Name Your Price: Donations

Accepting donations is the most common use of Name Your Price. A donation is a simple product where the customer chooses the amount, with a suggested figure to anchor them and, optionally, a minimum to keep small transactions viable.

Requirements

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WooCommerce and Name Your Price.
A payment gateway set up in WooCommerce.
For recurring donations, WooCommerce Subscriptions. See Name Your Price: Subscriptions.

Create a donation product

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Go to Products > Add New and give the product a name, such as Donation or Support our work.
In the Product data box, leave the type as Simple product and tick Name Your Price.
Tick Virtual as well, so WooCommerce does not ask donors for a shipping address.
On the General tab, enter a Suggested Price: the amount you would like to encourage. It is shown as Suggested price: $25.00 above the form.
Optionally enter a Minimum Price. If you set one, consider ticking Hide Minimum Price: the minimum is still enforced, but donors are not shown a floor to anchor to. A donor who enters less sees Please enter a higher amount.
Leave Maximum Price blank unless you need a cap.
Check Tax status on the same tab. Donations are usually not taxed, so set it to None unless your accountant says otherwise. If it should be taxed, leave it as Taxable; the donor’s amount is then taxed like any other product, following your store’s Prices entered with tax setting.
Add a description and image, and Publish.

Result: the donation page shows your suggested amount, an empty price input, and an add-to-cart button. Donors enter an amount, add it to the cart, and check out as they would for any product.

Settings worth changing for donations

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These are store-wide, under WooCommerce > Settings > Name Your Price. Every field and default is listed in the settings reference.

Setting	Suggested value for donations	Why
Name Your Price Text	`Donation amount`	Replaces the Name your price label above the input
Suggested Price Text	`Suggested donation: %PRICE%`	Reads naturally for a donation
Add to Cart Button Text for Single Product	`Donate`	Replaces Add to cart on the donation page
Add to Cart Button Text for Shop	`Donate`	The button on the product’s card in the shop
Hide quantity input	On	A donation is an amount, not a quantity. Without this, a donor can accidentally submit 2 × $50

With those in place, the donation page reads like a donation form rather than a shop listing:

These settings apply to every Name Your Price product on the store. If you sell ordinary Name Your Price products alongside donations, leave the labels neutral.

Recurring donations

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To let donors give monthly (or weekly, or yearly), you need WooCommerce Subscriptions. Create the donation as a Simple subscription product with Name Your Price ticked; the donor’s amount becomes the recurring charge, and you can let them change it later from their account. The full setup is in Name Your Price: Subscriptions.