GivePilot adds a donation box to your website, with preset or custom amounts and one-time or monthly giving. Payments go straight into your own Stripe or PayPal account.
Campaign pages show a goal, a deadline, the live total and donor count, with photos, updates and supporter comments. Donors sign in to their own portal with a one-time code to see their history and cancel a monthly gift, and receipts reply to your own inbox.
Donation box and buttonInline box or floating button, in your site’s own font.
CampaignsGoal, deadline, live total, photos, updates and comments.
Monthly givingRecurring donations donors can cancel themselves.
Donor portalPasswordless sign-in to see history and manage gifts.
Your own payment accountStripe, PayPal or Square, paid straight to you.
Share buttonsFacebook, WhatsApp, X, LinkedIn, email and the phone’s share sheet.
Integrations
StripePayPalSquareWixShopify
Pricing
Free
$0forever
5 donations in total
Donation box and floating button
Premium
TBC
Unlimited one-time donations
Campaign builder with 5 images each
Updates, comments and embeds
Grassroot
TBC
Everything in Premium
Monthly donations
Receipts from your own email address
Premium and Grassroot prices are set in the Wix and Stripe listings; add them here before publishing.
Good for basic campaigns but lacks advanced features
If you just need a simple donation page, GivePilot works well. But if you need peer-to-peer fundraising, team campaigns, or advanced donor segmentation, you will need something else. For our small organization it is enough, but larger nonprofits might find it limiting.
Reply from Dude Lemon LLC
Ricardo, thank you for the balanced review, and sorry that peer-to-peer fundraising, team campaigns and donor segmentation aren't there yet. You're right that GivePilot is built around simple campaigns for smaller organizations today. If any of those features would make a difference for you as you grow, reach out and tell us which one first, it genuinely helps us decide what to build.
HC
Hiro ClarkeVerified email
Used on Web app
Multi-currency support made our international campaign possible
We ran a campaign that attracted donors from Europe and the UK. GivePilot handled multiple currencies without any issues and the receipts showed the correct amounts in each donor's currency. That level of support is rare in affordable donation platforms.
Reply from Dude Lemon LLC
Hiro, euros and pounds landing in one campaign with receipts in each donor's own currency is precisely the setup we built for. Glad it ran cleanly for your international appeal. Many thanks for the review!
NZ
Nicolas ZieglerVerified email
Used on Web app
The recurring donation management is excellent
Our donors can log into the portal and update their payment method or cancel a subscription without contacting us. That alone has reduced our administrative workload by hours each week. The automatic receipts and tax summaries are also a big plus for our year-end reporting.
Reply from Dude Lemon LLC
Nicolas, hours back every week plus tax summaries ready for year-end is a solid combination. Recurring donors changing their own cards or cancelling in the portal keeps your inbox for the conversations that actually need you. Many thanks for the review!
LG
Leon GarciaVerified email
Used on Web app
Bon outil mais l'interface pourrait etre plus intuitive
Les fonctionnalites sont solides : dons recurrents, recus automatiques, portail donateur. Mais l'interface d'administration est un peu confuse au debut. J'ai mis du temps a trouver ou modifier les parametres de la campagne. Une fois habitue, tout fonctionne bien.
Reply from Dude Lemon LLC
Bonjour Leon, merci pour ce retour honnête, et désolés que les paramètres de campagne aient été difficiles à trouver au début. C'est une remarque très utile pour nous, car l'interface d'administration devrait être claire dès le premier jour. Si vous avez deux minutes, écrivez-nous pour nous dire où vous avez cherché en premier, ça nous aidera à mieux placer ces réglages.
AT
Alex TurnerVerified email
Used on Web app
Saved us during a time-sensitive emergency campaign
We had to launch an emergency appeal within 48 hours. GivePilot let us set up a campaign page, connect our Stripe account, and start accepting donations the same day. The live progress bar and automatic receipts worked flawlessly. We hit our goal in four days. I do not know what we would have done without it.
Reply from Dude Lemon LLC
Alex, launching an emergency appeal on the same day and hitting the goal in four days under that kind of pressure is remarkable. We're really glad GivePilot held up when it mattered most. Thank you for trusting us with something so important.
SM
Sara MeyerVerified email
Used on Web app
Semplice e senza costi nascosti
Dopo aver provato altre piattaforme che trattenevano una percentuale, GivePilot e stata una boccata d'aria. Nessun costo aggiuntivo oltre alle commissioni del processore di pagamento. La configurazione e stata veloce e i nostri donatori hanno apprezzato la semplicita del modulo.
Reply from Dude Lemon LLC
Sara, dopo piattaforme che trattengono una percentuale su ogni donazione, capiamo bene la boccata d'aria. Pagate solo le commissioni del processore di pagamento e il resto arriva alla vostra causa. Grazie mille, e felici che anche i donatori abbiano apprezzato il modulo!
WW
Wei WongVerified email
Used on Web app
Billing issue left a bad first impression
The product works fine for accepting donations, but I was charged for a plan I did not intend to select during checkout. It took several emails to get it corrected. I understand mistakes happen, but the billing flow should be clearer. I am keeping it for now but I am watching my card carefully.
Reply from Dude Lemon LLC
Wei, we're sorry. Being charged for a plan you didn't mean to pick and then needing several emails to fix it is not the first impression we want anyone to have. You're right to expect the plan choice at checkout to be crystal clear. If anything on your invoice still looks off, please reach out to us directly and we'll go through it line by line with you. Thank you for giving us another chance.
JF
Jenna FernandesVerified email
Used on Web app
The dashboard gives us the data we need
I need to report donation numbers to our board every month and GivePilot's dashboard makes that easy. The revenue overview, campaign performance, and donor history are all in one place. I can export a CSV and drop it straight into our reports. It saves me hours of manual work.
Reply from Dude Lemon LLC
Jenna, monthly board reports are a chore nobody enjoys, so we're glad the revenue overview, campaign performance and donor history plus a CSV export get you there quickly. Thank you for the review, and good luck with the next board meeting!
HT
Hassan TaylorVerified email
Used on Web app
The supporter messages feature is a nice touch
We did not expect to use the supporter messages, but during our last campaign donors started leaving little notes of encouragement. It made the campaign feel personal and our team loved reading them. The fact that these messages are integrated into the campaign page is a lovely detail that many platforms miss.
Reply from Dude Lemon LLC
Hassan, notes of encouragement from donors showing up on the campaign page is one of our favourite things to hear about. Those messages also tend to nudge the next visitor to give, since nobody likes being the first donor on a quiet page. Thanks so much for sharing this, and we hope your team keeps getting plenty of them.
JH
Jack HoffmannVerified email
Used on Web app
Great for one-time donations, recurring could be smoother
The one-time donation flow is excellent and the automatic receipts work perfectly. Setting up recurring donations was a bit more complicated because our donors had to go through a few extra steps. I think the recurring option could be simplified. But overall it is a strong tool for the price.
Reply from Dude Lemon LLC
Hi Jack, thanks for the fair review, and we're sorry the recurring setup asked your donors to jump through extra steps. Every added step in that flow costs monthly donors, so we take this seriously. Could you reach out to us with which payment method your donors used and where they got stuck? That will help us tighten it up quickly.
