Hey @kacmac – Thanks for being patient with us.
The truth is that we felt in order to do Gift Aid properly we needed to refactor how we handle donor’s addresses in general. You see, donors can have both a billing and personal address. The billing is what is tied to the payment method they are using at the time of donation and that’s currently all we ask from them. In order to do Gift Aid properly we need to properly require that the donor provide their personal address if in the UK. This is not the same as the billing address.
Developing the proper UX/UI to require the donor’s address, if they wish to give via gift aid, requires that the core plugin handle the billing/personal address properly and separately. As well, Gift Aid requires reports to display and export donor’s who have opted-in to make government reporting easier.
I hope my explanation gives insight into why we’re so delayed on releasing this add-on. We try to be as thorough and strategic as possible when releasing add-ons, even if that means delaying it to wait for core to catch up.
It sounds like you’re a customer. If we can perhaps provide an simpler way to capture donor’s Gift Aid eligibility to help you out, please let us know via our priority support channel: https://givewp.com/priority-support/
