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How to configure a Fundraising Page

How to configure a Fundraising Page

Run a powerful Fundraising Page with social sharing, peer-to-peer fundraising, and a robust supporter feed.
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Written by Sunny. Updated over a week ago

Create your campaign

To create a new Fundraising Page, click on New Campaign in your Givebutter dashboard, and select Start a Page.

new campaign button

Enter a Campaign Title. Don't worry; you can change this at any time!
If you want to offer team member fundraising, click the checkbox next to Enable Peer-to-Peer fundraising. You can turn this on or off later if you need to.

Click Create Campaign.

campaign title

Customize your campaign

Your new Fundraising Page has seven tabs where you can customize all the information for your campaign.

numbered tabs

1. Details tab 🪧

2. Team tab 👩🏾‍🤝‍👨🏽

Ready to get started with our powerful peer-to-peer fundraising feature, Teams? Learn about how to enable multi-team and team member fundraising here!

  • Manage Members

    • Manually add team members to your Campaign

    • Remove team members from your Campaign

    • Export your team members' details

    • View your team members' progress

    • View your team members' pages

    • Edit your team members' display names

    • Edit your team members' profile picture

    • Change your team members' team

    • Edit your team members' personal goal amount

    • Edit your team members' story

👉 FYI: Your invited team members can edit and manage their own names, page link, goals, and story at any time!

  • Manage Teams

    • Enable and manage Multi-Team Fundraising

    • Manually create new teams

    • Remove teams

    • Export team stats

    • View your teams' pages

    • Edit your teams' name

    • Edit your teams' goal amount

    • Edit your teams' URL

    • Edit your teams' logo

  • More Options

    • Enable/Disable Team Fundraising

    • Enable/Disable the public fundraise button

    • Edit the fundraise button's text

    • Enable/Disable Multi-Team Fundraising

    • Toggle on/off team members' ability to create new teams

    • Limit the number of members per team

    • View pending team member invites that haven't been accepted

⛔️ Warning: Manually added team members cannot manage their own team member page! If you want someone to have autonomy over their profile picture, name, goal, story, etc you must invite them and have them create an account.

3. Event tab 🎟️

You won't use this tab for a Fundraising Page.

4. Sharing tab 🤳

  • Customize your campaign link

  • Create website embeds

  • Create a Text-to-Donate keyword

  • Download your Scan-to-Donate QR Code

  • Customize how your Campaign appears on social media with your SEO Settings

    • SEO information appears on Google searches and social media posts. The title and description will appear on Google, and the title and photo will appear on social media.

    • SEO title and description override your Campaign details. If left blank, the SEO settings will default to your Campaign's title and description. For social media, there will be no preview image if you don't set one here, as seen below.

SEO preview without image

⛔️ Warning: Having trouble with your SEO settings? If you've already set previous SEO settings, the link may need to be debugged to show any updated information.

5. Tools tab 🛠️

  • Toggle on/off accepting payments

  • Toggle on/off the phone number requirement

  • Toggle on/off the billing address requirement

    • 💰Billing address is always required for card payments. But for other payments, like digital wallets, it is optional unless this is toggled "ON".

  • Allow supporters to pledge to pay via check and log an offline donation.

  • Toggle on/off Recurring Plans for this campaign

  • Select Recurring Plan frequency options

  • Select a default Recurring Plan frequency.

  • Manage Funds

  • Set custom amounts and descriptions

  • Require a minimum donation amount

  • Add custom fields

👉 FYI: Recurring Plans and Funds are automatically enabled for verified NPOs. Otherwise, they must be enabled in the Account Settings before they can be enabled on campaigns.

6. Auction tab 🏦

The Auction tab can be used in both pages and events. If you need to create an auction, click Add Auction and then check out our article on how to create and configure your auction.

7. Settings Tab 🎚️

  • Publish/Unpublish your campaign

  • Change your campaign type

    • You cannot change your Event Campaign to a different type once you've sold a Ticket.

    • You cannot change your Page or Event Campaign to a Form once you've had bids or purchases on your Auction.

  • Write a custom thank you message that will appear in supporters' email receipts

  • Toggle on/off Tips

  • Toggle on/off Fees

  • Require your supporters cover Fees

  • Unlist your Campaign

  • Duplicate your campaign

  • Delete your campaign

  • Add an Expert to your Campaign

  • Duplicate your Campaign

  • Delete your Campaign

    • Campaigns that have processed any transactions, online or offline, cannot be deleted.

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