Public donation checkout

The public checkout is rendered on the organization website at /donations or on a project page at /donations/[id]. It is also available through the app donation route. Administrators should test the public experience from the same link they plan to share.

What a donor can choose

Depending on the organization and project configuration, the form can include:

• A project or a preselected project
• A custom amount, with a minimum donation of €1.00
• A fixed one-time tier
• One-time or recurring giving
• Weekly, monthly, or yearly recurring intervals
• A giving category when the Islamic giving selector is enabled
• An optional message
• An anonymous donation
• A dedication in the donor’s name, as an anonymous gift, as a gift, or in memory of someone
• An honoree, occasion, and optional recipient email for a personalized certificate
• The fee-cover option
• The donor’s language

A project can pin a giving category. When it does, the project category takes precedence over the donor’s general selection. A selected tier also locks the donation to one-time giving and the tier’s server-side amount.

Complete a controlled test

1. Open the public donation page.
2. Select the intended project or tier.
3. Select one-time or recurring and, for recurring, choose the interval.
4. Review the amount and any fee-cover adjustment.
5. Enter a valid donor email. Add a name and address only when they are needed for donor communication or a receipt.
6. Review anonymity, category, dedication, and recipient fields.
7. Submit through the configured payment provider.
8. Confirm the success page and the confirmation email.
9. Check the dashboard transaction and project total.

The checkout records the donor’s chosen locale for relevant confirmation and recurring messages. The server recomputes authoritative amounts, categories, project pins, and fee calculations; the browser preview is not the accounting record.

Success page

The success page can show the donation amount and project, a link to the donor portal, and a personalized certificate action for gift or in-memory dedications. A project donation can also be shared from the success page.

Common mistakes

• Do not advertise a tier as recurring; tiers are one-time.
• Do not promise a tax receipt before the organization has configured receipts and collected the needed donor data.
• Do not treat the displayed fee-cover amount as a guaranteed provider-cost calculation.
• Do not paste a secret payment key into a URL or custom message.

Continue

• One-time and recurring donations
• Fee coverage and donor categories
• Receipts and certificates