Recurring PayPal Donations is a WordPress app, with a 3.4 average rating from 10 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Recurring PayPal Donations is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by wpecommerce. With a rating of 3.4★ from 10 reviews.
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Recurring PayPal Donations is a mixed-rating WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 10 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by wpecommerce — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (3.4★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (10) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Recurring PayPal Donations works
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The Recurring Donations plugin allows you to accept recurring donations via PayPal from your website.
It has a user-friendly and simple shortcode that lets you place a donate button anywhere on your WordPress site. You can add the subscription donation widget to your sidebar, posts, pages etc.
The recurring donations widget this plugin creates is nice looking and user-friendly.
Your users will be able to select a subscription or recurring donation amount and pay you monthly.
This plugin allows you to accept one time donations also. So if some users prefer to pay a one-off donation, they can click on the “Donate Once” tab and make a one-time donation payment.
Quick installation and setup.
Easily take recurring donations via PayPal. Accept ongoing subscription donation on your site.
The ultimate plugin to create PayPal recurring donations buttons.
Create the donation buttons on the fly and embed them anywhere on your site using a shortcode.
Ability to add multiple recurring donation widgets on your site for different causes. Accept subscription donation for various purposes.
Allow your users to specify a donation amount that they wish to pay.
Ability to accept recurring payment in any PayPal supported currency.
Send your users to a custom thank you page after the payment.
Option to send your users to a custom cancel return page from PayPal.
The setup is very simple and easy. Once you have installed the plugin, all you need to do is enter your PayPal Email address in the plugin settings and your site will be ready to accept recurring donations from users.
Shortcode Insert the following shortcode into a page or post to create a donation button.
[dntplgn recurring_amt1="25" recurring_amt2="50" recurring_amt3="100" item_name="For the victims of XX"]
Here, am1, am2 and am3 are the donation options.
Widget In order to place a widget on the sidebar, go to “Appearance -> Widgets” and add a new text widget. Now add the following shortcode to the text widget.
[dntplgn]
After adding the widget to the sidebar, you can enter a title for the widget and some descriptive text that will appear above the button. You can also customize the shortcode parameters to override the default options.
For detailed instructions please check the Recurring Donation Plugin documentation page.
Keyword rankings
Recurring PayPal Donations ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- Rank #950
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Frequently asked questions
What is Recurring PayPal Donations?
Recurring PayPal Donations is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 3.4-star rating from 10 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by wpecommerce.