CharityGlow — Donations & Fundraising

🚀 Create high-converting donation forms in minutes and start collecting donations today.

CharityGlow is a modern WordPress donation plugin designed to help nonprofits, NGOs, mosques, and fundraising organizations increase donations — not just collect them.

👉 Simple setup. Powerful features. No coding required.

🔥 See It In Action (Live Demo)
👉 https://demo.charityglow.com/
👉 https://charityglow.com/

🎁 Free setup for the first 100 organizations
We’ll help you install, configure, and launch your donation system.

🎯 Why Choose CharityGlow?

Most donation plugins are:
– ❌ Complicated
– ❌ Expensive (addons required)
– ❌ Hard to customize

CharityGlow is different:

✅ All-in-one solution
✅ Beginner-friendly setup
✅ Built for higher conversion rates
✅ Works worldwide + Bangladesh

💰 What You Can Do With CharityGlow

✔ Accept donations via Stripe, PayPal, SSLCommerz
✔ Accept bKash, Nagad, Rocket (Bangladesh)
✔ Create unlimited fundraising campaigns
✔ Accept one-time or recurring donations
✔ Track donors with built-in CRM
✔ Show progress bars, donor walls, and stats

👉 Everything you need in ONE plugin.

⚡ Built to Increase Donations

CharityGlow is not just a form plugin.

It helps you:
✔ Build donor trust
✔ Improve conversion rate
✔ Encourage recurring giving
✔ Create professional fundraising pages

💳 Payment Gateways

• Stripe – Credit/Debit Cards (Worldwide)
• PayPal – PayPal
• SSLCommerz 🇧🇩 – bKash, Nagad, Rocket, Upay, Bank Cards
• Bank Transfer – Offline/manual donations

🇧🇩 Perfect for Bangladesh

CharityGlow is the first free WordPress donation plugin with built-in SSLCommerz.

Accept:
✔ bKash
✔ Nagad
✔ Rocket
✔ Upay
✔ All Bangladeshi bank cards

👉 No extra plugins needed.

🧩 Powerful Features

• 🎨 5 Beautiful Donation Form Templates
• 🔁 Recurring Donations (monthly/yearly)
• 🌍 Multi-Currency (25+ currencies)
• 📊 Real-time Reports & Analytics
• 👥 Donor CRM (profiles, history, lifetime value)
• 📧 Email Receipts & Notifications
• 📈 Campaign Goals & Progress Tracking
• 🔒 Secure & GDPR compliant
• 📱 Fully mobile responsive

🆓 Free vs Pro

Free version includes everything you need to start collecting donations:

• Donation Forms (5 Templates): ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• Stripe Payment Gateway: ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• PayPal Payment Gateway: ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• SSLCommerz (bKash, Nagad, Rocket): ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• Bank / Offline Transfer: ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• Recurring Donations: ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• Unlimited Campaigns: ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• Campaign Goals & Progress Bar: ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• Donor CRM (profiles & history): ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• Email Receipts & Notifications: ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• Donor Wall & Recent Donations: ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• 25+ Currencies: ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• Anonymous Donations: ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• GDPR Compliance Tools: ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• Mobile Responsive Forms: ✅ Free, ✅ Pro
• Advanced Form Builder: ❌ Free, ✅ Pro
• Multi-step Donation Forms: ❌ Free, ✅ Pro
• Conditional Form Fields: ❌ Free, ✅ Pro
• 10 Premium Form Templates: ❌ Free, ✅ Pro
• PDF Receipt Generator: ❌ Free, ✅ Pro
• Custom Receipt Branding: ❌ Free, ✅ Pro
• Sequential Receipt Numbers: ❌ Free, ✅ Pro
• Campaign-Level Reports: ❌ Free, ✅ Pro
• Analytics Dashboard: ❌ Free, ✅ Pro
• Elementor Widgets: ❌ Free, ✅ Pro
• Failed Payment Email: ❌ Free, ✅ Pro

🚀 Upgrade to Pro: https://charityglow.com/

🎥 Live Demo

👉 Frontend Demo: https://demo.charityglow.com/

❤️ Who Is This For?

• Nonprofits & NGOs
• Mosques (Bangladesh)
• Churches & religious organizations
• Schools & universities
• Fundraising campaigns
• Community & social organizations

⭐ Early Users Feedback

“Simple, powerful, and perfect for our donation campaigns.”

(👉 Add real testimonials soon)

🔧 Installation

1. Upload plugin to /wp-content/plugins/
2. Activate via WordPress admin
3. Go to CharityGlow → Settings
4. Configure payment gateways
5. Create your first campaign
6. Add [charityglow_form] to any page

⚡ Quick Start

1. Install & activate plugin
2. Add Stripe or PayPal keys
3. Create campaign
4. Add form shortcode
5. Start collecting donations

🔧 Shortcodes

• [charityglow_form] — Main donation form
• [charityglow_form campaign_id="123"] — Form linked to a specific campaign
• [charityglow_form amounts="10,25,50,100,250"] — Custom preset amounts
• [charityglow_campaigns] — Display all campaigns grid
• [charityglow_progress_bar campaign_id="123"] — Campaign progress bar
• [charityglow_donor_wall] — Public donor wall
• [charityglow_recent_donations] — Recent donations list
• [charityglow_stats] — Donation statistics

🔒 Security & Compliance

• PCI compliant (via Stripe/PayPal/SSLCommerz)
• GDPR ready (data export/delete)
• Secure API & encrypted transactions

External Services

This plugin connects to third-party services for payment processing. These connections are essential to process donations securely. No data is sent until a donor actively initiates a payment.

Stripe

This plugin uses Stripe to process credit and debit card payments. Stripe is a payment processing platform that securely handles card transactions.

What it’s used for: Processing credit/debit card donations, managing recurring subscriptions, and handling refunds.

What data is sent:
* Payment amount and currency
* Card details (sent directly to Stripe via Stripe.js, never touches your server)
* Donor name and email address
* Billing address (if collected)
* Donation metadata (campaign ID, form ID, donation ID)

When data is sent: When a donor submits a donation form using the Stripe payment method.

Service Provider: Stripe, Inc.
* Website: https://stripe.com
* Terms of Service: https://stripe.com/legal/ssa
* Privacy Policy: https://stripe.com/privacy

This plugin includes the Stripe PHP library to communicate with Stripe’s API (https://api.stripe.com).

PayPal

This plugin uses PayPal to process donations via PayPal accounts and PayPal guest checkout.

What it’s used for: Processing donations through PayPal, allowing donors to pay using their PayPal balance, linked bank accounts, or cards via PayPal.

What data is sent:
* Payment amount and currency
* Donation/order description
* Return URLs (success and cancel pages on your site)
* Donor name and email (processed by PayPal)
* Invoice/donation ID for tracking

When data is sent: When a donor selects PayPal as their payment method and clicks to proceed. The donor is redirected to PayPal’s website (https://paypal.com) to complete the payment.

Service Provider: PayPal, Inc.
* Website: https://www.paypal.com
* Terms of Service: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full
* Privacy Policy: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

This plugin connects to PayPal’s API endpoints (https://api-m.paypal.com for live, https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com for testing).

SSLCommerz

This plugin uses SSLCommerz to process donations via Bangladeshi payment methods including bKash, Nagad, Rocket, Upay, and Bangladeshi bank cards.

What it’s used for: Processing donations from Bangladesh using local payment methods (mobile wallets, internet banking, and bank cards).

What data is sent:
* Payment amount and currency (BDT only)
* Donor name, email, and phone number
* Donation/transaction ID for tracking
* Return URLs (success, fail, and cancel pages on your site)
* Store ID and transaction reference

When data is sent: When a donor selects SSLCommerz as their payment method and clicks to donate. The donor is redirected to SSLCommerz’s secure hosted payment page (https://securepay.sslcommerz.com) to complete the payment.

Service Provider: SSLCOMMERZ Limited
* Website: https://sslcommerz.com
* Terms of Service: https://sslcommerz.com/terms-condition/
* Privacy Policy: https://sslcommerz.com/privacy-policy/

This plugin connects to SSLCommerz API endpoints:
* Sandbox: https://sandbox.sslcommerz.com
* Live: https://securepay.sslcommerz.com

Note: SSLCommerz is only available for BDT (Bangladeshi Taka) transactions. It is intended for use by organizations based in Bangladesh.

Additional Info

Brand & WordPress.org Assets

Bundled under assets/images/ in the plugin package. When publishing to WordPress.org SVN, copy into the repository assets/ folder (sibling of trunk/):

• assets/images/wordpress-org/icon-256x256.png → assets/icon-256x256.png
• assets/images/wordpress-org/banner-772x250.jpg → assets/banner-772x250.jpg
• assets/images/wordpress-org/banner-1544x500.jpg → assets/banner-1544x500.jpg (optional retina)

Marketing / social: assets/images/facebook/, twitter/, linkedin/, favicon/.

On first activation, if the site has no Site Icon (Appearance → Site Identity), CharityGlow imports its favicon once via wp_site_icon / site_icon. Existing site icons are never replaced.

Support

support@charityglow.com

Documentation

https://charityglow.com/docs

Credits

• Stripe PHP Library – stripe.com
• SSLCommerz – sslcommerz.com
• Chart.js – For beautiful charts in admin dashboard
• WordPress Community – For the amazing platform