Dotatie Donation Form

Dotatie is a donation platform for foundations, churches and associations in the Netherlands. This plugin shows a Dotatie widget on your WordPress site. You create the widget in your Dotatie dashboard and paste its embed code into a block or a shortcode.

You need a Dotatie account to use this plugin. You can create one for free from WordPress: after activating the plugin, go to Settings, Dotatie and click “Create a free account”. Dotatie charges a fee per donation, see the pricing page for the current rates.

What donors can do:

• Give once or every month, by card, Wero or SEPA direct debit. Donors in the Netherlands can also use iDEAL.
• Change or cancel their recurring donation themselves, through a link in their email.

Payments run through your organization’s own Mollie or Stripe account, so you choose the payment methods there.

Widgets you can place with this plugin include a donation form, a donate button that opens the form in a popup, a progress bar, a goal card, the amount raised, a list of recent donations, a donor count and a form where donors can stop their recurring donation. Most widgets belong to one of your donation pages in Dotatie.

How it works:

1. In Dotatie, go to Settings, Widgets and create a widget.
2. Copy the embed code.
3. In WordPress, add the Dotatie donation form block and paste the embed code into it. In the classic editor or a page builder you can use the shortcode [dotatie token="..."] with the token from the embed code.

The plugin loads the Dotatie script only on pages that contain the block or the shortcode. It adds no settings to your database and does not track your visitors itself. See “External services” below for what the Dotatie script does.

Under Settings, Dotatie you find step by step instructions and a link to create a free Dotatie account.

The plugin is available in English and Dutch.

External services

This plugin connects to Dotatie, a donation service run by Facturi B.V., trading as Dotatie, in the Netherlands. Dotatie shows the donation form and processes the donations. Without it the plugin has no function.

The plugin itself sends nothing to Dotatie. It does not contact Dotatie from the WordPress admin, does not set cookies and does not store visitor data in WordPress.

What happens on a page that contains the block or the shortcode (and only there):

• The visitor’s browser loads the script https://dotatie.com/widgets/script.js.
• The script requests the widget from https://dotatie.com/widgets/render. The request contains the widget token from the embed code. As with any web request, the browser sends the visitor’s IP address and user agent. The script does not send cookies with this request.
• The script passes utm_source and utm_campaign from the address of the current page to Dotatie, so the organization can see which campaign a donation came from. Other query parameters are passed only when the organization has set this up for its donation page in Dotatie.
• A donation form that is shown inside the page sends a visit count to Dotatie when it is displayed. This contains the donation page, the utm values above and a random ID that the script keeps in the browser’s session storage (dotatie_visit_token). Session storage is cleared when the visitor closes the tab.
• If the organization chose a custom font for the widget, the font is loaded from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com) or from dotatie.com.
• When a donor submits a form, the details they enter (such as name, email address and amount) are sent to Dotatie. The donor is then sent to Mollie to pay, or a Stripe payment form is loaded from js.stripe.com, depending on the organization’s payment provider.
• The donate button widget and some other widget types open the organization’s Dotatie donation page in an iframe. That page is served by Dotatie, on dotatie.com or on the organization’s own Dotatie address, and Dotatie’s privacy policy applies to it.

Links:

• Dotatie terms of use: https://dotatie.com/en/terms-of-use
• Dotatie privacy policy: https://dotatie.com/en/privacy-policy
• Dotatie donor terms: https://dotatie.com/en/donor-terms
• Mollie privacy policy: https://www.mollie.com/privacy
• Stripe privacy policy: https://stripe.com/privacy
• Google privacy policy (Google Fonts): https://policies.google.com/privacy

For donors’ personal data, the organization that owns the widget is the controller and Dotatie processes the data on its behalf.