A Donorbox alternative for WordPress

If you want a Donorbox alternative that lives on your own WordPress site and does not take a cut of every donation, Nonprofit Manager is a free plugin that accepts gifts through PayPal, Venmo, and Stripe with no platform fee. The two big differences are fees and ownership.

The fee difference

Donorbox is free to start, but it takes a 2.95% platform fee on every donation (its Pro plan at $150 a month drops that to 1.75%). That is on top of the normal Stripe or PayPal processing fee. Nonprofit Manager takes 0% platform fee. You pay only your processor. On $50,000 in yearly gifts, Donorbox’s 2.95% is about $1,475 a year. Nonprofit Manager’s share of that is zero.

Hosted, or on your own site

Donorbox is a hosted widget. You embed their form, and your donor data lives on Donorbox’s servers. Nonprofit Manager is a plugin on your WordPress site, so your donors and their giving history live in your own database, next to your members and newsletter list. If you ever switch, your data stays with you.

What Donorbox does well

Fair trade. Donorbox is quick to set up and polished, and if you are not on WordPress it embeds anywhere. If a fast drop-in form matters more to you than the fee, and hosted data is fine, it is a reasonable pick.

Making the move

Nonprofit Manager handles one-time donations free, adds recurring giving in Pro, and keeps donations in the same place as your members and events. Install it free, and here is how to set up donations. Compare the full field in our best WordPress donation plugins guide, or see the all-in-one plugin for small nonprofits.