11 Best Shopify Charity Donation Apps – [2023]

This app is trusted by numerous merchants and business owners across Shopify, including Snap, Bird, Discovery Inc. and more. It offers donations across the world and can distribute funds for you in more than 100 countries. All the donations received are processed through the platform, with no third parties. Therefore, more of the donation that customers give you will reach the good cause.

The app also allows you to measure and display the impact you’re having on good causes. Displaying it can add a little pride to your brand and encourage other shoppers to complete a transaction with you.

There are numerous ways that you can use this app to help good causes. For one, you could round up for charity or ask for a $1 at a checkout. Or you can ask for a % or fixed amount per product from the customers, you can highlight which good cause each product supports. And each product can support a different good cause.

You can also support up to 12 nonprofits, with customers able to make a choice of which charity their donation will go to (or equally distribute it).

Finally, the app gives you real-time analytics of your hard work helping nonprofits. This can be a real good option in knowing if your good causes are relevant to your audience, or perhaps you could offer more support to another good cause.

Give & Grow Donations Highlights:

• Support up to 12 nonprofits with your customers.
• Customers can donate some of the transaction value or give up to a $1 in a single transaction.
• See real-time statistics and analysis of your donations.
• Can support good causes in more than 100 countries with no third parties taking a cut of the donations.

There are lots of charities and good causes you can support with this app. You can partner with some of the UK’s and world’s most loved volunteer organizations, offering customers a chance to donate to them. This app works by offering a post-purchase option to support a good cause and you can choose which organization you will support.

From the list of hundreds, you can choose three to partner with. If there is a group close to your heart, you can also recommend them to the ecosystem and get them included. There are numerous ways to customize the app so it displays perfectly on your website with branding.

You can choose numerous or all products to be part of the donations system. This allows you to customize the options so specific products are relevant to certain charities that might be more relevant.

Virtue Highlights:

• Choose up to three charities to support.
• Choose which products are related to donations.
• There are hundreds of charities you can support.
• Easy to use system with quick install.

This app allows you to add a donation option on the cart page that will allow you to collect money on behalf of charities through your store. It can be added to any website who wants to improve their corporate social responsibility while at the same time continue to operate as an eCommerce store. Those who are using Shopify Plus, you can opt to add the donation options to the checkout page as well.

If you prefer, you can also have an ‘Easy Donation’ page, like a product landing page. This page can collect the donation for the cause. This is the perfect option for brands that are blogging or information sites and there are no other transactions on the Shopify site. This also makes it a great solution for charities and not-for-profit organizations who want to have donations through their own website.

The app also allows for non-profit products to be sold. If you’re raising money for a charity as a CSR campaign, then you can have numerous charitable causes you support and customers can choose the one they wish to donate to. With the ‘pro’ version of this app, you can create as many donation pages as you would like.

The app will provide the customers with a receipt, that will be sent directly to the customer and can be customized by you within the app settings. You can also allow the customer to donate more if they want from the standard settings that come with the app ($1, $5, etc.).

There are lots of other customization options that can help you make your site a great place for helping local, national or global good causes.

Easy Donation Highlights:

• Allows you to create donation pages for your good causes.
• Collect donations on your cart and checkout pages.
• Can send receipts to your customers after they’ve donated.
• Lots of customization options for your store.

You can use your existing buyer behaviors to drive sales and raise money for charity. Your customers can make donations to your preferred nonprofit partners during the traditional purchasing process on your Shopify store. You can also have multiple good cause campaigns for your site. With the app you can respond to events happening in the world in real-time and launch social good campaigns within minutes.

Or, if you want your hard work to continue on for a long time, you can launch an ongoing series of campaigns without too much hard work.

There are lots of options available for your brand. You can reward customers for being caring by offering a discount when they donate to your good cause. Or customers can round up their cart total and donate just a few cents to a charity of your choice. Another option is to have a fixed percentage or fixed amount that will be given to charity with every purchase made on your site.

And you can see the effect your campaigns are having. From the detailed analytics screen you’ll see how much you’ve raised and whether there has been an up-tick in the average order value and conversions on your website. Those who have already used this app have seen an increase in both AOV, conversions, social media engagement and brand loyalty.

Shop for Good Highlights:

• Lots of options for raising money on your store.
• Helps to improve results on your eCommerce store.
• Have lots of good cause campaigns throughout the year.
• Track the results of your campaigns.

Create a list of good causes you want to support and allow your customers to support the cause they want to from your store. They can choose what they donate and this can be a specific amount of the order value or a percentage.

There is an advanced analytical suite that allows you to see what orders have generated donations, what has been donated in total and this can be run by order or date range.

While most other apps automatically make the payment, this app does not. It is up to the store owner to send the payments to the charity.

Share The Love by W3 Highlights:

• Customers can donate a fixed amount of a percentage of the order value.
• You can choose the good cause they donate to.
• Store owners are responsible for sending money to charity.
• Great analytical suite.

This is an app that offers tipping and charity donations in a handy pop-up for your store checkout. The customers have the choice of whether they want to add the tip or donation to the order once they’ve clicked on the checkout button. The popup dialogue box is completely customizable. You can change the call-to-action, currency and the amount that the customer donates within the handy settings that are offered by the app.

If the customer has already added a tip, the AI prevents the popup from showing again. Therefore, customers won’t get annoyed at being asked multiple times.

The app can be customized to show-up only when certain products have been added to your store.

TipGenius Highlights:

• Shows a popup at the checkout page asking customers if they would like to donate to a good cause.
• Adds the amount to the total in their cart, it is the store owner who needs to forward funds.
• Customers who have already donated won’t be asked again.
• Can be disabled or enabled for certain products.

If you want to raise funds for a good cause then this app can really help you. A good fundraising app can support your AOV, brand loyalty and LTV. This app allows you to accept donations to your chosen good cause that is processed through the Shopify Payments option.

There is a one-click installation, and easy integration and you can support any charity from numerous options available. You can create lots of campaigns that can last for days, weeks or months. You’re also able to customize the look of the engagement pages to ensure your brand is still featured. Customers can also be given a choice of which charity they would like to support. Choose five different charities to include in a drop-down menu.

This easy-to-use app can help you build trust with audiences and helps you to improve your CSR which can help increase revenues in the long term.

Cart for a Cause Highlights:

• Easy installation.
• Choose up to five charities to support from a list of thousands.
• Simple payment processing options.
• Integration is pain free.