Hi, @brandtmax.
?Glad you reached out. I can clarify here.
GiveWP is designed to help raise online donations and to that end, an email address is required. The way the plugin is structured uses a unique email as a method for donors to validate their access to donation history. This is something GiveWP has in common with most online commerce solutions, and there’s no way around the requirement.
Here’s how to deal with email being required: for donors who don’t have an email (or you don’t know it) create a faux email address (I use example.com addresses to prevent it from being inadvertently an actual email address). Something like [email protected] so that if I ever do get their email address, I can change that in the database.
We do have an add-on called Manual Donations that can help you with that. We are not allowed to talk about it here because it’s a paid add-on, but we are happy to discuss it with you if you message us via https://givewp.com/contact-us/.
Thanks for using GiveWP! Have a great day.
