What is a donation widget?

A donation widget is an embeddable component — usually loaded by a single snippet of code — that shows a donation form or button directly on your own website. Visitors enter an amount and pay without being sent to a separate platform, so the whole interaction stays on your domain and under your brand.

It differs from a hosted donation page, which lives on a provider's domain and is reached by a link. A widget is for site owners who want the ask embedded in their own pages; a hosted page is for people who don't have a site or can't run custom code.

What a widget costs varies by provider: some take a percentage of each donation, some charge a flat monthly fee. With CrowdCreate the widget is a flat $20/month with no cut of donations — Stripe's standard processing fee still applies and goes to Stripe.