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Accept Bitcoin Donations with Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation!
Enable the visitors on your WordPress website to make donations with Bitcoin wherever you want. Make it extremely simple to donate with a scan and a click, or gather your donors contact data for later interactions or even let them make a shoutout and display all shoutouts next to the donation form or an a dedicated website.
With the Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation plugin you only need a Lightning wallet with a Lightning address, a Coinsnap account, and a minute to set up the plugin to accept Bitcoin Lightning payments on your WordPress website.
With this plugin you can then present donation boxes anywhere on your website – in the content, in a sidebar, in the footer – anywhere you please! And, of course, you do not need a payment provider or a shop system or anything but a Lightning wallet and a Coinsnap account to start receiving donations in Bitcoin!
Coinsnap’s Bitcoin Donation plugin for WordPress makes it amazingly simple for your customers to make a donation with Bitcoin-Lightning: They can send their contribution with just a scan of the QR code generated by the Coinsnap plugin, and their authorization of the payment. When authorized, the payment will be credited directly and immediately to your Lightning wallet.
Accept Bitcoin donations with Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation in only 3 steps:
- Get your free Coinsnap account with just your email
- Install, activate and configure the plugin in your WordPress backend (see the installation guide)
- Quickly and easily create donation forms in the plugin, place them at the appropriate places on your WordPress website and accept Bitcoin donations from your customers
Why should you choose the Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation plugin?
- Amazingly simple installation in just 3 steps and a few minutes
- Super-simple form builder, quick and uncomplicated placement on the website with a shortcode
- Multilingual merchant admin dashboard for easy administration and management of transactions
Why should you choose Coinsnap as your Bitcoin donation solution?
- Quick and easy registration: Just enter your email address and your Lightning address – and you are ready to integrate the payment module and start selling for Bitcoin Lightning.
- Immediate crediting of all payments to your wallet.
- Payment transfer directly from your customer’s wallet to your wallet.
- Low transaction fee of only 1 %* of the invoiced amount (*with referrer code).
- The plugin is free of cost, including all future updates. Stay up-to-date at absolutely no cost today or in the future.
- Outstanding privacy: Direct, P2P payments into your Lightning wallet, no intermediaries and paperwork. Any transaction information is only shared between you and your customer.
- Detailed reporting and advanced filtering for all transactions, simple data export for your accounting.
- Sophisticated merchant’s admin dashboard in Coinsnap: See all your transactions at a glance, follow-up on individual payments or see issues with payments.
- No need for any technical infrastructure: Accept Bitcoin and Lightning payments in your online store without having to set up your own server or your own Lightning node.
- On-chain and Lightning transactions are supported: Let your customers choose their preferred payment method.
Why should you offer Bitcoin donations with Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation?
- No chargebacks: All Bitcoin payments are irreversible.
- Lightning fast transactions: Receive your payment within seconds (with the Lightning payment method), in minutes with on-chain.
- Low fees (with Lightning)
- Global reach: Sell to any customer anywhere – all he needs to buy from you is a Lightning wallet.
More information
- Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation Demo Site: https://donation.coinsnap.org/
- Product page: https://coinsnap.io/coinsnap-bitcoin-donation-plugin/
- Installation Guide: https://coinsnap.io/coinsnap-bitcoin-donation-installation-guide/
- Github plugin page: https://github.com/Coinsnap/Coinsnap-bitcoin-donation/
Documentation:
Screenshots
Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation plugin with plugin search installation 
Plugin settings for payment with Coinsnap payment gateway 
Plugin settings for payment with BTCPay payment gateway 
Donation form 
Donations list 
QR code 
Registration in Cooinsnap* 
Email address confirmation 
Setting up website at Coinsnap
Installation
1. Install the Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation plugin from the WordPress plugin repository
The Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation plugin can be searched and installed in the WordPress plugin directory.
You can easily find the Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation plugin under Plugins/Install new plugin if you enter Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation in the search field. Simply click on Install now in the Coinsnap plugin and WordPress will install it for you.
Now WordPress will offer you to Activate the plugin – click the button and you are set to go!
Next, you will connect the plugin with your Coinsnap account.
1.1. Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation Settings
After you have installed and activated the Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation plugin, you need to configure the Coinsnap settings. Go to Bitcoin Donations -> Settings [1] in the black sidebar on the left.
Now choose your payment gateway Coinsnap [1]. (You can also choose BTCPay server if you are using one, and then fill in the respective information.)
Then you’ll have to enter your Coinsnap Store ID and your Coinsnap API Key. [2] (See below to learn how to retrieve these from your Coinsnap account.)
As soon as you’ve pasted the Store ID and the API Key into their fields, click on check. If you see a green message next to it saying Connection successful, your plugin is ready to accept Bitcoin donations and credit them to your Lightning wallet.
Don’t forget to klick on Save changes before you start configuring your donation form(s)!
1.2. Enter Store ID and API Key in your Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation Settings
Go to the Settings menu item in your Coinsnap merchant admin backend https://app.coinsnap.io/login. Then click on Store and you will see your Coinsnap Store ID and the Coinsnap API Key in the Store section.
Copy these two strings and paste them into the matching fields in the Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation settings in your WordPress backend.
Click on the “Save changes” button at the bottom of the page to apply and save the settings. You are ready to start selling for Bitcoin now: Just create a donation form and place it via the shortcode on your website.
YOU ARE SET TO SELL FOR BITCOIN NOW! To be sure all works fine, you should now…
1.3. Test the payment method in a Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation form on your website
After all settings have been made, a test transaction should be carried out.
Choose an amount you want to donate in your test donation and click the payment button. Fill in the information you decided and configured to gather.
You will now be redirected to the Bitcoin-Lightning payment page to make your contribution by scanning the displayed QR code and authorizing the payment. After successful payment, you will see a confirmation that the payment has been transferred.
2. Install the Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation plugin from our Github page
If you don’t want to install Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation plugin directly from your WordPress backend, download the Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation plugin from the Coinsnap Github page here.
Find the green button labeled Code. When you click on it, the menu opens and Download ZIP appears. Here you can download the latest version of the Coinsnap plugin to your computer.
Then use the “Upload plugin” function to install it. Click on “Install now” and the Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation plugin will be added to your WordPress website. It can then be connected to the Coinsnap payment gateway or BTCPay server.
As soon as the Coinsnap Bitcoin Donation plugin is installed and activated, a message will appear asking you to configure the plugin settings.
From here on you can follow 1.1 to 1.3 and you will be set to sell for Bitcoin in no time at all!
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Plugin’s page on Coinsnap website: https://coinsnap.io/coinsnap-bitcoin-donation-plugin/
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Changelog
1.0.0 :: 2025-03-15
- Initial release.