Donations

The Donations page gives your organization a single place to review contributions from public donation buttons, public wishlist funding, adoption checkout donations, pet sponsorships, and manually recorded gifts.

You can access it from the main navigation under Donations.

How This Fits Together

PawPlacer treats public fundraising as a connected workflow:

• Public Profile is where supporters discover your organization and choose how to help.
• Wishlist turns needs into specific public items supporters can fund or pledge.
• Donations is the ledger for money gifts, wishlist funding, item pledges, pet sponsorships, adoption donations, and manual/offline gifts.
• Donors keeps the supporter relationship and giving history when a name or email is provided.

For example, when someone funds a public wishlist item, PawPlacer creates a donation record, links it to that wishlist item, links or creates the donor profile, and reserves the selected quantity while the payment is pending. When the gift is received, the item progress updates. When someone pledges a physical item, PawPlacer creates a pending in-kind donation so your team can confirm arrival before the wishlist received quantity changes.

What You Can Track

Each donation record stores:

• Amount and status: pending, checkout created, received, failed, cancelled, or refunded
• Source: manual, general, wishlist, pet sponsorship, or adoption
• Donor identity: linked donor profile, typed donor name and email, and whether the donor should be treated as anonymous publicly
• Payment details: Stripe checkout session, Stripe payment intent, external reference, or the saved payment method used
• Allocation: an optional link to a wishlist item, pet, or adoption
• Notes: a public donor message and an internal private note

Summary Cards

At the top of the page, PawPlacer shows quick totals for:

• Received donation amount
• Pending donation amount
• Total donation amount
• Number of donations in the current filtered view

These cards follow the same filters as the table, so filtering to wishlist donations shows wishlist-specific totals.

Filtering and Sorting

Use the table controls to:

• Search by donor name, donor email, public note, or private note
• Filter by status
• Filter by source
• Sort by amount, received date, created date, status, or source

This makes it easy to answer questions like "Which public wishlist donations are still pending?" or "How much did we receive this month from general public support?"

Connected Records

Donation records connect back to the rest of PawPlacer:

• Wishlist donations appear on the wishlist item detail page and can update the item's received quantity.
• Donor-linked donations appear on the donor profile under the Donations tab.
• Pet sponsorship donations link back to the pet record.
• Stripe donations are fulfilled automatically by Stripe webhooks when checkout succeeds.
• External public payments start as pending donations with a PawPlacer reference so staff can match PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, Bitcoin, or Ethereum payments before marking them received.
• Public wishlist pledges start as pending in-kind donations and can be reconciled from either Donations or the linked wishlist item detail page.

Permissions

The Donations page requires privileged, Admin, or account owner access. Users without permission will see a permission notice instead of donation data.

Related

• Fundraising Hub: Review giving, donors, wishlist needs, and setup from one place
• Donors: Manage supporter profiles and giving history
• Recording Donations: Add offline and manual gifts
• Public Donations: Accept donations from your public profile or full-profile embed
• Donor Giving History: Review donations from a donor profile
• Public Wishlist: Let supporters fund specific needs