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Give General Settings

Configure your GiveWP General Settings. Learn to set your currency, assign donation pages, and manage global options to build a solid fundraising foundation.
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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.

  • Terms and Conditions

    The Terms and Conditions page of the Default Options settings tab allows you to enable a global Terms and Conditions field for all your forms that donors must agree to in order to donate. This can be overwritten on a per-form basis.

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  • Payment Gateways

    The Payment Gateways tab of the GiveWP core settings page provides you with options for the default payment gateways as well as any Premium Add-on gateways you have activated.

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  • General Settings

    This tab provides the basic settings to configure your GiveWP plugin. It is used to establish default transaction- and account-related pages on your site, as well as currency and country settings.

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  • Advanced

    This tab includes advanced settings intended primarily for developers. These settings control how donors access their information, how data is managed if you delete the GiveWP plugin, disabling the “the_content()” filter on GiveWP single form pages, moving all GiveWP scripts to the footer, and using Akismet SPAM protection. Use these settings with caution and only…

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  • Test Mode

    GiveWP comes with a “Test mode” which enables you to test your donation process thoroughly before going live. This article walks you through the necessary steps to test your donations, confirm you are receiving them, and confirm in your gateway as well.

    Read more: Test Mode

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