Donation forms
Build, customise and embed the form your donors actually see.
- Accept Apple Pay and Google Pay on your donation forms
Apple Pay and Google Pay work automatically on Donately-hosted pages. To show them on a form embedded on your own website, register your domain once in Settings.
- Add custom fields to a donation form
Ask donors your own questions on a donation form, the field types available, and where the answers show up afterwards.
- Build a donation form
Create a form from a template, set amounts and currencies, choose which fields are required, split it across steps, preview it on desktop and mobile, and publish.
- Change how your donation form looks
Pick a theme, set your primary color, and use custom CSS for anything else. What the Design section controls on a Donately form, and what it no longer does.
- Choose which payment methods your form accepts
Turn Stripe and PayPal on or off per form, enable ACH bank payments and mobile wallets, and control how the payment methods are laid out.
- Customise the donation popup button
Generate a donate button that opens your form in a popup, and change its text, colour and size.
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- Prefill a donation form with a donor's details
Add parameters to your form's URL to fill in name, email, address or amount before the donor starts typing.
- Put your donation form on your website
Share the hosted link, paste an embed snippet, or print a QR code. Which embed option to use, and what to do when you change the form afterwards.
- Reword any text on your donation form
Set the form's language, override individual labels with your own wording, or hide them entirely.
- Sell tickets, products and sponsorships on a donation form
Cart items turn a donation form into a checkout: add sections of fixed-price items with quantities, images and inventory limits, and the total replaces the donation amount.
- Send an eCard with a tribute gift
Let donors give in honour or memory of someone and email them a card, and set up the designs and the email copy.
- Set the giving frequencies your form offers
Choose which frequencies donors see, which one is preselected, and how to end recurring gifts on a date.
- Set up text-to-give
Give donors a keyword they can text to get your donation link back, where to create it, and the limits on keywords and countries.
- What donors see after they give
Show a thank-you message, redirect to your own page, control the share buttons, and pass donation details to your landing page.