Manage the core operations of your fundraising platform by customizing your GiveWP global settings. These guides help you set up essential backend options, from defining your organization’s currency to choosing how tax amounts appear on your pages. Configuring these options first ensures your donation platform runs smoothly and remains consistent across your entire website.

Review the resources below to establish your base plugin settings and control access roles. You will learn how to choose your primary location, pick text direction for translations, and manage who can view your financial reports. Follow these setup steps carefully to build a solid foundation for your donation forms and donor management tools.

Give General Settings articles

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This collection guides you through the core configuration options in GiveWP, including currency settings, page assignments, and global site behavior.

Give Emails
Master GiveWP email settings. Learn to customize donor receipts, configure admin alerts, and brand your notifications to improve donor communication.
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Give Default Options
Set global defaults for GiveWP. Learn to manage donation levels, guest checkouts, and form behaviors to save time and ensure a consistent donor experience.
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Form Page Url Prefix
GiveWP comes with the option to edit the “Form Page URL Prefix” which allows you to change the iframe URL prefix of the multi-step form template. This article briefly walks you through what the Form URL Prefix is and how to set that prefix to your liking.
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Akismet SPAM Protection
The Akismet SPAM Protection tab gives you the ability to whitelist certain email addresses if they have been marked as spam. The enabled integration also provides logs, records, and notifications to help you manage spam donations on your website.
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Sequential Ordering
Some countries require that all donation IDs are strictly sequential in order. WordPress traditionally shares IDs between all post types. GiveWP allows for a sequential ordering feature that allows you to have all IDs follow one another strictly and not share the IDs with any other post type.
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Licenses
License keys enable you to have one-click updates to any of your GiveWP Add-ons that you have activated on your website. This article describes the ins and outs of how our Add-ons work, how to add your license keys, how to manage the domains attached to them and more.
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Access Control
The Access Control section gives advanced options for how your donors interact with sensitive data on your website.
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Currency Settings
The global Currency settings allow you to configure which currency all your donations will be received and reported in; as well as the formatting of the currency values.
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