Overview: Fundraising Campaigns

What You Need to Know:

Fundraising Campaigns allow you to accept cash donations and/or to sell fixed price items online, using a simple form that is easy to customize and promote.

  • Each event site can host up to 20 Fundraising Campaigns.  
  • Each Fundraising Campaign is a separate page with a unique URL.  
  • Each Campaign can tell a different story, as told by different "organizers".  
  • Unique donation/purchase options can be offered by each Campaign and/or options can be shared across multiple Campaigns.
  • Organizers can engage supporters with moderated comments and updates.
  • Results can be reported by page, by option/item per page or across pages.
  • All campaigns utilize the same credit card processing and/or payment options specified - but each page can be independently directed to process transactions in real time vs pledge mode.

Three customizable templates are available for Fundraising Campaigns:

  • "Crowdfund" is most often used for accepting cash donations and/or purchasing a featured fixed-price item.
  • "Online Store" is most often used for selling or accepting pre-orders of multiple fixed-price items, with or without a cash donation option.
  • "Classic" preserves the original "Give" template, and is the simplest one-screen form.

Fundraising Campaigns can be promoted and accessed via:

  • Crowdfund and Online Store include built-in "Share" tools:  Facebook, Twitter, and Email
  • Sharing a link to a directory of all active pages or a specific campaign on other websites, online newsletters, other social media and apps.
  • Icons on your event site homepage and/or tab in the navigation bar
  • Personalized invitations to give (or order), emailed from the event site.

Fundraising Campaign revenue can be reported:

  • across all campaigns
  • by individual campaign
  • by individual donor

Do NOT use a campaign page for in-person paddle raises/special appeals/fund a need appeals or a Dessert Dash!  Not only do Campaign pages require separate and immediate payments, they are public (do not require login to use) and thus have fraud filters which shut down the donation page if more than a dozen or so donations are made each minute (think bad actors using your campaign to test stolen credit cards).      If you have a use-case for a campaign page that will have high traffic in a very short time period, contact our support team for guidance.

Optional Landing Page (showing all active campaigns):

Crowdfund template and features:

Getting Started:

In addition to the above, all Fundraising Campaigns utilize the same tools used for all purchases made on the event site - and these are configured elsewhere: