Where to start
Before designing your campaign, you’ll want to make sure you’ve set up your account and started a new campaign.
Setting up your Events campaign
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. The details below walk through each tab of the Campaign Manager:
Details
This information is used on your Landing page, in emails, and in many places throughout Givebutter.
Choose a title and theme color for your campaign
Add a description to your campaign
Add a Logo (recommended logo size: 400x400. Max size: 500kb.)
Add a Cover photo (recommended cover photo size: 1200x400. Max size: 1mb.)
Embed your live stream in the Givebutter campaign
Add a story to your campaign. This appears directly below the title. Add text, images, or embed content such as videos
Team
Enable/disable Team Members and Teams, manage and edit names, stories, and team allocations
Add team members via email invitation, direct link, or public button on the campaign page.
Manage Team Members or Teams
More Options: Enable multi-team fundraising, manage advanced settings, and disable team fundraising all together
Event
Select between, an In-Person, Digital, or Hybrid event
Add your event name and any additional important details.
Add important details about your event. Examples: parking, attire, or other policies
Add an optional Date, time, & location; display all of your event details on your campaign page, emails, and tickets
Optionally, set the start and end time of your event and add a digital public, digital private, or physical location
Create free or paid tickets, choose quantities, set maximums & minimums, or make them unlimited. Read this guide on creating and managing tickets
Manage your Promo Codes and event settings, like timezone and making tickets required to attend.
Sharing
Configure the sharing settings for promoting your campaign.
Customize your campaign link
Access the code for your embeddable widget, to accept donations on your website with a single line of code
Access the directions for enabling our Text-to-Donate feature and set your campaign's unique keyword
Save or print the automatically generated QR Code that links directly to your campaign page
Manage your SEO Title and Description used on Google and when sharing on social media. We use your campaign title by default
Tools
Configure the payment options available on your campaign.
Toggling Accepting Payments opens and closes the ability to make donations through your campaign page
Require donor phone numbers or billing addresses
Allow supporters to select "Pay by Check" and, once turned on, configure the mailing directions
Enable Recurring Payments and select frequency options
Manage your campaign level fund configuration
Customize the default donation amounts on your page and add an optional description, to contextualize each donation amount
Set up and manage your campaign's custom fields
Settings
Publish your campaign
Switch between campaign types
Write a custom thank you message that will appear in email receipts
Manage your personal notifications
Configure the fees on your campaign
Duplicate, delete and manage the visibility of this campaign.
What's next?
Ready to move forward with Events? Great, learn more about sharing your campaign
Try a different campaign type and learn how to set up Forms or Pages.