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Customizing the Required Donation Form Fields

Sometimes you may want to create additional form fields within your donation forms. Here’s how to customize which fields to make required.

Sometimes you may want to create additional form fields within your donation forms. Here’s how to customize which fields to make required.

You may want additional form fields to be required depending on how you plan on collecting donations. Here’s how to customize which fields are required, and the text that appears if the donor has forgotten to complete it.

The standard fields that are required are email and first name. If you have it user registration enabled then username and password are also required.

You can customize any fields to be required. For instance, here’s how to require the first and last name fields:

If you have created your own form fields, then you will want to customize the required fields based on the name attribute of your fields.
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Last updated: July 2, 2026
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