What is registration fundraising? 🎟️
Registration fundraising combines the ticket purchase and team member signup processes into one seamless experience. This powerful feature allows your supporters to register for your event (and/or pay a minimum donation) and create their fundraising page in a single checkout flow, making it easier than ever for participants to start raising money for your cause.
You can use registration fundraising for team fundraising (team members) or multi-team (team members on multiple teams) – perfect for walk-a-thons, runs, peer-to-peer campaigns, and any event where you want participants to both register and fundraise. If you are using registration fundraising with multiple teams, you can require a registrant to join an existing team via registration fundraising or allow them to create their own team. Registration fundraising will not impact your ability to collect donations as usual – there will still be a donation button on your campaign page.
Per-ticket custom fields are not currently compatible with registration fundraising. To collect additional, custom information from your registrants, please use campaign custom fields instead.
Team member fundraising vs. registration fundraising
Team member fundraising – Participants can join the campaign to receive credit for donations, but they are not required to pay a registration fee to join. When you join the campaign as a team member, or complete a donation/ticket purchase, the process appears in a pop-up window on the campaign page directly.
Registration fundraising – Participants can join the campaign to receive credit for donations, with the added requirement of completing a registration payment (ticket purchase or minimum donation) to join. The registration fundraising signup and checkout flow are completed on a separate page, which redirects to the campaign page when complete.
Add registration fundraising ⚙️
You can enable and configure registration fundraising directly from your dashboard.
Navigate to your dashboard and select the Page or Event campaign you want to add registration fundraising to.
Click on the Peer-to-Peer tab, then select the Settings option in the left sidebar.
Scroll down to find the Enable registration fundraising toggle and turn it on. After enabling registration fundraising, you'll need to choose how fundraisers can register. You have two options:
Donation gift – Require fundraisers to make a minimum donation amount to join. Enter the minimum donation amount required.
Ticket purchase – Require fundraisers to purchase a specific ticket type. Select which event tickets fundraisers must purchase.
Click Save when you're finished.
More options ✨
Suggested fundraising goal: Set a recommended fundraising goal for participants. This will appear as their default goal when they create their fundraising page.
Minimum fundraising goal: You can require fundraisers to commit to a minimum fundraising goal by checking this option and entering an amount.
Preset fundraiser story: Check this option to add a default story template that will pre-populate each fundraiser's page. Participants can personalize this text during registration.
Thank you message: Check the Add preset thank you message option to create a custom thank you message specifically for registrants. This message will appear after they complete registration.
Add a liability waiver 📝
If you want to add a liability waiver to your registration process, you can add this as a checkbox custom field, with a link to your waiver file. Please see our guide to adding HTML in custom fields for instructions. Please note that you will need to host the waiver externally (for example, as a PDF on your own website).
For multi-team fundraising 👥
Registration fundraising also works seamlessly with multi-team fundraising. You can:
Enable both registration fundraising and team fundraising on the same campaign.
Allow registrants to join existing teams or create their own during registration.
Set suggested goals for both individual fundraisers and teams.
To enable team fundraising alongside registration fundraising, toggle on Enable team fundraising in the Peer-to-Peer settings tab.
FAQ 🤔
Can I activate or enable registration fundraising myself?
Yes! You can now enable registration fundraising directly from your campaign dashboard. Simply navigate to the Peer-to-Peer tab, select Settings in the left sidebar, and toggle on "Enable registration fundraising."
During registration, can a team member be credited for the ticket purchase/donation?
The credit automatically goes directly to the person registering. The registrant will not be presented with the option to credit the transaction to other team members.
Can I change the text on the "Fundraise" button?
Yes! If you would like your Fundraise button to say something else, like "Join a Team" or "Registration", head to your campaign's Team tab, click More Options, and edit the text under Custom Fundraise Button Text.
Do custom fields appear during registration?
Yes, any campaign custom fields you create will be displayed to registrants during the registration process. These fields cannot be specific to just the registration flow - they will also appear for regular donors.
Does registration fundraising support multi-team fundraising?
Yes! Registration fundraising fully supports multi-team fundraising, allowing registrants to join existing teams or create new ones during the registration process.