How to configure a Fundraising Page

Before we begin

Before designing your Campaign, you’ll want to make sure you’ve signed up and set up your Account. Then, consider if a Fundraising Page is the right Campaign type for you and start a new Campaign.

Setting up your Fundraising Page

Every Givebutter Campaign has a Campaign Manager that allows users to edit Campaign details from the Dashboard. To begin, navigate to the RAISE tab in the left side panel and select the Campaign you'd like to edit from the recent Campaigns list or select ALL CAMPAIGNS to see the full list.

At the top of the Campaign Manager, you'll see various tabs you can click into, as well as a place to view or copy your Campaign URL.

The DETAILS tab

The DETAILS tab contains a place for you to flesh out what your Campaign is about. You can:

• Give your Campaign a title

• Give your Campaign a subtitle

• Set an optional goal

• Set an optional theme color

• Upload an image file for a Cover Photo or embed a Cover Video with a link

  • Make sure you know the ideal image sizes and formats for your Cover Photo!

• Add a Story to your Campaign

The title and subtitle will also appear on your Giving Hub if you have enabled one.

The TEAM tab

Ready to get started with our powerful peer-to-peer fundraising feature, Teams? You can enable and manage your Team(s) and Team Members here!

• Manage Members

  • Manually add team members to your Campaign

  • Remove team members from your Campaign

  • Export your team members' stats

  • 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.

The SHARING tab

The SHARING tab provides a variety of ways to get the word out about your Campaign! You can:

• Customize your Campaign link

• Add an Element to your website

• 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.

⛔️ 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.

The TOOLS tab

In the TOOLS tab you can manage your available payment options and add Custom Fields.

• 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

👉 FYI: Recurring Plans and Funds must be enabled in the Account Settings before they can be enabled on Campaigns.

• Set custom donation amounts

• Require a minimum donation amount

• Add and manage Custom Fields

The SETTINGS Tab

The SETTINGS tab is where you can manage the visibility, type, and notifications for your Campaign. You can also manage your Tips and Fees settings, create a custom Thank You message, and add Experts to your Campaign.

• Publish/Unpublish your Campaign

  • You can only Unpublish a Campaign that has no transactions (including Offline Transactions).

• 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.

• Set an End Date

• Hide money raised

• Edit the text of your donate button

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

• Manage your personal notifications

✅ Pro tip: Your notification settings are for the profile you are logged into. Neither you nor Givebutter can manage other profiles' notifications for them. They will need to log into their Account and manage their notifications themselves.

• Toggle on/off Tips

• Toggle on/off Fees

• Require your supporters cover Fees

• Unlist 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.

Related Content

• How to create and configure your Auction

• How to enable and manage Multi-Team fundraising

• How to join a Givebutter campaign as a Team Member