Zero platform fees on every tier. Recurring giving from $49/year. Free migration from GiveWP or Charitable — dry-run preview first, no duplicates, ever.
GiveWP — now rebranded "Give" — is owned by Liquid Web, itself acquired by private equity firm One Equity Partners in 2023. In 2026, StellarWP (the brand umbrella that included Give, LearnDash, and SolidWP) was dissolved, folding its plugins directly under Liquid Web. Weeks later, Liquid Web itself relaunched under the Nexcess brand, merging its hosting business with Servers.com's infrastructure — Give's own pricing and documentation now carry Nexcess branding throughout. The underlying ownership hasn't changed: it's the same ultimate parent (One Equity Partners, via holding company CloudOne Digital), just a new public-facing name.
| Feature | Donatico | Give | DonatoTomato |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform fee — free tier | $0 | 2% on Stripe donations (removed with a paid license) | 1% flat |
| Platform fee — paid tier | $0 on every tier | $0 with any license | 1% flat (no free tier exists) |
| Cheapest tier with recurring | $49/year | $399/year Pro — not included on the $199/year Essentials plan | N/A — same 1% fee at every volume |
| Entry paid tier | $49/year — full feature set | $199/year Essentials — campaigns, PDF receipts, text-to-give; no recurring | No tiers to choose from |
| Feature | Donatico Free | Donatico Pro | Give Free | Give Essentials$199/yr | Give Pro$399/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stripe donations (Checkout or on-site) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PayPal donations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Venmo donations | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Platform fee | $0 | $0 | 2% on Stripe | $0 | $0 |
| Recurring donations | — | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Campaigns with goals | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Donor self-service dashboard (donor's own history & receipts) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Donor management dashboard (admin CRM) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Donor wall | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Admin-entered offline donations (record a cash/check gift) | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fee recovery (cover the fees) | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Import from GiveWP | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Import from Charitable | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Generic CSV import | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Multi-currency (site-wide currency selection) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Payment gateway support is close to parity: both plugins' free tiers include Stripe and PayPal at no extra cost. Give's free version adds Venmo, which Donatico doesn't offer. Where Donatico differs on Stripe specifically: donors choose between a hosted Stripe page or paying without leaving your site, side by side on the same donation form — Give's own Stripe integration keeps donors on-site only, with no mention of a hosted-checkout alternative in its documentation.
Give's free version already includes campaigns, a donor wall, and an admin-side donor management dashboard — those require Donatico's paid Starter tier ($49/year). Donatico's free version does include a donor-facing self-service dashboard (donation history and receipts, no account required) — that part is free on both. Where Donatico's free version wins outright: it's the only one of the three that imports your existing donor history from GiveWP, Charitable, or a plain CSV — for free, on every tier.
Two easily-conflated pairs of features, worth being precise about. First: Give's free tier includes an "Offline Donations" gateway — a donor selects it at checkout and gets pay-by-check instructions, and an admin later marks the pending record complete. That's different from letting an admin proactively create a donation record for a gift that happened entirely outside the plugin (e.g. a check that arrived unprompted) — Give calls that its separate "Manual Donations" add-on, bundled starting at the $199/year Essentials tier. Donatico's free "Offline Donations" is the second kind (admin-created records), so the comparison above is against Give's Essentials tier, not its free one. Second: "Multi-currency" here means picking your site's own currency from a supported list — both plugins' free tiers can do that. Letting an individual donor pick their own currency at checkout is a different, more advanced feature neither product offers at these tiers — Give's version of that ("Currency Switcher") is exclusive to its $599/year Elite plan.
"Switching donation plugins usually means losing your donor history. Donatico doesn't make you choose."
Dry-run preview before anything is written. Re-running an import never creates duplicates. The importer is free — for everyone, on every tier.
CloudOne Digital also owns LearnDash, SolidWP, and Liquid Web's hosting business — all now marketed under the Nexcess name. Donatico is built and supported directly by Forgeo — no holding company, no private equity, nothing to consolidate.
Try Donatico free, or bring your existing donor history over in a few clicks — dry-run preview first, no duplicates, ever.
Facts on this page verified against live sources on 2026-08-25.