Best Payments & Donations Plugins for Churches (2026)
Churches need online giving that handles one-time gifts, recurring tithes, and special fundraising campaigns without making the donation flow feel like a retail checkout. They also need forms that work for ministries outside the donation page: event registrations for services or fundraisers, and visible progress bars for capital campaigns. The plugins below cover those jobs, from full donation platforms with donor management to lighter tools for tracking goals and managing RSVPs.
Plugins on this page are ordered by how strongly each one is built for churches in this category, with PluginCheck's quality score (popularity, maintenance, support health, user ratings, and WordPress compatibility) breaking ties. Every plugin listed clears our quality bar.
Donorbox lists religious institution giving as a stated use case and ships with recurring donation support, which matches the way many congregants prefer to tithe. With 8,000 installs and a 96/100 rating from 34 reviews, it has a smaller user base than the leaders on this list but a strong satisfaction score. It is a solid fit for mid-size churches that want a focused donation experience rather than a broader fundraising suite.
Religious organization tithes and giving is explicitly listed as a use case, which is the clearest church-specific signal of any plugin on this page. At 10,000 active installs, a 98/100 rating across 211 reviews, and a recent update, it has both reach and recent maintenance. The recurring donations and donor management features map directly to what most churches need week to week.
Religious institutions and churches appear in its stated use cases, and the plugin supports recurring donations, which suits ongoing tithe commitments. With 7,000 installs and a 98/100 rating from 98 reviews, it has a smaller footprint than GiveWP but very strong feedback from existing users. It is the right pick for churches already running WooCommerce who want donations inside that same environment.
GiveWP does not list its own use cases, but it is by far the most widely installed plugin on this list at 100,000 active installs and the most reviewed at 705 ratings. Churches are commonly part of that user base even without a stated use case tag, and the volume of installs means the widest community documentation. If your priority is proven scale over niche features, this is the safe default.
This is a goal-tracking widget, not a payment processor, so it does not collect donations on its own. For churches running a building fund or capital campaign, pairing it with one of the donation plugins above gives visitors a visible target to rally around. With 2,000 installs and an 88/100 rating, it is a small add-on rather than a primary solution.
Better Payment is a general payments and donations tool that works with Elementor and Gutenberg, useful if your church site is built on one of those page builders. It has no stated use cases, so church-specific fit is not documented, and its 6,000 installs and 14 ratings make it harder to gauge at scale. Treat it as a versatile option rather than a church-tailored one.
WP Easy Pay is built around Square as the payment processor, which is useful only if your church already uses Square for in-person giving. No stated use cases are listed, the install base is small at 1,000, and the 76/100 rating from 42 reviews is the lowest on this page. It is a niche fit at best for churches standardized on Square hardware.
Leyka is a general crowdfunding and donations plugin without stated use cases, so church fit is not explicitly called out. At 2,000 installs and a 94/100 rating from 32 reviews, it has a small but satisfied audience. It is a reasonable fallback if the higher-ranked options do not suit your setup, though nothing in its profile signals a religious focus.
Paytium routes payments through Mollie, which is a European payment provider, so it is a strong fit mainly for churches based in Europe that want iDEAL or WERO support. Nonprofit fundraising is a stated use case, though churches are not named specifically. With 3,000 installs and a 90/100 rating, it is a solid regional option rather than a global default.
This is an event registration tool, not a donations plugin, so it does not process payments for tithes or fundraising. Church service attendance tracking is a stated use case, which gives it some relevance for managing signups for services, small groups, or church events. Pair it with one of the donation plugins above rather than using it as a giving solution.
How to Choose
The top three plugins are the meaningful choices for most churches: Charitable, GiveWP, and the WooCommerce Donation Platform. GiveWP wins on scale and community size, Charitable wins on explicit church-language in its use cases, and the WooCommerce option wins if your church site already runs a WooCommerce store. The main tradeoff is specialization versus reach: Charitable is the most church-aware, while GiveWP offers the largest install base and longest track record.