intended amount, and you control whether it's offered and how it's worded.
Is a Donately donation form secure and PCI compliant?
Yes. Card details are handled by the payment processor and never stored on your website — which is the main security argument for an embedded platform form over a donation plugin holding donor data in your CMS database.
Can I accept recurring donations from the same form?
Yes. Recurring can be an option, the pre-selected default, or the only choice, across nine frequencies from daily to annual. Donors manage their own plans and you're alerted when a payment fails.
Can I A/B test my donation form?
Not with a one-click test. You can build two forms and compare their conversion rates in your dashboard. This is a manual version of the same thing and enough for most single-appeal testing.
Do I need a developer to set this up?
Not for the common path. Building a form and embedding it, is copy and paste. The component library goes further for teams with someone technical, but nothing on this page requires it.
How much does a Donately donation form cost?
Platform fees as low as 0% depending on plan. See pricing.