Title: Pre-Loaded Donation Last modified: September 1, 2016 --- # Pre-Loaded Donation * Resolved [kevinrandallewis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinrandallewis/) * (@kevinrandallewis) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pre-loaded-donation/) * Hello, * I’m building a website for a telescope project where the telescope components have already received some initial funding outside of the site. Is there a way to start off with initial donations of 20% or 30% instead of having to start at 0%? Is there some workaround for me to put an initial amount that has already been donated? * Thanks, Kevin * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/charitable/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/charitable/) Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [Eric Daams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericdaams/) * (@ericdaams) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pre-loaded-donation/#post-7571011) * Hi Kevin, * Right now, the only way to manually add donations is through the Offline payment gateway. So to add this donation, go to Charitable > Settings > Payment Gateways and temporarily enable the Offline donation gateway. * After doing that, go to your website and create a donation for the amount, choosing the offline payment option. * Once you have made the donation, you can turn off the Offline gateway if you don’t want to use it, and you can go to Charitable > Donations to mark the donation as Paid (by default, offline donations are considered “Pending” until they are confirmed as paid). * This is definitely something we want to improve in the future, probably by adding an extension to be able to add donations manually from the dashboard. * Cheers, Eric * Thread Starter [kevinrandallewis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinrandallewis/) * (@kevinrandallewis) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pre-loaded-donation/#post-7571054) * Hi Eric, * Thanks for the speedy reply. This workaround should work just fine for now. * Thanks for the great plugin! -Kevin * [Eric Daams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericdaams/) * (@ericdaams) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pre-loaded-donation/#post-7571055) * No worries Kevin! * When you get a chance, we’d love it if you can leave us a short review at [https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/charitable](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/charitable) * Cheers, Eric * Thread Starter [kevinrandallewis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinrandallewis/) * (@kevinrandallewis) * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pre-loaded-donation/#post-7571106) * Hey Eric, * This work-around really isn’t working to my liking. * How does the plugin keep track of donors? Is it on IP address? I can do this work around for the donated amount, but I also need a way to increase donors… I have previous donors that have donated to my project before I launched this site. Right now everytime I make a new offline donation it still keeps the donors as 1. [http://planets.life.iqueue.it/campaigns/instrumentation-and-optics/](http://planets.life.iqueue.it/campaigns/instrumentation-and-optics/) * I’m assuming because the donor count is create from IP address and not email address, right? * I’m going to need a work around to increase the donor amount too. * Thanks, -Kevin * [Eric Daams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericdaams/) * (@ericdaams) * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pre-loaded-donation/#post-7571107) * The donor count is based on the email address entered in the form, unless you are logged in when you make the donation. If you are logged in, it’s based on your WordPress user account. * So to create a completely new donation as if from a new donor, log out (or if you’re on Chrome, open a new window in Incognito mode) and make a donation with a different email address. The result should be that the donation also increments the donor count. * But yeah, I definitely agree that this workaround is far from ideal! * Cheers, Eric * Thread Starter [kevinrandallewis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinrandallewis/) * (@kevinrandallewis) * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pre-loaded-donation/#post-7571108) * Cool. Makes sense. Must be becasue I’m logged in. Doing it in an incognito window should work. I’ll let you know! * Thanks, -Kevin * Thread Starter [kevinrandallewis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinrandallewis/) * (@kevinrandallewis) * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pre-loaded-donation/#post-7571113) * Hey Eric, * Thanks for this work around but is there somewhere I can manually change it? I’ve had well over 1,000 donations offline and it’s going to take a reeeeallly long time to manually do this though the workaround you suggested. * Thanks, Kevin Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Pre-Loaded Donation’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/charitable/assets/icon-128x128.jpg?rev=1225178) * [Charitable - Donation Plugin for WordPress - Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More](https://wordpress.org/plugins/charitable/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/charitable/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/charitable/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/charitable/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/charitable/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/charitable/reviews/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [kevinrandallewis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinrandallewis/) * Last activity: [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pre-loaded-donation/#post-7571113) * Status: resolved