GiveWP Review & Tutorial - Learn The Best Way To Accept Donations On Any WordPress Website

In this video I'm going to do a review and an installation tutorial and configuration of give which I think is the very best way to add a way of having people donate to you on any WordPress base website hi my name is Adam from WPCrafter.com where I make WordPress videos for non-techies and if you enjoy the content in this video I kind of upload them daily I'm addicted to this but I'd like you to maybe consider clicking on that subscribe button and if you'd like notifications of new videos there's a little bell up to the writer that subscribe but you can click on that and YouTube will let you know so let's jump right into day okay so the plug-in is called give and it'[e-mail] and on a link down below that will take you to their website and this plug-ins been out for maybe two years or 2 1/2 years I remember when they first launched it I always admired their website and their design and everything but I never really worked with the plug-in and I started using the plug-in in testing just a few weeks ago and I've been actually wanting to make this video and use this plug-in for probably about a year now and the most striking thing to me about this plug-in is it's called give it's a free WordPress plug-in now they do have some add-ons you could purchase that can add some additional functionality but when I was using the free version of it I thought to myself the give me is meaning they're actually giving to me this isn't give like you use it in people give to you this is the developer of gift giving to you the most quality plug in for donations that I've ever seen and you can actually use us for a lot more than donations once you think about it so let me show you essentially what this is you install it and by default you can connect it into your PayPal account and so when someone gives a donation you can receive it via PayPal there are some options there if you want a different credit card processors and you can easily connect those into the give plug-in but the one thing that they really nailed in this give plug-in is it is simply beautiful on the front and and crazy simple to set up on the back and if this is such a beautifully designed a plug-in in every single regard now the reason you would want to do this yourself on your own website versus maybe one of the crowdfunding websites or one of the other charitable giving websites for receiving charitable contributions it boils down to two things and they're both pretty huge the first thing is the data your donor list if you are using say indigo go or go fund me or something like that your donor list is actually their donor list and if they have your data you don't have full control over your data that's not a good thing especially if you are a charity or a political organization or anyone that's trying to raise money is that donor list and the data and the security of that data the second thing is probably the biggest thing and that is fees all of those platforms have fees they take their cut on top of the credit card processing fee so your typical credit card processing fee these days is about 2.9% and then there's probably real tiny transaction fee but if you have a merchant account so lots as you get a merchant account were those could be even lower but if you're using say go fund me you're still paying that 3% in then you're paying them I things like 5% or something like that so combine it ends up being a lot of money that you're paying just for the privilege of using their platform and now I'm confident when you watch this video you'll see how crazy simple that this is the set up for anyone that you might want to reconsider whether you even need those platforms because it's good be so simple to set up yourself so that's one of things I like about it let's take a look and see what this looks like a you can go here under features and so what the people that are leaving donations you can click on words as donation forms right here and you can see just the simplicity it's beautiful I've seen a lot of donation solutions this by far is just by far the best so you can see how it looks right here but I actually meant to click on words is give demos and this is going to be the front and demo soap here are the various demos that they have now I did say there some add-ons you can get so here's an add-on that's required if you want reoccurring donations there is an add-on for credit cards and there is an add-on for custom fields those three are probably to be ones you may want but you don't absolutely need them at all and actually how I intend on using this plug and I don't think I'm in a need any of these added plug-ins so here's what it's gonna look like with reoccurring donations on the click on view demo and you have this beautiful great great here and your donate tour can put the amount that they want and fill in their name and they are good to go right here is let's see this is one that's actually very interesting to me and I'm surprised they actually included this in the free plug in I would've thought that this would be some you have to pay for his multilevel donations and this is actually the form that I'm going to be using so what this allows you to do is have contribution levels and when you click on these buttons here you can see the contribution amount changes now what's interesting to me about this is is this really anything different than going the kick starter in seeing a list of perks and then choosing what perk you want and then buying or giving the money or whatever it's not really any different than that the way I see this being used for me as I can have a list of perks on the side and then on the top you know you give each perk a name or a level and then they can come here and choose which level they want and then I would immediately know what her to give them so that's one of the things that really drew me to this plug-in and how powerful it is the free version without any add-ons so here's custom fields of custom fields are if you're gonna want to collect more data than just your name and an email address and so you can use with this add-on you can create all you can capture all types of information here whatever you want with the custom fields there are some really cool things I want to do a demo of it like this you can actually make it so there's just one button that says donate you can drop that maybe the header of your website some clicks on it and there is the donate form I really like that as well the simplicity of it and lastly all this is really cool they also have a goals you can have your your campaign or whatever have a goal and then you can have a visual representation of that goal that you see right there I really like that to that's kind of maybe this could really be like a crowdfunding plug-in you can use it that way you certainly can use it that way when you see all these that the multilevel donations than the donation goal I mean that's pretty much what crowdfunding is and lastly this is what you look like when you accept credit cards you see right here is your credit card form so\'85 Take a quick look at the add-ons and then we can install and configure the plug and I'm in a show you how easy that is now they do have it as a bundle so if you want one or two of these add-ons it might just end up being cheaper or less expensive to purchase the bundle but the ever reoccurring donations that requires an add-on and that's fair there is a to add forms to give PDF email the receipts that would be really important and then all of these different payment gateways and so what's powerful about this is you actually get to choose the gateway that you want you to choose the gateway obviously you have to come here and purchase the add-on for but the Internet these add-ons aren't that expensive and you you can choose the gateway that you need and they've got a lot of gateways that they support here are some of these I have never even heard of before but see they have been in the give a business or for long enough to have developed the most popular most used payment processors are payment gateways and they have it all integrated right here you also have some add-ons that will connect into your autoresponder email list service let's see what else do we have here for highlights we have email reports we've got Zach is a pure integration and ally Xavier I think it's overpriced we have manual donations MailChimp okay enough of all this actually here let's see how much a bundle costs and there were to go and install the plug-in so if you want everything it's just 25 bucks per month if you paid annually sir toggle to see what that comes out to anyways you get the point I write so let's go in here now I intentionally this is just a vanilla install of WordPress I haven't done anything to it usually I'll do something to it so I'm a little more prepared for the video but this plug-in is really that simple to get up and running now I do want to give you one caveat I am to be making a video in about a week where I'm making a landing page that will work on any website and what I want to do and that videos also integrate give into this landing page just to show you how any one with any WordPress website can have a beautiful page for their donations using give and this method them and to teach you on how to create a landing page a beautiful landing page at that so let's go ahead and install this so all you have to do is go to plug-ins and then add new minimum go ahead and do the search right here and here it is give WP now it's interesting that it's also pulling up WooCommerce I wonder why that is because I actually tried to collect donations with WooCommerce once and it was ugly I mean it's like fitting a square peg through a round hole it didn't quite work out right and that's the opening that give discovered and they went after it and created an amazing amazing tool okay let's go ahead click on install now and then I'm in a go ahead and click on the activate button and we are going to install this by the way I just have the default 2017 WordPress theme installed okays go ahead and click on activate and go through this together so right here actually I would actually recommend doing this is asking for your email first name and last thing to subscribe to their email newsletter you probably don't want to do that so they can keep in contact with you maybe if they have a sale I don't know if they have sales or maybe they have an update coming out to the plug-in just you know and you're on top of things and they're gonna give you all of that information okay so here's just some information but working to just get straight into it so you notice there is a new menu option here this is donations and it has their icons let's go ahead and click on it so essentially what will do right now is working to take a look at the settings panel and there were in a go here and click on add form so each of these different fundraising goals are essentially separate forms so if you have the need to have different fundraising campaigns for different purposes you can have as many of those as you want using the give plug-in so let's go ahead and take a look at these settings right here so the first page that we have is just letting us link in the various pages on our website that give is going to use so the first ones your success page and essentially so when someone makes a donation it's going and then to send them to this success page and along with that there is a failed page and a donation history that would kinda be like a dashboard he type of page for someone on your website and then of course you want to set your country now with that we have some sub options so right here is the currency option so you can pretty much said that to how it is in your country and then we have some access control options here as well let's take a look at payment gateways now like I said the only gateways going to be PayPal standard it's what they give you for free which I think is very generous there's some plug-ins that take that away and they won't let you do anything with with money you have to start paying for that so it's very generous of them to offer that here now I am in test mode you can see this orange option right here in the top right and that's because were in test mode when I disable that that's going to go away so I do want to enable PayPal so what I'm a do some to check on the PayPal standard I move that to the top and we don't need a test donation or the off-line donation extra probably test donation on it for you to actually give a test or do a test of an actual donation so default gateway will choose PayPal standard let's just disable this that's going to click on save changes just in case now want to go into words is PayPal standard right here and for the standard PayPal all you really need to do is pop in your PayPal email address now if you've already gone and done it on the PayPal side you can create kind of a custom page that there are to be redirected to on PayPal's website you can put your logo in and stuff like that that's more of a PayPal thing I should ask to do that for some of my stuff but Yama to go ahead and pop my email and there we go let's take a quick look at this so you definitely want to read the whole bit right here about PayPal transaction types now I'm not getting it obviously I'm not qualified to talk to you or give anyone advice about accounting and taxes and donations and all that kind of stuff but the way I understand it is if you're not a registered 501(c)(3) and it's very hard to get that status these days our charitable organization anytime someone gives you donation it's not going to be a tax write off for them it's not like a donation for reducing their taxes okay and for you you will have to pay taxes on that donation that's pretty much I think the basics of this whole thing and it explains this year so you will want to read this but for most people is just make it a standard transaction like that or donation just go ahead and choose what you want there and here is the option to require that the person or the donor give their billing details like their address and all of that now if you are doing this like a crowdfunding campaign reaction to ship something then you deftly want to get their billing details for me if I was doing something like this but to give a course away then determine my training courses and I would just need someone's email so this is where you could choose whether you neither their billing details are not and then you're going to want to enable this IP and notify our verification that is a PayPal thing when someone makes a transaction on PayPal PayPal then Pingback the website so that it will sync up that you got this donation it actually cleared some to go ahead and click on save changes right here and then there's this off-line donations I'm not taken any off-line donations but if you wanted to you could customize the text right here okay were already almost through this are ready so we have our display options right here and so there's the default styles are to probably want to leave this enabled the default styles if you click on disabled it's going to not look right or it's gonna require some custom CSS to make it look exactly how you wanted to look floating labels that's when we see if I still have one of the demos open so I can show you what the floating labels as I like the floating labels myself okay floating labels as you see how it says first name here and then it's his first name here we could just not have it show your because it's a little redundant it to show right here I'm pretty sure that is what the floating labels is Yep that is what it is sono I'm really disabled in the maybe will enable it later on okay so let's go ahead and click on save I don't think I change anything that's going to click on post types while these different options that we have here now a lot of these settings here they start to get a little on the technical side and you can pretty much just leave them all be the default options and that would go be the same for taxonomies right there now terms and conditions this you're going to want to probably enable and probably put some terms and conditions there and you can have your donors be required to check on the terms and conditions box right there so we can leave this enabled let me go ahead and click on save changes you just want to write your terms and conditions right and there were almost on guys might go ahead and click on emails right here this is a very simple you're probably going to just want to use the default template and then upload your logo and then right here you're definitely going to want to say who this email is from so for me I make all my email states from Adam at WP not the way in emails formatted Adam space the@space the VP crafter that's how I do it so you want to deftly put your name there so that people when they get the email they can make a connection of where this email is coming from and you're also going to want to put your from email address in here now I don't see the settings in here for how the email actually gets sent out you might run into some trouble I have a video that I created on how to connect this into your email service provider maybe I'll dig up the link it's just on YouTube you can go to my channel and search for email and I'm sure it's gonna come right up and I'll dig up that link and put it in the description box below your deafening and want to do that because if you don't on sometimes these emails most likely these emails go straight to someone's spam folder and there's gonna be instances where they are delivered at all so let's continue on so you got the donation receipt here and this is pretty much the same thing you want to put in your subject line right there you don't have to stick with the same thing and you can play around with the actual email that gets sent out in some of the dynamic form fields I would think in most situations you'd want to leave this bit right here at the same but you might want to have a different bit of information here at the top and right here same thing for new donation notification this would be actually notification that will end up going to you you're probably get a lot that you can probably one of those those are encouraging I would assume in people to be notified immediately when someone's actually place the donation let's go ahead and take a look at the advance panel right here now a lot of these urinal leave the same so the first thing right here saying if you want to actually like that they do this this is like integrity this is like them not locking you into something and not messing up your website this basically says if if you enable this if you disable and delete the plug-in it will take all of its data with that and you your website will be as if GiveWP was never installed on it I really like when a developer does that and these other two settings you are probably just gonna want to leave alone and you can see so far I mean it's five minutes I mean I'm explaining it it's so easy to set up now if you wanted to look at the add-ons that they have available you can click here and see if any of these interest you as well however if you did want to purchase any of those I do have a link them below and it is an affiliate link so if you did purchase something I get a cup of coffee on them which is always nice if you did have any issues with any problems you can click on tools right here and it gives you this report that you can send to the developer it so that they know exactly how you have it hosted and they can better support you enough of all this let's just get the thing going to go ahead and click on add form so I'm going to go ahead and put a form title right here there it is a put W crafter legal fund now let's go ahead and take a look at these settings here together so what I would probably do as well it's a okay so we have our donation option this is what I was showing you early on where they have that multilevel feature which I think is pretty awesome so you can do a set donation if you want in this example go ahead and try this multilevel donation although I I would think most people I don't know ye I think you know a lot of charities they do a bronze silver and gold so you might want to do that maybe there are some perks with these different donor levels of recognition or something along those lines on the go ahead and click on multilevel right here and then here is the display style of these options so the example I showed you was buttons and I'm probably gonna want to leave it buttons I like that the most so people can see the different donation levels right there in this right here is if you wanted to have the last one be a custom amount I actually think that that could be a double-edged sword sometimes so you can think through whether you want to have that enabled or not I would go ahead and enable it because me know maybe sometimes people want to leave a larger amount than you're asking for so let's go ahead and to the minimum cost for minimum custom the donation amount so let's just put this at hundred and $50 like that and that's he give a custom amount that is fine so nobody go ahead and create art levels so all a level you specify is the amount in the name of the level and then once you have all your levels put together you can choose which one is the default one and that means when someone sees this form that is the level that can be be checked on by default someone to go ahead and add all this now okay so I have gone ahead and created three levels my bronze silver and gold obviously I'm not being creative there and you can see how you can choose which one you want to be the default level so I verdict on and on that let's keep moving on so let's look at the different form display options right here and this is what I was showing you in some of the demo there where you can have it being a button on the pop up and all that kind of stuff I'm gonna leave this all fields now here's what you can choose the text to be for that to button when they choose their level and then they click on the button to process their donation this is where you can choose the text I love the flexibility that they're giving you here and there making it so easy to customize this form to make it make it be in look and say what you wanted to be look and say this is actually really cool right here it's his default gateway now what I like about this is you can have multiple payment gateways connected and with give and you can have these different forms for different fundraising goals or purposes or whatever and they can have different payment gateways so if you wanted one to be just PayPal you want to one just to be this credit card processing company you can do that I think that's pretty awesome so I want to go ahead and choose PayPal for this one or can be the global default which I sent in the settings panel which I think was PayPal such as leaving uncle global guess donations this is if you want them to login or not so I'll leave this enabled why not now if you disabled it it would take them hereto for force registration or a login form some and leave this enabled as to allow guest donations oh here's that floating label thing someone enable that and will see what it looks like and we can always come in here and disable that I write some and go ahead and if you want a donation goal you can enter it here so let's just say I am trying to raise so I put $30,000 in there and then for the format and this is actually the the bar that shows you the progress you wanted to be percentage or an amount you can put that in there I'll leave it as amount and then you can choose the color is in progress bar I mean that the easy options they give you it's just never ending here all right so that is our donation goal let's look at our form content actually forget what this does by enabling yes okay so this is a little bit of text that I believe is it says right here like above the form so if we were on their example page right here I think that this bit of text right here actually here\'85 Wipe some text from these guys I'm sure they won't mind someone who enabled this and I'm in a pace that in right there okay so now that we have that there in then here's our terms can and conditions so you can have this enabled or disabled or you can have a unique one on a per form basis I love the flexibility here they really thought through all of this so I just go ahead and click on publish now this is the way it works we already put the settings and we've already put in and created our first form now what you get is this short code right here Solomon highlight in them in a copy that so now that is in my clipboard I can literally place this on any page that I want to place it on and it's going to show this donation form this is just so crazy easy okay enough of that someone go to click on pages and I'm in a click on add new and I'm going to give the same name as the the campaign there is WP craft early legal fundament to go ahead and paste this in there like that and I'm in a click on publish now before I show you the page keep in mind I didn't and this isn't like a pretty WordPress theme that I have on there I'm really just demonstrating the power of give not beautifying what's wrapped around this giving form but you know hey lets us see what happens so many go ahead and open that in a new tab and here it is here is my content right there and so it has my title adheres that that blurb here is my goal here are my different levels I got the bronze silver and you see when I click on silver changes the 5000 and that I can put a custom amount right there right here I can choose my payment method so it's always good to offer more than one payment method because some people don't like PayPal some people only want to use PayPal so it's nice to have the option there and enjoy you had a OUC right here with the the name it doesn't say the name above the field it says it just actually in the field like that that's perfect like that so let's see what happens on the test donation I actually haven't tested it to go ahead and click on test donation let me pop my name in and I'm on the test donation so it should take the donation but obviously it's not what the real payment processor I have my donation amount right there let's see weight not let me go to my goal them in a go gold let's see what happens on the click on donate now whoops I must agree to the terms and this looks like instead telling me I didn't enter valid terms and conditions in the form settings and that is why I'm having this little problem but see that's okay this is really easy I can easily just go here and go to donations all forms click on the form that I created to go right here and I'm going to disable the terms and conditions as I may you obviously so I didn't fill anything out now let me click on update and I want to just go ahead and refresh the page and I'm going to do this all over again someone to go ahead and click on gold put my name in an enema click on donate now and let's see what happens it looks like it's taking my donation pops me over to that page it created before the thank you page and it showing me my information right there donor date total donation donation it and see how easy this is guys I mean I'm just doing this in real time I'm not sitting here reading documentation for five hours to figure out how to do something and that's because it's so well-thought-out so I'm hearing deems I think I must've received an email so now let's go ahead and look at the donations tab right here and we can see what there is my donation that I received and then let me go ahead and click on donors and you can see this is essentially your donor list and then let's see what report says here is reports as well and there's different types of reports hoses and income here is a forms report so if you have multiple forms is going to break down the data there your list of donors write their donation method so this is going to show you if you have multiple payment processors which ones taking all the donations and this is good right here so you can export your donor list and this is something that you're not getting elsewhere you're exporting your donor list you can have your donation history you can take your data and cannot make it portable into any system that you may have so far I am loving give and I actually am going to set it up to start a legal fund for WP to get a little help on some things that I have going on let's see what it looks like on a different theme song to go to themes, to go ahead and add a new theme in this time I'm going to put in the GeneratePress theme one of things I like about the GeneratePress theme is they have an add-on package that you can get that will give you some controls on the visual look of the actual form that give generates a limit just installed this and working to refresh that donation page to see how it looks now typically it's going to have a container of content and then a sidebar but you see what happens I obviously haven't changed anything so it looks a little different and here we go and it just looks fantastic I really love the way that this plug-in works now was really nice is they have everything documented right here on the websites you can go here look at the docs if you want to change a color or something like that they're not like hiding this information so you have to hire someone all that information is literally right here it's so easy to come here and see all the different ways that you can customize the way this give plug-in looks visually but just by default it is a beautiful I mean it is up there you can see my little tiny fake donation right there let's start test the PayPal why not okay so to 25 I have it on PayPal at the pump my name and again okay when I click on donate now I'm guessing it oh what is wrong this form has a minimum donation amount let's go ahead and put that 150 and why not okay so now let's see what happens when I click on donate now it should take the information pull into the system and then push me over to PayPal where I can log in wow this actually looks very nice in the very seamless the way it's looking on the PayPal side of things it says right there donate to Adam a WPCrafter.com the purposes the legal funder what I've put in there and someone can pop in their information I really like that a lot so anyways I'm going to make a video on using a page builder with give some to build a beautiful landing pages with the page builder and then working at take that give short code and pop that in there and see what we can do to spruce up some of these the way we actually display this donor form but this is been my review of GiveWP and I gotta say that it's almost humbling everything that they have decided to give obviously there in a business they're trying to make money and they're doing there they've really successful at what they're doing but this is perfect for any religious organization or charity or political or individual or anything you saw how easy this was to set up and it's just a no-brainer when you look at the cost and you compare the cost of going to go fund me around and paying very high percentage of the donations versus using this in your PayPal's gonna take 2.9% but that's a lot less than 8% and you can then maybe choose one of the payment processor add-ons and you could pay even a lot lower than that and have access to all the data but if you were to ask me what I think about this plug and I got I think it's one of the most amazing plug-ins that are available for WordPress in terms of the quality and the generosity that they are pouring into this plug-in so anyways I've already made this video longer than I wanted it to be you now know about give you now know how to install gift I do have links to everything that I mentioned down below in the video description if you are to purchase anything from give one of these add-ons I'd appreciate it if you do it through my link because they give something to me they're going to give to me and I kind of could use someone given something to me because you saw that I'm setting up a legal fund anyways I hope you enjoy this video summit up Sherrod do all that kinda good stuff and I'll see you in the next one

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Id: 4rug6q-67M0

Length: 34min 55sec (2095 seconds)

Published: Wed May 10 2017